SAIGA

Tim Cope, on his 10,000km journey to ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary on the 'Trail of Genghis Khan' has travelled for more than eighteen months across Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and into the republic of Kalmykia in Russia. Here he is invited to a research park where they are breed ing 'Saiga' in captivity. This unique steppe antelope used to number 800,000 on the steppes of Kazakhstan and Kalmykia, but due to poaching for the male horns now numbers no more than 40,000.

Here on the Emba river Tim is invited in by a camel herding family. They herd the camels out in the morning, millk them in the evening, and spend the hots days in underground huts.

The Six-part documentary series for ABC2 Australia airs July 28, 8pm 2010.

DVD available as of September 2010

Book to be published by Bloomsbury worldwide, Allen & Unwin Australia

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Travel & Events

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• Saiga
• Kalmykia
• Tim Cope
• Trail of Genghis Khan

[Spas122]

very funny and cute animals. They remind me of tapirs.

[dreammaker182]

If they had one horn theye'd look just like what I would imagine a unicorn would look like!

[Casualview87]

I saw them in Kazakhstan in a steppe