Saiga News - Issue 02, Winter 2005
Featured article: Saiga Memorandum of Understanding signed at last! Author: E.J. Milner-Gulland, Saiga Conservation Alliance.
Featured Article
Updates
- Efforts for saiga conservation and the management of the saiga horn trade are discussed at a CITES meeting in China
- A meeting of the Darwin and INTAS saiga project teams in Moscow
- Participants in meetings held in Russia reiterate the urgency of action to save the saiga
- US Fish & Wildlife Service supports Russia's saiga antelope conservation efforts
- A new patron for saigas
- A new documentary film about saigas is shown in Russia
- Russian customs officers to prevent the illegal export of saiga horns to Mongolia
- Poachers are punished
- A new saiga conservation programme is adopted in Kazakhstan
Saigas in the News
- Vanishing species get help on two fronts, China Daily, 31 May 2005
- On saigas and humans, Tribuneuz, 22 August 2005
- The "Queen of the Steppes" needs help, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 12 September 2005
Articles
- The Centre for Wild Animals of the Republic of Kalmykia
- Saiga antelopes at the Gansu Endangered Wildlife Breeding Centre, China
- Field assessment of saiga antelopes in the Gobi-Altai