For more than a month, the air around Lake Pape has been punctuated by the sounds of galloping wild horse hooves. Eighteen horses, born on the banks of the Rhine in Holland, were brought to this region of western Latvia to roam where their ancestors once roamed. The project is a part of the large herbivore initiative started by the World Wildlife Fund."Often people and times are remembered for something bad, like the death of the last wild horse," says Ugis Rotbergs, Latvia's program manager for the World Wildlife Fund. "We are trying to make up for it, to put things right. And we hope we w...
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