120,000 dead: half of the world's saiga die in less than a month

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceMay 28, 2015, 12:35 pm67 pts
No one knows what's killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world's saiga (Saiga tatarica) have perished since May 10th. To date, researchers on-the-ground unofficially estimate that 120,000 saiga have died in Kazakhstan from what appears to be a wildly virulent disease, although no cause…

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