Supported Projects

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Future Conservationist Award
Freshwater turtle conservation in the Nanling Nature Reserve, Guangdong, China
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The Nanling Nature Reserve is located in the Nanling Mountain Ecoregion, northern Guangdong, one of the globally critical areas for biodiversity conservation. It has at least 7 endangered freshwater turtle...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Internship
Assisting with formation of an Ecuadorian Alliance for Zero Extinction
Internship Multiple

Earlier this year, several Ecuadorian conservation organizations, government officials, in addition to a few international organizations agreed on the idea to form an Ecuadorian Alliance for Zero Extinction whose goal...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Securing the future of Asian elephants in Manas National Park, India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

In northeast India, the status of Asian elephant is seriously threatened because of incidences of conflict between humans and elephants resulting from human induced factors. Local people require assistance to...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award
The Bhimashankar Strategy: Toward region-wide community conservation in the Western Ghats, India
Conservation Follow-up Award Multiple

Conservation often requires resource-users to give up destructive or excessive use of biodiversity. This is a challenging task in biodiversity rich areas inhabited by poverty-ridden communities heavily dependent on the...View Project

Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation initiatives for greater adjutant stork in Assam, India
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The endangered Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is currently known to breed only in Assam, India, and Cambodia. Out of its total estimated global population of 1,000 about 600-700 birds are...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Study of the influence of fencing on Przewalski’s gazelle in Qinghai Province, China
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The endangered Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) has experienced severe population decline and habitat loss during the past century. Today it survives in only one area of Qinghai. Among those factors...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award
Conservation of an IBA in collaboration with students and local land users, Kazakhstan
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

The inventory of IBAs in Central Asia and the recent nomination of the Central Kazakh steppes and wetlands as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, Saryarka, demonstrates the outstanding importance...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Internship
Conservation, human rights and indigenous peoples
Internship Multiple

BirdLife is working to better understand the impact of its conservation actions on local communities and Indigenous Peoples and the role that those affected by conservation could have in both...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Cooperation and conflict between Irrawaddy dolphins and fishers of Chilika Lagoon, India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Fisheries bycatch is a major threat to the Irrawaddy dolphin worldwide. Nonetheless, these dolphins are known to forage cooperatively with fishermen. The dolphin population in Chilika lagoon is small (

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of the Caatinga howler monkey (Alouatta ululata), Brazil
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The Caatinga Howler Monkey (Alouatta ululata) is an Endangered (IUCN, 2008) primate and probably the least known howler monkey in the world. Poaching and habitat loss are the main threats...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Reintroducing the Sumatran rhinoceros in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra has been identified as an area with one of the largest Sumatran rhinoceros populations in the world. While the population in southern Sumatra is...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Internship
Providing support to the BirdLife Partnership’s work on climate change
Internship Multiple

2009 is a critical year for climate change culminating in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties in December 2009. BirdLife believes that the Copenhagen conclusions...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Kate Stokes Memorial Award
The Bhimashankar strategy: toward a region-wide community conservation programme in the Western Ghats, India
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Multiple

To develop a small enterprise that will train local youth groups and provide them with opportunities to earn a living through ecotourism activities. Project update: “The BWS is one of...View Project

Multiple
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Ecological assessment of hispid hare in Manas National Park, India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Except for a few indirect pieces of evidence, no detailed information is available about the Hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) in Manas National Park. Up to date information on the distribution,...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award
Conservation Action Planning: Application on the ground, Sakhalin Island, Russia
Conservation Follow-up Award Fish

We propose to work with local stakeholders to refine and implement the Conservation Action Plan (CAP) developed in 2008 for the Langry basin in Northwest Sakhalin. The CAP focuses on...View Project

Fish
Conservation Follow-up Award Fish
Internship
Support to BirdLife’s flyway conservation work in the Americas
Internship Bird

The overall aim of the internship is to train an intern to provide a range of technical support to BirdLife’s flyway conservation work in the Americas, focusing especially on the...View Project

Bird
Internship Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Assessing tiger translocation in Sumatra, Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Human-tiger conflict is one of the key problems in tiger conservation. The Indonesian government has tried new ways of resolving human-tiger conflict by translocating problem tigers. The project goal is...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation status of parrotfish species in protected coral reefs, Colombia
Future Conservationist Award Fish

Current climate change and anthropogenic pressures impose significant challenges to scientists and conservationists because of their synergetic impacts on coral reefs biodiversity and functioning. Particularly, overfishing of key species such...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Conservation Leadership Award
Andean cats and Puna biodiversity, Argentina
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal

The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) is one of most endangered felids in the world and occurs almost exclusively in the Puna ecoregion, a regional conservation priority. The data we have...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award
Project Chicamocha II: saving threatened dry forest biodiversity
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

The Critically Endangered Niceforo’s Wren and Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird are dependent on remnant forests in the Chicamocha canyon. Niceforo’s Wren is at risk of extinction as none of its habitat is...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird