Featured Article

• Opening of the Visitor Centre at the Yashkul Saiga Breeding Centre

Updates

• Establishment of the Saiga Conservation Alliance
• Progress for CMS - meeting in Almaty in September 2006
• Uzbekistan signed Memorandum of Understanding for conservation of saiga
• Saiga mentioned at international conference in Rostovsky Nature Reserve
• The competition "The Master of Steppe" held in Kalmykia
• A prize winning film about saiga
• Programme on saigas shown on Chinese television
• Productive raid
• Border guards detain poachers from Uzbekistan
• Poachers sell saiga meat in Urgench

Saigas in the News

• Shooting the future, Izvestiya Kalmykii, N 46, 1 February 2006
• No antelopes near Jem, Kazakshtanskaya Pravda, N 8-89, 14 April 2006

Articles

• A potential reserve in China for saiga restoration
• Mongolian saiga: Results of recent WCS site visit
• The experience of maintaining and rearing saigas in a nursery of the association "The Steppe Wild Life"
• Development of gas deposits on Ustyurt Plateau: A new threat for saiga?

Project Round-Up

• Project on creation of alternative sources of incomes carried out in Kalmykia
• We must make the world better and kinder - a TNT project in Kalmykia
• The USA helps to protect saigas in Russia
• New Darwin initiative project in Kalmykia