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Hope for Africa's last wild horses

Africa's last herd of wild horses has been given fresh hope by the birth of two foals and the lifting of a ban on shooting hyenas. The herd has dwindled from 286 to 77 in six years, and it is largely blamed on a pack of hyenas that has hunted the horses on Namibia's Garub plains to the brink of extinction. But is the intervention too late? Mannfred Goldbeck is chairman of Namibia's Wild Horses Foundation:

(Photo: Wild horses in Namibia. Credit: Teagan Cunniffe for the Namibia Wild Horses Foundation)

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