The Government of Mongolia has decided to allocate MNT 447 million for saiga conservation that are suffering from rinderpest. 
According to the data as of Jan 9th, about 693 saigas in Mongolia died due to a rinderpest. 
Mongolian saigas, one of the most threatened species on the planet inhabit six soums of Gobi-Altai and Khovd aimags, the western Mongolia. 
In 2015, saiga population in Mongolia were stood at 13,000 while global population of saiga was estimated at 120,000. 
Saiga once had a much larger range. Today, saiga are only found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia and Mongolia. All of the saiga’s range states were part of the Soviet Union or China for most of the last century. Saiga went extinct in China in the 1960s.
Saiga hold a sad record in the animal world – they are one of the fastest declining mammal species on our planet today. Since the early 1990s over 95% of the saiga population has disappeared. There is considerable international concern, and saiga have been listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Published Date:2017-01-19