Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorise the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government says is now threatening farming in the vast Central Asian country.

Kazakhstan has bolstered protections for a handful of highly rare animal species it is trying to return to the wild. ... Efforts to rebuild the population have focused on the Altyn-Emel National Park.

The days of Kazakhstan's national sport kokpar being a wild free-for-all with a headless goat may be numbered since plans have surfaced to replace the bloody carcass at the center of the game with ...

Part of a major investment in Kazakhstan’s tourist infrastructure, this road was built during the Covid-19 pandemic to improve access from Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, to Charyn Canyon ...

animals This floppy-nosed antelope was nearly gone. 20 years later, it’s thriving. Less than a decade ago, more than half of the world’s saiga antelope were lost to a mysterious disease.