The Final SCA Small Grants Award Winner Announced
The Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA) awards the final 2016 Small Grant to Bibigul Sarsenova, Chair of the Association ‘Society and Environment’ in Kazakhstan.
The final Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA) 2016 Small Grant is
awarded to Bibigul Sarsenova, Chair of the Association 'Society and
Environment', who works in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The award will enable her to review public attitudes to the
challenge of conserving the Ural saiga population in Kazakhstan,
which currently numbers around 70,000 animals.
She will be working with SCA colleagues at the ACBK in
Kazakhstan and local network of children's Steppe Wildlife Clubs to
identify the causes of poaching in the region and the attitudes
local people hold towards the saiga.
Bibigul will also be working with these groups to carry out
environmental education activities focused on the challenges facing
these critically endangered antelopes, and will be reaching out to
students of local schools, art groups, environmental organizations
and public institutions, as well as looking to engage with new
schools in the area with the aim of setting up new Steppe Wildlife
clubs.
Her project will also see her hosting guided tours at the
Center for Wildlife and Conservation of Biodiversity in the
Taskalinskom district of West Kazakhstan, where there is a new
saiga captive breeding programme. As you can see in the photograph
above, the centre is a great place for local people to easily see
saigas.
