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The most responsible and dangerous rangers' duty is patrolling. Patrols in Stepnoi Reserve happen every day - 365 days a year - with no exceptions. For the territory a little smaller than New York there are only 12 rangers. Rangers work in shifts lasting three days so...

And for the rest of the state rangers, whose shift in the Reserve lasts three days, there are comfortable for living small buildings, surrounded by a small garden (in the desert!). Rangers care after this garden, including pouring water brought from many kilometers...

A special place in the work of state inspectors is occupied by the biotechnical measures on the territory of the Reserve. Thus, snowy and very windy winters quite often cause damage to the nests of birds of prey that have found their home on the territory of the...

Everyone knows how dangerous and terrible fires are for all living things, especially steppe fires when literally in a matter of minutes huge territories can be engulfed in fire, which deprives of a food base for both domestic and wild animals and after which...

At the watering places, bright signs are displayed informing visitors of the Stepnoi Reserve about the depth of the artesian well, the mineral composition of the pouring water, and about those animals and birds that most often visit this or that watering place. Not...

To inform local people and prevent border violations, state rangers have installed bright information signs visible from afar around the perimeter of the Reserve and on especially important roads. These signs must be changed as the paint fades under the scorching rays...

Their professional holiday – World Ranger Day - the state rangers of the Stepnoi Reserve in the Astrakhan Region, Russia, where a significant part of the saiga population of the North-Western Caspian Sea lives year-round, will as always, meet in the steppe. Even...