saiga
Ice Age Animals
Going the way of the dodo?
From: New Scientist, 15 February 2003. This is an excellent magazine, and well worth subscribing to.
In a bid to save the rhino, conservationists suggested using saiga horn instead of rhino horn in traditional medicines. Their plan has backfired as hunters run amok
By Fred Pearce
An antelope that just a decade ago crammed the steppes of central Asia is this spring on the verge of extinction, victim of an epidemic of poaching. Biologists say it is the most sudden and dramatic population crash of a large mammal ever seen.
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