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UK Scientists Join Field Expedition to Saiga Calving Sites

by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 14 May, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News

First blog from the field, by Eric Morgan Hello, I’m on the train… converging on Heathrow today you might see handful of people lugging microscopes, test tubes and camping paraphernalia – on their way to join an ACBK-led expedition to last year’s saiga die-off sites....

Saiga News Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 25 April, 2016 | Saiga News

Thanks to generous support from our donors, and dedicated work from our volunteer editors, we have been running Saiga News for ten years now. We thought we’d celebrate our tenth year anniversary with a new look, and would like to thank Ashley Goldstein at...

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Saiga Die-Off Update: Surprising Findings

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...

Russian Anti-Poaching Rangers are Now Fully Equipped

by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 9 February, 2016 | Russia, Saiga News

After the devastating news from Kazakhstan that 88% (over 200,000 saigas) of the Betpak-dala population died during the calving period in May 2015, it has never been more important to support the efforts of the anti-poaching ranger teams in protecting the last...

Why Did More Than 200,000 Saiga Antelope Die in Less Than Two Weeks?

by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 2 February, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News

In May 2015 an extraordinary scene unfolded on the steppes of central Kazakhstan. Female saigas gathered in their usual huge numbers to give birth on the open plain over a period of just 10 days, a spectacle thought to be a predator-swamping mechanism and a way to hit...

Young Uzbek Reporters Seminar

by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 28 January, 2016 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan, Young Conservation Leaders

2016 Young Conservation leader arranges training session for children. Last month Begis Sultamuratov, an Enviromental-journalist at the “Jetkinshek” newspaper, and winner of the 2016 SCA Young Conservation Leader award, held a seminar and training event for the...

New Ranger Station in Russia

by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 | Russia, Saiga News

First Ranger Station for the Stepnoi Sanctuary. This population is in critical need of support. Having once numbered hundreds of thousands of animals, the population has dropped rapidly due to heavy poaching. In 2012 it was at 12,000 individuals, but since then...

Uzbek Cartoon Celebration in Nukus

by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 19 January, 2016 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan

Earlier this month we held an event at the National Press Centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to celebrate the success of our newest award-winning cartoon. ‘A Steppe Tale II’, which won a golden Loon award at in international film festival. We invited children from the two...

Saiga Conservation Team Visits East Africa

by saigaconservationalliance | Sunday, 17 January, 2016 | Saiga News

Among all the events we have carried out for saiga conservation world this year, we wanted to highlight our first knowledge-exchange trip. The Uzbek SCA team, including Sasha the Saiga traveled to Kenya. We had a unique opportunity to spread the word about saigas far...