Growing up, I was obsessed with the 2002 movie Ice Age. I watched it day in and day out, captivated by the adventures of ...

Riding a cross-country motorcycle equipped with nets might seem more like Mad Max than science, but its key to saving a species in Kazakhstan that survived the Ice Age. Salemgareyev, the Lead ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan is planning to cull up to 337,000 saiga antelope after the number of the once-endangered animal roaming the Kazakh steppe increased by tenfold in the past decade after ...

Saiga antelope — known for their distinctive large snouts — have had a turbulent existence on this planet. They once walked the Earth alongside woolly rhinos and mammoths; early humans painted them in ...

Just a few years ago, the rare saiga antelope was on the verge of extinction in Kazakhstan. Now, saigas are roaming the steppe in such numbers that the government is thinking of domesticating the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the ...

Digital Journal ran the story of the initial die-off in late May. Soon after, geoecologoist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in Kazakhstan to observe the birthing process of the saiga ...

In 2018, there was an added scientific bonus: automat cameras installed by WWF-Mongolia showed of endangered Mongolian Saiga antelope was drinking water from Tungalag spring, much like the domestic ...

To say that we have a very critical situation with the Saiga antelope and Kazakhstan because of the illegal poaching and illegal trade of their horns, which is caused, it was the main reason of the ...