by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 14 June, 2018 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
The BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov joined a scientific expedition with our colleagues at the ACBK in Kazakhstan, who are attempting to save saigas from extinction, you can watch the lovely shop clip they made here
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 22 March, 2018 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine By Richard A. Kock and E.J. Milner-Gulland Reproduced by kind permission of ‘Natural History’ magazine. First published in the April 2018 issue. Every year at calving...
by Carlyn Samuel | Sunday, 4 December, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
Read an article written by SCA founder E.J. Milner-Gulland that will get you up to speed on the status of the Saiga Antelope https://theconversation.com/planet-earth-ii-why-more-than-200-000-saiga-antelopes-died-in-just-days-69859 ...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 30 May, 2016 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
Dr. Eric Morgan is back out in Kazakhstan, visiting the areas where the mass-die off occurred last year. He’s written us another blog about their trip to a much quieter steppe: “It is hard to express how vast and unpeopled it is here on the Turgai steppe....
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....
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...
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...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 2 November, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Saiga News
Saiga Range Countries and Experts Convene in Tashkent Following Saiga Mass Mortality Event Latest figures presented at the meeting show that more than 150,000 adult saiga antelopes died during the mass mortality event which hit the species in central Kazakhstan...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 4 September, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
Between 9th May and 3rd June this year, large herds of saigas at calving sites in the central population in Kazakhstan died suddenly. 148,800* carcasses were counted at burial sites by the Government rangers. Our latest expedition to the migration area and die-off...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 28 July, 2015 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Saiga News
SAIGA RESEARCH EXPEDITION On 27th June 2015, a 12-day expedition was launched to investigate the reasons for the mass die-off of Saiga antelopes in May 2015. (On 5 June the official death toll stood at 134,000 saigas). The main goal of this field mission was to follow...
