Join our saiga herd!

The Saiga Conservation Alliance has been working to protect the critically endangered Saiga Antelope for over two decades. Thanks to dedicated conservation efforts across the saiga’s range, made possible through the support of our donors, we have great news to...

Watering holes and their hidden uses

Andrey Gilev and Karina Karenina have just got back from the Stepnoi Sanctuary in Russia, where they were continuing their work into the significance of artesian wells for saigas. The role of water sources of different types, including artesian wells, in the life...

Kazakhstan sets saiga horns ablaze.

*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Kazakh authorities have carried out the first public burning of 148 saiga horns, five carcasses and 31 saiga skulls seized in Kazakhstan.   This event was initiated by Saiga...

We’re hiring! Looking for a project manager

The Saiga Conservation Alliance is looking for a Project Manager, based within a saiga range state, who will report to the SCA programme manager (based in the UK) and the SCA Chairperson, to coordinate the fulfilment of the SCA’s programmes. It includes a mixture of...

Speaking Saigas

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....

ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF SAIGAS WAS SHOWN AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BISHKEK

Results of actual research presented at the conference are an excellent opportunity for detailed discussion, exchange of experience and attraction of attention to the objects were studied. In the beginning of August, three specialists from Russia (A.P. Mezhnev from...