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.

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!

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.

The grant topic “Distribution and Phylogeny of the Genus Turcomilax in the Northern and Western Tien Shan” largely overlaps with Anel’s doctoral dissertation research.