by David Hill | Friday, 24 December, 2021 | Saiga News
On the eve of the New Year holidays, the festive events dedicated to the “Migrating Animals” continued. This time they moved from Nukus to the Ustyurt plateau, where the main saiga population lives. The relay race for the competition of open lessons on the...
by David Hill | Monday, 29 November, 2021 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
Autumn, saigas go to the next seasonal migration. Migratory birds gather in flocks and head to warm regions. And in the Steppe Clubs of Karakalpakstan, the “Day of Migrating Animals” is being held. This year, the organizers decided to change the format and...
by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 26 October, 2021 | Saiga News
The Aral Sea crisis is widely considered one of the greatest man-made environmental disasters of our time. However, a host of new initiatives have recently emerged – featuring widespread international collaboration – which aim at transforming the Aral Sea region in...
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...
