by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Sunday, 20 December, 2020 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
There are two very important periods in the difficult and dangerous life of saigas – animals of amazing appearance and fate that live also on the Steppe of the Liman District of the Astrakhan Region. One of these periods is calving when the saiga calves are...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 | Saiga News
As we bid farewell to this challenging year, let’s take a look back at our team’s successes and accomplishments. Let’s cheer on the hundreds of kids who embraced our new on-line Saiga Day celebrations in Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, or celebrate the 20th...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Friday, 11 December, 2020 | Russia, Saiga News
Planning nature conservation measures aimed at restoring the saiga population inhabiting the North-Western Caspian Sea in the medium and long term is impossible without analyzing long-term monitoring data. For many years, the staff of the Stepnoi Reserve, located in...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 7 December, 2020 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Results of the expedition: from October 27 to November 3, 2020, a joint expedition took place on the territory of the Saigachiy Complex (Landscape) Reserve (Almambet, Duana and Zhideili sites), along the Eastern Chink of the Ustyurt Plateau and in the coastal zone of...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 | Saiga News
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 | Saiga News
It is well known that the foundations of ecological education are laid at school, but school lessons are not always able to captivate children, form their responsible attitude towards the nature of their native land, and also become the basis for their choice of a...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Tuesday, 17 November, 2020 | Russia, Saiga News
It is not often that you can read about the fate of a certain individual from a herd of many-thousands of saigas. But this short story is about one such unusual and freedom-loving animal. In an early May morning in 2017, near a small lake formed by an artesian well,...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Sunday, 27 September, 2020 | Saiga News
Nov 16, 1939 – July 23, 2020 Recently we found out that on July 23, the Honorary member of SCA Amankul Bekenov passed away. Below there are some memories and reflections from SCA members. I am very sad to hear of the death of Professor Amankul Bekenov. He was a...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Saturday, 22 August, 2020 | Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Saiga News, Young Conservation Leaders
Final report of one of Young Conservation Leader program winners, Aibat Muzhbay Implementation period: 2019-2020 Background information The saiga is a steppe antelope with a specific trunk. The animal can be considered unique: it appeared 50-70 thousand years...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Tuesday, 21 July, 2020 | Russia, Saiga News
As we have previously reported on social networks (https://www.facebook.com/Savesaigas/posts/3041995935837656), on July 7, three light aircraft attacked a herd of saigas near a large artesian well in the Stepnoi reserve. The pilots circled around several times and...
