Twenty Critically Endangered saiga antelopes have been fitted with global positioning satellite tags in Kazakhstan in a bid to find out more about their migratory movements. The saiga population in Kazakhstan numbered c. 1 million in the 1970s but poaching reduced the population to 81,000 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Kazakh population is now on the increase as the result of a number of factors, including effective anti-poaching units and the development of a large-scale landscape conservation project.
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