Supported Projects

There are currently 905 projects with the selected filtering.

Internship
Creating a roadmap for China’s mining sector to reduce net biodiversity loss
Internship Multiple

WCS has launched an effort to develop strategies to engage with China’s business stakeholders and prioritize biodiversity in their overseas investment. Mining is one of the key focus sectors of...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Threats, ecology, and conservation opportunities of giant guitarfish in Karimunjawa, Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Fish

Critically Endangered giant guitarfish (CITES Appendix II) are heavily exploited as bycatch in the Northern Java Sea. Karimunjawa National Park (KJNP) is located near the main fishing grounds for Northern...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Conservation Follow-up Award
Protecting brown spider monkeys and their habitats in a biodiversity hotspot in Colombia
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

Brown spider monkeys are one the most endangered primates in the world mainly due to habitat destruction and hunting and aggravated by the absence of protected areas in the region....View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Internship
Applying GIS and remote sensing in the South Gobi of Mongolia to support conservation interventions
Internship Multiple

This internship will allow Anduri to apply existing skills in GIS and remote sensing, as well as build new skills, in order to support and enhance conservation efforts for WCS...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of Critically Endangered Bengal florican in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Bengal florican is one of the rarest bustard species and is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Its estimated population is less than 100 individuals in Nepal. It...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Action plan for amphibians in northeastern Colombia: ten years of monitoring and research
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian

The northeast of Colombia is one of the least explored areas in terms of diversity and biological conservation of amphibians; however, since 2010, a continuous programme has been undertaken to...View Project

Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian
Internship
Strengthening bio-monitoring for protected area management in Chimanimani National Park, Mozambique
Internship Multiple

This internship will provide practical field and protected area management experience to a young Mozambican conservation scientist, whilst tackling one of the pressing needs in Chimanimani National Park, which was...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Internship
Investigating Sustainable Coastal Tourism and Incentives for Biodiversity Conservation in Cambodia
Internship Multiple

The fundamental tenet underpinning this internship work is that the increase in tourism (pre-COVID-19) in Koh Rong Marine National Park must consider options to ensure that growth in tourism does...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of the Endangered Salim Ali’s fruit bat in Western Ghats, India
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Salim Ali’s fruit bat (Latidens salimalii), one of the three rarest bats in the world, is an evolutionarily distinct, monotypic and endangered frugivorous bat species endemic to the southern Western...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award
Ensuring harlequin toad conservation in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian

Harlequin toads (Atelopus) are the most threatened group of amphibians in the world, with 81% of species classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered. Disease transmission by the Bd fungus and...View Project

Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian
Internship
Establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and improving MPA/fisheries management in Cambodia
Internship Multiple

The goal of this internship is to promote inclusion and build the skills of female conservationists. This will be achieved by facilitating the research skills development of BSc/ MSc research...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of black softshell turtles in Assam, northeast India
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The black softshell turtle was thought to be extinct in the wild, only being known from a sacred pond at the Bostami shrine in Bangladesh. Recent records from Nagaland, West...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Conservation Leadership Award
Range-wide action to safeguard the Critically Endangered Togo slippery frog
Conservation Leadership Award Amphibian

The Togo slippery frog is a high priority Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) amphibian endemic to few sites in Ghana and Togo. Rapid forest loss, human consumption, and the...View Project

Amphibian
Conservation Leadership Award Amphibian
Kate Stokes Memorial Award
Reconnecting with nature: attitude change towards conservation of the cloud forest herpetofauna in a Chinantec community
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Amphibian

La Esperanza, an indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico conserves through the ICCA´s modality 4421 Ha of montane cloud forest where 45% of the endemic amphibian species of the state are...View Project

Amphibian
Kate Stokes Memorial Award Amphibian
Internship
Analysing the communication skills of BirdLife Partners in the Middle East
Internship Multiple

Rama will conduct a communication skills gap analysis among BirdLife Partners in the Middle East. She will determine their existing communication skills, the strengths and weaknesses for each Partner, and...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Creating the grassroots to conserve the Santa Fe frog in the South American Great Chaco
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian

Leptodactylus laticeps (Santa Fe frog) is an endemic amphibian from the South American Great Chaco (Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay). Its global conservation status is Near Threatened (2004), with a decreasing...View Project

Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian
Conservation Leadership Award
Conservation of endemic bats in previously unprotected roosting sites in Vietnam
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal

The Cat Ba-Ha Long Landscape Complex (CBHL) and Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park (PNKB) are two well-known areas with the highest potential value for bat research and conservation in Vietnam....View Project

Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal
Internship
Building data sets for coastal wetland sites and species factsheets in the Middle East
Internship Multiple

The intern will contribute to WBDB (BirdLife International Data Zone) and establish a dataset with key information to enable the coastal areas situation analysis planned for a later stage, to...View Project

Multiple
Internship Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Habitat restoration and corridors creation to enhance conservation of the Pampean sand-dune lizard
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The Pampean sand-dune lizard, which is endemic to the Pampean coastal dunes of Argentina, is highly sensitive to modifications to its habitat. Isolated subpopulations of this lizard have been cornered...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Frontier social conservation action and research on horseshoe crabs in Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Invertebrate

Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods fully protected by the Decree of the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry Regulation No.20/2018 and Government Regulations No.7/1999. As a marine...View Project

Invertebrate
Future Conservationist Award Invertebrate