by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 19 January, 2017 | Mongolia, Mongolia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Unfortunately, latest reports from our colleagues in Mongolia indicate that over 1000 saigas have now died from the ongoing disease outbreak. Tests are still being conducted, but it’s most likely an outbreak of peste-des-petits ruminants, or “sheep and goat plague”,...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 14 May, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
First blog from the field, by Eric Morgan Hello, I’m on the train… converging on Heathrow today you might see handful of people lugging microscopes, test tubes and camping paraphernalia – on their way to join an ACBK-led expedition to last year’s saiga die-off sites....
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 2 February, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
In May 2015 an extraordinary scene unfolded on the steppes of central Kazakhstan. Female saigas gathered in their usual huge numbers to give birth on the open plain over a period of just 10 days, a spectacle thought to be a predator-swamping mechanism and a way to hit...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 22 December, 2015 | Saiga News
Elucidating climatic drivers of mass mortality in the endangered Saiga antelope. In May 2015, catastrophic mortality affected calving aggregations of saigas in their core range, wiping out half the global population in a few weeks. The cause remains uncertain, with...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 2 November, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Saiga News
Saiga Range Countries and Experts Convene in Tashkent Following Saiga Mass Mortality Event Latest figures presented at the meeting show that more than 150,000 adult saiga antelopes died during the mass mortality event which hit the species in central Kazakhstan...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 4 September, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
Between 9th May and 3rd June this year, large herds of saigas at calving sites in the central population in Kazakhstan died suddenly. 148,800* carcasses were counted at burial sites by the Government rangers. Our latest expedition to the migration area and die-off...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 28 July, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
SAIGA RESEARCH EXPEDITION On 27th June 2015, a 12-day expedition was launched to investigate the reasons for the mass die-off of Saiga antelopes in May 2015. (On 5 June the official death toll stood at 134,000 saigas). The main goal of this field mission was to follow...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 30 May, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Please see our FaceBook pages to keep up to date on the latest news on this disaster: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saiga-Conservation-Alliance More than 120,000 saiga antelope...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 10 March, 2015
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