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 ...

Scientists are desperately trying to understand the cause of a mass die-off that has cut the global population of the critically endangered saiga antelope nearly in half. Saiga antelopes, known for ...

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 ...

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.

In May 2015, the die-off of nearly 200,000 saiga antelopes in far-away Kazakhstan captivated the Internet, all the deaths occurring in a period of about three weeks. The saiga antelope had been ...

Each spring since 2007, scientists have scoured Kazakhstan’s Ustyurt Plateau for baby saiga antelope. Because this population of the critically endangered species is the country’s smallest and most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists researching the population numbers of saiga antelope in Russia have found that in the case of the male, there may be a deadly truth in the old boast, 'So many women, so little time.' Making ...

A court in Kazakhstan on Friday sentenced three poachers to life in prison for beating to death a state ranger charged with protecting the endangered saiga antelope. A wild male saiga at the Stepnoi ...

Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, 16 May, 2018 - Populations of the critically endangered Mongolian saiga antelope (hereinafter ‘saiga’), which occurs only in Mongolia, have plummeted by 40 percent following ...

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 ...