Editing Onager (section)

==Conservation==
[[File:Onager Asiatischer Wildesel Equus hemionus onager Zoo Augsburg-04.jpg|thumb|A Persian onager in Augsburg Zoo]]
Various breeding programs have been started for the onager subspecies in captivity and in the wild, which increases their numbers to save the endangered species. The species is legally protected in many of the countries in which it occurs. The priority for future conservation measures is to ensure the protection of this species in particularly vulnerable parts of its range, to encourage the involvement of local people in the conservation of the onager, and to conduct further research into the behavior, ecology, and taxonomy of the species.

Two onager subspecies, the Persian onager and the Turkmenian kulan are being reintroduced to their former ranges, including in other regions the Syrian wild ass used to occur in the Middle East. The two subspecies have been reintroduced to the wild of [[Israel]] since 1982, and had been breeding hybrids there,<ref name="Saltz 1995">{{cite journal |last=Saltz |first=D. |year=1995 |title=Population dynamics of a reintroduced Asiatic wild ass (''Equus Hemionus'') herd |journal=Ecological Applications |volume=5|issue=2 |pages=327–335|doi=10.2307/1942025 |jstor=1942025|bibcode=1995EcoAp...5..327S }}</ref> whilst the Persian onager alone has been reintroduced to Jordan and the deserts of Saudi Arabia.