Sentences with phrase «saiga population»
In 2015, a deadly disease wiped out half of the entire saiga population in Kazakhstan.
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If left unchecked, the disease could cause a further devastating reduction in the Mongolian saiga population, and potentially lead to extinction.
«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.»
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Even before the mystery illness, saigas (Saiga tatarica tatarica) had been under assault, their populations in steep decline from poachers who wanted their horns and meat.
For animals, this could mean making sure a population doesn't get so small that something like a disease outbreak — such as the one that happened with saiga antelope in 2015 — or a really bad winter results in extinction.
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 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.»
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.