The Conservation Leadership Programme has been supporting the project: Protecting the horseshoe bats of Romania: Transboundary conservation of horseshoe bats in the Romanian-Serbian Iron Gates led by Szilárd-Lehel Bücs with funding, training and support since 2014. Henry Rees, programme officer speaks about visiting the project, the cross borders impact of their work, and the critical […]
This blog has been adapted from the original version published here. By Anu Rai As a member of a team dedicated to conserving Ganges river dolphins in Nepal, I was overjoyed when CLP selected us for one of its Follow-Up Awards last year. The award has allowed us to start reducing the threats faced by […]
This blog has been adapted and translated from the original version (in Spanish) published here. By Isis Ibáñez The formal name of our CLP project is “Creating the grassroots to conserve the Santa Fe frog in the South American Great Chaco.” But for the non-academic community, we called it the “Kururu Pytã Project.” Kururu Pytã […]
By Leala Rosen (CLP Program Officer, Wildlife Conservation Society) In May and June 2022, the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) organised a virtual course to help rising conservation leaders in Southeast Asia learn about effective leadership in conservation practice at the local, regional and national level. Implementing conservation faces a range of challenges, especially given the […]
This article was originally published on the BirdLife International website. Sherilyn Bos, Capacity Development Officer at BirdLife International, works with the Conservation Leadership Programme to help early-career conservationists overcome threats to nature in places where capacity and access to resources is limited. Here, she tells us more about her role at CLP, her career journey […]
In two previous blogs, we’ve shown how internships can help rising conservationists kick start their careers, develop vital skills, boost their networks, and make a lasting impact on both society and biodiversity. These insights have come directly from previous CLP interns who shared their stories and experiences with us in a series of interviews and […]
By Bradley Knight In a series of interviews with past CLP interns, I’ve been struck by the way these emerging conservationists have carved out more positive futures for both biodiversity and people through locally-led, innovative approaches. Speaking with past CLP interns, it’s been fascinating to uncover how emerging conservation leaders have used their internships as […]
This article was originally published on Roundglass Sustain here. By Imran Samad International borders impact every species. What happens upstream to a river can affect river dolphins and other creatures even hundreds of kilometres downstream – a convincing reason to think of conservation as our shared biological heritage beyond political boundaries. While travelling through Yanam […]
Over the last nine months, several CLP alumni have been featured in The Revelator – an online news and ideas initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity in the US – where they have shared their stories and the plight of the species they are fighting to protect. This year, seven alumni wrote articles featured […]
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) intern Bradley Knight presents some of the inspiring stories and surprising insights emerging from the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Internship Scheme. The CLP Internship Scheme places early-career conservationists within regional host organisations of one of the CLP partners (FFI, BirdLife international, and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to provide them with on-the-job training and skills development. Below […]
