I recently visited the northern China, near the boarder of Kazakhstan and Mongolia for the last weeks, and I found out that around 40 percent of the Central Asian nation's population of the endangered Saiga antelope have died?
Kazakhstan agriculture ministry said the number of saiga that have died may have reached 120,000. Prior to this massive die-off, the saiga population has hovered around 250,000. Nearly 90 percent of the animal’s population live in Kazakhstan and is currently listed as critically endangered.
The ministry says it suspects the animals, which are recognizable for their distinctive humped snout, may have been struck by an epidemic of pasteurellosis caused by a bacterial infection. Officials say international veterinarian experts have been flown to Kazakhstan to study other possible causes for the catastrophic die-off.
Again, here we are messing with the nature, leaving a mess to our children and the following generations...
