by saigaconservationalliance | Sunday, 7 February, 2010 | Saiga News
In collaboration with the Rostov-based tour company Saga Tours, and with the Saiga Conservation Alliance, the UK-based company Eastern Approaches is offering a new cultural tour of the saiga range area in southern Russia, to run in August 2010. The tour will include...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 11 January, 2010 | China, Saiga News
Fenglian Li, of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) China Program, intends to use the grant to expand upon the work of 2009 small grant winner Guihong Zhang, addressing the illegal trade of saiga antelope horn in Guangzhou, China (see corresponding Articles in...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 | Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Projects
The Mongolian saiga has long been isolated from the more numerous populations in Kazakhstan and Russia by the Altai Mountains. They occur at low densities but across a wide area of the western Mongolian Gobi steppe-desert. The population of Mongolian saiga has...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 22 September, 2009 | Saiga News
In a decline on par with that suffered by the American bison in the Nineteenth Century, in the 1990s the saiga antelope of the Central Asian steppe plummeted from over one million individuals to 50,000, dropping a staggering 95 percent in a decade and a half. Since...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 | Russia, Saiga News
Bonn, 25June 2009 – On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the Russian Federation has enhanced its support for the conservation of the Saiga antelope by signing the agreement established in the framework of the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 17 June, 2009 | Saiga News
The Medium term progress report towards the fulfilment of the Convention on Migratory Species’(CMS) international work programme is now available and can be found here, both in English and Russian. For more information on the CMS, please visit...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 | Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
In 2007 the SCA initiated a pioneering Small Grants Programme. This competition aims to build capacity at the grassroots level by enabling individuals to apply for a grant of up to $2,000 for a one-year project on saiga conservation in the wild. The Small Grants...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Mongolia, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine On 20 December, 2008 IRVES 3 Mobile AntiPoaching Unit and police officers detained two Mongolian citizens who killed 6 Mongolian Saigas. A volunteer ranger informed the case of the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, a young scientist engaged in saiga research and conservation activites in his home country of Mongolia, has been awarded $15,000 USD to carry out his Masters research in the USA from the Sidney Byers Scholarship for Wildlife Conservation. The...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 4 March, 2009 | Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine A quarter of all antelope species are threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The results, compiled by the Antelope Specialist Group of...
