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Call for Applications
The Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA) recognises that it is
imperative to support the next generation of conservationists, and
so with their Young Conservation Leaders award they will be able to
support five aspiring conservationists (individuals or groups) with
grants of $1000 each, (given in two payments of $500, with the
second one conditional on good progress).
The awards will support a 12 month project which links to the
ongoing work of the SCA in the winner's country and they are
requesting applications from conservationists between the ages of
12 and 30 who live in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia or
Uzbekistan.
First blog from the field!
Hello, I'm on the train… converging on Heathrow today you might
see handful of people lugging microscopes, test tubes and camping
paraphernalia - on their way to join an ACBK-led expedition to last
year's saiga die-off sites.
There, we hope to learn more about what caused the dramatic
events of May 2015. Above all, we hope to see surviving saigas, we
hope to see calves being born, and we hope not to see unusual
levels of sickness or death. Beyond that, the data and samples we
aim to gather will give a more complete picture of the local
vegetation and other features at the sites during calving, which
was impossible to survey fully last year, as well as the…
Here is a lovely short clip of another
AMAZING mural by Rory
McCann.
This time Rory went to Kalmykia and inspired the next
generation of young conservationists there!
Thanks go to Wildlife
Conservation Network, WWF Russia and the Saiga Conservation Alliance
for making this possible.
Following the tragic events of 2015 in Kazakhstan, Stephen
Zuther and a team of scientists including Richard Kock from Royal
Veterinary College London revisited the saiga antelope calving
sites exactly one year on in 2016.
The journey was not without its tiny frustrations!
Watch this short
video by Deutsche Welle
documenting their research expedition.