by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 28 February, 2017 | Saiga News
If you love the natural world Mongabay is great online source of news for all things related to conservation and the environment, and this week Elizabeth Devitt has written a great article about saigas for its ‘Almost Famous Animals’ series! Read the...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 24 February, 2017 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Our colleague, Richard Kock from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK, worked on the Mass die-off in Kazakhstan in 2015, he recently came back from carrying out emergency research into the terrible scene unfolding in Mongolia. In these two very short clips he...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 22 February, 2017 | Saiga News
Sofiya Shukhova, is a 23 year old wildlife artist who tries to bring the public’s attention to wildlife issues using art. She creates paintings that show the beauty and fragility of wildlife. She also I gives workshops and lectures to raise awareness about wildlife...
by Carlyn Samuel | Tuesday, 21 February, 2017 | Saiga News
The latest issue of Saiga News is out now in English and Russian. Just click on the hyperlinks or images below to view them. Хорошие новости! Вышел последний номер Сайга Ньюс. Просто нажмите на изображение ниже для его просмотра In this issue we cover some...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 8 February, 2017 | Mongolia, Mongolia - Featured Post, Saiga News
HELP US SAVE MONGOLIA’S UNIQUE WILDLIFE An outbreak of a devastating disease, peste-des-petits ruminants (sheep and goat plague) is killing saiga antelopes and other unique and imperiled animals in Mongolia. Already more than 2,500 saigas have suffered a...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 2 February, 2017 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Experts from the Saiga Conservation Alliance’s in-country partners – WWF Mongolia and WCS- Mongolia – and scientists from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Royal Veterinary College and FAO, are on the scene, investigating the causes and...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 | Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
Ask the SCA’s 2016 Small Grant Winner Vladimir Kalmykov of Course! This year our Small Grants Programme was generously supported by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. Due to this support we were able to award three great...
by Carlyn Samuel | Thursday, 19 January, 2017 | Mongolia, Mongolia - Featured Post, Saiga News
Unfortunately, latest reports from our colleagues in Mongolia indicate that over 1000 saigas have now died from the ongoing disease outbreak. Tests are still being conducted, but it’s most likely an outbreak of peste-des-petits ruminants, or “sheep and goat plague”,...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 11 January, 2017 | Mongolia, Saiga News
Saiga deaths in Mongolia. We have received reports of the tragic death of over 500 Mongolian saigas in recent weeks. This disease outbreak is worrying because the Mongolian subspecies numbers only around 12,000 individuals*. Initial reports suggest that the cause is...
