Protected Areas Archives - The Altai Project

Steppe eagles

August 26th, 2022

Long-term study sheds light on Steppe eagle migration It’s a rough, but mostly routine, journey for Steppe eagles (Aquila nipalensis) migrating to their winter abodes, according to results of a four-year study. In May 2022 Russia-based ornithologists announced the results of a conservation project launched in 2018 that centered on the Steppe eagle and focused…

Wild Altai volunteer fieldwork

October 1st, 2021

Learn about volunteer opportunities to conduct field work in Russian Altai.

Conservation of the sacred Ukok Plateau

December 4th, 2020

Multiple glacier tongues leading up to craggy mountain peaks. A small brilliant turquoise lake is visible.

Ukok is unlike any other place in the world…pristine, magical, and spectacular.

Fall 2017 Updates

October 3rd, 2017

Snow leopard making a scrape with its hind legs at a marking site

Earlier this summer, researchers obtained camera-trap photos of a mother with three adolescent kittens at her side traversing a hillside and strengthened their knowledge of 25+ individual cats in Altai Republic!

Gathering of Indigenous Leaders in Hawaii

October 20th, 2016

Some of our delegation during the Congress. Photo by Toby McLeod.

Traveling from deep in the center of the Eurasian landmass to the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

2015 Land of the Snow Leopard festival

July 10th, 2015

Since its inception in 2009, this Festival has expanded into a popular youth-centered environmental movement with schoolchildren coming from as far away as Mongolia.