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A saiga antelope at the Stepnoi Sanctuary in Russia. Image by Andrey Giljov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kazakhstan to donate 1,500 wild saiga to China after 75 years of local extinction

Shanna Hanbury 2 Jul 2025
Horseback patrolling in a community-based conservancy

Community conservancies in Kyrgyzstan see conservation success against illegal hunting

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 May 2025
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Financing conservation of Central Asia’s endangered mammals on World Wildlife Day and every day (commentary)

Anne Neumann, Christiane Röttger, Johannes Stahl 3 Mar 2025

Slender-billed curlew, a bird last photographed in 1995, is likely extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2024
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Earthshot Prize names 5 winners working on environmental solutions

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2024
Battsengel Lkhamdoorov stands next to one of the summer quarters built by Oyu Tolgoi.

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Aug 2024
Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023
A forest in Indonesia.

Asian Development Bank’s climate commitments require greater accountability (commentary)

Radhika Goyal 12 Jul 2023
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

Honey production sweetens snow leopard conservation in Kyrgyzstan

Monica Pelliccia 10 May 2023

For World Tiger Day, bold new commitments are needed to expand tiger ranges (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 29 Jul 2022
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

Jane Goodall and Hedieyeh Tehrany 3 Jun 2022

As climate change disrupts the annual monsoon, India must prepare (Commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Sep 2019

With new protections, saiga antelope may continue to be a symbol of Central Asia (commentary)

Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba 30 Aug 2019
Afghan man carrying a stuffed leopard down the street in Kabul. The real driver of wildlife trafficking in Afghanistan was however international military forces, humanitarian NGOs, and development contractors. Credit WCS/Lisa Yook.

Conservation may offer common ground in Afghan conflict

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2019

Corruption-riddled caviar trade pushes fish closer to extinction

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2019

Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures

Daniyar Serikov 2 Jan 2019

Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

Daniyar Serikov 13 Nov 2018

Traditional Kyrgyz walnut-apple forests provide map for sustainable future

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 27 Sep 2018

Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population as downgraded threat status remains controversial

Mike Gaworecki 26 Mar 2018

A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Jan 2018

Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures

Mike Gaworecki 26 Sep 2017
A snow leopard comes in for a close-up. Photo courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust.

Collateral damage: Snow leopards and trophy hunting in Kyrgyzstan

Katie Arnold 31 Aug 2017

The Spirit of the Steppes: Saving Central Asia’s saiga

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Feb 2017

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Understanding the ghost of the mountain

Julia John 10 Aug 2016

Conservationists appeal to donors after mystery kills 134,252 saiga

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2015

120,000 dead: half of the world’s saiga die in less than a month

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2015

Locals lead scientists to new population of near-extinct reptile

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2015

Are small-scale hydro projects always greener?

Niren Jain 23 Feb 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Children ‘clean’ oil spill with kitchen utensils in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2014

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