A two-week old argali mountain goat stands next to a domestic sheep wich became his surrogate mother in Amaty zoo in this file photo from April 12, 2001. [Agencies] ...

Six months ago, researchers in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic took five fertilised embryos from a rare argali mountain goat, captured in the wild, and implanted them in five ewes.

Environmentalists have said photos from the crash site, in remote mountains near the border with Kazakhstan, appeared to show the hunting party had shot endangered Argali goats -- famed for their ...