"It is hard now to even imagine how we could protect saiga without the use of satellite telemetry," says Albert Salemgareyev from the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unusual proboscis of the Saiga antelope helps filter dust, regulate air temperature, and protect its lungs in harsh steppe ...

Just two decades ago, it seemed as if we might need to write a eulogy for the saiga antelope. Cut down by widespread poaching and waves of disease, by 2003, just 6 percent of the floppy-nosed ...

Roaring at high speed, the rangers’ Soviet-era jeep rumbles over the hot plains of the Kazakh steppe, shimmying violently. In the back seat, piles of dirty camouflage jackets, oily assault rifles, ...

Saiga antelope once migrated alongside woolly rhinos and mammoths across vast territories from the British Isles to Alaska. Between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago they were widespread in the northern ...

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 ...

Dozens of dead saiga antelope were found this week in Kazakhstan in the latest evidence of poaching of the critically endangered animal that roams the steppes of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia.

A high-ranking Kazakh space official, addressing suggestions that a massive die-off of endangered saiga antelope was linked to rocket crashes, has said that at this point "we do not see a direct link.

To say that we have a very critical situation with the Saiga antelope and Kazakhstan because of the illegal poaching and illegal trade of their horns, which is caused, it was the main reason of the ...