Milner - Gulland sees the results as a cautionary note
on saigas» future in a changing climate.
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.
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.
Around 107,000
saigas remain globally, Kock estimates based
on a summer 2017 tally.
Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events.
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.
Ivory,
saiga horns, rare reptiles, bear paws, macaques, owls, and so
on are constantly being seized at Chinese airports, but as demand continues, so does supply.
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.»