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📢 FUNDING opportunity!
🎉 Applications to the Kate Stokes Memorial Award 2025 are now open!
⏰ Deadline: 12 May, 2025.
👉 What is the Kate Stokes Memorial Award?
The Kate Stokes Memorial Award was established in memory of Kate Stokes, former CLP Programme Officer, who tragically died in 2006. In her memory, a grant worth US $5,000 is awarded on an annual basis by the trustees of the Kate Stokes Memorial Trust to an exceptional team that demonstrates Kate’s same passion and commitment to biodiversity conservation.
👉 Who can apply?
CLP alumni (previous CLP award-winners, interns/career placement mentees or Research Fellowship Programme grantees or scholars) who are continuing their efforts to conserve threatened species by engaging local communities; increasing knowledge and understanding of conservation; and developing the capacity of local stakeholders.
👉 Proposals must be:
✨ Addressing a conservation priority to deliver a tangible outcome
✨ No more than one year in length
✨ Feasible and cost-effective, with a budget of no more than US $5,000
✨ Aiming to build local capacity for biodiversity conservation
✨ Focusing on outreach to, and education for, local communities, especially young people
ℹ️ Follow our #LinkInBio for more information and an application form
Good luck with your application!
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeaders
📢 FUNDING opportunity!
🎉 Applications to the Kate Stokes Memorial Award 2025 are now open!
⏰ Deadline: 12 May, 2025.
👉 What is the Kate Stokes Memorial Award?
The Kate Stokes Memorial Award was established in memory of Kate Stokes, former CLP Programme Officer, who tragically died in 2006. In her memory, a grant worth US $5,000 is awarded on an annual basis by the trustees of the Kate Stokes Memorial Trust to an exceptional team that demonstrates Kate’s same passion and commitment to biodiversity conservation.
👉 Who can apply?
CLP alumni (previous CLP award-winners, interns/career placement mentees or Research Fellowship Programme grantees or scholars) who are continuing their efforts to conserve threatened species by engaging local communities; increasing knowledge and understanding of conservation; and developing the capacity of local stakeholders.
👉 Proposals must be:
✨ Addressing a conservation priority to deliver a tangible outcome
✨ No more than one year in length
✨ Feasible and cost-effective, with a budget of no more than US $5,000
✨ Aiming to build local capacity for biodiversity conservation
✨ Focusing on outreach to, and education for, local communities, especially young people
ℹ️ Follow our #LinkInBio for more information and an application form
Good luck with your application!
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeaders
🥳 Exciting news! CLP alumnus Kumar Paudel, Founder and Director of Greenhood Nepal, has received a Future For Nature Award 🎉
This prestigious international award from the Future For Nature Foundation (ffnfoundation) celebrates tangible achievements in protecting wild species. Kumar was selected for the award, along with two other winners, out of a pool of three hundred international applicants.
This award recognises Kumar`s outstanding work protecting the world’s most trafficked yet often overlooked species — the pangolin. By combining scientific research, policy advocacy, and grassroots action, Kumar is building a conservation model that can be replicated across South Asia and beyond.
Kumar was supported by CLP in 2018 and again in 2022 for his work protecting a species of threatened yew tree that has medicinal properties.
Each FFN award-winner will receive the prize and 50,000 euros during the Future For Nature awards ceremony.
🎉 Congratulations to Kumar and the two other FFN award-winners, Anthony Waddle and Ruthmery Pillco.
#WeAreCLP #FutureForNature #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeaders
📸 Kumar Paudel / Greenhood Nepal
🥳 Exciting news! CLP alumnus Kumar Paudel, Founder and Director of Greenhood Nepal, has received a Future For Nature Award 🎉
This prestigious international award from the Future For Nature Foundation (ffnfoundation) celebrates tangible achievements in protecting wild species. Kumar was selected for the award, along with two other winners, out of a pool of three hundred international applicants.
This award recognises Kumar`s outstanding work protecting the world’s most trafficked yet often overlooked species — the pangolin. By combining scientific research, policy advocacy, and grassroots action, Kumar is building a conservation model that can be replicated across South Asia and beyond.
Kumar was supported by CLP in 2018 and again in 2022 for his work protecting a species of threatened yew tree that has medicinal properties.
Each FFN award-winner will receive the prize and 50,000 euros during the Future For Nature awards ceremony.
🎉 Congratulations to Kumar and the two other FFN award-winners, Anthony Waddle and Ruthmery Pillco.
#WeAreCLP #FutureForNature #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeaders
📸 Kumar Paudel / Greenhood Nepal
🌱 Meet Dirciley Teixeira (Dita), currently on a CLP Career Placement with @faunafloraint partner @fundacaoprincipe (FP)!
Dita is working with FP and a traditional therapists’ association on the island of Príncipe, in São Tomé and Príncipe, to understand more about medicinal flora species on the island.
Her CLP Career Placement has been invaluable in allowing her to develop a scientific approach to biodiversity conservation on the island.
Working closely with FP’s terrestrial flora team, and supervised by previous CLP grantee, Davide Dias (@davidedoe.s.c.dias), she is learning about the monitoring work that the organisation does on Príncipe.
🌳She’s also working to conserve threatened species, such as Principe’s endemic peach tree, which is valued not just for its fruit but also for its medicinal properties. The peach tree is threatened due to unsustainable resource harvesting.
Through this placement, Dita is also developing crucial skills, including public speaking, which will help when she presents the results of her work at a conference this year.
With thanks to Fondation Segré for supporting our Career Placements.
#WeAreCLP #InternationalWomensDay #ConservationLeadership #ConservationLeaders #Conservation
🌱 Meet Dirciley Teixeira (Dita), currently on a CLP Career Placement with @faunafloraint partner @fundacaoprincipe (FP)!
Dita is working with FP and a traditional therapists’ association on the island of Príncipe, in São Tomé and Príncipe, to understand more about medicinal flora species on the island.
Her CLP Career Placement has been invaluable in allowing her to develop a scientific approach to biodiversity conservation on the island.
Working closely with FP’s terrestrial flora team, and supervised by previous CLP grantee, Davide Dias (@davidedoe.s.c.dias), she is learning about the monitoring work that the organisation does on Príncipe.
🌳She’s also working to conserve threatened species, such as Principe’s endemic peach tree, which is valued not just for its fruit but also for its medicinal properties. The peach tree is threatened due to unsustainable resource harvesting.
Through this placement, Dita is also developing crucial skills, including public speaking, which will help when she presents the results of her work at a conference this year.
With thanks to Fondation Segré for supporting our Career Placements.
#WeAreCLP #InternationalWomensDay #ConservationLeadership #ConservationLeaders #Conservation
💡 On World Wildlife Day, a once-disappearing duck has a story to tell.
📆 The story begins nine years ago, when Georgian ornithologist Nika Paposhvili (@birder_nik) makes an amazing discovery.
👉 He finds a small population of velvet scoters breeding at Lake Tabatskuri in the Javakheti Plateau, Georgia. At the time this diving duck was thought to be extinct from the whole Caucasus.
"This was a euphoric once-in-a-lifetime discovery and, simultaneously, a sad realisation of the vulnerability of not just this remnant population, but the entire species," said Nika.
🏅 Not long after, supported by CLP, Nika and his team reveal that the species is confined to just one site in the whole Caucasus: a tiny (1 ha) island in Lake Tabatskuri. They also identify key threats: local people are taking the eggs for food, and boat disturbance on the lake is causing further harm to vulnerable ducklings.
🙌 After building relationships with protected area rangers, gaining the trust of local communities, and circulating information brochures and posters, the team completely eradicated egg collecting.
🙌 What’s more, after recruiting local fishermen, they established a “no fishing zone” in the scoters’ feeding areas to reduce boat disturbance.
These interventions had an incredible effect:
✨ Since 2017, the number of pairs nesting at Lake Tabatskuri increased eightfold.
✨ While only four ducklings survived to fledge the nest in 2019, just four years later that number was almost seven times higher.
✨ The scoters have started nesting on a second islet at Lake Tabatskuri.
🏅 Supported by CLP`s Continuation funding, the team continue to build on these successes by uncovering scoter staging and wintering areas and assessing genetic connectivity between Caucasian and north European scoters.
📽️ In 2023, British film-maker @saxonbosworth released a documentary beautifully showcasing the fascinating story behind these accomplishments.
#WeAreCLP #WWD2025
💡 On World Wildlife Day, a once-disappearing duck has a story to tell.
📆 The story begins nine years ago, when Georgian ornithologist Nika Paposhvili (@birder_nik) makes an amazing discovery.
👉 He finds a small population of velvet scoters breeding at Lake Tabatskuri in the Javakheti Plateau, Georgia. At the time this diving duck was thought to be extinct from the whole Caucasus.
"This was a euphoric once-in-a-lifetime discovery and, simultaneously, a sad realisation of the vulnerability of not just this remnant population, but the entire species," said Nika.
🏅 Not long after, supported by CLP, Nika and his team reveal that the species is confined to just one site in the whole Caucasus: a tiny (1 ha) island in Lake Tabatskuri. They also identify key threats: local people are taking the eggs for food, and boat disturbance on the lake is causing further harm to vulnerable ducklings.
🙌 After building relationships with protected area rangers, gaining the trust of local communities, and circulating information brochures and posters, the team completely eradicated egg collecting.
🙌 What’s more, after recruiting local fishermen, they established a “no fishing zone” in the scoters’ feeding areas to reduce boat disturbance.
These interventions had an incredible effect:
✨ Since 2017, the number of pairs nesting at Lake Tabatskuri increased eightfold.
✨ While only four ducklings survived to fledge the nest in 2019, just four years later that number was almost seven times higher.
✨ The scoters have started nesting on a second islet at Lake Tabatskuri.
🏅 Supported by CLP`s Continuation funding, the team continue to build on these successes by uncovering scoter staging and wintering areas and assessing genetic connectivity between Caucasian and north European scoters.
📽️ In 2023, British film-maker @saxonbosworth released a documentary beautifully showcasing the fascinating story behind these accomplishments.
#WeAreCLP #WWD2025
🎉 Time Magazine’s Women of the Year honours CLP alumna, Purnima Devi Barman 🎉
Each year, @time selects a group of women leading change for a better, more equitable world. This year, CLP alumna @storksister is on the list alongside 12 other hugely influential women. (Read more via our #LinkInBio).
👏 This is an enormous testament to Purnima’s dedication to saving one of the world’s most threatened birds: the greater adjutant stork.
📆 Purnima’s conservation journey started in 2007, when she felt a “call" to protect the ~450 storks left in her home region of Assam, India.
👉 These endangered storks (or "hargila", as they are known locally) faced an uncertain future, persecuted by locals who believed they were bad omens and disease carriers.
🌱 With CLP support in 2009, Purnima began forming a group of women (her “stork sisters”) to help change locals` beliefs and end the stork`s persecution. Two further CLP awards in 2012 and 2015 helped her continue this work and devise a long-term conservation plan for the species.
🎉 Thanks to these projects and Purnima’s subsequent efforts with the help of her now 20,000-strong “Hargila Army”, the storks have made a comeback:
📈 The population in Assam has grown to over 1,800 individuals (a 300% increase since 2007)
🌳 45,000 new trees have been planted to provide breeding sites
📈 Nest numbers have increased from 27 to 250
Consequently, in 2023, the greater adjutant stork was down listed from Endangered to Near Threatened by the IUCN 🎉
Congratulations to Purnima and the other 12 honorees!
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeaders #TimeWomenOfTheYear #India #Conservation #ConservationLeadershipProgramme
🎉 Time Magazine’s Women of the Year honours CLP alumna, Purnima Devi Barman 🎉
Each year, @time selects a group of women leading change for a better, more equitable world. This year, CLP alumna @storksister is on the list alongside 12 other hugely influential women. (Read more via our #LinkInBio).
👏 This is an enormous testament to Purnima’s dedication to saving one of the world’s most threatened birds: the greater adjutant stork.
📆 Purnima’s conservation journey started in 2007, when she felt a “call" to protect the ~450 storks left in her home region of Assam, India.
👉 These endangered storks (or "hargila", as they are known locally) faced an uncertain future, persecuted by locals who believed they were bad omens and disease carriers.
🌱 With CLP support in 2009, Purnima began forming a group of women (her “stork sisters”) to help change locals` beliefs and end the stork`s persecution. Two further CLP awards in 2012 and 2015 helped her continue this work and devise a long-term conservation plan for the species.
🎉 Thanks to these projects and Purnima’s subsequent efforts with the help of her now 20,000-strong “Hargila Army”, the storks have made a comeback:
📈 The population in Assam has grown to over 1,800 individuals (a 300% increase since 2007)
🌳 45,000 new trees have been planted to provide breeding sites
📈 Nest numbers have increased from 27 to 250
Consequently, in 2023, the greater adjutant stork was down listed from Endangered to Near Threatened by the IUCN 🎉
Congratulations to Purnima and the other 12 honorees!
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeaders #TimeWomenOfTheYear #India #Conservation #ConservationLeadershipProgramme
🦈 New insights on thresher shark conservation published! 🦈
CLP alum @rafid.shidqi co-authored the paper, which was published in @oryxthejournal last week.
The paper describes results from five years (2018-2023) of pelagic thresher shark conservation efforts in Alor Island, Indonesia, which was initiated with CLP support.
🪝 Pelagic threshers are primarily threatened by over fishing, so Rafid and his team at @threshershark.id have been working to reduce the dependence of local fishers on these endangered sharks.
👉 Based on data collected from their 2018 CLP-supported project, the team introduced and piloted alternative livelihoods, such as small-scale chicken farms and tuna fisheries.
🤝 They ensured that the adoption of these new livelihoods was self-governed by a group of local fishers.
✍ "A declaration was made and an oath taken in the village to make the entire community aware of the prohibition of shark fishing. Indigenous ceremonies were conducted in the ancestor`s house (Rumah Adat) and an ocean offering was made (sumpah laut). We also... trained and recruited women community members to start creating and selling various products to local communities and tourists [as another source of income]."
📈 Participating fishers caught 91% fewer thresher sharks compared to non-participants. What`s more, they increased their monthly income through the adoption of alternative livelihoods, with some increasing by up to 525% relative to pre-intervention levels.
👏 Congratulations to Rafid and the team on these wonderful achievements!
ℹ️ Read the full #OpenAccess paper via our #LinkInBio
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeaders #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #Conservation #Sharks #Indonesia
🦈 New insights on thresher shark conservation published! 🦈
CLP alum @rafid.shidqi co-authored the paper, which was published in @oryxthejournal last week.
The paper describes results from five years (2018-2023) of pelagic thresher shark conservation efforts in Alor Island, Indonesia, which was initiated with CLP support.
🪝 Pelagic threshers are primarily threatened by over fishing, so Rafid and his team at @threshershark.id have been working to reduce the dependence of local fishers on these endangered sharks.
👉 Based on data collected from their 2018 CLP-supported project, the team introduced and piloted alternative livelihoods, such as small-scale chicken farms and tuna fisheries.
🤝 They ensured that the adoption of these new livelihoods was self-governed by a group of local fishers.
✍ "A declaration was made and an oath taken in the village to make the entire community aware of the prohibition of shark fishing. Indigenous ceremonies were conducted in the ancestor`s house (Rumah Adat) and an ocean offering was made (sumpah laut). We also... trained and recruited women community members to start creating and selling various products to local communities and tourists [as another source of income]."
📈 Participating fishers caught 91% fewer thresher sharks compared to non-participants. What`s more, they increased their monthly income through the adoption of alternative livelihoods, with some increasing by up to 525% relative to pre-intervention levels.
👏 Congratulations to Rafid and the team on these wonderful achievements!
ℹ️ Read the full #OpenAccess paper via our #LinkInBio
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeaders #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #Conservation #Sharks #Indonesia
🥳 We are delighted to see FOUR CLP alumni shortlisted for this year`s Whitley Awards!
👏 Congratulations to Reshu Bashyal, Muhammad Ghozaly Salim, Andrés Link and Federico Kacoliris!
These CLP alumni are four of 12 grassroots conservation leaders recognized by the Whitley Fund for Nature this year for their impressive work protecting wildlife, landscapes and communities around the world 🙌
🌳 Reshu, a Research Fellow at @greenhoodnepal, received CLP support in 2018 and 2022 for projects aimed at conserving cancer-treating Maire`s yew trees in Nepal.
🦈 Muhammad, Co-Leader of the @mobulaprojectindonesia, part of the @mantatrust, led a 2023 CLP project to reduce bycatch of threatened sharks and rays in East Java, Indonesia.
🐸 Federico, co-founder of @fundacion.somuncura, received two CLP Team Awards in 2013 and 2020 focused on the conservation of highly threatened frogs restricted to a small region of the Somuncura Plateau in Argentina.
🐒 Andrés, co-founder of @proyectoprimatescolombia, received his first CLP Award in 2007, and two further awards in 2010 and 2022, to support his team`s efforts to conserve Critically Endangered brown spider monkeys in Colombia.
👏 We wish all the shortlisted individuals a huge congratulations on this fantastic achievement. We wait with excitement to learn who the winners will be (revealed live in London on Wednesday, 30 April 2025)!
#WeAreCLP #WhitleyAwards #ConservationLeaders #SustainableFuture #GlobalImpact
🥳 We are delighted to see FOUR CLP alumni shortlisted for this year`s Whitley Awards!
👏 Congratulations to Reshu Bashyal, Muhammad Ghozaly Salim, Andrés Link and Federico Kacoliris!
These CLP alumni are four of 12 grassroots conservation leaders recognized by the Whitley Fund for Nature this year for their impressive work protecting wildlife, landscapes and communities around the world 🙌
🌳 Reshu, a Research Fellow at @greenhoodnepal, received CLP support in 2018 and 2022 for projects aimed at conserving cancer-treating Maire`s yew trees in Nepal.
🦈 Muhammad, Co-Leader of the @mobulaprojectindonesia, part of the @mantatrust, led a 2023 CLP project to reduce bycatch of threatened sharks and rays in East Java, Indonesia.
🐸 Federico, co-founder of @fundacion.somuncura, received two CLP Team Awards in 2013 and 2020 focused on the conservation of highly threatened frogs restricted to a small region of the Somuncura Plateau in Argentina.
🐒 Andrés, co-founder of @proyectoprimatescolombia, received his first CLP Award in 2007, and two further awards in 2010 and 2022, to support his team`s efforts to conserve Critically Endangered brown spider monkeys in Colombia.
👏 We wish all the shortlisted individuals a huge congratulations on this fantastic achievement. We wait with excitement to learn who the winners will be (revealed live in London on Wednesday, 30 April 2025)!
#WeAreCLP #WhitleyAwards #ConservationLeaders #SustainableFuture #GlobalImpact
💡 Discover the story of CLP alum and UN consultant, Shahin Isayev.
🦅 Two decades ago, early in his career, a CLP Team Award enabled Shahin Isayev and his team to embark on the first-ever detailed survey of the eastern imperial eagle in northwest Azerbaijan.
🤝 Yet Shahin believes his team`s greatest success was the establishment of the first-ever group of young conservationists and nature enthusiasts in Azerbaijan.
🫶 Many of Shahin`s former team members and volunteers from the CLP projects continue to play active roles in different national and international organizations, contributing to environmental protection not only in Azerbaijan but also globally.
🗣️ “This legacy is what I am most proud of, as it represents a lasting impact that extends beyond the scope of our initial projects."
🏅 By 2007, Shahin was a fully fledged conservation leader. He had completed an intensive three-week CLP training workshop (which he "still proudly lists on his CV") and three CLP projects in total.
🙌 These experiences set Shahin up for what would be an illustrious career dedicated to minimizing negative human impacts on nature and the environment, including as a consultant biodiversity specialist at the German Corporation for International Cooperation and as a consultant on environmental safeguards and capacity building at the Asian Development Bank.
👐 Now Shahin spends most of his time collaborating with the @fao in Azerbaijan to find sustainable and environmentally sound solutions to dispose of persistent organic pollutants (poisonous chemical substances that break down slowly and can enter into food chains as a result).
🗣️ "I believe that when conservation is seen as a shared responsibility, it creates a collective commitment to safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems. Collaboration at all levels is essential. By fostering partnerships, educating communities, and embracing innovation, we can build a future where people and nature thrive together.”
Read more about Shahin`s story via our #LinkInBio
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadership #Conservation #Azerbaijan
💡 Discover the story of CLP alum and UN consultant, Shahin Isayev.
🦅 Two decades ago, early in his career, a CLP Team Award enabled Shahin Isayev and his team to embark on the first-ever detailed survey of the eastern imperial eagle in northwest Azerbaijan.
🤝 Yet Shahin believes his team`s greatest success was the establishment of the first-ever group of young conservationists and nature enthusiasts in Azerbaijan.
🫶 Many of Shahin`s former team members and volunteers from the CLP projects continue to play active roles in different national and international organizations, contributing to environmental protection not only in Azerbaijan but also globally.
🗣️ “This legacy is what I am most proud of, as it represents a lasting impact that extends beyond the scope of our initial projects."
🏅 By 2007, Shahin was a fully fledged conservation leader. He had completed an intensive three-week CLP training workshop (which he "still proudly lists on his CV") and three CLP projects in total.
🙌 These experiences set Shahin up for what would be an illustrious career dedicated to minimizing negative human impacts on nature and the environment, including as a consultant biodiversity specialist at the German Corporation for International Cooperation and as a consultant on environmental safeguards and capacity building at the Asian Development Bank.
👐 Now Shahin spends most of his time collaborating with the @fao in Azerbaijan to find sustainable and environmentally sound solutions to dispose of persistent organic pollutants (poisonous chemical substances that break down slowly and can enter into food chains as a result).
🗣️ "I believe that when conservation is seen as a shared responsibility, it creates a collective commitment to safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems. Collaboration at all levels is essential. By fostering partnerships, educating communities, and embracing innovation, we can build a future where people and nature thrive together.”
Read more about Shahin`s story via our #LinkInBio
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadership #Conservation #Azerbaijan
🥳 Congratulations to CLP alum Alberto Campos on being shortlisted for the Indianapolis Prize 2025 🎊
Three-time CLP award-winner Alberto is one of six conservationists named by @indianapoliszoo as the 2025 @indianapolisprize DeHaan Finalists 🎉
The biennial Indianapolis Prize recognizes the most successful conservationists who have achieved major victories in saving an animal species or group of species. The DeHaan Finalists will each receive a $50,000 award to continue their conservation efforts.
Alberto was shortlisted from a group of 44 nominees worldwide, because of his significant, measurable and long-term efforts to save the Antillean manatee and red knot shorebird using high-quality scientific and collaborative approaches.
Alberto and his team at Brazilian NGO @ongaquasis were first supported by CLP in 2004 as early-career conservationists. Over the course of six years, they received two more CLP awards, with this vital funding and training helping their efforts to protect a rediscovered Critically Endangered bird, the Araripe manakin, in Ceará, Brazil.
Among many achievements from these projects, Alberto and his team helped produce and publish an officially recognised conservation plan for the species in 2006, in partnership with @birdlife.international and the Brazilian Ministry of Environment. The plan was based on the extensive field research and environmental assessments the team carried out as part of their first CLP project, and was later adopted by the Brazilian environmental authorities as the official National Action Plan for the species.
Alberto believes his team has been key to keeping him motivated all these years. “Along with my firm beliefs about the importance of conserving nature and preventing extinctions, I think the most important factor keeping me motivated in the long-term has been working with a group of committed, like-minded people."
Congratulations to Alberto and the five other DeHaan Finalists! 👏
#WeAreCLP #IndianapolisPrize #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeadership
🥳 Congratulations to CLP alum Alberto Campos on being shortlisted for the Indianapolis Prize 2025 🎊
Three-time CLP award-winner Alberto is one of six conservationists named by @indianapoliszoo as the 2025 @indianapolisprize DeHaan Finalists 🎉
The biennial Indianapolis Prize recognizes the most successful conservationists who have achieved major victories in saving an animal species or group of species. The DeHaan Finalists will each receive a $50,000 award to continue their conservation efforts.
Alberto was shortlisted from a group of 44 nominees worldwide, because of his significant, measurable and long-term efforts to save the Antillean manatee and red knot shorebird using high-quality scientific and collaborative approaches.
Alberto and his team at Brazilian NGO @ongaquasis were first supported by CLP in 2004 as early-career conservationists. Over the course of six years, they received two more CLP awards, with this vital funding and training helping their efforts to protect a rediscovered Critically Endangered bird, the Araripe manakin, in Ceará, Brazil.
Among many achievements from these projects, Alberto and his team helped produce and publish an officially recognised conservation plan for the species in 2006, in partnership with @birdlife.international and the Brazilian Ministry of Environment. The plan was based on the extensive field research and environmental assessments the team carried out as part of their first CLP project, and was later adopted by the Brazilian environmental authorities as the official National Action Plan for the species.
Alberto believes his team has been key to keeping him motivated all these years. “Along with my firm beliefs about the importance of conserving nature and preventing extinctions, I think the most important factor keeping me motivated in the long-term has been working with a group of committed, like-minded people."
Congratulations to Alberto and the five other DeHaan Finalists! 👏
#WeAreCLP #IndianapolisPrize #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeadership
We are delighted to see the incredible work of our alumni recognised in BBC One`s Asia series!
This seven-part series is dedicated to revealing Asia`s most remarkable landscapes and animals, as well as conservation efforts across the continent, including the ground-breaking work of our alumni.
The 7th and last episode, "Saving Asia", features 2023 CLP award-winners at the @mobulaprojectindonesia - including 2023 CLP trainee @irianesgozali - and 2022 award-winner @kmrpaudel at @greenhoodnepal.
The episode highlights the efforts of these rising conservation leaders to prevent bycatch of threatened devil rays in Indonesia and illegal wildlife trade in Nepal.
Speaking about this fantastic recognition, Kumar said: "During my MPhil in Cambridge [UK], our classes were held in DAB—The David Attenborough Building. I now find Sir David himself narrating my story in the BBC ASIA series! A dream I did not know I had, came true."
#WeAreCLP #SavingAsiasWildlife #BBC #MarineConservation #ProtectOurOceans #WildlifeTrade
We are delighted to see the incredible work of our alumni recognised in BBC One`s Asia series!
This seven-part series is dedicated to revealing Asia`s most remarkable landscapes and animals, as well as conservation efforts across the continent, including the ground-breaking work of our alumni.
The 7th and last episode, "Saving Asia", features 2023 CLP award-winners at the @mobulaprojectindonesia - including 2023 CLP trainee @irianesgozali - and 2022 award-winner @kmrpaudel at @greenhoodnepal.
The episode highlights the efforts of these rising conservation leaders to prevent bycatch of threatened devil rays in Indonesia and illegal wildlife trade in Nepal.
Speaking about this fantastic recognition, Kumar said: "During my MPhil in Cambridge [UK], our classes were held in DAB—The David Attenborough Building. I now find Sir David himself narrating my story in the BBC ASIA series! A dream I did not know I had, came true."
#WeAreCLP #SavingAsiasWildlife #BBC #MarineConservation #ProtectOurOceans #WildlifeTrade
💫Calling all CLP alumni... namely, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
It`s also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what`s happening across the alumni network.
Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven`t already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to seeing you there!
#WeAreCLP
💫Calling all CLP alumni... namely, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
It`s also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what`s happening across the alumni network.
Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven`t already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to seeing you there!
#WeAreCLP
🎉Great news- 2024 CLP Awardee Eva Ayaro and her project features in this @bbcnewsround article and other media this week - including the @the.independent and @skynews!
Yesterday our partner @faunafloraint published its `Ten Species to Watch in 2025` list, including the paperclip-sized Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon - one of the three chameleon species in Tanzania that Eva is working to protect with support from CLP.
We are delighted to see Eva and these miniature marvels, along with the nine other weird and wonderful species on the list, receiving this amazing media coverage. We hope this will help to highlight the need for continued conservation efforts and support for early-career leaders in 2025 and beyond.
Project leader Eva says, "Protecting the Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon is essential not only for conserving a unique species but also for safeguarding the rich biodiversity of Tanzania’s montane forests. This species is a symbol of resilience, yet it remains highly vulnerable. Its survival depends on our efforts to curb illegal trade and protect its delicate habitat."
💫 We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation for making Eva`s CLP project possible.
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🎉Great news- 2024 CLP Awardee Eva Ayaro and her project features in this @bbcnewsround article and other media this week - including the @the.independent and @skynews!
Yesterday our partner @faunafloraint published its `Ten Species to Watch in 2025` list, including the paperclip-sized Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon - one of the three chameleon species in Tanzania that Eva is working to protect with support from CLP.
We are delighted to see Eva and these miniature marvels, along with the nine other weird and wonderful species on the list, receiving this amazing media coverage. We hope this will help to highlight the need for continued conservation efforts and support for early-career leaders in 2025 and beyond.
Project leader Eva says, "Protecting the Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon is essential not only for conserving a unique species but also for safeguarding the rich biodiversity of Tanzania’s montane forests. This species is a symbol of resilience, yet it remains highly vulnerable. Its survival depends on our efforts to curb illegal trade and protect its delicate habitat."
💫 We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation for making Eva`s CLP project possible.
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📢 FUNDING opportunity!
🎉 Applications to the Kate Stokes Memorial Award 2025 are now open!
⏰ Deadline: 12 May, 2025.
👉 What is the Kate Stokes Memorial Award?
The Kate Stokes Memorial Award was established in memory of Kate Stokes, former CLP Programme Officer, who tragically died in 2006. In her memory, a grant worth US $5,000 is awarded on an annual basis by the trustees of the Kate Stokes Memorial Trust to an exceptional team that demonstrates Kate’s same passion and commitment to biodiversity conservation.
👉 Who can apply?
CLP alumni (previous CLP award-winners, interns/career placement mentees or a Research Fellowship Programme grantees or scholars) who are continuing their efforts to conserve threatened species by engaging local communities; increasing knowledge and understanding of conservation; and developing the capacity of local stakeholders.
👉 Proposals must be:
✨ Addressing a conservation priority to deliver a tangible outcome
✨ No more than one year in length
✨ Feasible and cost-effective, with a budget of no more than US $5,000
✨ Aiming to build local capacity for biodiversity conservation
✨ Focusing on outreach to, and education for, local communities, especially young people
ℹ️ Visit our website for more information and an application form: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/grants/grant-overview/kate-stokes-memorial-award/
Good luck with your application!
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🎉 Time Magazine’s Women of the Year honours CLP alumna, Purnima Devi Barman
ℹ️ time.com/7216405/purnima-devi-barman-hargila-storks/
Each year, TIME selects a group of women pushing change for a better, more equitable world. This year, CLP alumna Purnima Devi Barman is on the list alongside 12 other hugely influential women.
👏 This is an enormous testament to Purnima’s dedication to saving one of the world’s most threatened birds: the greater adjutant stork.
📆 Purnima’s conservation journey started in 2007, when she felt a “call" to protect the ~450 storks left in her home region of Assam, India.
👉 These endangered storks (or "hargila", as they are known locally) faced an uncertain future, persecuted by locals who believed they were bad omens and disease carriers.
🌱 With CLP support in 2009, Purnima began forming a group of women (her “stork sisters”) to help change locals' beliefs and end the stork's persecution. Two further CLP awards in 2012 and 2015 helped her continue this work and devise a long-term conservation plan for the species.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/greater-adjutant-stork-assam-india/
🎉 Thanks to these projects and Purnima’s subsequent efforts with the help of her now 20,000-strong “Hargila Army”, the storks have made a comeback:
📈 The population in Assam has grown to over 1,800 individuals (a 300% increase since 2007)
🌳 45,000 new trees have been planted to provide breeding sites
📈 Nest numbers have increased from 27 to 250
Consequently, in 2023, the greater adjutant stork was down listed from Endangered to Near Threatened by the IUCN 🎉
Congratulations to Purnima and the other 12 honorees named on Time’s Women of the Year list!
✨ BirdLife International Fauna & Flora Wildlife Conservation Society
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🦈 New insights on thresher shark conservation published! 🦈
CLP alum Rafid Shidqi co-authored the paper, which was published in Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation last week.
ℹ️ www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/designing-and-evaluating-alternative-livelihoods-for...
The paper describes results from five years (2018-2023) of pelagic thresher shark conservation efforts in Alor Island, Indonesia, which was initiated with CLP support.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/thresher-sharks-indonesia/
🪝 Pelagic threshers are primarily threatened by over fishing, so Rafid and his team at Thresher Shark Indonesia have been working to reduce the dependence of local fishers on these endangered sharks.
👉 Based on data collected from their 2018 CLP-supported project, the team introduced and piloted alternative livelihoods, such as small-scale chicken farms and tuna fisheries.
🤝 They ensured that the adoption of these new livelihoods was self-governed by a group of local fishers.
✍ "A declaration was made and an oath taken in the village to make the entire community aware of the prohibition of shark fishing. Indigenous ceremonies were conducted in the ancestor's house (Rumah Adat) and an ocean offering was made (sumpah laut). We also... trained and recruited women community members to start creating and selling various products to local communities and tourists [as another source of income]."
📈 Participating fishers caught 91% fewer thresher sharks compared to non-participants. What's more, they increased their monthly income through the adoption of alternative livelihoods, with some increasing by up to 525% relative to pre-intervention levels.
👏 Congratulations to Rafid and the team on these wonderful achievements!
ℹ️ Read the full #OpenAccess paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/designing-and-evaluating-alternative-livelihoods-for...
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🥳 We are delighted to see FOUR CLP alumni shortlisted for this year's Whitley Awards!
👏 Congratulations to Reshu Bashyal, Muhammad Ghozaly Salim, Andres Link and Federico Kacoliris!
These CLP alumni are four of 12 grassroots conservation leaders recognized by the Whitley Fund for Nature this year for their impressive work protecting wildlife, landscapes and communities around the world 🙌 👇
ℹ️ whitleyaward.org/2025/02/11/2025-whitley-awards-meet-the-shortlist/
🌳 Reshu, a Research Fellow at Greenhood Nepal, received CLP support in 2018 and 2022 for projects aimed at conserving cancer-treating Maire's yew trees in Nepal.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/maires-yew-nepal/
🦈 Muhammad, Co-Leader of the Mobula Project Indonesia, part of the The Manta Trust, led a 2023 CLP project to reduce bycatch of threatened sharks and rays in East Java, Indonesia.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/a-sustainable-seafood-network-to-conserve-mobulid...
🐸 Federico, co-founder of Fundación Somuncura, received two CLP Team Awards in 2013 and 2020 focused on the conservation of highly threatened frogs restricted to a small region of the Somuncura Plateau in Argentina.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/frogs-patagonia-argentina/
🐒 Andrés, co-founder of Fundacion Proyecto Primates, received his first CLP Award in 2007, and two further awards in 2010 and 2022, to support his team's efforts to conserve Critically Endangered brown spider monkeys in Colombia.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/population-status-behavioural-ecology-critically-...
👏 We wish all the shortlisted individuals a huge congratulations on this fantastic achievement. We wait with excitement to learn who the winners will be (revealed live in London on Wednesday, 30 April 2025)!
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Congratulations Reshu dd and other selected candidates. 😊😊😊
💡 Discover the story of CLP alum and UN consultant, Shahin Isayev
🦅 Two decades ago, early in his career, a CLP Team Award enabled Shahin Isayev and his team to embark on the first-ever detailed survey of the eastern imperial eagle in northwest Azerbaijan. At the time, only six nests of this globally threatened bird were known in the entire country, yet the team's survey (across 6,000 km² in the northwest) revealed five times that number: 31 active nests.
🤝 Yet Shahin believes his team's greatest success was the establishment of the first-ever group of young conservationists and nature enthusiasts in Azerbaijan.
🗣️ "Thanks to CLP, we helped transform nature conservation into a broader societal movement in Azerbaijan, especially among the young generation.”
🫶 Many of Shahin's former team members and volunteers from the CLP projects continue to play active roles in different national and international organizations, contributing to environmental protection not only in Azerbaijan but also globally.
🗣️ “This legacy is what I am most proud of, as it represents a lasting impact that extends beyond the scope of our initial projects."
🏅 By 2007, Shahin was a fully fledged conservation leader. He had completed an intensive three-week CLP training workshop (which he "still proudly lists on his CV") and three CLP projects in total.
🙌 These experiences set Shahin up for what would be an illustrious career dedicated to minimizing negative human impacts on nature and the environment, including as a consultant biodiversity specialist at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and as a consultant on environmental safeguards and capacity building at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
👐 Now Shahin spends most of his time collaborating with the FAO in Azerbaijan to find sustainable and environmentally sound solutions to dispose of persistent organic pollutants (poisonous chemical substances that break down slowly and can enter into food chains as a result).
🗣️ "I believe that when conservation is seen as a shared responsibility, it creates a collective commitment to safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems. Collaboration at all levels is essential. By fostering partnerships, educating communities, and embracing innovation, we can build a future where people and nature thrive together.”
ℹ️ Read more about Shahin's story here: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/interview/a-legacy-of-lasting-impact/
CLP partners: BirdLife International Fauna & Flora Wildlife Conservation Society
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Thank you for sharing my journey! It’s an honor to reflect on the incredible impact that CLP has had on my career and conservation efforts in Azerbaijan!
🥳 Congratulations to CLP alum Alberto Campos on being shortlisted for the Indianapolis Prize 2025 🎊
Three-time CLP award-winner Alberto is one of six conservationists named by Indianapolis Zoo as the 2025 Indianapolis Prize DeHaan Finalists 🎉
The biennial Indianapolis Prize recognizes the most successful conservationists who have achieved major victories in saving an animal species or group of species. The DeHaan Finalists will each receive a $50,000 award to continue their conservation efforts.
Alberto was shortlisted from a group of 44 nominees worldwide, because of his significant, measurable and long-term efforts to save the Antillean manatee and red knot shorebird using high-quality scientific and collaborative approaches.
Alberto and his team at Brazilian NGO Aquasis were first supported by CLP in 2004 as early-career conservationists. Over the course of six years, they received two more CLP awards, with this vital funding and training helping their efforts to protect a rediscovered Critically Endangered bird, the Araripe manakin, in Ceará, Brazil.
Among many achievements from these projects, Alberto and his team helped produce and publish an officially recognised conservation plan for the species in 2006, in partnership with BirdLife International and the Brazilian Ministry of Environment. The plan was based on the extensive field research and environmental assessments the team carried out as part of their first CLP project, and was later adopted by the Brazilian environmental authorities as the official National Action Plan for the species.
Alberto believes his team has been key to keeping him motivated all these years. “Along with my firm beliefs about the importance of conserving nature and preventing extinctions, I think the most important factor keeping me motivated in the long-term has been working with a group of committed, like-minded people."
Read more about Alberto's story here: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/interview/pursuing-new-paths-brazil/
Congratulations to Alberto and the five other DeHaan Finalists! 👏
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We are delighted to see the incredible work of our alumni recognised in BBC One's Asia series!
🐯 This seven-part series is dedicated to revealing Asia's most remarkable landscapes and animals, as well as conservation efforts across the continent, including the dedicated work of our alumni.
👉 The 7th and last episode, "Saving Asia", features 2023 CLP award-winners at The Mobula Project Indonesia - including 2023 CLP trainee Irianies Gozali - and 2022 award-winner Kumar Paudel at Greenhood Nepal.
The episode highlights the efforts of these rising conservation leaders to prevent by-catch of threatened devil rays in Indonesia and the illegal wildlife trade in Nepal.
🗣️ Speaking about this fantastic recognition, Kumar said: "During my MPhil in Cambridge [UK], our classes were held in DAB—The David Attenborough Building. I now find Sir David himself narrating my story in the BBC ASIA series! A dream I did not know I had, came true."
ℹ️ Read more about these projects and our alumni 👇
🌊 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/a-sustainable-seafood-network-to-conserve-mobulid...
🌳 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/restoring-wild-maries-yew-nepal/
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📢 GRANT OPPORTUNITY for early-career conservationists in the Americas!
The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund is now accepting proposals from early-career conservationists (aged 35 years or younger) in the Americas region.
⏰ Application deadline: 30 March, 2025
ℹ️ Apply for grants of up to $25,000 to support conservation efforts for five threatened species groups — amphibians, freshwater fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises and freshwater turtles — in urgent need of intervention and conservation action.
This fund was established in 2024 by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Re:wild to honour the passion of the late Gustavo Fonseca, long-standing GEF director of programs, for species conservation and building capacity of the next generation of conservationists.
Re:wild | Re:wild.org • Fonseca Species Conservation Fund
www.rewild.org
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💫Calling all CLP alumni...
🏆 ...that is, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
ℹ️ On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
🫂 It's also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what's happening across the alumni network.
✍ Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven't already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to catching up with you there!
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📢 Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy invites applications for its 2025 Wilkes Climate Prize!
⏰ Deadline for first round of submissions: 28 February, 2025.
💡 The Prize supports innovative ideas to help fund and accelerate solutions to climate change.
ℹ️ Organizations at all stages, both for-profits and nonprofits, anywhere in the world are eligible to submit ideas.
2025 Prize Application - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
wilkescenter.utah.edu
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🎆 Happy New Year from CLP! 🎆
May 2025 bring peace, joy, good health, and success to each and every one of you 💚
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Happy new year
🦅 Avian Research Funding Available! Application deadline: 01 February, 2025.
🐦 The Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) is offering four types of research awards to fund avian research anywhere in the world.
🦚 Awards support ornithologists, graduate students, young professionals, and independent researchers without access to funds.
🌍 Eligibility is open to citizens of all countries
💰 Grants range from US$2,000 to US$5,000 (varying with each award program)
🖋️ WOS membership is required
wilsonsociety.org/awards/research-grants/
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💫 Happy holidays from the CLP team! 💫
🎇 As we approach the end of the year, we want to extend our thoughts to each and every one of you, with all our very best wishes for the new year ahead💚
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Wish all of you at CLP many happy returns and a prosperous 2025
🎉 Congratulations to CLP alumnus Dr Siddhartha Pati on his recent successes!
🏆 Dr Pati received the prestigious Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation Award 2024 from the Department of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Odisha, India.
👉 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/siddhartha-pati-gets-biju-patnaik-wildlife-conservat...
The award celebrates Dr Pati’s extensive contribution to horseshoe crab conservation in the region, which he has spearheaded since 2014.
🎖️ Supported by a CLP Future Conservationist Award in 2018, Dr Pati has combined scientific research and community engagement in recognition of both the ecological importance and cultural value of the species.
📑 If that wasn't enough, Dr Pati and his co-authors have recently published the first genomic baseline data for the evaluation of Asian horseshoe crabs’ conservation status, along with core habitats that potentially act as refugia and corridors.
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.13074
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Congratulations 👏🎉
🎁 As we approach the holidays, here's our gift to you: Five tips for successful conservation workshops, from those who know them best! 💫
🤩 After completing our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop back in October, we shared the positive feedback from our participants:
👉 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/news/cml-2024/
But now, we want to share the lessons our staff (the workshop facilitators) learned along with key insights on effective workshops from the participants themselves:
👉 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/five-tips-for-successful-conservation-workshops-from-thos...
🌎 As we look ahead to 2025, and the complex challenges facing our planet, we hope these tips will help guide other workshops to effectively build the skills and knowledge of our future conservation leaders and local community advocates.
If these tips resonate with you and inspire you to implement them in your training, or have other ones to add to the list, let us know in the comments! 👇
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The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) recently completed its 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop in Rwanda and received hugely positive feedback from the participants. Here,...1 CommentComment on Facebook
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