If you are a 2025 CLP Team Award applicant, don't forget to contact one of our Alumni Reviewers to get help with your application!
Our Alumni Reviewers are previous CLP award-winners and experienced conservationists from various countries who have volunteered their time to offer valuable feedback on your proposals, including insights on clarity, grammar, feasibility, and research design.
Feedback from Reviewers may enhance your proposal but it is not mandatory to contact Reviewers for feedback. Your proposals can be sent to Alumni Reviewers until September 23, 2024.
Visit our website to find more information, including specific details and Alumni Reviewers' profiles: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/grants/grant-overview/future-conservationist-award/
Please review these profiles to find the Reviewer who best matches your proposal before contacting them. Please contact only one Reviewer at a time.
Good luck!
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Many congratulations to CLP alumna @leticia.benavalli on her prestigious Marsh Award 🎉 👏 🎊
Every year, the Marsh Charitable Trust selects inspirational individuals for its Marsh Awards to celebrate the work being done to preserve and protect the planet's biodiversity.
CLP nominated Leticía for the Marsh Award for Early Career Conservation through our partner @faunafloraint to recognise the remarkable steps she's taken to conserve jaguar and other large mammals in the Cerrado (a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in central Brazil) - despite still being relatively early in her career.
The Cerrado provides crucial habitat for not just jaguar but also lowland tapir, puma and giant anteaters, which are threatened by climate change, habitat loss and conflict with local people in the region.
As part of a 2023 CLP project, Leticía and her team at her recently established NGO, the Pró-Onça Institute, have been conducting camera trap surveys in both Pirineus State Park and Brasilia National Park in the state of Goiás, central Brazil.
These surveys have revealed information critical to large mammal conservation in this region:
🐆 The first documented evidence of jaguar breeding in Pirineus State Park
🐆 Jaguar entering unprotected areas around Pirineus State Park more frequently than previously thought - showing how important it is to work with private landowners and other local community members to gain their understanding and support
🐆 An abundance of typical prey for jaguar, including tapir, marsh deer, giant armadillo and peccary, as well as evidence that giant anteaters and pumas are successfully breeding in Pirineus State Park
🐆 Unexpected footage of multiple jaguars in Brasilia National Park revealing an urban jaguar population resurgence in the region
Letícia's NGO, the Pró-Onça Institute, is not just dedicated to large carnivore conservation, but also to women’s empowerment in science and climate change mitigation across Latin America. Read more about her NGO here: proonca.org/
On selecting Letícia for the award, the Marsh Award Selection Panel commented: "Letícia’s clear focus on helping the mammals and local communities in the Brazilian Cerrado is admirable, and she has made great strides in allowing for both the protection of wildlife and a peaceful coexistence between predators and local farmers."
Read more about her CLP project here: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/local-communities-empowerment-as-a-driver-to-medi...
Please join us in congratulating Letícia and the other winners of the 2024 @marshawards, Ercilio Chauque and Dominggus Sami Kalami!
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