Miracles were in short supply in Ukraine last spring. But on the Tarutino Steppe in the country’s far southwest, two rangers witnessed something remarkable. It was early May and the pair had been tasked with monitoring a herd of kulans that had recently been reintroduced to the Tarutino Steppe. This wild Asiatic relative of the domesticated donkey, with its dusty blonde coat and a dark brown stripe tracing its spine, had disappeared from the region in the 19th century.
The rangers had just begun their count for the day, and as they peered through their binoculars they discovered that the group, which was supposed to be 20-strong, had grown by
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