Public Project
Rewilding Portugal
On assignment for BBC Future Planet.
Thousands of years ago, the wild ancestors of cattle and horses roamed freely across the Côa region, Portugal, migrating in large herds and playing a key role in maintaining grassland ecosystems.
Now, Rewilding Portugal is bringing back large grazers such as Sorraia horses and tauros, a specially bred version of the long-extinct auroch cattle with a mission to create a 1,200 sq km wildlife corridor along the Côa River, improving habitat connectivity between the Douro River in the north and the Malcata mountains in the south.
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