>tfw Saiga will go extinct within my lifetime I don't

>>2404266
have you ever met one?

>>2404270
No.

>>2404271
Have you ever tasted one?

>>2404285
No I'm not a chink who eats highly endangered species to overcompensate for my impotence.

sad. that is a cute beast.

>>2404266
A horned winter tapir

Looks fake

We have specimens in captivity, which means we have viable egg cells and DNA. As long as enough DNA samples are taken from different individuals, we can clone them. Maybe even introduce them to a similar habitat on a nature preserve far away from China.

>>2404266
My dad used to ate them when there were a lot of saigas

They look made up or the offspring between a goat and a Chinese dragon. I love them.

>>2404389
They look like they have dicks for noses and carrots for horns.

>>2404266
saiga on the taiga

>>2404321
The problem is having enough different DNA samples. Usually we only ever bother storing DNA once they are certain to be extinct. Even if we didn't wait, we'd still need to save quite a few different, preferably not closely related individuals. Even 100 is still a very small gene pool.

>>2404266
Start a crowdsource campaign to help scientists, veterinarians, and others in the correct fields to steer the Saiga away from extinction.

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>>2404266
Can't we just manufacture more?

I don't think it would be too difficult to farm these.

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>>2404532
It is. They also have a tendency to die in huge numbers for seemingly no reason.

>more than half the world's wild population dead in a month

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-identify-culprits-behind-mysterious-mass-antelope-deaths-180957174/

I thought I read there had been some recent conservation successes?

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>chink """medicine""" is the reason for them getting poached to hell
fucking nuke that country

>>2404700
but then you also nuke all the medicinal fauna

>>2404529
You'd have to crowdsource a genocide of Chinese people to save them.

>>2404323
what did they taste like?

>>2404762
Similar to giraffes.

>>2404678
It was a disease anon.

>>2404908
In 1920-th saiga had been almost completely exterminated in Soviet Union. But due to protection its number reached about 2 millions in 1950-th. It means this animal is able to breed fat enough. The decline of its numbers is a result of lack of protection after the artifical collapse of Soviet Union and the ignorance of people in newly formed Middle Asian countries.