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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: 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...
Emergency appeal: saigas of the pre-Caspian region of Russia under extreme threat
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...
Winners of the 2009 Small Grants Programme
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 round of SCA’s small grants competition. This competition aims to build grassroots capacity for saiga conservation by supporting small self-contained projects within the saiga range states, undertaken by those without...
Russia enhances its support for Saiga conservation by signing the CMS MoU
Bonn, 25June 2009 - On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the Russian Federation has enhanced its support for the conservation of the Saiga antelope by signing the agreement established in the framework of the...
Centre for Wild Animals, Kalmykia profiled by Russia Today
Founder member of the SCA and Director of the Centre for Wild Animals (CWA), Yuri Arylov, has been interviewed by Russia Today as part of a story on the work of the CWA. The centre is the most successful captive saiga breeding centre in the world, and along with...
Winners of the 2008 Small Grants Programme
This year the Small Grants Programme received 18 proposals from five countries and was generously supported by the Wildlife Conservation Network. At the end of October the SCA Steering Committee met in Almaty, Kazakhstan for their annual meeting and to discuss the...
Small Grants winners announced!
On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 SCA Small Grants competition. This competition aims to build capacity for saiga conservation at the grassroots level by enabling individuals to...
Participatory monitoring of saiga antelope population ecology
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...