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UNESCO Worl Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey Stichting Taurus and the Auerrind-Project of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey join forces in their attempts to breed a substitute for the extinct aurochs Lorsch / Nijmegen, April 17th 2018 After a series of meetings in Keent (Netherlands) and Lorsch (Germany) in February and March of 2018, the two project leaders of Stichting Taurus and the Auerrind-Project, i.e. Ronald Goderie and Claus Kropp, have now announced to join forces in their attempts to breed a substitute for the extinct aurochs. Regulated through an official agreement, the two parties defined a series of wide-ranging goals: 1) Sharing of research results in the field of Aurochs-morphology, aDNA and DNA- analysis in accordance with the research-partners of the Tauros Programme (e.g. the department of Breeding and Genomics of Wageningen University); 2) Exchange of suitable crosses between the Auerrind Project and the Tauros Programme (in cooperation with Rewilding Europe) in the process of selective breeding and for the usage in selected rewilding areas in Europe; 3) Joint conservation efforts for the founder breeds: As many of the founding breeds of the Auerrind-Project and the Tauros Programme are becoming more and more rare and endangered (e.g. Sayaguesa, Pajuna and Maremmana primitiva) it is a very important task to help preserving these in their pure state. Both partners plan to develop purebred breeding herds in selected regions (be it in- or ex-situ conservation) and exchange animals in order to preserve genetic diversity in the herds. Claus Kropp, project leader of the Auerrind-Project is very happy about the new development: “It was about time that the bigger breeding projects focusing on the extinct Aurochs finally decided to work together. With the combined infrastructure, research and livestock it will be more efficient to reach our shared goal to bring back one of the key stone species of our ecosystem”. As a first active step, a yet to be compiled breeding herd of the Tauros Programme is to be transferred to Germany in late spring or early summer of 2018. This herd will be used for further natural grazing in areas around Lorsch. .

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