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City Nature Challenge 2025: Kazakhstan expands its participation in the global event

From 25 to 28 April 2025, people across Kazakhstan can once again join the City Nature Challenge—an international urban wildlife “bioblitz” that takes place simultaneously in hundreds of cities worldwide. The event is being organised by volunteers in partnership with the Institute of Botany and Phyto-Introduction, the Institute of Zoology, the Open Conservation Biology Lab and a range of other organisations and media outlets.

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The Emergency Medicine Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan conducted emergency response training for the staff of the Institute of Zoology

On April 18, 2025, the Security and Occupational Safety Service of the RSE “Institute of Zoology” of the SC MES RK, in partnership with the Emergency Medicine Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty, organized and conducted a training session on providing emergency medical assistance for various injuries and other critical human conditions.

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The 30th issue of the international bulletin Saiga News has been published

The milestone 30th issue of Saiga News has been published — an international information bulletin devoted to the conservation and study of the saiga (Saiga tatarica), a rare steppe antelope listed in the IUCN Red List. Published since 2005, the journal is issued biannually in six languages, including Kazakh and Russian, and covers current nature conservation topics in the saiga’s range countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Mongolia, and China.

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The briefing on the “Red Book of the Republic of Kazakhstan” was held at the press center of the Regional Communications Service of the Almaty Akimat

The following experts took part in the press conference: Roman Vasilievich Yashchenko, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Red Book of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Marina Alexandrovna Chirikova, Deputy Director General for Science; and Aydyn Baurzhanovich Yeszhanov, Head of the Laboratory of Arachnology and Other Invertebrates.

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