by David Hill | Friday, 24 January, 2020 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
Попробуй распознай! As we already reported earlier (October 22, 2019), one of the winners of the SCA’s Small Grants Program previous year was the international Russian-English project (lead by Olga Vorontseva and Babette Fourier) devoted to saiga monitoring based on...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 20 November, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
This is not a very ordinary story of a young mother, who evokes a love for saigas in the hearts of old and young alike, with her handmade toys. Her name is Natalya Sayapina, and she is a 29 year-old science teacher. However, she’s taking a break while she concentrates...
by David Hill | Wednesday, 30 October, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
На кордоне зацветут тюльпаны! The “Stepnoy” Reserve created in 2000 near the Liman settlement (Astrakhan region, Russia) to save the saiga and other inhabitants of the steppe ecosystems, had not had a place not so long ago where inspectors, who work around...
by David Hill | Wednesday, 31 July, 2019 | Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Together with the world, we celebrate today the World Ranger Day. On this day, we want to remember those who died, fulfilling their duty.This year already two rangers from Kazakhstan were killed by poachers hunting saigas. On January 15 ranger Yerlan Nurgaliev died in...
by David Hill | Monday, 22 July, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Алексей Ткачёв, инспектор Заказника Степной Here is one more short interview that we took during a recent trip to Stepnoi Reserve. Motorcycle Inspector Alexey Tkachev told us if inspectors have weapons, and what is the most important now for saiga protection....
by David Hill | Monday, 15 July, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Вячеслав Михайлович Зимин, инспектор Заказника Степной Here is another small interview we took during the last visit to Stepnoi Reserve. One of the longest working rangers Vyacheslav Zimin told us what is the most pleasant and hardest in his work and why he has been...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 9 July, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Stepnoy Reserve, Astrakhan region, Russia, May 2019 During our recent trip, we had a chance to visit Stepnoy Reserve and have a quick talk with the director of the Reserve Vladimir Kalmykov and his wife Galina. Love, saigas, fighting with bad people – this story is...
by David Hill | Monday, 4 March, 2019 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga hero, Saiga News
Vladimir Kalmykov: The best part of my work is the tranquility of the Stepnoi sanctuary Today we recognise Vladimir Kalmykov, Director of the Stepnoi sanctuary, and ask him some questions about his life with saigas. He is the head of one of the best saiga conservation...
