by Carlyn Samuel | Sunday, 19 September, 2010 | Alternative Livelihoods, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
Aizada Nurumbetova is director of the “Keuil nury” Centre for Social Support of Women in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. Aizada’s grant will be used to develop alternative sources of income for inhabitants of the Ustiurt plateau in Uzbekistan by training local women in...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 | 2015 Dieoff, Kazakhstan, Participatory Monitoring, Projects
Background Nearly 12,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes were found dead over the week commencing 19th May 2010, in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan. The dead were mostly females who had recently given birth, which suggests that their calves have also...
by Carlyn Samuel | Monday, 19 October, 2009 | China, Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 round of SCA’s small grants competition. This competition aims to build grassroots capacity for saiga conservation by supporting small self-contained projects within the saiga range states, undertaken by those without...
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 Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 19 November, 2008 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
This year the Small Grants Programme received 18 proposals from five countries and was generously supported by the Wildlife Conservation Network. At the end of October the SCA Steering Committee met in Almaty, Kazakhstan for their annual meeting and to discuss the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 7 November, 2008 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 SCA Small Grants competition. This competition aims to build capacity for saiga conservation at the grassroots level by enabling individuals to...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 6 February, 2008 | Impact Evaluation, Projects, Russia
This Darwin Initiative project builds on the success of our previous Darwin project (Using saiga antelope conservation to improve rural livelihoods) by collaborating with Kalmykian educationalists and religious leaders to highlight the importance of saiga...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 12 January, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Population Monitoring, Projects, Uzbekistan
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Period: January 1st 2007- December 31st 2009 Participants Fauna and Flora International Elena Bykova, Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences of Republic of Uzbekistan Alexander...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 1 October, 2007 | Alternative Livelihoods, Projects, Russia
This was a project under Defra’s Small Environmental Projects Scheme, and was led by Iu.A. Arylov, with Imperial College as the UK partner. Period: October 2005 – September 2006 Collaborators Professor Iu.A. Arylov, Centre for the Study and Conservation of Wild...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 19 July, 2007 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Small Grants Programme
This project, by a young researcher at the Institute of Zoology in Kazakhstan, will help to train the next generation of saiga experts as well as providing important information on the current status of the saiga population in Betpak-dala. This was one of the most...
