by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 31 July, 2023 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
World Ranger Day is an annual celebration held on July 31st to honour and commemorate the dedication and sacrifices of conservation rangers worldwide. These brave men and women work tirelessly on the frontlines of conservation, facing various challenges and dangers to...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Wednesday, 5 July, 2023 | Saiga News
Saiga Conservation Alliance are delighted to announce the 2 Excellence in Saiga Protection Winners. Thank you to all who applied and we wish you good luck with your saiga conservation efforts. Bringing back our Annual Awards, after a short hiatus, has been very...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Thursday, 1 June, 2023
As the SCA’s annual awards programme returns in 2023 – read more about the full programme – we look back on 10 years of the programme and understand the impact on international networking and capacity building. Excellence in Saiga Protection closed on Friday 2nd June...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Friday, 30 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
The most responsible and dangerous rangers’ duty is patrolling. Patrols in Stepnoi Reserve happen every day – 365 days a year – with no exceptions. For the territory a little smaller than New York there are only 12 rangers. Rangers work in shifts...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Friday, 30 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
And for the rest of the state rangers, whose shift in the Reserve lasts three days, there are comfortable for living small buildings, surrounded by a small garden (in the desert!). Rangers care after this garden, including pouring water brought from many kilometers...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
A special place in the work of state inspectors is occupied by the biotechnical measures on the territory of the Reserve. Thus, snowy and very windy winters quite often cause damage to the nests of birds of prey that have found their home on the territory of the...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Everyone knows how dangerous and terrible fires are for all living things, especially steppe fires when literally in a matter of minutes huge territories can be engulfed in fire, which deprives of a food base for both domestic and wild animals and after which...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
At the watering places, bright signs are displayed informing visitors of the Stepnoi Reserve about the depth of the artesian well, the mineral composition of the pouring water, and about those animals and birds that most often visit this or that watering place. Not...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Wednesday, 28 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
To inform local people and prevent border violations, state rangers have installed bright information signs visible from afar around the perimeter of the Reserve and on especially important roads. These signs must be changed as the paint fades under the scorching rays...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 26 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Their professional holiday – World Ranger Day – the state rangers of the Stepnoi Reserve in the Astrakhan Region, Russia, where a significant part of the saiga population of the North-Western Caspian Sea lives year-round, will as always, meet in the steppe. Even...