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Despite the perception that predators are most at risk of extinction, a new study has revealed that it is actually herbivores that are more likely to go extinct. Currently over a quarter of the world’s herbivores are threatened.
Further updates to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was released during the IUCN World Conservation Congress earlier this month.
The Abdullah Somali community runs the Ishaqbini Conservancy which is part of a network of 33 community conservancies, operating under the umbrella of the Northern Rangelands Trust.
By 2010 there were around 81,000 left, but this year marked the start of the saiga die-offs.
The cause of the outbreak is unknown, but scientists believe that it is always fatal.
It is the last living representative of a 3 million year old evolutionary lineage, but is critically endangered.
Sadly, poaching remains a problem, not for food but for Chinese traditional medicine. The translucent, foot-long horns belonging to the males are ground into a powder and used for the treatment of headaches and fever, and a pound of powder can fetch US$2,000.