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CITES lifts the zero export quota on saiga horns originating from Kazakhstan

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan has announced a key decision of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the CITES Convention, held in Samarkand from 24 November to 5 December 2025: the zero export quota on saiga horns originating exclusively from the Kazakhstani population has been lifted. The decision was made following extensive consultations and discussions both at the Conference and in preparation for its work.

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9th Asian Arachnological Conference

9th Asian Arachnological Conference held in Laos

The 9th Asian Arachnological Conference took place in Vang Vieng, Laos, from November 10 to 14. Kazakhstan was represented by Leonid Kim — Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of Arachnology and Other Invertebrates and Chair of the Council of Young Scientists of the Institute of Zoology.

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Older than dinosaurs: scientists from the Institute of Zoology discovered over a hundred Paleozoic amphibian skeletons 70 km from Almaty

From October 4 to 12, the team of the Institute of Zoology of Kazakhstan conducted a short but successful expedition to the Kurty locality in Almaty Region — one of the few continental Paleozoic sites in Kazakhstan. The exposed rocks here date back to the Permian period, about 280 million years old, meaning that the organisms found in Kurty lived long before the age of dinosaurs.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER – new discoveries in the fossil fauna of Karatau!

“Jurassic Lake Karatau” is the world’s largest Jurassic insect locality, located on the northeastern slope of the Karatau range, at the border of Zhambyl and Turkestan regions. It is one of the few places on Earth where exceptionally thin-bedded rocks, known as “paper” or “fish” shales, preserve remains of animals and plants that lived about 160 million years ago. More than 800 species of Mesozoic insects are known from here, along with unique finds of pterosaurs, amphibians, and fishes that inhabited Kazakhstan during the age of dinosaurs.

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