Representatives from Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and UN bodies meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, have agreed an international conservation pact for the migratory saiga antelope. Saigas numbered around 1 million animals in the early 1990s, but declined to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 2006, largely due to a sharp rise in poaching after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. The horns of males are in high demand for traditional Asian medicine, especially in China and parts of south-east Asia | source
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