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 ...

In Kazakhstan, the round-snouted Saiga antelopes were once on the verge of extinction. Today, with a population of around two million individuals according to the government, they are causing damage ...

Kazakhstan on Monday said it would legalise hunting of the once-threatened Saiga antelopes to manage their population -- a sensitive subject in a country where the animals are widely revered. The ...

Just a few years ago, the rare saiga antelope was on the verge of extinction in Kazakhstan. Now, saigas are roaming the steppe in such numbers that the government is thinking of domesticating the ...

The authorities in Kazakhstan have announced plans to conduct a cull of saiga antelopes in response to complaints from farmers that the endangered animals are causing damage to crops and pastures.

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 vast ...

A newborn saiga antelope takes its first steps on the Central Asian steppe, unaware that its species, once millions strong, is still desperately under threat. Poachers target them for their horns, ...