by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 10 July, 2023 | Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club
In May 2023, Saiga Day was celebrated across Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Mongolia. We’ll focus on two Saiga Day events: one in Muynak district, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, and another in Khukhmorit soum, Gobi-Altai, Mongolia. Saiga Day was initiated by...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Saturday, 4 June, 2022 | Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
The festival relay race, devoted to Saiga Day 2022, was picked up in the villages located near the Saigachi Reserve. The village of Jaslyk on the basis of school No. 54 hospitably received teams of young ecologists from neighboring villages – from school No. 31...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Wednesday, 1 June, 2022 | Russia, Russia - Featured Post, Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club
Saiga Day 2022 was celebrated in the Limansky district of the Astrakhan region (RU) with the participation of the Vozrozhdenie (Resurrection) steppe club. A part of the celebration was the regional environmental competition of campaign teams “Save the saiga...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Friday, 27 May, 2022 | Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
In the spring, we again hold our favorite Saiga Day festival. Today we are starting a series of reports from Uzbekistan on the celebration of the revival of saigas and the steppe. Every year for Saiga Day we offer a special theme related to different aspects of saiga...
by Alexandra Bukvarevaa | Monday, 17 June, 2019 | Russia, Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan
Нукус – Астрахань – Элиста. Отчёт о поездке с фото. As the SCA’s new Project Manager I was recently, I was lucky enough to go on a fascinating trip, which allowed me to see a lot of interesting things, some of which I’d like to share with you… The first stop on the...
by Carlyn Samuel | Monday, 10 December, 2018 | Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan
Meet Ersain, growing up he and his family, and indeed his entire village, didn’t think twice about eating saiga meat from animals illegally shot and killed by poachers. A few years ago the Saiga Conservation Alliance launched Saiga Day celebrations and Steppe Wildlife...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 26 August, 2016 | Saiga Day, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan - Featured Post
On the eve of Saiga Day festival, children of Steppe Wildlife clubs in Karakalpakia learnt how to put on a puppet show! The show targeted primary and secondary school children as well as their teachers and parents raising awareness of wildlife conservation issues....
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 26 August, 2016 | Russia, Saiga Day, Steppe Wildlife Club
As part of the annual celebration of the Saiga Day Yashkul High School held a series of events dedicated to the conservation of saiga. The annual competition “antelopes” saw over 60 children taking part in an event to promote environmental awareness and...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 26 August, 2016 | Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan - Featured Post, Saiga Day, Steppe Wildlife Club
At the beginning of June a “Saiga Day” festival was organized for over 100 local schoolchildren aged between 7-11 from Korgalzhyn village in Central Kazakhstan. This exciting event was fully supported by the SCA and our generous funders Wildlife Conservation Network....
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 4 July, 2016 | Russia, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club
Support for Leading Saiga Breeding Centre. This wonderful centre, run by professor Yuri Arylov was established in 2002 with funding from the local Kalmyk government in order to address the devastating decline in saigas across the region. The CWA was founded primarily...