The saiga in Mongolia died after being infected with a rinderpest. About 70 percent of them were baby saiga, 27.8 percent were male saiga and 1.3 percent of them were female. 

Currently, 2,000-3,000 saiga in Shargiin Gobi steppe of Gobi-Altai province and over 200 saiga in Khovd province are living in unhealthy areas. 

Mongolian saigas, one of the most threatened species on the planet inhabit districts of Gobi-Altai and Khovd provinces, the western Mongolia. In 2016, the saiga population in Mongolia stood at more than 10,000. 

Since 1930 Mongolia has prohibited hunting Mongolian Saiga, which is listed in the Mongolian Red Book of Endangered Species as a specially protected species. However profit-seekers poach healthy saiga aggressively for its horn, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Hence it needs close monitoring. 

The government is seeking ways to save the saiga and ordered the governors of Gobi-Altai and Khovd to take following actions:

• Study the location of cattles settling in diseased regions
• Vaccinate the cattles settling in Biger, Erdene, Chandmani districts of Gobi-Alta 
• Estimate the potential difficulties of blood disease that may spread according to the conclusion of international experts 
• Monitor the disposal of carcasses of diseased saiga by intelligence, polices and professional inspection agencies due to people cropping the saiga`s horn. 

Saiga once had a wider footprint on the planet. Today, they are found only in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia and Mongolia. All of the saiga’s range states were part of the Soviet Union or China for most of the last century. Saiga went extinct in China in the 1960s.

Saiga are one of the fastest-declining mammal species on our planet today. Since the early 1990s over 95% of the saiga population has disappeared. There is considerable international concern, and saiga has been listed as Critically Endangered by the the International Union for Conservation of Nature.