Supported Projects

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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
Future Conservationist Award
Threats to nesting leatherback turtles in Pongara National Park, Gabon
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

Pongara National Park, located just 15 minutes by boat from Libreville, Gabon's capital, is a key leatherback turtle nesting area. Around 3,500 nests are laid each year between the months...View Project

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Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Evaluation of present distribution and condition of the manatee in Cuanza River
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The wide distribution of the African manatee along the west coast of Africa contrasts with the low level of information about the biology and present status of the species, particularly...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of African wild dogs in northern Mozambique
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The vast wilderness of Mozambique provides potential habitat for the Endangered African wild dog, allowing for a more or less continuous range for the dogs across neighboring countries. Using both...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Red siskin (Carduelis cucullata) research and conservation programme
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The endangered Red Siskin has been extirpated throughout most of its historic range, primarily due to trapping for the caged bird trade. In 2000 a previously unknown population was discovered...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Leadership Award
Marsh deer project 2005
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal

After long years of work, supported and accompanied by the BP Conservation Programme, we have obtained not only an invaluable amount of new information on the biology of the Marsh...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Leadership Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of the Syrian serin in Lebanon
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Syrian serin is one of the species of birds that breeds in and migrates through Lebanon and is considered "globally threatened" by IUCN (Evans 1994). It is a "restricted-range"...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Marine turtle project 2005: implementing a local community action plan to save marine turtles in Kenya
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile

All 5 species of marine turtles occurring in Kenya’s marine waters i.e. Chelonia mydas, Eretmochelys imbricata, lepidochelys olivacea, Caretta caretta and Dermochelys coriacea are listed by the World Conservation Union...View Project

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Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award
Assessment of the traffic disturbance to Tibetan antelopes in Hoh-Xil national nature reserve
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

The Tibetan Antelope or Chiru is listed in the IUCN Red List as a Threatened Species. Each year, Tibetan antelopes will migrate to the hinterland of Hoh-xil to give birth...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of Tricholoma matsutake in Northwest Yunnan, China
Future Conservationist Award Plant

The ectomycorrhizal species Tricholoma matsutake has been exported since 1985 from southwest Yunnan, China. It has quickly eclipsed logging and pastorialism to become the major contribution to rural livelihood and...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Assessment of seabird bycatch in Peruvian artisanal fisheries
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Albatross and petrel bycatch in global fisheries has been a growing concern since the early 1990s. Information on seabird bycatch is scarce for the southeast Pacific. This gap makes difficult...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Saving the blue-billed curassow: implementing urgent conservation actions
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

Cracids are ecologically important primary forest birds that are highly susceptible to human disturbance from both hunting and habitat destruction, making ideal bio-indicators for forest monitoring and management, as well...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Project Pawi: recovery of the Trinidad piping-guan
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Trinidad piping-guan, or pawi, is considered Critically Endangered due to its extremely small population, continuing habitat loss and illegal hunting. Our project addresses several priority actions proposed in Threatened...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Development of conservation measures for the Darevsky’s viper in the Caucasus
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

The Darevsky's viper is critically endangered and found so far only in a small area in extreme N.W. Armenia adjacent to the border with Georgia. The principal threats are livestock...View Project

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Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award
Polillo Island, Philippines
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile

Giant frugivorous monitor lizards are endemic to lowland dipterocarp the Philippine Islands. Their large size, inability to fly and dependence on a small number of relatively rare fruit resources mean...View Project

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Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile
Conservation Leadership Award
Vision 2005: an integrated conservation and development project for the Kikuyu escarpment forest
Conservation Leadership Award Multiple

Through this proposed project KENVO (Kijabe Environment Volunteers) hopes to diversify its voluntary awareness activities while still advocating for sound management and conservation of the Kikuyu Escarpment Forests. In doing...View Project

Multiple
Conservation Leadership Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
YARÉ: Yariguíes assessment and research of endangered species
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Serranía de los Yariguíes is an isolated spur of Colombia’s Eastern Andean Cordillera. It straddles three endemic bird areas (EBAs), two of which are rated critical, but remains almost completely...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award
Cambodian Turtle conservation project: extending chelonian research, education and conservation in Cambodia
Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile

This project proposes to build on the research results from our first year project and go to these next steps: 1) focused monitoring of the Endangered species we have found;...View Project

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Conservation Follow-up Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of an island endemic; Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis)
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The Calayan Rail (Gallirallus calayanensis), an endemic of Calayan Island in the Babuyan Islands, Philippines, was discovered and described last year by Allen et al. (2004) and was assigned a...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Comoro Islands rainforest and biodiversity conservation project
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Comoran rainforest is being rapidly degraded, mainly due to banana underplanting. We aim to help produce plans to slow this process, which is putting at risk many endemic and red...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple