Saiga News - Issue 03, Spring 2006
Featured article: Opening of the Visitor Centre at the Yashkul saiga breeding centre. Authors: E.J. Milner-Gulland (Saiga Conservation Alliance) & Anna Luschekina (Institute of Ecology & Evolution).
Featured Article
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?