by saigaconservationalliance | Wednesday, 4 March, 2009 | Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine A quarter of all antelope species are threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The results, compiled by the Antelope Specialist Group of...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 26 February, 2009 | Saiga News
Born from a Central European idea around 1900, the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) was established in 1928 in Palárikovo, Slovakia. Since then, it has gained global recognition as a unique advisor in the field of sustainable use and the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 20 February, 2009 | Saiga News
Pirsch, a German magazine for hunting and nature enthusiasts, have published an article on the decline of the saiga antelope, which features information about the work of the SCA. You can download the article here (in German!).
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 6 February, 2009 | Saiga News
At the 7th national contest for Environmental Journalism that was held in Tashkent on 20 December 2008, the SCA’s biannual newsletter Saiga News won the award for the Best Environmental Publication. Members of the jury noted that Saiga News has united every...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 8 December, 2008 | Russia, Saiga News
Founder member of the SCA and Director of the Centre for Wild Animals (CWA), Yuri Arylov, has been interviewed by Russia Today as part of a story on the work of the CWA. The centre is the most successful captive saiga breeding centre in the world, and along with...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 4 December, 2008 | Saiga News
Looking for an original Christmas gift? Sick of trawling through shops for that perfect item? Then why not buy your loved ones a saiga antelope this Christmas? The SCA have teamed up with our institutional member Spitalfields City Farm to offer saiga adoptions! The...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 28 November, 2008 | Saiga News
The Saiga Conservation Alliance has been chosen as one of four partner organisation to award adoption certificates to delegates at the 9th CMS Conference of the Parties. These adoptions will fund crucial anti-poaching and monitoring work at the Stepnoi Sanctuary in...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 10 November, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Saiga News
Between 29th-31st October, the SCA steering committee, saiga conservationists and enthusiasts met in Almaty for three meetings related to saiga conservation. First on the agenda was a meeting to evaluate the progress towards the Medium Term Work Programme of the CMS...
by saigaconservationalliance | Friday, 7 November, 2008 | Kazakhstan, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme, Uzbekistan
On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 SCA Small Grants competition. This competition aims to build capacity for saiga conservation at the grassroots level by enabling individuals to...
by Carlyn Samuel | Saturday, 16 August, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News
This project was funded by the British Council BRIDGE programme, and was joint between Imperial College London (Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland) and Kalmykia State University (Prof. Iuri Arylov). Monitoring the population size and structure of endangered species is...
