We are delighted to announce that CLP has recently received a grant from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, which will enable us to scale up our support for a new generation of local biodiversity champions in countries where access to funding and conservation expertise is limited.

We are currently accepting applications from early-career conservationists and previous CLP grantees working in all low and middle-income countries and some high income countries. Grants range from $15,000 (all new applicants) to $25,000-$50,000 for CLP alumni to scale up their previous CLP-funded work. Successful applicants are integrated into the CLP alumni network – an incredible group of early- and mid-career conservationists who are working to conserve biodiversity around the world. 

It is a great privilege to be able to call on the support of CLP Alumni Ambassadors who have been selected to assist new applicants with the design and drafting of their Future Conservationist Award proposals. Deadline for all applications is 24 November 2019. Previous grantees must submit a log frame for their new proposals by 18 October 2019.

CLP had a very successful summer. We trained 18 people at our Conservation Management and Leadership training in Brazil, and reunited with more than 20 alumni at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Malaysia.

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Stuart Paterson
Executive Manager

Dr Nelly Isigi Kadagi is Director of Research for the African Billfish Foundation (ABF) and the Co-Principal Investigator for the BILLFISH-WIO project. She recently completed her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. She was team leader of a 2012 CLP project focused on blue and black marlin in the Western Indian Ocean. Nelly knows first-hand the importance of collaboration in conservation. Read part of her journey learning this lesson, and the ways she is now contributing as an international collaborator.  

Caleb Ofori-Boateng received a 2019 Whitley Award!

Reshu Bashyal received a Chevening scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Conservation and International Wildlife Trade at the University of Kent.

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24-26 March 2020: Student Conference on Conservation Science - UK

16-22 Aug 2020: International Primatological Society Conference - Ecuador

24-28 Aug 2020: International Marine Conservation Congress - Germany

16-20 Nov 2020: Pan-African Ornithological Congress - Zimbabwe

Baird’s tapir conservation in Nombre De Dios National Park, Honduras (2014)

Conserving West Indian whistling duck on Antigua and Barbuda’s offshore islands (2014)

Preventing the disappearance of three frog species from Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)

Conservation status of Craveri’s murrelet in Mexico (2017)

Zoning, conservation and research on Brazilian coral reefs (2017)

Citizen science with Mexican artisanal fishers in community marine reserves (2017)

The conservation of Bornean hornbills in Malaysia (2017)

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Galligan, T., Bhusal, K., Paudel, K., Chapagain, D., Joshi, A., Chaudhary, I., . . . Green, R. (2019) Partial recovery of Critically Endangered Gyps vulture populations in Nepal. Bird Conservation International: 1-16. 10.1017/S0959270919000169.

Populations of Critically Endangered White-rumped Gyps bengalensis and Slender-billed G. tenuirostris Vultures in Nepal declined rapidly during the 2000s, almost certainly because of the effects of the use in livestock of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac, which is nephrotoxic to Gyps vultures. In 2006, veterinary use of diclofenac was banned in Nepal and this was followed by the gradual implementation, over most of the geographical range of the two vulture species in Nepal, of a Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) programme to advocate vulture conservation, raise awareness about diclofenac, provide vultures with NSAID-free food and encourage the veterinary use in livestock of a vulture-safe alternative NSAID (meloxicam)...

Tuan, B.V., Tam, N.A., Vy, T.H., Long, H.T., Thao, N.T.T., Phung, T.K., Huy, H.Q., Huan, P.M., Nadler, T. (2019) Discovery of isolated populations of the ‘Critically Endangered’ grey-shanked duoc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology 3(1): 19-15.

The grey-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) is one of the world’s rarest primate species. Following up on scarce information about the occurrence of this species in the southern part of Quang Nam Province, we carried out surveys to verify the existence of the species and to estimate the population size. We confirmed four extremely small, isolated populations with a total of 48 to 50 individuals...

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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)