Riding a cross-country motorcycle equipped with nets might seem more like Mad Max than science, but its key to saving a species in Kazakhstan that survived the Ice Age. Salemgareyev, the Lead ...

Saiga antelope — known for their distinctive large snouts — have had a turbulent existence on this planet. They once walked the Earth alongside woolly rhinos and mammoths; early humans painted them in ...

Saiga antelopes have rebounded after being hunted to the brink of extinction less than two decades ago and sustaining huge losses to disease in 2015. An estimated 1.3 million saiga now roam the vast ...

The authorities in Kazakhstan have announced plans to conduct a cull of saiga antelopes in response to complaints from farmers that the endangered animals are causing damage to crops and pastures.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan is planning to cull up to 337,000 saiga antelope after the number of the once-endangered animal roaming the Kazakh steppe increased by tenfold in the past decade after ...

Just a few years ago, the rare saiga antelope was on the verge of extinction in Kazakhstan. Now, saigas are roaming the steppe in such numbers that the government is thinking of domesticating the ...

Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorise the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government says is now threatening farming in the vast Central Asian country. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the ...

Digital Journal ran the story of the initial die-off in late May. Soon after, geoecologoist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in Kazakhstan to observe the birthing process of the saiga ...

In 2018, there was an added scientific bonus: automat cameras installed by WWF-Mongolia showed of endangered Mongolian Saiga antelope was drinking water from Tungalag spring, much like the domestic ...