Institute of zoology Republic of Kazakhstan
The heads of laboratories and research staff of the Institute of Zoology conducted an excursion for a group of university lecturers from various cities across Kazakhstan.
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.
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.
A round table titled “Luminaries of Kazakh Science: 120th Anniversary of Academician Sergey Nikolaevich Boev” was held at the Institute of Zoology, timed to coincide with Science Workers’ Day in Kazakhstan.
On April 11, at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana, the First Forum of Young Kazakhstani Scientists “Zhas Ghalym” took place.
Dear colleagues and friends, to all who have devoted their lives to science, we extend our warmest congratulations on this professional holiday—Science Day!
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.
Every year, for two centuries now, many countries around the world, including Kazakhstan, celebrate International Bird Day on April 1.
On March 23, 2025, at the age of 80, our colleague – Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Education and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Honored Worker of Science and Education, Birlikbay Eshzhanovich Eshzhanov, passed away.
Warm spring weather has finally arrived in the vicinity of Almaty, and the staff of the Paleozoology Laboratory at the Institute of Zoology wasted no time organizing their first field excursion. After a long winter, we’d been missing excavation work!
