March 2018
Announcing the 2018 CLP award winners!
Executive Manager's Message

CLP has recently completed a review of 2017, soon to be published in our annual report. In summary: we supported 22 teams to initiate projects to better understand and conserve threatened species; trained 75 people at four workshops; funded 29 people to travel to conferences and training courses; united 23 CLP alumni at the International Congress of Conservation Biology; and funded four learning exchanges enabling CLP alumni to mentor their CLP peers through project site visits.

The leadership skills developed and projects funded by CLP helped our alumni to gain new positions of employment, be awarded with prestigious accolades, and deliver on-the-ground conservation impacts such as the designation of newly protected sites and the approval of government-backed national action plans for species protection.

This year we have already selected three Future Conservationist Awards and will be supporting these teams, together with grantees of the BirdLife Young Conservation Leaders Awards, at our annual training course in July.

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Stuart Paterson
Executive Manager

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Where Are They Now?

Meet Renata Ferrari Legorreta, Ph.D., a marine ecologist and ecosystem modeler at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences. Renata’s research seeks to understand the dynamics of marine habitats and species to produce data that can be used for the management and conservation of marine ecosystems. Renata joined the Conservation Leadership Programme alumni network through her 2008 WCS Research Fellowship Program award. In this interview, Renata sheds light on her conservation journey and her motivation for never losing hope.

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

Trang Nguyen is the recipient of a 2018 Future for Nature Award.

Paromita Ray received a grant from The Rufford Foundation (£5,000).

Natia Javakhishvili is the Director of the NGO Sabuko.

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Upcoming Events

3-5 July 2018: Oceania Congress for Conservation Biology - New Zealand

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

24-26 Oct 2018: Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York

Conservation in Action

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Final Reports

Wildlife inventory of two national parks in south-eastern Angola (2016)

Protecting the endangered flora of Papenkuils wetland in South Africa (2016)

Conservation actions for the imperial eagle in Kakheti region, Georgia (2015)

Whale shark, Indonesia (2015)

Hornbills: Connecting environment, economy and culture in Bhutan (2013)

Read final report summaries

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Alumni Publications

Duarte, M. H. L., Kaizer, M. C., Young, R. J., Rodrigues, M., & Souza-Lima, R. S. (2018). Mining noise affects loud call structures and emission patterns of wild black-fronted titi monkeys. Primates, 59 (1): 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-017-0629-4

Anthropogenic noise pollution is increasing and can constrain acoustic communication in animals. Our aim was to investigate if the acoustic parameters of loud calls and their diurnal pattern in the black-fronted titi monkey (Callicebus nigrifrons) are affected by noise produced by mining activity in a fragment of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. We installed two passive acoustic monitoring devices to record sound 24 h/day, 7 days every 2 months, for a year; one unit was close to an opencast mine and the other 2.5 km away from it. Both sites presented similar habitat structures and were inhabited by groups of black-fronted titi monkeys. We quantified the noise at both sites by measuring the equivalent continuous sound level every 2 months for 1 year and quantified the emission of loud calls by titi monkeys through visual inspection of the recordings.

Seshadri, K.S. & Bickford, D.P. (2018). Faithful fathers and crooked cannibals: the adaptive significance of parental care in the bush frog Raorchestes chalazodes, Western Ghats, India. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobioloby, 72: 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2420-3

Parental care has evolved many times in multiple taxa and, by definition, enhances offspring survivorship. Anurans exhibit a diverse array of parental care behaviors, but studies examining their adaptive significance in an evolutionary context are limited. The critically endangered bush frog, Raorchestes chalazodes (Rhacophoridae), only breeds inside hollow internodes of the endemic bamboo (Ochlandra travancorica) in the southern Western Ghats of India from June through October. From systematic surveys, we established that adult males are sole caregivers exhibiting egg attendance and egg guarding behavior. Predation was the main cause of egg mortality in the absence of an attending male; the majority of predation events were caused by conspecific males. The results highlight the role of regional and microhabitat-specific selection pressures such as strong seasonality, limited resources, and competition for oviposition sites..

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Project Websites

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) | Burung 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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