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SCA Launches First International Saiga Ecotour to Southern Russia
We are happy to announce the launch of the first international saiga ecotour to southern Russia. The SCA has worked with a local tour company, Saga Voyages, to develop a tour of the saiga range area in southern Russia, to run in September 2011. The tour will include...
SCA Executive Secretary Elena Bykova short-listed for prestigious Whitley Award
Great news! The SCA's Executive Secretary Elena Bykova has been short-listed for a Whitley Award - a high-profile, international conservation prize. Lena will be travelling from her native Uzbekistan for the awards ceremony in London week commencing 9th May. Good luck...
CMS Press Release: Priority Action Kicks Off for the Antelope from the Eurasian Steppes
Representatives of wildlife management authorities in Kazakhstan and experts came together 17-18 February in central Kazakhstan to discuss the implementation of the CMS Memoranda of Understanding on the Saiga Antelope (Saiga spp.) and the Bukhara Deer (Cervus elaphus...
2010 Small Grant Winner: Fenglian Li: “Saiga trade market monitoring, outreach campaign and law enforcement support for TCM in Guangzhou, China”
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Fenglian Li, of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) China Program, intends to use the grant to expand upon the work of 2009 small grant winner Guihong Zhang, addressing the...
2010 Small Grant Programme winner: Pavel Amosov (Russia) “Saiga status and its conservation during migration in the vicinity of the Baskunchak lake”
Pavel Amosov is deputy director for science at Bogdinsk Baskunchak nature reserve in Astrakhan Province, Russia. Pavel has been working in the reserve for 2 years and is responsible for monitoring the status of the reserve’s vertebrate populations. Prior to this...
2010 Small Grant Programme winner: Gunbat Gundensambuu and Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar (Mongolia) “Food habits and overlaps between livestock and Mongolian saiga”
Gunbat Gundensambuu is a Masters student at the National University of Mongolia, studying for a degree in ecology and conservation. The ecology of the Mongolian saiga antelope has featured in Gunbat’s previous studies and will form the basis of his MSc thesis. He has...
2010 Small Grant Winner: Aizada Nurumbetova (Uzbekistan) “Training of women in skills of workmanship and needlework to develop alternative livelihood sources on the Ustiurt Plateau, Uzbekistan”
Aizada Nurumbetova is director of the “Keuil nury” Centre for Social Support of Women in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. Aizada’s grant will be used to develop alternative sources of income for inhabitants of the Ustiurt plateau in Uzbekistan by training local women in...
Mass mortality among saigas in Kazakhstan: 12,000 dead
Nearly 12,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes have been found dead over the last week in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan. The dead were mostly females who had recently given birth, as well as their calves. The official 2009 estimate of the size of the...
Saiga Conservation Alliance attains registered charity status
As of 10 May 2010 the Saiga Conservation Alliance is a registered charity; registered with and regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales (registered charity no.1135851).
Small Grants Programme 2010
We are happy to announce that the 2010 Small Grants Programme is now open for applications. The programme is this year again generously supported by the Wildlife Conservation Network and the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation. You can find all...
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