(The picture above is the Abaco Barb horse named Nunki that died at the age of 20)

Abaco Barbs are small horses bred for hardiness and endurance. They have great stamina, and are capable of covering long distances with little food or water. They have stocky bodies, flat upright shoulders, large rangy heads with broad foreheads, pointy ears, slender and hard legs, narrow and durable feet. 

We can bring them back! The Government of the Bahamas has approved a plan to as closely as possible restore the extinct sub-breed of the horses raised in Cuba by the Conquistadores. It's an incredible adventure, and we hope you will join us on what will be an amazing voyage. 

See over  125 years ago there were 200 or more wild horses on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas. They were imported to Abaco in the late 1800s to remove logs from Abaco's forests. They later were abandoned when tractors were introduced. 

These horses were the time-capsuled descendants of the horses that Christopher Columbus and his followers brought with them to the New World, at the end of the 15th Century.

The horses survived the abandonment and lived independently and undisturbed until man disrupted the balance. All but three were slaughtered in the early 1960s.

They came back to 35 animals by the mid-1990s. But a hurricane pushed the horses out of their badly damaged forest habitat, where they had thrived for so long, into a lush and toxic citrus plantation that was hurricane-damaged and littered with chemicals, destroyed buildings, too-rich pastures, and poisonous plants.

It was the beginning of the end for the horses. Despite the best efforts of Milanne Rehor, who has worked since 1992 to preserve the horses, the herd had been reduced to one mare during the spring and summer of 2015. That mare, Nunki, died on July 23, 2015.