Sentences with phrase «of saigas»

Each year poachers kill tens of thousands of saiga.

Tens of millions of saiga antelope once roamed the Steppes, but now they are restricted to Kazakhstan, the Russian region of Kalykia and parts of Mongolia.

«The Mongolian saiga population is now experiencing a die - off that continues to escalate in scope and scale, and we feel that we may be facing the potential extinction of this subspecies of the saiga antelope, if immediate and comprehensive actions are not taken.»

The paper has a ponderous title — «Examination of the forage basis of saiga in the Ural population on the background of the mass death in May 2010 and 2011.»

Not exact matches

Spring calving season for the saiga antelope of central Kazakhstan is a delight for the researchers who keep tabs on the critically endangered animals.

During the day, thousands of newborn saigas lie quiet, hidden within a sea of waving grass.

Unlike rhino horn, says Stephen Nash of TRAFFIC, powdered saiga horn does seem to be extremely useful for treating fever and headaches.

Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events.

«If you come at dawn and dusk, it's magical,» says E.J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford who has studied saigas for 27 years.

Because of that, it also harbors some of the last great migratory spectacles of large mammals — over a million Mongolian gazelle as well as saiga antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan antelope, and giant argali sheep — a total of 15 large mammals under consideration in this Initiative.»

Said Dr. Susan Lieberman, WCS Vice President for International Policy: «The saiga antelope is an example of how immediate and integrated actions can turn a conservation disaster into what may turn out to be a conservation success.

The team discovered that the combination of mammals found together in the Altai and Sayan mountains of western Mongolia and southern Russia — such as horses, reindeer, saiga antelopes and wolverines — is similar to the ancient glacial communities.

The scientists measured the percentage of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bones of early humans and the locally present potential prey animals such as saiga antelopes, horses, and deer.

Proportional contribution of Deer & Horse (red deer and horse), Saiga (saiga antelope), Mammoth (woolly mammoth) and Hare (hare) as estimated by Drucker et al for human remains from different layers of Buran - Kaya III; each symbol corresponds to the mean protein diet contribution to a given human individual.

He idolized a group of warriors known as the Zenon Warriors, but when he interferes in one of their battles, they give up their lives and their saigas to save him.

We learn another of power of the axe saiga that Beet carries, and get a formal introduction to the Winged Knight.

Denver — Having already funded research on the health of dolphins affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund will now help the rare saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.

More than 12,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes were found dead in western Kazakhstan in May of this year.

Saigas have experienced one of the fastest declines recorded for mammals in recent decades: a 95 percent decrease in population over the past 20 years.

The team monitored and responded to outbreaks of wildlife - originating diseases, such as the saiga antelope die - off in Kazakhstan and global outbreaks of avian influenza.

Morris Animal Foundation's Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund will support life - saving animal health research that the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is conducting with its partners to understand the rapidly progressing disease, in hopes of saving the Mongolian saiga before it's too late.

Despite Mongolian government efforts to halt the spread of PPR through vaccination of sheep and goats, the current outbreak has caused the deaths of more than 5,000 of the remaining 10,000 Mongolian saiga.

A map of the range of the endangered saiga antelope.

A healthy group of endangered saiga antelopes.

Friday morning, I began sifting the literature on saiga mortality and found strong hints of a possible cause in a study of smaller saiga die - offs in 2010 (12,000 animals) and 2011 (just 450) in the animal's westernmost population, in the Urals.

The authors warn against expanding agriculture in saiga territory, noting that plowing or herbicide use would simply lead to mass growth of the weedy toxic species in the cleared area.

Over the span of three weeks in 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope suddenly died in central Kazakhstan from hemorrhagic septicemia caused by a normally harmless bacteria called Pasteurella multocida type B. Now, scientists know what happened.

In 2015, a deadly disease wiped out half of the entire saiga population in Kazakhstan.