Just two decades ago, it seemed as if we might need to write a eulogy for the saiga antelope. Cut down by widespread poaching and waves of disease, by 2003, just 6 percent of the floppy-nosed ...
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 ...
Roaring at high speed, the rangers’ Soviet-era jeep rumbles over the hot plains of the Kazakh steppe, shimmying violently. In the back seat, piles of dirty camouflage jackets, oily assault rifles, ...