Featured Article

• The taxonomy of the saiga antelope

Updates

• Construction of a fence along the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
• Mass die-off in the Betpak-Dala population
• Results of the 2012 saiga aerial surveys in Kazakhstan
• A new educational course for the school children of Karakalpakstan
• Saiga Day 2012
• Saigas as a focus of the WCS-China Program's South China Project
• Biodiversity and the oil and gas industry
• Ornithologists also like saigas
• The Golden Loon will deliver saigas from trouble
• An information campaign against the illegal saiga horn trade has been launched

Media Reports

• Update on fence construction on the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border
• Actions against the saiga horn trade by Kyzylorda police
• Creation of watering places will help to increase saiga numbers in Kazakhstan
• Electric fence for saiga protection
• IFAW will help to conserve the saiga in Russia
• Cases of saiga poaching and illegal trade

Articles

• Survival and spatial ecology of saiga calves in Mongolia
• Using participatory monitoring to assess saiga habitat use in the pre-Caspian region
• Analysing environmental education on the Ustyurt Plateau
• A network of protected areas in the Irgyz-Turgai-Zhylanshik region
• The implications of the border fence on the Ustyurt Plateau for the saiga antelope, and options for mitigation

Saiga Heroes

• Arkady A. Sludsky, Kazakhstan