December in Stepnoi

Декабрь в Степном Valery Maleev, wildlife photographer Валерий Малеев, фотограф дикой природы Over the past five years, as a wildlife photographer, I have been fortunate enough to repeatedly visit the territory of the Stepnoi Reserve in the Astrakhan Region and take a...

Resurrection Island Project

The Aral Sea, in Central Asia is synonymous with ecological and socio-economic collapse, but carries with it the seeds of its own recovery. At the centre of the region in lies what, until the Sea largely disappeared, used to be an island: Vozrozhdenie (meaning...

Long-awaited award

Долгожданная награда Last June, on the Ecological Day, the IV National Contest “Camera Trap-2018” was launched, the organizer of which, as in previous years, was the “Forest Monitoring Project”, which has been specializing in the supply of “smart” high-quality...

New saiga toys on sale now!

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...

2018-2019 Drawing contest, Astrakhan region

In anticipation of the results of a new drawing competition held in the Astrakhan region in October of this year, we want to recall the winners of last year. The competition “Nature is your home. Take care of it!” was announced on November 14, 2018, the...

Resurrection?

This autumn SCA founder, Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland gave a fascinating presentation at the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Expo in San Francisco. She outlines the rise and fall of saiga populations, linking their survival to the challenges and greed of their...

Tulips will bloom on the cordon!

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...