Supported Projects

There are currently 914 projects with the selected filtering.

Future Conservationist Award
Incidental capture of seabirds survey in coastal fisheries
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Incidental mortality associated to longline fishing is the main problem for the conservation of nearly all albatross and many petrel species throughout the world. The situation is so serious that...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Survey of the Eastern Carpathians and Dobrogea underground bat habitats
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

This project aims to conduct detailed surveys on cave dwelling bat species in the Eastern Carpathians and Dobrogea regions of Romania, along with bat conservation training workshops for volunteers. According...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Katala quest, Northern Palawan
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The flagship species of the expedition is the critically endangered Philippine cockatoo, an endemic to the island nation. As few as 1,000 individuals may be left in the wild. The...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
An integrated approach towards giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) conservation in Bolivia
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is one of the most endangered mammal species in the Neotropical region and one of four endangered otter species in the world. The project aims...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation of spot billed pelican (Pelecanus philipensis) in north central and central provinces of Sri Lanka
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Spot Billed Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) is one of the important bird species categorised as vulnerable and the only known present day breeding populations occur in Sri Lanka, India and Cambodia...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Bat count 2003
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Large flying foxes in insular Southeast Asia are the most threatened of the Old World fruit bats due to deforestation, unregulated hunting, and little conservation commitment from local governments. Despite...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
The Biota of Boa Nova region: a baseline for a conservation plan
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The Boa Nova of Brazil consists of two highly threatened vegetation types—deciduous dry forest and humid patches of Atlantic Forest. The region is well known by bird specialists as a...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Turtle population survey and conservation planning for Pulau Pasoso Reserve, Donggala Regency
Future Conservationist Award Reptile

Pulau Pasoso Reserve is a primary turtle nesting ground for Green Turtles and a megopode (Megapodius reindwardtii), among others, in the Donggala Regency of Indonesia. Unfortunately, the reserve designation carries...View Project

Reptile
Future Conservationist Award Reptile
Future Conservationist Award
Identification of upland rainforest species in the Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park buffer zone
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The Mount Kitanglad Range is located in Northern Mindanao in the Philippines, and contains the second highest peak in the country. It is still densely forested and is considered to...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Research and Conservation Assessment of the threatened grey-hooded parrotbill at Wawu Shan in south-western Sichuan, China
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The small, fragmented population of grey-hooded parrotbills of Wawu Shan in Southwestern China is declining due to forest loss through logging, conversion to agriculture and localized tourist development. The small...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Birds of Rio Muni
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Equatorial Guinea has been under extreme political turmoil throughout the latter half of the century. Due to instability, researchers have not been able to enter the continental part of the...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Conservation and sustainable use of wetlands in south and central-eastern Rwanda
Future Conservationist Award Plant

The threats to the Nyabarongo and Akanyaru Wetlands are a result of a complex mixture of people's attitudes, a lack of alternatives and the fact that in Rwanda the wetlands...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Research & conserv assessment for the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanc in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The civil conflict in Sierra Leone has resulted in the proliferation of weapons while creating a refugee crisis throughout the country. (Lebbie 1998, 2001; Garnet and Utas 2000). During the...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Ecology and conservation of the Chilean dolphin in Southern Chile
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

Chilean dolphins, along with other cetacean and seabirds, were hunted extensively from 1970 to 1990 for crab bait in the southern king crab and false king crab fisheries in Southern...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Survey of endangered fish species of the Moraca River system
Future Conservationist Award Fish

The Balkan Peninsula, especially the Adriatic and Ionian Sea drainages, is one of the greatest European centres of endemism. During the last decade, due to civil wars, sanctions, as well...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Future Conservationist Award
Rio Máximo Fauna Refuge: an internationally important Cuban wetland
Future Conservationist Award Bird

Rio Máximo Fauna Refuge is one of the most important wetlands in Cuba and indeed in the Caribbean. Our aim is to obtain information to propose this area as an...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Endemic land snails and earthworms from a Protected Area in the Ventania Mountain System
Future Conservationist Award Invertebrate

The "ETP Reserve", located at the Ventania Mountain System, is the only reserve protecting the natural highland grasslands in the Argentinian pampas. These ancient mountains form a very particular outcrop...View Project

Invertebrate
Future Conservationist Award Invertebrate
Future Conservationist Award
Survey of threatened and restricted range species of Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The six globally threatened species studied, restricted to tiny habitats confined within the six IBAs, are severely affected by habitat loss as result of deforestation, overgrazing, and natural and man-made...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Urugua-í green corridor 2002
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The project will evaluate the ecological connectivity between two provincial parks of Misiones (Argentina): Urugua-í (84,000 has., Key Bird Area) and Horacio Foerster (4,000 has.). To evaluate this, a series...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award
Monitor 2002
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian

MONITOR 2000 is a follow-up initiative designed to introduce this time and cost-effective amphibian monitoring method to volunteers in Hungary, and other representatives of Central & Eastern European (CEE) countries....View Project

Amphibian
Conservation Follow-up Award Amphibian