An interview with Olya Esipova, 2014 SCA Young Conservation Leader
Olya Esipova is 19 years old and is a full time student at the Westminster International University In Tashkent, Uzbekistan where she is finishing a course in international foundation studies. She used her Young Conservation Leaders award to work on the SCA’s new...An interview with Aigul Aitbaeva 2014 SCA Young Conservation Leader
Aigul Aitbaeva is 25 and works as the saiga project manager at the Centre for wild animals of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. Her Young Conservation Leaders award allowed her to develop a colourful booklet about saigas, specifically aimed at children. I wanted to...An interview with Sergelen Erdenebaatar 2014 SCA Young Conservation Leader
Sergelen Erdenebaatar is 25 years old and works as a biologist and ecologist at Altain Nuudelchid, an NGO based in Mongolia. Sergelen is one of the SCA’s 2014 Young Conservation Leaders and he used his award to carry out research into Mongolian saiga populations....Saiga Competition in Kazakhstan Receives Over 3000 Entries
This winter more than 3000 children from all over Kazakhstan submitted their entries to the first ever national “Saiga – a symbol of the Kazakh steppe” contest. The competition was run by the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of...Assessing Population Abundance and Distribution in Western Mongolia
The overarching aims of the project were to estimate population size of saiga with associated confidence intervals across its entire range in western Mongolia, and to conduct spatial modelling on the survey data to assess the human and environmental factors...Read moreIn recent years, attempts have been made to conduct saiga censuses by means of aerial photography using drones.