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Capture of Ungulates in Central Asia Using Drive Nets - Advantages and Pitfalls Illustrated by the Endangered Mongolian Saiga

Here we describe capture protocols for adult females handled quickly and without anaesthesia. Using multiple vehicles driven at high speed, individual saiga were isolated from groups and herded into nets.

Population Estimates of Endangered Mongolian Saiga - Implications for Effective Monitoring and Population Recovery

We report findings from the first survey for Mongolian saiga to utilize statistically rigorous methodology, using line transect distance sampling in 2006 and 2007 to obtain population estimates in and around the Sharga Nature Reserve, the southern part of the species current range.