by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 31 July, 2023 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
World Ranger Day is an annual celebration held on July 31st to honour and commemorate the dedication and sacrifices of conservation rangers worldwide. These brave men and women work tirelessly on the frontlines of conservation, facing various challenges and dangers to...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Saturday, 29 April, 2023 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Projects, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Words by Dr Richard Kock, Professor Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, London (Retired). To celebrate World Veterinary Day 2023 we have a special guest blog from Richard Kock, Former Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases at...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 21 September, 2018 | Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Thanks go out to John Wendle and the National Geographic team from this lovely article. Read it here John joined our colleagues at the ACBK this Spring on their yearly census...
by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 28 August, 2018 | Impact Evaluation, Participatory Monitoring, Population Monitoring, Projects, Protected Area designation, Russia
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...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 20 December, 2017 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
Satellite tagging of saigas is one of the most important parts of the conservation work which the Association of the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), our partners, carry out to help prevent the extinction of the remaining saiga populations in...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 20 December, 2017 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017/8 excellence in saiga protection award Project 1 Inzhieva Gerel Davaevna, part of the national Preschool Educational Institution in Russia will be creating “The Saiga Trail” for pre-schoolers in Russia. Which...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 17 November, 2016 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
SCA partners in Kazakhstan the ACBK, together with the “Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems” and “Okhotzooprom” carried out their regular monitoring of the Ural and Ustyrt saiga populations from September 20th to October 20th. This work was carried out...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 5 October, 2016 | Camera Trapping, Population Monitoring, Protected Area designation, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
The SCA is being funded by People’s Trust for Endangered Species to carry out research into the saiga population thought to inhabit Vozrozhdenie Island in the Aral sea, Uzbekistan. Vozrozhdeniye Island, was, up until Soviet times was an island in the Aral Sea....
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 5 November, 2015 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan, Young Conservation Leaders
The Saiga Conservation Alliance 2015 Awards Event took place on Thursday 29th October 2015 at Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Presentations were made by winners of awards and small grants from the SCA over the last few years, and the 2015 winners were presented with...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 21 March, 2015 | Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News, Young Conservation Leaders
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....
