Supported Projects

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Future Conservationist Award
Conservation research of Cao Vit gibbon in China
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The critically endangered Cao Vit gibbon survives in a small population (approximately 100 individuals) in a remaining forest area of less than 3,000 hectares along the border of China (Guangxi)...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Survey of the four-horned antelope in South India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The four-horned antelope is primarily distributed in India and little is known about its ecology or feeding/breeding behaviour. This unique antelope is threatened by poaching, grazing, and habitat loss. In...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Internship
Linking flooded forests, fish and people in the Río Caquetá: a first effort to conserve floodplains in Colombia
Internship Fish

The importance of preserving flooded forests to ensure the long-term sustainability of fish populations is rarely recognized among Colombian Amazon communities. The río Caquetá-Japurá is one of the largest tributaries...View Project

Fish
Internship Fish
Future Conservationist Award
Wintering ecology of hooded crane at Chongming Dongtan, China
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The hooded crane is a vulnerable species globally and only 10% of the total population can sustain themselves in natural habitats without supplementary feeding during winter. About 100 hooded cranes...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Lesser florican community leadership programme in India
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Lesser florican cannot be conserved by a site-based approach. It can only be conserved through involvement of communities with which it shares its habitat. We need to identify and train...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Internship
Litterfall dynamics and nutrient inputs under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
Internship Plant

Tropical forests are among the most important biomes on earth. They house high levels of biodiversity, maintain critical ecosystem services, and exchange large quantities of carbon and water with the...View Project

Plant
Internship Plant
Conservation Follow-up Award
Project Chicamocha II: saving threatened dry forest biodiversity
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

The Critically Endangered Niceforo’s Wren and Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird are dependent on remnant forests in the Chicamocha canyon. Niceforo’s Wren is at risk of extinction as none of its habitat is...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Conservation Leadership Award
Initiative to reduce the mortality of Ganges dolphin in Brahmaputra River, India
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal

By-catch mortality and poaching are the two major issues responsible for the rapid declining of the endangered Gangetic dolphin in Brahmaputra River. To reduce these threats annual mortality of dolphins...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal
Internship
Macroalgae taking over Caribbean coral reefs: searching for management solutions
Internship Invertebrate

The current research investigates the effects of seaweed competition on coral growth rate and survival. While previous work has shown that seaweed can reduce growth rate, fecundity and survival of...View Project

Invertebrate
Internship Invertebrate
Future Conservationist Award
Evaluation of threatened amphibians in Colombian key sites
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian

The Alliance for Zero extinction initiative by members of the BP Conservation Award partnership have identified over 26 sites of vital importance to CR and EN amphibians in Colombia. Seventeen...View Project

Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian
Internship
Migration and conservation of eastern Pacific green turtles
Internship Reptile

The eastern Pacific Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) inhabits the waters of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, which makes it vulnerable to fishing activity by...View Project

Reptile
Internship Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Five threatened species at Western Andes of Colombia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The study areas have been transformed severely, with the original landscape converted to agriculture and pasture for cattle. Our main objectives are a) to determine the population density of five...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
A conservation framework for furcifer chameleons in Madagascar
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile

All of the 72 chameleon species in Madagascar are endemic but only four are considered threatened on the IUCN Red List. Three of the 18 furcifer species are vulnerable to...View Project

Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Assessing the conservation status of tigers in West Sumatra
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

At c.3,000 km2 the Batang Hari Protection Forest (BHPF), west Sumatran, has the potential to contain a large Sumatran tiger population. Human-tiger conflict at the forest edge confirms tiger presence,...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Internship
Migration pattern and population genetic structure of the lesser long-nosed bat in Arizona and Mexico
Internship Mammal

The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae) is a nectarivore and is one of only five bats in North America that is able to migrate up to 1,500 km between...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Assessment and conservation of Cundinamarca antpitta at Farallon de Medina, Cundinamarca
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Cundinamarca antpitta is a very poorly known and endangered species. Recent field observations by the principal investigator strongly suggest than the species specializes in large-leaved herbs. The purpose of...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird