Supported Projects

There are currently 909 projects with the selected filtering.

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
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
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
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
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
Future Conservationist Award
Ecology and Conservation of a Bush Dog Population in Brazil: A Monitoring and Educational Programme
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Bush dog is a poorly known South American canid classified as Vulnerable by IUCN. One of the few sites known to still have the species in Brazil is a river...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Dracaena-MAP-Egypt: Dracaena ombet Monitoring & Assessment Project in Gabel Elba Protected Area, Egypt
Future Conservationist Award Plant

Dracaena ombet tree sub-populations in Gabel Elba in Egypt and Sudan are particularly threatened. This is one of the few species that can survive the extensive periods of drought in...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Improving Fledgling Recruitment and Habitat Quality for the Yellow-shouldered Parrot at Margarita island, Venezuela
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Margarita Island is a threatened species hotspot. It is home to the yellow shouldered parrot, whose survival depends on active management interventions. In the absence of protection, 100% of monitored...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Fernando de Noronha’s Shark Project: Participative Fisheries Monitoring in Brazil
Future Conservationist Award Fish

Fernando de Noronha is an important shark nursery in the equatorial Atlantic that was commercially exploited for five years. Although part of the local population considers sharks as important ecotourism...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Future Conservationist Award
Refugial Forests of the Western Lesser Caucasus
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The Western Lesser Caucasus has extraordinarily high proportion of relic species. Forests here survived the Pliocene and Ice Age. Many species descend from taxa that are extinct elsewhere, yet these...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Amburana Project: Determining the Status of an Endangered Tree Species Amburana cearensis in Argentina
Future Conservationist Award Plant

Piedmont of the subtropical montane forests is a highly threatened forest type due to unsustainable timber harvesting and high transformation rate to other land uses. In this forest a highly...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Ecological Studies and Conservation Status Assessment on Threatened Species of Genus Vibrissaphora in China
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian

Almost all known species with severely fragmented distribution of genus Vibrissaphora are poorly studied in China. Two species are listed as Endangered by the IUCN. Another species rated as Near...View Project

Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award
Conservation and Research of Distribution of the Critically Endangered Darevsky’s viper in Armenia
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile

The Darevsky's viper is a Critically Endangered snake (IUCN category CR C2b) distributed only in Armenia's south-western part of the Javakheti Ridge. This project consists of 2 stages: (1) investigations...View Project

Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Survey, Conservation and Monitoring of Critically Endangered Gyps Vultures in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, India
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Two resident species of vultures have been declined steeply in recent years in South Asia including Assam and Arunachal Pradesh as a result of a veterinary medicine (Diclofenac) used to...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Advancing seabird conservation in Peru’s artisanal fisheries through education and research
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

Beginning in 2003 Pro Delphinus began actively investigating seabird interactions with artisanal fisheries in Peru. That work has documented the by-catch and targeted take of seabirds, including endangered and threatened...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Internship
Conserving the last of the wild: pumas and wild camelids in the semiarid landscapes of the Argentinean Andes
Internship Mammal

The loss of species interactions may result in negative impacts that affect both interacting species and the biological communities and ecosystems they inhabit. Unlike North America, southern South American predator-prey...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Assessment and Conservation of Threatened Bird Species at Laojunshan, Sichuan, China
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Laojunshan Natural Reserve, located in Pingshan County of southern Sichuan Province, is a Global 200 ecoregion (WWF).This area harbours a tremendous diversity of plants and and animals including a high...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird