"Central Asia is a vast region with abundant natural resources and is one of the world's strategic areas," she told CRI ...

Saiga antelope once roamed alongside woolly mammoths – and they, too, nearly disappeared – but a collaborative conservation effort in Kazakhstan has helped the distinctive-looking creature ...

In 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the enormous Golden Steppe, a grassland ecosystem three ...

By the 2000s, however, many of the steppe’s large herbivores were gone or critically endangered. That included not only the Przewalski’s horse but also a wild ass called the kulan and the ...

A new article looked at 40 years of data collected on 40 pronghorn herds residing in the Wyoming Basin Shrub Steppe. Overall, 80% of the herds saw a decrease in productivity, and nearly 43% saw a ...

In the post-independence years, a moratorium on hunting was imposed in the late 1990s due to a significant decline in steppe antelope populations caused by rampant hunting. The moratorium remains in ...

Saiga antelope (seen in Kalmykia, Russia, in 2009) live in huge herds on the Central Asian steppe.

Salemgareyev is a biologist, and a specialist in GIS and wildlife monitoring. He was born in a village on the edge of Naurzum Nature Reserve, a 3000-square-kilometre area of open steppes and pine ...