by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 6 April, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In continued analyses of samples from the catastrophic mass die-off of saiga antelopes from May 2015, several laboratories have identified the bacterium Pasteurella multocida as...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 10 March, 2015
What is a Saiga? Photo by Eugeny Polonsky A Symbol of the Steppe The saiga’s long, wobbly noses and large expressive eyes make one think of muppets or Dr. Seuss characters. These adorable antelopes are much tougher than they look, having roamed the earth since...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 20 November, 2023
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by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Friday, 19 May, 2023 | Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Mongolia, Mongolia - Featured Post, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
It’s International Endangered Species Day today. A day for celebrating, learning about, and taking action to protect threatened and endangered species. Since 2015 Saiga population has experienced an incredible change of fortune but Saiga Antelope remain subject to...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Saturday, 29 April, 2023 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Projects, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Words by Dr Richard Kock, Professor Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, London (Retired). To celebrate World Veterinary Day 2023 we have a special guest blog from Richard Kock, Former Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases at...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 27 September, 2018 | Saiga News
By Munib Sajad Khanyari. Nothing comes close to experiencing the beauty of Saigas roaming their vast habitat. A close second is perhaps sharing their stories and gaining valuable feedback ensuring the work my colleagues and I do is robust and meaningful....
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 22 March, 2018 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine By Richard A. Kock and E.J. Milner-Gulland Reproduced by kind permission of ‘Natural History’ magazine. First published in the April 2018 issue. Every year at calving...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 17 January, 2018 | Saiga News
Sudden death of 200,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes was caused by unusual environmental conditions The sudden death of over 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan in May 2015, more than 80% of the affected population and more than 60% of the global...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 24 February, 2017 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Our colleague, Richard Kock from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK, worked on the Mass die-off in Kazakhstan in 2015, he recently came back from carrying out emergency research into the terrible scene unfolding in Mongolia. In these two very short clips he...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 2 February, 2017 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Experts from the Saiga Conservation Alliance’s in-country partners – WWF Mongolia and WCS- Mongolia – and scientists from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Royal Veterinary College and FAO, are on the scene, investigating the causes and...
