DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morris Animal Foundation is working to save the critically endangered saiga antelope, with a $50,000 grant to international researchers studying the deadly “goat plague” virus ...

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 ...

It would seem that a deadly virus dubbed ‘Peste des Petits Ruminants’ (PPR) is wreaking havoc on a population of antelopes from Mongolia, and has caused the death of more than 2,500 individual animals ...

Discover the extraordinary and unique world of the saiga antelope with this mesmerizing close-up video. The footage provides an intimate look at its most iconic feature: the distinctive, highly ...

Back in 2015, a population of roughly 200,000 saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica) dropped dead in Kazakhstan for seemingly no good reason. After experts arrived at the scene to probe the situation, they ...

London-based photographer, Tim Flach, spent two years photographing animals on the verge of extinction, in a book titled ‘Endangered’. Primates coping with habitat loss, big cats losing the battle to ...

The population of a rare type of antelope has more than doubled since 2019, in a remarkable turn around in fortunes. According to the first aerial survey in two years, the number of saiga in their ...

More than 120,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes — more than one-third of the worldwide population — have died in Kazakhstan since mid-May, and the cause of the “catastrophic collapse” is ...

It was December when the first reports started coming in: All across the frozen Mongolian steppe, saiga were dying. The antelope species, with its tawny coat, ringed horns and incongruous oversize ...

Meet your new favourite animal. This is the saiga antelope and although it can be found grazing on the steppes of Kazakhstan it wouldn't look out of place in a scene from Star Wars. Although ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Saiga antelope are classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN “Red List” of threatened species. Disease and poaching have taken their toll on ...