author - Jon Hall
In October 2008 I flew on to Astrakhan and visited Cherny Zemly Biosphere park on the Kalmykia steppes to look for mammals, primarily Saiga. The Kalmykian Steppes don't see many tourists. Over the past 10 years fewer than 50 people a year on average have been to Cherny Zemly, and only 3 of them each year were from outside Russia. Most of these would have been researchers I reckon. More about |