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This review is a summary of Russian sources on suspected outbreaks of pasteurellosis in the saiga antelope prior to 2015. This literature consists of translations of the relevant sections of the annual saiga expedition and aerial count reports; reports of government commissions investigating the larger mortality events; and published articles.
Footnotes by the reviewer provide additional or contextual information to support interpretation of the summarised articles. In many of the reviewed reports, authors do not distinguish between haemorrhagic septicaemia (the proximate cause of the 2015 die-off) and pneumonic pasteurellosis, which has a different pathology and aetiology. In such cases…
A two-day workshop was held at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, to discuss the practicalities of captive breeding for the Critically Endangered saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica). A total of 30 participants attended representing each of the saiga range states and from across the globe. The workshop was interactive, with plenaries, working groups and knowledge-exchange sessions.
The primary objectives of the workshop were to determine how captive breeding can contribute to saiga conservation and how to improve captive breeding.
By Richard A. Kock and E.J. Milner-Gulland
Reproduced by kind permission of 'Natural History' magazine. First published in the April 2018 issue. Every year at calving time for the past six years, an international team of researchers-under the authority of the government of Kazakhstan and in collaboration with Kazakhstan research institutions-has been monitoring the health of the saiga antelope population in central Kazakhstan.
Saigas once roamed widely over steppes and semi-arid deserts from southeastern Europe to Mongolia and into China. Now, one population of Saiga tatarica tatarica, the nominate subspecies, exists in Russia, three in Kazakhstan, one of which migrates to…