Biography of Saigi

Animals are shot for the sake of horns that are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Illegal hunting not only leads to a reduction in numbers, but also violates the gender and age balance in populations, which leads to a decrease in the birth rate. Loss of habitats. Deserting, the loss of waterways and a high pasture load directly reduce the range of saigas. Infectious diseases also threaten the appearance.

In particular, Pasteurellosis can be noted. This infection lives in every healthy saiga, but its sharp increase in the body leads to the death of the animal. Due to the herd lifestyle and high density of groups, an aggravated infection leads to mass death. Considers are held in the spring in front of the outline, the main goal is to determine the number of saigas a to the country.

In the year, in order to obtain more accurate data on the number of saigas, ASBK employees, together with the Zoology Institute, developed and implemented an improved methodology for conducting an air period. The study of the number of animals allows you to monitor the trends of changes in their number, size and density of groups in time. This is necessary to predict a further situation with a rare type and planning of the necessary actions.

From the year, work has been underway on the satellite dream of Saigaks, which allows you to determine the ways of migration and the place of igam's echo. To date, more transmitters have been installed on Saigakov. Similar works, with the development of a special catch methodology, were carried out for the first time in the world. Weekly, according to the data obtained from the transmitters, the cards of placing marked animals are prepared and transferred to the Forest and Hunting Committee to increase the efficiency of the protection of the species.

Also, the data were used to create the state reserve "Altyn Dala", the expansion of the "Irgiz-Turgay reserve" and to determine the borders of the first ecological corridor in Central Kazakhstan. Every year, ASBK employees conduct research in the places of the Saigaks's oster. The study includes the determination of the sexual age composition of the groups, information is collected on fertility, the sexuality of newborns, the mortality of Saigachat in the first days of life.

Newborn Saigachats are frozen with sabbath ear tags, which allow you to monitor the life of each individual animal. Based on the results of the work, the cards of the Saigaks oster are also prepared, the patterns of their placement are clarified. Since the year, ABC has been involved in the study of Saigak's diseases. Every year, analyzes are taken from animals that are processed in Kazakhstani and foreign laboratories.

The results of blood tests, tissues, mucous membranes of the dead and sick animals showed that the bacterium Pasteurella multocida was the main cause of hemorrhagic septicemia, which led to the death of animals.

The reason why the bacterium, usually living on all saigas, has become deadly, has not yet been established. Propaganda among the population. Constant work is underway to increase the environmental education of the population living near the racks of Saigak - information booklets, books, lectures are distributed, etc. The work of the mobile ecological resource center is continuing to provide local residents with information about workplaces, sources of income in rural areas, development of their own enterprises, microcrediting of small enterprises, and along with information about the preservation of saigas and unique ecosystems of Ustyurt.

In all three areas of Saigak, on the basis of educational institutions, environmental clubs "Friends of the Saigi" have been created.