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Популяция монгольского сайгака достигла 23 215 особей
WWF-Монголия в партнерстве с сетью общественных природоохранных организаций по сохранению сайгака успешно завершил ежегодный мониторинг популяции сайгака. Исследование, проведенное в конце октября 2024 года, было выполнено с использованием международно признанного...
Mongolian saiga population reaches 23,215
WWF-Mongolia, in partnership with the Community Conservationists Network for Saiga, has successfully completed its annual monitoring of the saiga population. The assessment, conducted in late October 2024, employed the internationally recognized line transect method...
World Ranger Day 2023: An interview with a ranger
World Ranger Day is an annual celebration held on July 31st to honour and commemorate the dedication and sacrifices of conservation rangers worldwide. These brave men and women work tirelessly on the frontlines of conservation, facing various challenges and dangers to...
World Veterinary Day Guest Blog
Words by Dr Richard Kock, Professor Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College, London (Retired). To celebrate World Veterinary Day 2023 we have a special guest blog from Richard Kock, Former Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases at...
Lovely News Article from National Geographic
*Saiga horns are also known as ling yang (羚羊) and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine Thanks go out to John Wendle and the National Geographic team from this lovely article. Read it here John joined our colleagues at the ACBK this Spring on their yearly census...
ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF SAIGAS WAS SHOWN AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BISHKEK
Results of actual research presented at the conference are an excellent opportunity for detailed discussion, exchange of experience and attraction of attention to the objects were studied. In the beginning of August, three specialists from Russia (A.P. Mezhnev from...
Saigas get ‘tagged’
Satellite tagging of saigas is one of the most important parts of the conservation work which the Association of the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), our partners, carry out to help prevent the extinction of the remaining saiga populations in...
Winners of excellence in saiga protection award
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017/8 excellence in saiga protection award Project 1 Inzhieva Gerel Davaevna, part of the national Preschool Educational Institution in Russia will be creating “The Saiga Trail" for pre-schoolers in Russia. Which has the...
How do you monitor an animal as fast as a saiga?
SCA partners in Kazakhstan the ACBK, together with the “Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems” and “Okhotzooprom” carried out their regular monitoring of the Ural and Ustyrt saiga populations from September 20th to October 20th. This work was carried out...
Vozrozhdenie island research
The SCA is being funded by People's Trust for Endangered Species to carry out research into the saiga population thought to inhabit Vozrozhdenie Island in the Aral sea, Uzbekistan. Vozrozhdeniye Island, was, up until...
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...
An interview with Sergelen Erdenebaatar 2014 SCA Young Conservation Leader
Sergelen Erdenebaatar is 25 years old and works as a biologist and ecologist at Altain Nuudelchid, an NGO based in Mongolia. Sergelen is one of the SCA’s 2014 Young Conservation Leaders and he used his award to carry out research into Mongolian saiga populations....
Assessing Population Abundance and Distribution in Western Mongolia
The overarching aims of the project were to estimate population size of saiga with associated confidence intervals across its entire range in western Mongolia, and to conduct spatial modelling on the survey data to assess the human and environmental factors influencing the distribution of the saiga.
Read moreIn recent years, attempts have been made to conduct saiga censuses by means of aerial photography using drones.
Can Satellite Technology Help Save Saigas?
In recent years, attempts have been made to conduct saiga censuses by means of aerial photography using drones. Using High Definition Satellite Images to Monitor Saigas Censuses are an important component of monitoring the status of wildlife populations. Different...
Kazakh conservation success story!
Critically endangered saiga antelope population increases Following the results of the 2014 aerial survey of saiga antelope numbers in Kazakhstan it was possible to assess the success of conservation measures taken by conservationists and local people to protect them....
Monitoring saiga populations in Kalmykia, Russia
In the summer of 2013 Leejiah Dorward, a student on Imperial College London’s Conservation Science MSc, visited Kalmykia to work with the Centre for Wild Animals to assess the success of the participatory monitoring project to date. While the data collected by the...
Small Grants Programme Winners Announced
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...
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...
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...
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...