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Collared saigas to be released in Astrakhan province in Russia

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…

The saiga in the Darwin Museum

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…

Situation analysis for the Mongolian saiga population, including the mass die-off due to an outbreak of goat plague

B .Chimeddorj1* and B. Buuveibaatar2

1 - Mongolia Program Office, World Wide Fund for Nature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2 - Wildlife Conservation Society, Mongolia Program, Ulaanbaatar,…

Peste des Petits Ruminants in saiga antelopes

 

Historical range, extirpation and prospects for reintroduction of Saiga in China

Shaopeng Cui1,2, E. J. Milner-Gulland3, Navinder J. Singh4, Hongjun Chu5, Chunwang Li1,2, Jing Chen1,2, and Zhigang Jiang1,2*

Conserving a small group of saigas within the Volga-Ural population in Atyrau province, Kazakhstan

Vladimir Terentyev1, Mark Pestov2*  1- Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan; 2 -"Dront" Centre for Ecology, Russia 

*Corresponding author:Mark Pestov,…