Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015

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Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
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More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population

Saiga antelopes have rebounded after being hunted to the brink of extinction less than two decades ago and sustaining huge losses to disease in 2015. An estimated 1.3 million saiga now roam the vastof Kazakhstan, a 30-fold increase from their population of less than 40,000 in 2005., who leads the Kazakh Steppe Conservation Programme at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . “Now, all you hear is this mooing sound. You’re surrounded by tens of thousands of saiga.

Land protections and hunting bans gave saiga the space to reproduce, and by the mid-2010s, there were 250,000 antelope on the Kazakh steppe. Then, the already-fragile population was hit byWhile it was a serious blow to the species, hooved mammals like antelopes can make

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