Mass saiga die off linked to climate change
I’ve worked in wildlife disease all my life, and I thought I’d seen some pretty grim things….But this takes the biscuit.
—Richard A. Kock, of the Royal Veterinary College in London, discusses the unprecedented die-off of endangered saiga antelopes last spring. Researchers think a lethal combination of climate change and bacteria may have been what killed more than half of the species in less than a month.