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SCA grants winners 2021. Small grants programme and Young Conservation Leaders.
After sad and nervous 2020 marked with COVID during which Saiga Conservation Alliance like many other entities had to cut down its activities it was especially pleasant to be able to resume grants competitions in 2021. The reaction was quite fruitful – we’ve got quite...
Антон Павлович Межнев
Антон Павлович Межнев 22 октября 1963 г. — 8 января 2020 г. Антон Павлович Межнев скоропостижно скончался 8 января 2021 года. И это огромная потеря не только для его родных и близких, не только для российской орнитологии, но и для охраны природы нашей и не только...
#CameraTrapTuesday
This #CameraTrapTuesday join this guy who really seems to enjoy life in Stepnoi Reserve! В этот #CameraTrapTuesday присоединяйтесь к этому парню, который наслаждается жизнью в Степном...
Let’s stop the desert! Let’s feed the saiga!
Favorite habitats of the only saiga population in Europe are confined to the territory of the Yashkul, Chernozemelsky and Yustinsky districts of the Republic of Kalmykia and the Limansky district of the Astrakhan region, which, in turn, can be attributed to the vast...
#CameraTrapTuesday
#CameraTrapTuesday Not only saigas are caught in the camera traps in Stepnoi Reserve. Here is a wolf who came to the artesian lake. #CameraTrapTuesday В заказнике «Степной» в фотоловушки попадают не только сайгаки. Вот волк, пришедший к...
Rangers work in Stepnoi – part 7 – patrols #WorldRangerDay
The most responsible and dangerous rangers' duty is patrolling. Patrols in Stepnoi Reserve happen every day - 365 days a year - with no exceptions. For the territory a little smaller than New York there are only 12 rangers. Rangers work in shifts lasting three days so...
Rangers work in Stepnoi – part 6 – rangers base. #WorldRangerDay
And for the rest of the state rangers, whose shift in the Reserve lasts three days, there are comfortable for living small buildings, surrounded by a small garden (in the desert!). Rangers care after this garden, including pouring water brought from many kilometers...
Rangers work in Stepnoi – part 5 – building nests for the birds of prey. #WorldRangerDay
A special place in the work of state inspectors is occupied by the biotechnical measures on the territory of the Reserve. Thus, snowy and very windy winters quite often cause damage to the nests of birds of prey that have found their home on the territory of the...
Rangers work in Stepnoi – part 4 – preventing and combating fires. #WorldRangerDay
Everyone knows how dangerous and terrible fires are for all living things, especially steppe fires when literally in a matter of minutes huge territories can be engulfed in fire, which deprives of a food base for both domestic and wild animals and after which...
Rangers work in Stepnoi – part 3 – artesian wells and drinkers. #WorldRangerDay
At the watering places, bright signs are displayed informing visitors of the Stepnoi Reserve about the depth of the artesian well, the mineral composition of the pouring water, and about those animals and birds that most often visit this or that watering place. Not...