Saiga Antelope
The awkward looking #Saiga #antelope with its fleshy humped nose: In winter their coats are mostly white. They are vulnerable to extinction because the horns are used in Chinese medicine, even though there have been laws against hunting them for a long time. The population has declined almost 95% in just 15 years.
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SAIGA - YouTube. This shows saiga antelope alive, and gives the remaining numbers for that Russian region, showing how critical the poaching has been to the saiga population. A note of interest: This was taken on the old path Ghengis khan took toward Europe. Eco-tourism. Wouldn't you want to see what Genghis saw?
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Сайгак - Saiga antelope - YouTube: This is another montage of the saiga antelope. It's the second one on my board because they are becoming critically endangered very quickly, taken for their horns in the wake of declining success poaching rhino horns. These are small. It takes more horns to satisfy the folk medicine demand. And that means their numbers have dropped from millions to 100,000's. Yes, I want to make sure people know this and help prevent their extinction in our lifetime.
Saving the Saiga antelope
The Saiga antelope once roamed from western Europe, across the Eurasian continent and into Alaska. It now only lives in areas of the dry steppes and semi deserts of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kalmykia. The Saiga's nose is actually an adaptation to the extremely cold and dusty environment in which it lives.
Saiga Antelope portrait, from the Rostov Steppe, Russia
Saiga Antelope from the Rostov Steppe, Russia is a Critically Endangered antelope which originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothills of the Carpathians and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia. They also lived in North America during the Pleistocene.
Saiga Antelope - Asian Big-Snout Steppe Wanderer - FactZoo.com
The awkward looking Saiga antelope with its fleshy humped nose: In winter their coats are mostly white. They are vulnerable to extinction because the horns are used in Chinese medicine, even though there have been laws against hunting them for a long time. The population has declined almost 95% in just 15 years.
