by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 19 January, 2016 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Earlier this month we held an event at the National Press Centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to celebrate the success of our newest award-winning cartoon. ‘A Steppe Tale II’, which won a golden Loon award at in international film festival. We invited children from the two...
by saigaconservationalliance | Sunday, 17 January, 2016 | Saiga News
Among all the events we have carried out for saiga conservation world this year, we wanted to highlight our first knowledge-exchange trip. The Uzbek SCA team, including Sasha the Saiga traveled to Kenya. We had a unique opportunity to spread the word about saigas far...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 15 January, 2016 | Saiga News
Экранларымызда жыллар дауамында Устирт кенликлеринде Сайгаклар хам адамлар арасында тыгыз байланыста жасаганлыгы хаккында «Устирт сайгаклары жасауга хакылы» атамасында жана хужжетли фильм шыгарылмакта. Кейинги уакытлары табийий ресурслардан надурыс пайдаланыу...
by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 13 January, 2016 | Saiga News
Право на жизнь”, рассказывающий о том, как люди в течение сотен лет жили в гармонии сайгаками на плато Устюрт. Однако в последнее время неустойчивое использование природных ресурсов и индустриальное развитие региона начало негативно влиять на его природу....
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 12 January, 2016 | Protected Area designation, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
Thanks to The Whitley Fund for Nature and Wildlife Conservation Network the SCA has been able to produce a short film showing how people lived side by side with saigas on the Ustyurt plateau for hundreds of years, until recently when the region’s economic...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 22 December, 2015 | Saiga News
Elucidating climatic drivers of mass mortality in the endangered Saiga antelope. In May 2015, catastrophic mortality affected calving aggregations of saigas in their core range, wiping out half the global population in a few weeks. The cause remains uncertain, with...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 8 December, 2015 | Saiga News
Read all about it! Oryx, the journal, has put together a special collection of all the articles it has published on saigas, free to download. See it here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialArticle?jid=ORX&bespokeId=13664
by Carlyn Samuel | Saturday, 14 November, 2015 | Migratory Species Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan
It’s became an annual event for schools in the saiga regions of Nukus and Ustyurt to host Migratory Species Day events just before the Christmas break. This year, the the SCA team visited the Steppe Wildlife Club “Hope” which the first to celebrate. High school...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 5 November, 2015 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan, Young Conservation Leaders
The Saiga Conservation Alliance 2015 Awards Event took place on Thursday 29th October 2015 at Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Presentations were made by winners of awards and small grants from the SCA over the last few years, and the 2015 winners were presented with...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 2 November, 2015 | Saiga News
We are extremely grateful for Passion Pictures to have produced this beautiful saiga trailer with footage kindly provided by National Geographic and PBS, which will no doubt assist in spreading the message through social networks and ultimately help us save the saiga....