These Rare Antelope Face Double Jeopardy: Disease and Poaching

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/saiga-antelope-poaching-disease/

A rare species of antelope, called saiga, is facing both human and environmental threats. Poachers chase these animals to cut off their horns to sell illegally on the black market or to be used for medicinal purposes. Along with the illegal poaching of saiga, they are being killed off by disease. There are only 225,000 saiga left in the wild, which is 1/4 of what the population was 40 years ago. I believe that these animals should be protected in the wild and efforts to stop poaching should increase so these animals do not go extinct.

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2018 at 11:05 AM

    The fact that humans consider themselves to be more advanced and superior animals we don't seem to be doing near enough to keep things like this from happening. We don't prioritize the lives of other living things and I think this needs to change. Animals like this rare antelope can't remain as a species on this planet for very long when we are continuously poaching them rather than protecting their habitat and way of life.

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