Perched on fine legs like twigs, a puny silhouette relies against the flanks of her mother. The pale with a pale muzzle has just been born: still growled, it collapses in the grass and abandons sleeps under a crystal clear sky. “It’s a happy event”, Marvee Florian Drouard, binoculars in hand. Posted at a respectful distance, the 36-year-old naturalist has just discovered, on this afternoon in mid-June, the surprise of the day. Soon, the little one will praise in the big meadow where she is about to spend her first summer. But maybe also the last.
This year, six PRZEWALSKI foals came to the world on Causse Méjean, this large limestone plateau located in the heart of the Cévennes National Park, at a place called Villaret, in Lozère. On nearly 400 hectares of steppes graze 45 equines. The Takh association, for which Florian Drouard works, has been engaged for more than thirty years in the safeguard of this Mongolian horse. Today, there are almost 3,000 around the world, only half of which in the wild or semi-liberty, like here. But the disengagement of the main patron of the association, the Swiss Foundation Mava, today weakens Takh, which fears to have to put the key under the door within a few months. The Przewalski should then find a new sanctuary for the second time.
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