Saturday, June 5, 2010

ENVIRONMENTAL DAY: 12000 ANTILOPES DEATH

 

Nearly 12,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) have been found dead on the remote steppe of western Kazakhstan in the last week. A tragic and shocking event, this is a major blow to the Critically Endangered species and its Ural population, which was just emerging from an unusually harsh winter.

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