Supported Projects

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Internship
Reproductive ecology and conservation of Alder Amazon (Amazona tucumana)
Internship Bird

Basic biological information for many neotropical parrot species is lacking; this information is a prerequisite to identify threats, effectively monitor population trends, and evaluate the conservation and management actions required....View Project

Bird
Internship Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Ecology and conservation status of Aberdare cisticola in the Mau Narok-Molo grasslands, Kenya
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Aberdare cisticola is listed as globally endangered (Birdlife International, 2000). It inhabits moist grassland in Mau Narok-Molo and Aberdares in central Kenya (Bennun and Njoroge, 1999). It is threatened...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Inventory, distribution & conservation action of the Critically Endangered Philippine forest turtle, Philippines
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

This project will assess the distribution, habitat use, relative abundance and threats to the critically endangered Philippine forest turtle in Palawan Island, Philippines, a high priority hotspot for biodiversity. In...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Internship
Seed dispersal and regeneration of hornbill dispersed tree species in forests of the Indian Eastern Himalayas
Internship Plant

Hunting and logging both for subsistence and commercial use is rampant throughout the tropics with potentially severe though largely undelineated consequences for plant-animal interactions and forest dynamics. Frugivorous animals have...View Project

Plant
Internship Plant
Internship
Habitat assessment for a threatened keystone marsupial in Patagonia
Internship Mammal

The northern portion of the temperate forest of South America harbors a unique triangle of keystone species comprised of a hummingbird (Sephanoides sephaniodes), a mistletoe (Tristerix corymbosus), and the marsupial,...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
The Javan slow loris project, Gunung Gede Pangrango national park—Indonesia
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The Javan slow loris is the only nocturnal prosimian living in Java and listed as data deficient (IUCN Global red-list 2003). Great deforestation in Java has threatened many primate species....View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Internship
Small mammal declines: predicting who & why
Internship Mammal

Habitat fragmentation is a major cause of species losses. When habitats are anthropogenically fragmented, hunting pressure increases because hunters can more easily access previously remote habitats. This correlation of fragmentation...View Project

Mammal
Internship Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award
Saving the blue-billed curassow: building a secure future – Colombia
Conservation Leadership Award Bird

Deforestation and hunting drove the enigmatic Blue-billed Curassow (“Paujil”) to the edge of extinction. ProAves launched a conservation initiative in 2004 that identified possibly its last viable population in Serranía...View Project

Bird
Conservation Leadership Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Complementing local communities biodiversity conservation initiatives in Southern Cebu, Philippines
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The island of Cebu, Philippines is considered an endemic and important bird area due to the presence of six restricted range species and two endemic bird species - the Cebu...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Frogs of Gede-Pangrango: a follow-up proposal for the conservation of frogs in West Java, Indonesia
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian

The Frogs of Gede-Pangrango Project aims to increase awareness of frog research and conservation and extend research based on the first years results. We proposed four activities: 1) frog conservation...View Project

Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian
Conservation Leadership Award
Green Corridor Leadership: biodiversity conservation with social involvement in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina
Conservation Leadership Award Multiple

Misiones (Argentina) contains one of the major Atlantic Forest remnants; nevertheless, deforestation threatens to isolate them. Since 2002, we have been working in the corridor between Urugua-í and Foerster parks....View Project

Multiple
Conservation Leadership Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
A feasibility study of reintroducing Chinese alligator to Yancheng Biosphere Reserve, Jiangsu Province, China
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The Chinese alligator, Alligator sinensis, is on the verge of becoming extinct in the wild due to loss of natural wetlands in the lower Yangzi River region. In 1983, a...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of threatened birds in Azerbaijan
Future Conservationist Award Bird

A rich diversity of landscape types in Azerbaijan creates ideal conditions for a high number of globally threatened species. Six species were selected for this project based on the fact...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Mannophryne olmonae: an ecological study in Tobago (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian

Mannophryne olmonae is a poorly studied endemic to Tobago, listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. The population has undergone a rapid decline, over the last three generations (Hardy, 2004)....View Project

Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award Amphibian
Future Conservationist Award
Chameleons for conservation: surveys and monitoring in Menabe Region Madagascar
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

We will make a quantitative assessment of chameleon populations across a gradient of habitat degradation in Menabe's dry forests. We will survey roosting chameleons at night from randomly located transects...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Internship
Participatory research towards the conservation of the Endangered-endemic river turtle Podocnemis lewyana in the Upper Magdalena River, Colombia
Internship Reptile

Podocnemis Lewyana, the Magdalena’s river turtle, is a fresh water threatened-endemic turtle species from the so-called Uraba-Magdalena eco-region in Colombia. It is considered endangered species (EN) in the IUCN red...View Project

Reptile
Internship Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award
Bat count Philippines
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

Flying-foxes are a conservation priority. They are not only endangered but are also important ecologically, valued by local communities, and may serve as umbrella species and charismatic flagships for conservation....View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conducting actions to stop Titicaca flightless grebe accidental fishing net deaths in Bolivia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Titicaca Flightless Grebe is in a fast decline through accidental fishing net deaths in Bolivia and Peru. Birds are washed up on the beach daily. If no actions are...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird