by David Hill | Thursday, 6 January, 2022 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Антон Павлович Межнев 22 октября 1963 г. — 8 января 2020 г. Антон Павлович Межнев скоропостижно скончался 8 января 2021 года. И это огромная потеря не только для его родных и близких, не только для российской орнитологии, но и для охраны природы нашей и не только...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 10 August, 2021 | Camera Trapping, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
This #CameraTrapTuesday join this guy who really seems to enjoy life in Stepnoi Reserve! В этот #CameraTrapTuesday присоединяйтесь к этому парню, который наслаждается жизнью в Степном...
by David Hill | Friday, 6 August, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Favorite habitats of the only saiga population in Europe are confined to the territory of the Yashkul, Chernozemelsky and Yustinsky districts of the Republic of Kalmykia and the Limansky district of the Astrakhan region, which, in turn, can be attributed to the vast...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 3 August, 2021 | Camera Trapping, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
#CameraTrapTuesday Not only saigas are caught in the camera traps in Stepnoi Reserve. Here is a wolf who came to the artesian lake. #CameraTrapTuesday В заказнике «Степной» в фотоловушки попадают не только сайгаки. Вот волк, пришедший к...
by David Hill | Friday, 30 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
The most responsible and dangerous rangers’ duty is patrolling. Patrols in Stepnoi Reserve happen every day – 365 days a year – with no exceptions. For the territory a little smaller than New York there are only 12 rangers. Rangers work in shifts...
by David Hill | Friday, 30 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
And for the rest of the state rangers, whose shift in the Reserve lasts three days, there are comfortable for living small buildings, surrounded by a small garden (in the desert!). Rangers care after this garden, including pouring water brought from many kilometers...
by David Hill | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
A special place in the work of state inspectors is occupied by the biotechnical measures on the territory of the Reserve. Thus, snowy and very windy winters quite often cause damage to the nests of birds of prey that have found their home on the territory of the...
by David Hill | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Everyone knows how dangerous and terrible fires are for all living things, especially steppe fires when literally in a matter of minutes huge territories can be engulfed in fire, which deprives of a food base for both domestic and wild animals and after which...
by David Hill | Thursday, 29 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
At the watering places, bright signs are displayed informing visitors of the Stepnoi Reserve about the depth of the artesian well, the mineral composition of the pouring water, and about those animals and birds that most often visit this or that watering place. Not...
by David Hill | Wednesday, 28 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
To inform local people and prevent border violations, state rangers have installed bright information signs visible from afar around the perimeter of the Reserve and on especially important roads. These signs must be changed as the paint fades under the scorching rays...
