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According to Vladimir Kalmykov, Director of the Stepnoi Reserve
in Astrakhan province, Russia, three saiga males from the 'Saigak'
breeding centre at the Astrakhan State Experimental Hunting
Enterprise will be collared and released into Stepnoi in late
November 2017. The GPS collars will allow researchers to track the
animals' movements for some time. This is one of 130 measures
listed for action under the Year of Ecology in Astrakhan province.
Another measure is the formation of a special team of rangers to
protect saigas in the north-western pre-Caspian area and saigas
entering Astrakhan province from the Volga-Ural population in
Kazakhstan..
This is the largest museum of natural sciences in Europe. Its
goal was to draw people's attention to this unique animal and its
status, and organised by the International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW) as part of 'The Week of Wildlife Protection', an educational
project for children and adults which the fund has been carrying
out annually for over 25 years. The visitors familiarised
themselves with the saiga, a wonderful ungulate species, saw
original photographs and videos and enjoyed the works of young
artists.
See more at
http://www.darwinmuseum.ru/projects/exhibition/reliktovaya-antilopa-sajgak
B .Chimeddorj1* and B.
Buuveibaatar2
1 - Mongolia Program Office, World
Wide Fund for Nature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2 - Wildlife
Conservation Society, Mongolia Program, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
*Corresponding author:Buyanaa Chimeddorj , chimeddorj@wwf.mn
Richard Kock, rkock@rvc.ac.uk
Royal Vet College London
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a devastating plague. The
cause is a small virus which is highly infectious through being
breathed in, causing damage to the respiratory and gastrointestinal
systems of susceptible hoofed mammals. It is a disease
predominantly of domestic sheep and goats but spills over into
wildlife and has been reported to cause deaths in the mountain
ungulates of Asia, like ibex and blue sheep. It has been spreading
across Africa and Asia for several decades. There has been
relatively little effective engagement from governments and the
international donor community to stop it.
Shaopeng Cui1,2, E. J. Milner-Gulland3, Navinder J. Singh4, Hongjun Chu5, Chunwang Li1,2, Jing Chen1,2, and Zhigang Jiang1,2*
1 - Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 2 - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 3 - Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4 - Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå; 5 - College of Resources and Environment Sciences, Xinjiang University, Xinjiang, China *Corresponding author:Zhigang Jiang, jiangzg@ioz.ac.cn
Vladimir Terentyev1, Mark
Pestov2* 1- Association for the Conservation of
Biodiversity of Kazakhstan; 2 -"Dront" Centre for Ecology,
Russia
*Corresponding author:Mark Pestov,vipera@dront.ru
Irina Novak, biodiversity@tut.by
Freiburg University, Germany
Introduction
An important milestone in improving saiga population status was
the entering into force of the Memorandum of Understanding
concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the
Saiga Antelope (the Saiga MoU), which was signed by all range
states and is coordinated by the Convention on Migratory Species. I
explored the MoU's role in the restoration of saiga populations;
the results may be useful for restoration of other migratory
species.
Theoretical basis
Aslan Baideldinov is an animal husbandry technician who has been working at the Centre for Wild Animals of the Republic of Kalmykia since 2003.
The Saiga News editorial team carried out a telephone interview with him.
Editor: Aslan, how did you start working on saiga conservation?
I have been fond of animals since I was a kid. We kept ducks, geese, cows and sheep at home. Our parents taught us to take care of the animals day-to-day. I knew all our animals by sight and all of them had names. I first saw saigas when I was at primary school. There were lots of them then and we often observed them passing by our school. When I first saw them I formed a lifelong memory of these animals, the…