Eastern Rhodopes – Status Wild

Visiting the Koniks in the Eastern Rhodopes

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ARK, ARK Foundation, Eastern Rhodopes, konik

On 24 September, the Netherlands Ambassador, Bea ten Tusscher travelled through the Eastern Rhodopes to gain first-hand experience about Status WILD Initiative, the Dutch-funded project of foundations ARK Nature and Friends of the Rhodopi...

A Journey in the Wild Horse Mountains

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Eastern Rhodopes, Status WILD, wild living horses

The wild horse is like a mythical creature. Liminal, vanishing; in the world I grew up in – Europe – extinct. There was a species of wild horse there once, known as the Tarpan. Many...

Status Wild – Bulgarian-Dutch project tries to rewild Eastern Rhodopes

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ARK, Eastern Rhodopes, Frank Zanderink, koniks, wild horses

In the past few years dozens of horses gallop freely in the Eastern Rhodopes. The beautiful animals are of the Konik breed and are the modern copy of the ancient Tarpan horse known as...

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