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Update by Natalia
Yakusheva, CMS Secretariat, published in Saiga News
Issue 20 on page 5.
More than seventy participants from governments, international
organizations, NGOs, and academia gathered together to agree on a
concrete set of measures to restore saiga populations in
Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Update by E.J.
Milner-Gulland, Saiga Conservation Alliance, published in Saiga News
Issue 20, on page 6.
The recent meeting of the signatories to the MOU on saiga
conservation (26th-29th October 2015) was the culmination of months
of work by the CMS secretariat and their technical advisors at the
SCA and IUCN Antelope Specialist Group, as well as our hosts in
Uzbekistan.
Update by Steffen Zuther,
ACBK, published in Saiga News
Issue 20, on page 8.
As mentioned in Saiga News 19, in
mid-May 2015 the beginning of a mass die-off was detected in the
biggest calving aggregation of the Betpak-Dala population, in the
south of Kostanay oblast, Kazakhstan. The die-off lasted for almost
a month and affected all the bigger calving aggregations throughout
the range of the population.
Update by Mariya Vorontsova, Office of
the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in Russia,
published in Saiga News
Issue 20, on page 10
We have repeatedly visited this amazing corner of the Astrakhan
region, communicated with the employees of the Sanctuary and
watched their work. We always marvelled at the idyllic views (the
boundless steppe, quietly grazing saigas, flocks of birds) that
opened out in front of us. All this is possible through the efforts
of a small group who protect the Stepnoi Sanctuary, within which
saigas find rest and care at different times of their lives.
Update by Eugenia
Samtanova, Yashkul' Multidisciplinary Gymnasium School in
Republic of Kalmykia in Russia, and Natalya Shivaldova,
"Ekomaktab" Ecological Resource Centre in Uzbekistan. Published in
Saiga News
Issue 20, on page 12.
In the beginning it only united conservation enthusiasts within
Russia. This year the movement has stepped up to the international
level, thereby proving that nature does not recognize borders.