Conservation efforts are essential to the health of our environment and planet. Officials celebrate return of rare wild horse ...

Saiga antelope once roamed alongside woolly mammoths – and they, too, nearly disappeared – but a collaborative conservation effort in Kazakhstan has helped the distinctive-looking creature thrive once ...

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 ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s saiga antelope population has reached a record 4.1 million, said Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural ...

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MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Six animal, bird and fish species, including the Saiga antelope, the gyrfalcon and the Persian leopard, are facing the risk of extinction in Russia, the press service of ...

Elsewhere, at France’s Rouffignac Cave, evidence points to a child under the age of five drawing at least one line on a panel depicting a saiga antelope. Archaeologists found footprints of ...

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In 2015, a deadly disease wiped out half of the entire saiga population in Kazakhstan. Scientists suspected that environmental changes triggered such event, and a new study confirmed this theory.

The property's steppe areas provide a valuable refuge for over half the species of the region's steppe flora, a number of threatened bird species and the critically endangered Saiga antelope.

Great migratory herds of Mongolian gazelle roam here along with 5,000 critically endangered Saiga antelopes and several species of birds. Covering 860,000km2 large amounts of the land on the Steppe is ...