by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 | Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
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...
In recent years, attempts have been made to conduct saiga censuses by means of aerial photography using drones.
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by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 1 December, 2014 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Saiga News
Critically endangered saiga antelope population increases Following the results of the 2014 aerial survey of saiga antelope numbers in Kazakhstan it was possible to assess the success of conservation measures taken by conservationists and local people to protect them....
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 17 March, 2014 | Participatory Monitoring, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News
In the summer of 2013 Leejiah Dorward, a student on Imperial College London’s Conservation Science MSc, visited Kalmykia to work with the Centre for Wild Animals to assess the success of the participatory monitoring project to date. While the data collected by the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 30 January, 2014 | Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
More rangers are needed in the fight against poachers. The SCA is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Small Grants Programme, generously supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. As ever, the entries were to an extremely high standard and this year the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 24 December, 2011 | China, Mongolia, Participatory Monitoring, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
We are pleased to announce the winners of a one-off small grants competition generously funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and administered by the SCA. The programme supports grassroots projects to implement the priority actions of the Medium Term Work...
by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 | Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
Pavel Amosov is deputy director for science at Bogdinsk Baskunchak nature reserve in Astrakhan Province, Russia. Pavel has been working in the reserve for 2 years and is responsible for monitoring the status of the reserve’s vertebrate populations. Prior to this...
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...
