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Ustyurt

British  
/ usˈtjurt /

noun

  1. an arid plateau in central Asia, between the Caspian and Aral seas in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Area: about 238 000 sq km (92 000 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The latest survey, carried out in April, shows not only a big increase in the total numbers, but that one particular population in Ustyurt in the south of the country, has made a dramatic recovery.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2021

The UK-based non-profit organisation, Fauna & Flora International, has been involved in efforts to protect the Ustyurt population by establishing a new anti-poaching ranger team and using satellite collaring to monitor saiga movements.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2021

By contrast, when I walked the Ustyurt Plateau, I spotted only six saiga—a once common steppe antelope—in two months.

From National Geographic Aug. 11, 2016

Still, echoes of a vanished bounty linger in the unearthly silences of the Ustyurt Plateau.

From National Geographic Aug. 11, 2016

Kazakh and Uzbek archaeologists say that tens of thousands of migrating saiga trundled across the shared Ustyurt wilderness only 25 years ago.

From National Geographic Aug. 11, 2016

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