Supported Projects

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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

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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
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

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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
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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

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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

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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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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 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

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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

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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
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Conservation Leadership Award
The Mpingo conservation project
Conservation Leadership Award Plant

Working with local foresters, and using as a flagship East African Blackwood – one of the world’s most valuable timbers – we seek to develop sustainable forestry under the management...View Project

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Conservation Leadership Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation and monitoring of Tibetan antelopes in Hoh Xil Nature Reserve
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

This project is to monitor the Tibetan antelope during their migrating season. Tibetan Antelopes is one of the most rare and precious animals in the world, live in the vast...View Project

Mammal
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Tortoise and freshwater turtle conservation in the Cardamom Mountains
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

This project aims to develop ongoing tortoise and freshwater turtle research and conservation activities in and around the Central Cardamoms Protected Forest (CCPF), Cambodia, to help reduce threats to its...View Project

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Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Conservation Follow-up Award
Saving the major non-breeding populations of blue swallows and their habitats in Uganda
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

The blue swallow (Hirundo atrocaerula) is a globally vulnerable species whose habitat is disappearing rapidly in both breeding and non-breeding areas. Uganda is one of the major sites for the...View Project

Bird
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Future Conservationist Award
Threatened avifauna of the Chicamocha’s dry forest valley, Colombia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Niceforo’s wren and chestnut-bellied hummingbird are both critically endangered species, endemic to the dry valleys of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia. Although very poorly known, their current distributions are likely...View Project

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Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of private lands for the protection of the Huemul in Central Chile
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

The Nevados de Chillan, an area spanning 560,000 hectares in Central Chile, contains the northernmost population of Huemul deer and is a globally recognized priority site for biodiversity conservation. The...View Project

Mammal
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Future Conservationist Award
Ensuring effective conservation for endangered grassland birds in Uruguay
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Uruguay has natural grasslands covering 71% of the country that currently face numerous threats to their conservation. The major threat to this habitat is the use of land for forestation,...View Project

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