Wild horses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Tourist attraction or pest?


By AGENCY
Wild horses grazing on Cincar Mountain near Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. — DADO RUVIC/Reuters

Wild horses galloping across rugged mountains in western Bosnia and Herzegovina are an ever-bigger tourist attraction, but need protection from local farmers who see them as pests, activists say.

The number of horses roaming the Kruzi plateau, at the foot of the Cincar mountain, has been increasing over the past 30 years, many released into the wild by their owners as machines have replaced them in the fields.

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