What happened in India?
Forest officials and local MP Jitu Goswami
A group of veterinarians and officials wentin place on Friday 14 May, together with Parimal Shuklabaidya, Minister of Forests and the Environment of Assam. India is home to about 30,000 elephants, which is about 60% of the wild Asian elephant population. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of local residents killing elephants, as more and more people invade the forested areas.
What happened in Kazakhstan?
Found dead animals were found incalving period of saigas. In a statement, the Kazakh Ministry of Ecology said that the likely cause of their death was lightning, "since there are traces of lightning strikes on the carcasses."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), whoseThe Red List, a scientific guide to endangered wildlife, ranks the saiga as one of five endangered antelope species with a population of about 124,000 adults.
Kazakhstan is home to the vast majority of animals, while Kalmykia and Mongolia have much smaller populations.
In 2015, about 200,000 antelopes - more than half of the total population at the time - were wiped out by what scientists later found was a bacterium that spread in unusually warm and humid conditions.
During the 2019 aerial survey, Kazakhstan reportedthat its saiga population is estimated at over 330,000 individuals. Poaching is a constant threat fueled by the demand for horn in traditional Chinese medicine. Kazakh authorities have pledged to end the crime after poachers killed two foresters in 2019 who were fighting poaching.
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