by David Hill | Monday, 11 January, 2021 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
With a feeling of deep sorrow that we have to report that our “saiga” community has suffered an irreparable loss. On the evening of January 8, 2021, terrible news came, which shocked literally everyone – Anton Pavlovich Mezhnev suddenly died, who spent more than...
by David Hill | Wednesday, 30 December, 2020 | Saiga News
As this challenging year draws to a close we hope that you are well, and enjoying the company of those dearest to you. We’re looking forward with optimism to 2021, we’re excited about getting out into the field to see saigas being born in the Spring, a...
by David Hill | Saturday, 26 December, 2020 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
These are the results of the drawing contest “New Year Card” held by steppe club Vozrozhdeniye (Renaissance) in the Limanskiy district of the Astrakhan region of Russia. Результаты конкурса рисунков “Новогодняя открытка”, проведённого степным...
by David Hill | Sunday, 20 December, 2020 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga News
There are two very important periods in the difficult and dangerous life of saigas – animals of amazing appearance and fate that live also on the Steppe of the Liman District of the Astrakhan Region. One of these periods is calving when the saiga calves are...
by David Hill | Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 | Saiga News
As we bid farewell to this challenging year, let’s take a look back at our team’s successes and accomplishments. Let’s cheer on the hundreds of kids who embraced our new on-line Saiga Day celebrations in Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, or celebrate the 20th...
by David Hill | Friday, 11 December, 2020 | Russia, Saiga News
Planning nature conservation measures aimed at restoring the saiga population inhabiting the North-Western Caspian Sea in the medium and long term is impossible without analyzing long-term monitoring data. For many years, the staff of the Stepnoi Reserve, located in...
by David Hill | Monday, 7 December, 2020 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Results of the expedition: from October 27 to November 3, 2020, a joint expedition took place on the territory of the Saigachiy Complex (Landscape) Reserve (Almambet, Duana and Zhideili sites), along the Eastern Chink of the Ustyurt Plateau and in the coastal zone of...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 | Saiga News
by David Hill | Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 | Saiga News
It is well known that the foundations of ecological education are laid at school, but school lessons are not always able to captivate children, form their responsible attitude towards the nature of their native land, and also become the basis for their choice of a...
by David Hill | Tuesday, 17 November, 2020 | Russia, Saiga News
It is not often that you can read about the fate of a certain individual from a herd of many-thousands of saigas. But this short story is about one such unusual and freedom-loving animal. In an early May morning in 2017, near a small lake formed by an artesian well,...
