Dec 2017
Help for hornbills and a frog called hope
Executive Manager's Message

Season’s Greetings!

Traditionally in many northern hemisphere countries the prominent colours seen at this time of year are green (Christmas trees), red (Santa Claus) and white (snow). However, this newsletter comes wrapped up in gold/yellow, blue and red. Gold represents success in the signing of a conservation agreement to protect land in India and the outstanding achievements of an award-winning herpetologist in Mexico. Blue represents the seas and the experience of a marine conservationist at CLP’s Conservation Management & Leadership workshop, which coincided with her first sighting of a live shark. Red is for the brightly coloured casque of hornbills using an artificial nest box for the first time in Malaysia. All three colours combined represent the colours of Colombia – land of the botanist and cycad specialist featured in our alumni interview. We hope that you enjoy reading about the postive conservation impacts being achieved by CLP alumni.

Wishing you all the best for the festive season!

Stuart Paterson
Executive Manager

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Where Are They Now?

In 2009, Colombian biologist Professor Cristina López-Gallego and two fellow botanists won a Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) team award to assess the status of – and put together an action plan for – a threatened cycad plant, Zamia encephalartoides, found only in the arid Chicamocha Canyon. We invited her to reflect on her conservation journey before and since that seminal moment in her career. Read her interview here

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Capacity for Conservation: PRISM

Are you running a small/medium sized conservation project? Are you wondering how you might assess the impact of your work? There is a new toolkit called PRISM that is FREE to use and can help you to measure what your project has done and effectively evaluate the outcomes and impact of your work! Download the tool here.

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IN THIS ISSUE
Executive Manager's Message
Where Are They Now?
Capacity for Conservation: PRISM
Alumni Accomplishments
Upcoming Events
Conservation in Action
Final Reports
Alumni Publications
Project Websites
Alumni Accomplishments

With colleagues, Szilárd Lehel Bücs founded a bat-themed NGO in Romania, the Centre for Bat Research and Conservation (CBRC).

Long Vu completed a Master of Science degree in Marine Biology at Bangor University, UK. He now has position as researcher in the Zoology lab at Ho Chi Minh University of Sciences.

Suresh Jones has joined the IUCN Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group.

Read all alumni accomplishments

Upcoming Events

27-29 March 2018: Student Conference on Conservation Science - UK

24-29 June 2018: International Marine Conservation Congress - Malaysia

2-6 July 2018: Oceania Congress for Conservation Biology - New Zealand

21-26 July 2018: North America Congress for Conservation Biology - Canada

21-25 July 2019: International Congress for Conservation Biology - Malaysia

Conservation in Action

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Final Reports

Conservation of Slender-Snouted Crocodile in the Lake Region of Gabon (2014)

Promoting Local Participation in Habitat Conservation of Black-breasted Puffleg, Ecuador (2014)

Conserving Siberian Cranes in China through Sustainable Water Management (2014)

Population Viability of Northern Muriqui at Caparaó National Park, Brazil (2015)

Conservation of Cetacean in Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam (2015)

Reducing Human-Snow Leopard Conflict in Upper Spiti Valley, India (2015)

Monitoring and Conservation Strategies of Dugong in Northern Mozambique (2016)

Read final report summaries

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Alumni Publications

Abrahams, M.I., Peres, C.A., Costa, H.C. (2017). Measuring local depletion of terrestrial game vertebrates by central-place hunters in rural Amazonia. PloS one, 12(10): e0186653. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186653.

The degree to which terrestrial vertebrate populations are depleted in tropical forests occupied by human communities has been the subject of an intense polarising debate that has important conservation implications. Conservation ecologists and practitioners are divided over the extent to which community-based subsistence offtake is compatible with ecologically functional populations of tropical forest game species. To quantify depletion envelopes of forest vertebrates around human communities, we deployed a total of 383 camera trap stations and 78 quantitative interviews to survey the peri-community areas controlled by 60 semi-subsistence communities over a combined area of over 3.2 million hectares in the Médio Juruá and Uatumã regions of Central-Western Brazilian Amazonia…

Campbell, E., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Godley, B. J., Mangel, J. C., Marina, F. D. B., & Científica, U. (2017). Abundance estimate of the Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) in southern Ucayali, Peru. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 45(5): 957–969.

We present results of the first simultaneous visual and acoustic surveys for Amazon River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) and tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), undertaken in Yarinacocha Lagoon, Ucayali, Peru (length = 20 km, area = 12 km2). A total of 324 Sotalia observations and 44 Inia observations were recorded in boat-based transects. Based upon total survey effort, we estimated Sotalia had a mean density ± SE of 1.98 ± 4.6 ind km-2 and an overall abundance of 34 individuals (95% CI: 28 to 40). Average density for Inia was 0.2 ± 1.2 ind km-2 with overall abundance estimated at 3 individuals (95% CI: 0 to 8)...

Hilário, R. R., Toledo, J. J., Mustin, K., Castro, I. J., Costa-Neto, S. V., Kauano, E. E., Eilers, V., Vasconcelos, I. M., Mendes-Junior, R. N., Funi, C., Fearnside, P. M., Silva, J. M. C., Euler, A. M. C., & Carvalho, W. D. (2017). The Fate of an Amazonian Savanna: Government Land-Use Planning Endangers Sustainable Development in Amapá, the Most Protected Brazilian State. Tropical Conservation Science, 10: 1-8.

Although Amapá is the most protected Brazilian state, the same level of protection does not extend to its savannas. These are currently suffering increased pressure from threats including large-scale agriculture, particularly the expansion of soybean plantations. In September 2016, the Government of Amapá presented a zoning proposal (Zoneamento Socioambiental do Cerrado [ZSC]) that reserves most of the savannas for agricultural activities. Here, we outline how the methodology employed is flawed because it does not include fauna surveys, evaluations of ecosystem services or an assessment of the social importance of the savannas.

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Project Websites

3D Reefs (Australia)Aaranyak (India) | Applied Environmental Research Foundation (India) | Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (India) | Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan | Bat Census in Crimean Caves (Ukraine) | Birds-Indonesia | BirdLife Zimbabwe | Bombay Natural History Society (India) | Calidris (Colombia) | Center for Bat Research and Conservation (Romania)Community Centered Conservation (C3 - Comoros) | Faunagua (Bolivia) | Fundación Conserva (Colombia) | Fundación CEBio (Argentina) | Fundación Malpelo y Otros Ecosistemas Marinos (Colombia) | Gaia (Malaysia)Guyra (Paraguay) | Istituto Oikos | Katala Foundation (Philippines) | Korup Rainforest Conservation Society (Cameroon) | Kuzeydoga (Turkey) | Laboratory of Ecology (Federal University of Amapá - Brazil)Life on Chalk (Ukraine) | Mabuwaya Foundation (Philippines) | Macedonian Ecological Society | Madagasikara Voakajy | Maio Biodiversity Foundation (Cape Verde) | MareCet (Malaysia) | Mediterranean Conservation Society (Turkey) | Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (Tanzania) | Nature Conservation Foundation (India) | Nature Iraq | Organisation Ecotouristique du Lac Oguemoué (Gabon) | ProDelphinus (Peru) | ProAves (Colombia) | Project Karumbé (Uruguay) | Proyecto Atelopus (Colombia) | Proyecto Washu (Ecuador) | Rivers without Boundaries Coalition (Eurasia) | Save the Frogs! Ghana | SAVE Brasil | Sea to Shore Alliance (USA) | Snow Leopard Trust (International) | TIDE Belize | Yelkouan Shearwater Project (Turkey) | Waterkeepers Iraq | WildlifeDirect (Kenya) | Zoo Outreach Organization (India)

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