More than a million saigas used to roam the Eurasian steppes just 15 years ago.

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28.05.2010 09:29

Mass mortality among saigas in Kazakhstan: 12,000 dead

Nearly 12,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes have been found dead over the last week in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan.

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Centre for Wild Animals, Kalmykia featured on Russia Today

To see the video report on YouTube, please click here.

The SCA are supporting the work of the Centre for Wild Animals through our saiga adoption scheme. To find out more please click here.

SCA founder member speaks to US Congress

In June, SCA founder member Dr. Aline Kuhl was delighted to be invited to speak to members of the US Congress at the International Conservation Caucus Foundation's (ICCS) Staff Briefing. Her talk, "The Saiga Antelope and political change in post-Soviet Central Asia and Russia" is now available to view on YouTube.

To view her talk on line follow the links below:
Part One
Part Two
Q&A (with Dr Karen Ross)

For more information on the ICCS Staff Briefing itself click here. Thank you very much to our institutional member CIC Wildlife, who introduced us to the ICCS.

Photos by Jean-Francois Lagrot

Lini with baby saiga
Jean Francois Lagrot is a professional photographer and conservationist with an extensive catalogue of saiga and saiga-related photographs (many of which you can see on this website!). If you are interested in using any of his photos, please email him, mentioning that you saw his work on the SCA website.