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Internship
Litterfall dynamics and nutrient inputs under different tropical forest restoration strategies in southern Costa Rica
Internship Plant

Tropical forests are among the most important biomes on earth. They house high levels of biodiversity, maintain critical ecosystem services, and exchange large quantities of carbon and water with the...View Project

Plant
Internship Plant
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
Conservation Leadership Award
Monitoring and Conservation of Tibetan Antelopes and other mid-large size Mammals along Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Highway
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal

The Qinghai-Tibet Highway and the accompanying new railway are major passages between Tibet and the hinterlands which pass through three national nature reserves and along the main migration route of...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal
Internship
The empty forest reexamined: Establishing the basis for a long-term, ontogenetically-integrated, basin-wide study of the effects of hunting-induced mammalian extinctions on forest regeneration in lowland western Amazonia
Internship Mammal

In the past few decades, many formerly remote and pristine areas of lowland Amazonian rainforest have become frontier regions for the settlement of rapidly expanding rural human populations. Studies have...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award
Environmental planning and education in Cerro Verde, the first coastal marine protected area in Uruguay
Conservation Leadership Award Reptile

This proposal seeks to consolidate the work of diverse organizations in the area, strengthening and impelling the implementation and the participatory management on the first Coastal-Marine Protected Area in Cerro...View Project

Reptile
Conservation Leadership Award Reptile
Internship
Anoa ecology and conservation in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
Internship Mammal

Bushmeat hunting is one of the main threats to large forest mammals in the tropics. The lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) is an endangered dwarf buffalo species endemic to the Sulawesi...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation Field Training for Young Park Rangers in Argentina
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The last remaining continuous block of the Atlantic Forest needs skilled park rangers to adequately protect this ecoregion and attend to the complex environmental, social and economic needs of this...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of Threatened and Migratory Birds in the Eerguna-Midflow Transboundary Wetland, China/Russia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Eerguna-Midflow is a wetland area straddling the China-Russian border in the northeast of Inner Mongolia. The Eerguna Provincial Wetland Reserve only includes the northwestern part of these wetlands, which...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Project Seabirds Argentina: Conservation through Community Involvement
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

Through initial research on the incidental capture of sea birds, we identified two opportunities on which we could build a longer term project to conserve threatened sea birds in Argentina....View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Internship
Can golden-headed lion tamarins survive in Cabruca Agroforest? Management implications for an endangered species and habitat
Internship Mammal

This report is part of an ongoing study which aims to evaluate the responses of an endangered species to the matrix surrounding suitable habitat. The golden-headed lion tamarin (GHLT; Leontopithecus...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award
Community-Driven Conservation of Cambodian Chelonians
Conservation Leadership Award Reptile

Every month, government rangers in Cambodia confiscate turtles that are being exported to neighboring countries. One of the greatest threats to endangered turtles and tortoises in Cambodia is hunting –...View Project

Reptile
Conservation Leadership Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Status and Population Trend of Amphibians in Relation to Microenvironment at Montane Forests, Southern Mexico
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian

The major goal of this project is to evaluate the diversity (abundance and richness) of threatened amphibians in tropical montane cloud forests in Veracruz and Guerrero, Mexico in order to...View Project

Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award
Assessing the Current Status and Distribution of Imperial Eagle and Lesser Kestrel in Azerbaijan
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

Within Azerbaijan, several species of migrating and breeding raptor can be found including the globally threatened imperial eagle, lesser kestrel and Saker falcon along with many other birds of prey....View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Internship
Using landscape species as indicators of functional corridors in the Brazilian Amazon
Internship Multiple

Conserving wildlife species in fragmented landscapes is an immediate challenge facing conservation biologists and managers. Expansion of both human populations and resource requirements are driving habitat conversion at an increasing...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Evaluation of Important Sites for Flamingos in the Bolivian Altiplano: Raising Awareness for Wetland Conservation
Future Conservationist Award Bird

We will evaluate three important sites for flamingos in the central altiplano of Bolivia from an ecological standpoint through periodical monitoring and habitat sampling. We will assess threats and propose...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Internship
Dependence of Tibetan foxes on plateau pikas
Internship Mammal

A unique web of fauna and flora on the Tibetan plateau is facilitated by the existence of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae). Blamed for causing range degradation in western China, pikas...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal