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 ...

WWF Mongolia has successfully continued its intervention for saiga antelope conservation with financial support from the MAVA Foundation. Small group consisting of 26 saiga recorded by local herdsman ...

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 ...

Spirited, slightly weird-looking and instantly recognizable, the Saiga antelope find safety in numbers during their spectacular mass migrations. But since the early 2000s, they’ve been considered ...

Kazakhstan is achieving a conservation success by boosting numbers of the rare saiga antelope, a new count of the critically endangered species has shown. The saiga population has rocketed by 150 ...

Mongolia's iconic antelopes are facing extinction after more than 2,000 had died from a disease that originated from livestock. Thousands more of the critically endangered are feared to die as the ...

A disease has killed 2,500 critically endangered Saiga antelope in Western Mongolia since the beginning of the year, scientists say. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientists told the BBC ...

The Saiga — tawny, bulbous-nosed antelopes that have roamed the desert steppe of Central Asia by the millions since the days of the woolly mammoth — are suddenly falling to a mysterious disease that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Saiga antelope are classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN “Red List” of threatened species. Disease and poaching have taken their toll on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Well it's about time I had some success to ...

After a population crash at the start of this century, this iconic species - which used to roam Central Europe and Asia in their millions – has made an incredible comeback. This week in Uzbekistan, ...