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• Saiga MoU signed at last!

Updates

• Efforts for saiga conservation and the management of the saiga horn trade are discussed at a CITES meeting in China
• A meeting of the Darwin and INTAS saiga project teams in Moscow
• Participants in meetings held in Russia reiterate the urgency of action to save the saiga
• US Fish & Wildlife Service supports Russia's saiga antelope conservation efforts
• A new patron for saigas
• A new documentary film about saigas is shown in Russia
• Russian customs officers to prevent the illegal export of saiga horns to Mongolia
• Poachers are punished
• A new saiga conservation programme is adopted in Kazakhstan

Saigas in the News

• Vanishing species get help on two fronts, China Daily, 31 May 2005
• On saigas and humans, Tribuneuz, 22 August 2005
• The "Queen of the Steppes" needs help, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 12 September 2005

Articles

• The Centre for Wild Animals of the Republic of Kalmykia
• Saiga antelopes at the Gansu Endangered Wildlife Breeding Centre, China
• Field assessment of saiga antelopes in the Gobi-Altai

Project Round-Up

• Econet established in Central Asia
• "SOS-Saigal" project is underway in Kazakhstan
• Radio-telemetry of saigas in the Northwestern Caspian region