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  • n  goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis

  • Its principal exports have been wool, camel's-hair, sheep guts, gold, jade, fine horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws).
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  • Kazakhstan’s Saiga Success: Endangered Antelope Numbers Rise
    The endangered saiga antelope has had a rough few years in Kazakhstan, hunted mercilessly by poachers for its horns and wracked by a deadly sickness that has seen thousands of these endangered long-nosed antelopes perish on the steppe. Yet amid all the doom and gloom there is a glimmer of hope: Kazakhstan’s saiga population has more than doubled over the last five years, according to figures ...
    June 24, 2013 - EurasiaNet

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