Supported Projects

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Future Conservationist Award
Evaluating threatened primates in Caquetá, Colombia
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The National Parks of Cordillera de los Picachos and Upper Fragua Indi Wasi, and the municipality of Valparaiso are conservation zones of international importance. Here, a number of primate species...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Monitoring and conservation of vulnerable lappet-faced vulture, Elba Mountain Protected Area, Egypt
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus), is a Vulnerable species. In Egypt, the only remaining places where this species can be found is in the Gable Elba Protectorate. The population faces...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Internship
Resilience of coral reefs in the face of climate change
Internship Multiple

This work will focus on analyzing WCS, NGO and government data on coral reefs including biological, physical, social and governance factors that most likely confer coral reef and social resilience...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Ecological studies on Dugong dugon and its habitat: A contribution toward species conservation, India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The population of Dugong dugon from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands is reported to be in decline. The presence of around 40 dugongs was reported in 1999, however, this number...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
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
Conservation of the Medemia argun and the Nubian Desert Oasis biodiversity in Egypt
Future Conservationist Award Plant

Medemia argun is a mysterious and little known palm, it occurs as very few populations in the Nubian Desert. Dungul oasis support the only known population in Egypt, other sites...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Conservation Follow-up Award
Habitat conservation of globally threatened spot-billed pelicans in Sri Lanka
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

Now we have identified main reasons for habitat degradation of Pelicans and other water birds who occupy the man made tanks in Sri Lanka. The man made tanks (previously home...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation action planning and Sakhalin taimen: Sakhalin, Russia
Future Conservationist Award Fish

A Conservation Action Plan (CAP) focused on Sakhalin taimen, the world's largest salmonid, will be prepared for the Langry and Bolshaya basins in Northwest Sakhalin. The CAP process assists and...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of threatened wildlife in southwestern Amazonia – Brazil
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Many gaps in knowledge impede conservation actions for species of concern in Amazonia. Our study-sites are large protected areas within the known or potential range of several globally threatened and/or...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Involving local communities in conservation of the imperial eagle in Georgia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

During the last decade in Georgia, imperial eagle populations have dramatically declined (from 53 pairs in 1991 to 10-15 pairs in 2003). This decline is caused mainly by the influence...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Internship
Ecological impacts of upstream oil palm plantations on birds and primates in peninsular Malaysia
Internship Multiple

The establishment of commercial oil palm cultivation areas has caused massive tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia. Palm oil industry is perceived as the main threat to biodiversity despite being portrayed...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award
Expanding protected areas in Argun Midflow and bird monitoring network in Daurai ecoregion on Russia-China-Mongolia border
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

In 2007 we documented and publicized the fact that wetlands of Argun River are critically endangered due to lack of conservation management and expanding human pressures in the dry phase...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Ecological studies and conservation status assessment of tiger in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve on the border with Myanmar and Laos hold the last promise for the survival of Indochinese tigers in China and conservation action is urgently needed after the...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Kate Stokes Memorial Award
Habitat conservation of globally threatened spot-billed pelicans in Sri Lanka
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Bird

To train and qualify 20 young people with no previous experience in conservation. Project update: “The Kate’s Award-funded training programme conducted in 2008/9 was the first ever environmental conservation training...View Project

Bird
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Bengal florican conservation and research initiative in BTAD, India
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis) is one of the most endangered (IUCN) grassland birds with a world population of 1500 individuals. Its populations have declined as a result of habitat...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Internship
Habitat loss and fragmentation in the Caldenal savanna region, Argentina
Internship Multiple

The Caldenal is a semiarid savanna ecosystem of about 170,000 km2 located in central Argentina. This semiarid open forest system, dominated by Calden (Prosopis caldenia) and grasslands, is frequently interrupted...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Community-based conservation of Lake Kuyucuk, Kars, Turkey
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Despite hosting over 30,000 birds of 128 species, Lake Kuyucuk, in the Caucasian Biodiversity Hotspot, is little-protected, little-known and lacks a conservation plan. The local government lacks the necessary knowledge,...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird