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...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 27 July, 2021 | Camera Trapping, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Russia), together with ZAO Ferrero Russia (brand Kinder®), developed and launched in 2021 the project “Take care of saigas together!”, within the framework of which the “Black Lands” Reserve, located in the Republic of Kalmykia, and...
by David Hill | Monday, 26 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Their professional holiday – World Ranger Day – the state rangers of the Stepnoi Reserve in the Astrakhan Region, Russia, where a significant part of the saiga population of the North-Western Caspian Sea lives year-round, will as always, meet in the steppe. Even...
by David Hill | Monday, 19 July, 2021 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
Recently, an experience exchange trip took place between the staff of the Saigachiy Reserve and the new South Ustyurt National Park. The kick-off meeting was held in Nukus, from there the inspectors went to the Saigachy field base on Ustyurt and from there they...
by David Hill | Monday, 19 July, 2021 | Camera Trapping, Saiga News, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
The fox is the common and most widespread species of predator in the Saigachiy Reserve (Uzbekistan). This beauty was captured by camera traps in February this year, she is still in her usual winter fur. Обыкновенная лисица – обычный и самый массовый вид хищников...
by David Hill | Sunday, 18 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga Day, Saiga News
Here is the last part of Saiga Day 2021 in Russia posts – about the celebration in the Steppe Club “Vozrozhdenije” (Resurrection). Together with the teams from 15 schools of Astrakhan region quys participated in the quest “Steppe watch”...
by David Hill | Friday, 16 July, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga Day, Saiga News
This year the new Steppe Club named “Tsagda” was created in Kalmykia, Russia. An article was published in a local newspaper about this event / В этом году новый степной клуб “Цагда” был создан в Калмыкии в России. В местной газете вышла статья...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 16 July, 2021 | Saiga News
EJ has been researching saiga antelope for nearly 30 years, and is an expert in its history and ecology. Here she charts the collapse of the saiga population and how her research changed from understanding the ecology of the species, to thinking about the social and...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 13 July, 2021 | Camera Trapping, Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
In this camera trap video captured in April in Stepnoi Reserve (Russia), you see female saigas – mothers-to-be. На этом видео, снятом фотоловушкой в апреле в Степном заказнике (Россия) вы видите самок сайгака – будущих...