by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 10 March, 2015
About Us Photo by Andrey Giljov & Karina Karenina Our Mission We are committed to restoring the saiga antelope to its position as the flagship species of the Central Asian and pre-Caspian steppes, reflecting the species’ cultural and economic value to local people and...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 1 December, 2014 | Saiga Mural, Saiga News, Uzbekistan
This spring, a completely new approach to Saiga conservation has been trialled in Uzbekistan. British wildlife artist Rory McCann travelled to Karakalpakstan, in Uzbekistan, to paint a mural depicting the wildlife of the steppe habitat. Uzbek student Olga Esipova...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 7 July, 2014 | Award for Excellence in Saiga Protection, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Saiga News
The award supports individuals or teams, from government or from NGOs, who have shown particular dedication and outstanding success in combating saiga poaching over the last 12 months. The applicants were of excellent quality and to recognise their extraordinary...
by saigaconservationalliance | Tuesday, 8 April, 2014 | Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Konstantin Savitsky is 48 years old and lives in the village of Kubla, in the remote north east region of the Ustyurt plateau in Uzbekistan, he used to poach the critically...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 30 January, 2014 | Mongolia, Population Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
More rangers are needed in the fight against poachers. The SCA is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Small Grants Programme, generously supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. As ever, the entries were to an extremely high standard and this year the...
by Carlyn Samuel | Wednesday, 4 April, 2012 | Russia, Saiga News, Small Grants Programme
Anatoly Khludnev is Director of the 87,000 ha Stepnoi reserve in Russia. He leads a team of 12 rangers protecting the reserve and several thousand saigas within its boundaries, representing a large proportion of the remaining Russian population. This population is in...
by saigaconservationalliance | Thursday, 18 March, 2010 | Russia, Saiga News
The SCA is launching an emergency appeal to help save the saiga population in pre-Caspian Russia, which is now under severe threat of extinction after a particularly harsh winter and renewed heavy poaching. Your help is needed urgently to strengthen anti-poaching...
by saigaconservationalliance | Saturday, 18 April, 2009 | Mongolia, Saiga News
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine On 20 December, 2008 IRVES 3 Mobile AntiPoaching Unit and police officers detained two Mongolian citizens who killed 6 Mongolian Saigas. A volunteer ranger informed the case of the...
by saigaconservationalliance | Monday, 10 November, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Saiga News
Between 29th-31st October, the SCA steering committee, saiga conservationists and enthusiasts met in Almaty for three meetings related to saiga conservation. First on the agenda was a meeting to evaluate the progress towards the Medium Term Work Programme of the CMS...
by Carlyn Samuel | Saturday, 16 August, 2008 | Participatory Monitoring, Russia, Saiga News
This project was funded by the British Council BRIDGE programme, and was joint between Imperial College London (Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland) and Kalmykia State University (Prof. Iuri Arylov). Monitoring the population size and structure of endangered species is...
