Male saiga horns have great value in China ... There are now 1.9 million saiga antelope across Eurasia, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature is upgrading the Red List status ...

The saiga antelope lives on the grasslands of Central ... of Nature says the animal is at risk from illegal hunting for horns used in Chinese traditional medicine, as well as from habitat loss ...

Asked the total number of Mongolian Saiga population, two different fi gures would emerge because two different census methodologies were applied previously. During last decade, Mongolian Saiga census ...