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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

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Mysterious Kazakh Antelope Deaths Prompt Calls For Foreign Help

Dead saiga antelopes lie on a field in the Zholoba area of the Kostanay region, Kazakhstan, on May 20, 2015.Still looking for answers to what killed nearly one-third of the world's critically endangered saiga antelope population in recent weeks, scientists and activists in Kazakhstan are calling on the authorities to allow outsiders to help in the investigation.During a June 1 press conference in Almaty, the country's Prosecutor-General's Office and the Agriculture Ministry were asked to send samples of the dead animals as well as local soil and water samples to forensic labs abroad.

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