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Small Grants Programme Competition
We announce a small grants competition for the conservation of the saiga antelope. The competition is funded by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Wildlife Conservation Network and administered by the Saiga Conservation Alliance....
Saiga Day 2016 Celebrated in 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...
UK Scientists Join Field Expedition to Saiga Calving Sites
First blog from the field, by Eric Morgan Hello, I’m on the train… converging on Heathrow today you might see handful of people lugging microscopes, test tubes and camping paraphernalia – on their way to join an ACBK-led expedition to last year’s saiga die-off sites....
Saiga News Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary
Thanks to generous support from our donors, and dedicated work from our volunteer editors, we have been running Saiga News for ten years now. We thought we'd celebrate our tenth year anniversary with a new look, and would like to thank Ashley Goldstein at Weaseldance...
Read moreCalling conservationists between the ages of 12 and 30 who live in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia or Uzbekistan
2016 Young Conservation Leaders Award Announced
Calling conservationists between the ages of 12 and 30 who live in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia or Uzbekistan Call for applications Following on from the success of the 2015 Young Conservation Leaders award the Saiga Conservation Alliance is pleased to launch...
Saiga Die-Off Update: Surprising Findings
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In continued analyses of samples from the catastrophic mass die-off of saiga antelopes from May 2015, several laboratories have identified the bacterium Pasteurella multocida as...
Russian Anti-Poaching Rangers are Now Fully Equipped
After the devastating news from Kazakhstan that 88% (over 200,000 saigas) of the Betpak-dala population died during the calving period in May 2015, it has never been more important to support the efforts of the anti-poaching ranger teams in protecting the last...
Why Did More Than 200,000 Saiga Antelope Die in Less Than Two Weeks?
In May 2015 an extraordinary scene unfolded on the steppes of central Kazakhstan. Female saigas gathered in their usual huge numbers to give birth on the open plain over a period of just 10 days, a spectacle thought to be a predator-swamping mechanism and a way to hit...
Young Uzbek Reporters Seminar
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...
New Ranger Station in Russia
First Ranger Station for the Stepnoi Sanctuary. This population is in critical need of support. Having once numbered hundreds of thousands of animals, the population has dropped rapidly due to heavy poaching. In 2012 it was at 12,000 individuals, but since then...
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