Supported Projects

There are currently 554 projects with the selected filtering.

Future Conservationist Award
Aberdeen University Unimas Sarawak ’95
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Working in conjunction with five Malaysian students the aim of this project was to assess the relative abundance and distribution of bats, birds and small mammals in five distinct habitats...View Project

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University of East Anglia Gunung Halimun ethnobotanical expedition, Java 1995
Future Conservationist Award Plant

The nine person multi-disciplinary team included three people from the University of East Anglia, UK and six people from the Biological Sciences Club of Jakarta, Indonesia. Research focused on the...View Project

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Project Sabrewing
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This large team under the supervision of Dr Floyd Hayes studied the endangered White-tailed Hummingbird. The species is the only globally threatened species in Tobago where it is extremely vulnerable....View Project

Bird
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The threatened birds of Cuba project 1995
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The fieldwork scheduled for March 1995 to February 1996 had to be limited due to problems with visas and counterparts in Cuba. However, the team managed to study the status...View Project

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Project Podocarpus ’95: the Cambridge conservation project and research expedition in Southern Ecuador
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

An Ecuadorian and British team assessed the levels of mercury pollution from gold mining in Podocarpus National Park and near the mining town of Nambija. Samples of mercury in riverine...View Project

Multiple
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Project Eakihei: parrots in peril
Future Conservationist Award Bird

After the success of Parrots in Peril 1990 and 1992 expeditions, a follow-up expedition consisting of four British and two Ecuadorian biologists continued studying the avifauna of Podocarpus National Park...View Project

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Eritrea ’94
Future Conservationist Award Fish

The aim of the expedition was to conduct a baseline marine survey of the southern part of the archipelago, to identify primary marine habitat type and their main constituent genera....View Project

Fish
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Kyabobo 1994
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The Oxford University Kyabobo '94 expedition which showed that Ghana's newly formed Kyabobo National Park has a unique mixture of forest and savanna wildlife, with many rare and endangered species....View Project

Multiple
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University of Aberdeen project Madagascar 1994
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The team studied, in conjunction with a Malagasy scientist, the effects of agricultural encroachment into the Zahamena Reserve (the largest and perhaps most important of Madagascar's rainforest reserves) on small...View Project

Multiple
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Project Abiseo ’94
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The team assessed the conservation status and habitat requirements of birds and mammals of the remaining cloud and elfin forest on the Cordillera de Colan, a semi-isolated mountain range in...View Project

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Halmahera ’94: a University of Bristol expedition to Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The 12-person British/Indonesian team undertook a biodiversity study to support the establishment and future management of the proposed Lolobata reserve on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. Five sites were surveyed...View Project

Multiple
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Oxford University expedition to Sabah, Malaysia 1994
Future Conservationist Award Fish

Continuing the work of two previous Oxford expeditions to Sabah, the team carried out underwater surveys of coral cover and diversity at six permanent reef sites in the Tunku Abdul...View Project

Fish
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University of East Anglia Gunung Halimun 1994 Java expedition
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

This UEA/Biological Sciences Club (BScC) project aimed to assess the effects of human usage and population pressures on forest vegetation and bird communities around the periphery of the Gunung Halimun...View Project

Multiple
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Wetlands of South Guinea Bissau
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The project aimed to increase knowledge of the birds of Guinea-Bissau and to draw international attention to the importance of the country's tropical forests. The project assessed human impact on...View Project

Bird
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Zapata swamp project, Cuba 1994
Future Conservationist Award Bird

This project is mainly focused on Zapata Rail (Cyanolimnas cerverai) and Zapata Wren (Ferminia cerverai), both globally threatened species within their known and possible range. They are range restricted bird...View Project

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Mache-Chindul ’94, Ecuador
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An ornithological survey carried out during September 1996 in the hills of Mache and Chindul, northern Manabi and southern Esmeraldas provinces, based at the fieldwork centre of Fundacion Jatun Sacha...View Project

Bird
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Nakanai ’93: an Oxford University expedition to New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea
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The original plan, a survey of the montane avifauna of the Nakani Mountain range, New Britain Island, had to be abandoned due to access problems. In collaboration with the Pacific...View Project

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Pato serrucho ’93
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The Brazilian Merganser (Mergus octosetaceus) is one of the planet's rarest species of wildfowl, with an estimated population of fewer than 250 individuals. Three conservation biologists from the UK and...View Project

Bird
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Colombian weasel project 1993
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The Colombian Weasel (Mustela felepei) has only recently been discovered and has never been studied in the wild. Two British and three Colombians are hoping to instigate a detailed study...View Project

Mammal
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Cambridge Flores/Sumbawa conservation project, Indonesia 1993
Future Conservationist Award Bird

A survey of the remaining forests and the threatened endemic birds of Flores and Sumbawa. Ornithological inventories were produced to support current initiatives for the creation of protected areas in...View Project

Bird
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