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Small Grants Award Winner: Kazakhstan
We are happy to announce one of our Small Grant Awards for 2016 goes to Bibigul Sarsenova, Chair of the Association ‘Society and Environment’, who works in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The award will enable her to review public attitudes to the challenge of conserving...
Blog From the Field in Kazakhstan
Dr. Eric Morgan is back out in Kazakhstan, visiting the areas where the mass-die off occurred last year. He's written us another blog about their trip to a much quieter steppe: "It is hard to express how vast and unpeopled it is here on the Turgai steppe. Yesterday,...
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 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...
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...
Winners of Saiga Conservation Alliance Awards and Small Grants
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...
Update on the Saiga Antelope Tragedy in Kazakhstan
Between 9th May and 3rd June this year, large herds of saigas at calving sites in the central population in Kazakhstan died suddenly. 148,800* carcasses were counted at burial sites by the Government rangers. Our latest expedition to the migration area and die-off...
Latest News on Mass Mortalities
SAIGA RESEARCH EXPEDITION On 27th June 2015, a 12-day expedition was launched to investigate the reasons for the mass die-off of Saiga antelopes in May 2015. (On 5 June the official death toll stood at 134,000 saigas). The main goal of this field mission was to follow...
Update on Saiga Deaths in Kazakhstan
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Please see our FaceBook pages to keep up to date on the latest news on this disaster: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saiga-Conservation-Alliance More than 120,000 saiga antelope...
An Artist Steppe-ing Out, by Rory McCann
As I am driven through Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, I see a city being rapidly developed. The Spring is late to arrive and the temperature is -9. There is snow piled everywhere and the river that passes through Astana is frozen solid, with people sat upon...