Supported Projects

There are currently 914 projects with the selected filtering.

Future Conservationist Award
Project Tutururu
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The critically endangered Tutururu, or Society Island Ground dove (Gallicolumba erythroptera) is known to exist only on a few small islets in the Tuamotu island group near Tahiti. The project...View Project

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Birds of the slash and burn habitats
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Working in the successional forest of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Southern Mexico, the team of 5 will determine status, abundance and patterns of distribution, for both resident and migratory...View Project

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Bia forest ’99
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Taking place in forests of western Ghana, this joint British/Ghanaian project will study the effects of disturbance by man on habitat structure and species diversity by comparing the fully protected...View Project

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Project Pelican ’99 – study of the Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) on the Kuban coastal salt lake
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A collaboration between Russian and German students, this project plans to survey the salt lakes of the Black and East Azov sea coasts for the rare Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus rispus)....View Project

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Project Ifotaka 1999
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

This Anglo-Malagasy expedition aims to study an un-surveyed patch of endemic spiny forest in southern Madagascar. The team of eight students represent a collaboration between the University of Durham, Tsimbazaza...View Project

Mammal
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Eurasian bridge ’99 : bat research in north-western Turkey
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

An investigative project aiming to locate and identify the populations of threatened bat species in north-western Turkey. This, the first study of its kind, will provide much needed information and...View Project

Mammal
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Polillo ’99: an Oxford-Los Banos university expedition
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

A collaboration between Oxford University and University of the Philippines at Los Banos. The expedition will study a 200 hectare remnant forest reserve and its surrounding area on the Island...View Project

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Threatened birds of the Bolivian Yungas – especies amenazadas de Los Yungas Bolivianos
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The aim of the Bolivian Yungas Project is to enhance the protected status of the Carrasco National Park, which is one of the most important areas for threatened bird species...View Project

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A study of the diversity and conservation of the avi-fauna in Tianjing China
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The project team carried out fieldwork and conservation awareness work in the wetlands of Tianjing along the west shore of Bohai Bay, China. This area of wetlands is considered an...View Project

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Capacity building for the research and conservation of endangered sea turtles in Venezuela and Colombia
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The Caribbean Sea is a rich basin inhabited by a wide diversity of marine flora and fauna. Its warm, sandy beaches and rich coastal ecosystems including coral reefs and sea...View Project

Reptile
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Conservation Follow-up Award
Project Eakehei
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Parrots in Peril won awards in 1992 and 1994 and this year Project Eakehei is one of the Follow-up Award winners. Results from the 1994 project included the collection of...View Project

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Action Sampiri: conservation of endangered parrot species on the Sangihe & Talaud Islands
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The Sangihe and Talaud islands support three of Indonesia’s four endangered parrot species; these are: Red-and -blue Lory Eos histrio, Sangihe Hanging-parrot (Loriculus catamene) and Blue-naped Parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis). In...View Project

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Ascension 1998 – estimating the status of endemic plants
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Ascension Island hosts ten known endemic species of vascular plant, three of which have not been seen since 1889. Of these 10, 6 were found by the team. Quadrat data...View Project

Plant
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The status, distribution, ecology and conservation of Javan hawk-eagle (Spizaetus Bartelsi, Stresemann, 1924) in south part of West Java, Indonesia
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The spectacular Javan Hawk-eagle (Spizaetus bartelsi), locally known as Elang Jawa was declared Indonesia's national bird and symbol of all the country's rare species in 1993. The Javan Hawk-eagle is...View Project

Bird
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Dong Khanthung 98
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Up until 1992, Laos had not been subject to any coherent biological survey work and uniquely in Asia had no protected areas. Since then surveys, mainly concentrating on birds have...View Project

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Queens University of Belfast Madagascar expedition
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

This project will undertake a bat research project in pristine and fragmented environments of the Masoala peninsula, Madagascar. Particular emphasis will be placed on the endemic genus Myzopodidae, which, uniquely...View Project

Mammal
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Diadema ’98: biological research and conservation in the forests of New Caledonia
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

New Caledonia is an overseas territory of France situated about 1,200km east of Australia. The islands have an extraordinary diversity of fauna and flora with an extreme level of endemism...View Project

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Project Ngezi 1998: densities of the endemic birds of Pemba in degraded habitats
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The East coast of Africa contains a large number of bird species that occur nowhere else in the world. Many of these endemic species are threatened by loss and alteration...View Project

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Project Kasigau ’98
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Mount Kasigau in Kenya is potentially a vital region for biodiversity conservation if, as suspected, it supports many of the nearby Taita Hills endemic bird species. It is currently known...View Project

Bird
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Adji Lake ecosystem – conservation for future
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Adji lake is the only large wetland area along the western coast of Caspian Sea between Caspiysk, Russia and Apsheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan. This lake has great importance as a wintering...View Project

Bird
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