A time bomb for the saiga? Bad news Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope

Mongabay
Jan 17, 2018, 4:51 pm310 pts
In May 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) suddenly died. Entire herds perished, their bodies littering the steppe grasslands of central Kazakhstan as if dropped from the sky. Biologists were left stunned, baffled and very concerned. Already critically endangered, the mass die-off reduced…

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