Interviews

“Never forget your roots and purpose”

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) has kickstarted the careers of nearly 4,500 conservationists over the last four decades. Among them is marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer, Ana-Belén Yánez-Suárez, whose…

Championing amphibian conservation in Bolivia

In 2013, a CLP Future Conservationist Award supported emerging conservationist Arturo Muñoz Saravia to launch vital amphibian conservation research and community outreach in Bolivia that he continues today. In recognition…

Seeking the “yes” for bird conservation in Latin America

In 2017, a CLP Future Conservationist Award helped Alfonso Hernández Rios and his team to conduct the most comprehensive census of Craveri’s murrelet and its threats ever achieved to date….

A legacy of lasting impact

In 2004, early-career conservationist in Azerbaijan, Shahin Isayev, won a Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Team Award, which provided funding and training for his vital project on the conservation of globally…

Connecting people, forests and birds in Brazil

In 2014, early in her career, Alice Reisfeld joined a team of conservationists supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) working to protect an area of Brazilian Atlantic Forest famed…

Saving the ‘Samoan dodo’

Ten years ago, Moeumu “Moe” Uili won a CLP Future Conservationist Award to support her project on the ‘little dodo’ or tooth-billed pigeon, a Critically Endangered relative of the famously…

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