by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 28 September, 2016 | Protected Area designation, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
In 2008, we began working with the Uzbek government, local partners and NGOs to create a much-needed safe-haven for saigas and other wildlife in Uzbekistan. Financial support from Disney Wildlife Foundation allowed us to work with local people to ensure their needs...
by Carlyn Samuel | Friday, 16 September, 2016 | Saiga News, Saiga youth camp, Uzbekistan
We’re excited to announce that today saw the opening ceremony of our Saiga Kids’ Camp 2016. This year saiga camp welcomes 30 children with teachers from 3 saiga range areas: Nukus, Karakalpakstan and Jaslyk. It is the second time when the leading participants of...
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 saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 19 May, 2016 | Saiga Day, Saiga News, Steppe Wildlife Club, Uzbekistan
The ecological festival drew a huge audience in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, from kindergarten and primary school kids to adults of all ages. This year, Uz-Kor Gas Chemical workers in Ustyurt joined the festival as well. As a part of the Saiga Day, they planted saxaul...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 28 January, 2016 | Saiga News, Uzbekistan, Young Conservation Leaders
2016 Young Conservation leader arranges training session for children. Last month Begis Sultamuratov, an Enviromental-journalist at the “Jetkinshek” newspaper, and winner of the 2016 SCA Young Conservation Leader award, held a seminar and training event for the...
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 | 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 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 Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 16 September, 2015 | Saiga News, Saiga youth camp, Uzbekistan
From 17-24th August 25 Uzbek children between the ages of 11-15 joined the SCA’s first ‘Saiga Youth Wildlife Camp’. 18 children from Karakalpakia, the region where saigas can still be found in Uzbekistan and 7 children from Tashkent who acted as ‘local guides’, as...
