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Winners of the USFWS-funded Small Grants programme 2011
We are pleased to announce the winners of a one-off small grants competition generously funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and administered by the SCA. The programme supports grassroots projects to implement the priority actions of the Medium Term Work...
Winners of the 2011/12 Small Grants Programme
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011/12 round of the SCA’s small grants competition. This year's competition was generously supported by CIC and the Wildlife Conservation Network. The SCA Small Grants Competition supports grassroots projects and builds...
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...
Saiga Calf Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality in Shargyn Gobi, Western Mongolia
The Mongolian saiga has long been isolated from the more numerous populations in Kazakhstan and Russia by the Altai Mountains. They occur at low densities but across a wide area of the western Mongolian Gobi steppe-desert. The population of Mongolian saiga has...
Saiga Poachers caught in Mongolia
*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...
Young saiga researcher wins top award!
Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, a young scientist engaged in saiga research and conservation activites in his home country of Mongolia, has been awarded $15,000 USD to carry out his Masters research in the USA from the Sidney Byers Scholarship for Wildlife Conservation. The...