Supported Projects

There are currently 905 projects with the selected filtering.

Future Conservationist Award
Lorentz 95: the flora & fauna of the Nduga, Lorentz Reserve, Irian Jaya 1995-1996
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

The expedition aims to document selected flora and fauna of the Nduga area, combining scientific fieldwork techniques and the traditional knowledge of the Nduga people. This will provide: baseline biological...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Aberdeen University Unimas Sarawak ’95
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

Working in conjunction with five Malaysian students the aim of this project was to assess the relative abundance and distribution of bats, birds and small mammals in five distinct habitats...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
The threatened birds of Cuba project 1995
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The fieldwork scheduled for March 1995 to February 1996 had to be limited due to problems with visas and counterparts in Cuba. However, the team managed to study the status...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
University of East Anglia Gunung Halimun ethnobotanical expedition, Java 1995
Future Conservationist Award Plant

The nine person multi-disciplinary team included three people from the University of East Anglia, UK and six people from the Biological Sciences Club of Jakarta, Indonesia. Research focused on the...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Future Conservationist Award
Project Podocarpus ’95: the Cambridge conservation project and research expedition in Southern Ecuador
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

An Ecuadorian and British team assessed the levels of mercury pollution from gold mining in Podocarpus National Park and near the mining town of Nambija. Samples of mercury in riverine...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Project Sabrewing
Future Conservationist Award Bird

This large team under the supervision of Dr Floyd Hayes studied the endangered White-tailed Hummingbird. The species is the only globally threatened species in Tobago where it is extremely vulnerable....View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Oxford University Eritrea ’96: an environmental assessment of the mangroves of Hergigo and Arafaile
Future Conservationist Award Plant

Students from the University of Oxford in association with Eritrean scientists conducted a preliminary socio-environmental assessment of the mangrove communities in the Semhar region of the country. Three mangroves have...View Project

Plant
Future Conservationist Award Plant
Conservation Follow-up Award
Kyabobo conservation project 1995
Conservation Follow-up Award Multiple

The Oxford University Kyabobo '94 expedition which showed that Ghana's newly formed Kyabobo National Park has a unique mixture of forest and savanna wildlife, with many rare and endangered species....View Project

Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award Multiple
Conservation Follow-up Award
Project Yacutinga ’95
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird

The project was a follow-up to Project Canopy '92. Working with the governmental National Parks Directorate and non-governmental Fundacion Moises Bertoni (the BirdLife Partner), Project Yacutinga united 24 conservationists of...View Project

Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Avifauna of Mount Talinis, Philippines
Future Conservationist Award Bird

This Filipino project aimed to survey the avifauna of Mt. Talinis on the island of Negros. The project consisted of three components: (i) an assessment of the relationship between altitude,...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
University of Bristol Choiseul ’95, Solomon Islands
Future Conservationist Award Mammal

A checklist of bats on the island of Choiseul was compiled. A study of Fruit bats showed that the Monkey-faced fox (Pteralopex anceps) previously thought to be extinct still exists...View Project

Mammal
Future Conservationist Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Cambridge University project Mount Nilo ’95, Tanzania
Future Conservationist Award Bird

This project surveyed forest birds and mammals in northern Tanzania. The team assessed the ecological requirements and threats to the survival of restricted-range and globally threatened birds in remnant patches...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Oxford University expedition to Sabah, Malaysia 1994
Future Conservationist Award Fish

Continuing the work of two previous Oxford expeditions to Sabah, the team carried out underwater surveys of coral cover and diversity at six permanent reef sites in the Tunku Abdul...View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish
Future Conservationist Award
University of East Anglia Gunung Halimun 1994 Java expedition
Future Conservationist Award Multiple

This UEA/Biological Sciences Club (BScC) project aimed to assess the effects of human usage and population pressures on forest vegetation and bird communities around the periphery of the Gunung Halimun...View Project

Multiple
Future Conservationist Award Multiple
Future Conservationist Award
Wetlands of South Guinea Bissau
Future Conservationist Award Bird

The project aimed to increase knowledge of the birds of Guinea-Bissau and to draw international attention to the importance of the country's tropical forests. The project assessed human impact on...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Conservation Follow-up Award
Way Kambas elephant and rhino survey, Indonesia 1994
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal

From 1993-95 a British-Indonesian team conducted a survey of the Sumatran Rhino and Asian Elephant populations in Way Kambas National Park on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By December 1994...View Project

Mammal
Conservation Follow-up Award Mammal
Future Conservationist Award
Zapata swamp project, Cuba 1994
Future Conservationist Award Bird

This project is mainly focused on Zapata Rail (Cyanolimnas cerverai) and Zapata Wren (Ferminia cerverai), both globally threatened species within their known and possible range. They are range restricted bird...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Mache-Chindul ’94, Ecuador
Future Conservationist Award Bird

An ornithological survey carried out during September 1996 in the hills of Mache and Chindul, northern Manabi and southern Esmeraldas provinces, based at the fieldwork centre of Fundacion Jatun Sacha...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Project Eakihei: parrots in peril
Future Conservationist Award Bird

After the success of Parrots in Peril 1990 and 1992 expeditions, a follow-up expedition consisting of four British and two Ecuadorian biologists continued studying the avifauna of Podocarpus National Park...View Project

Bird
Future Conservationist Award Bird
Future Conservationist Award
Eritrea ’94
Future Conservationist Award Fish

The aim of the expedition was to conduct a baseline marine survey of the southern part of the archipelago, to identify primary marine habitat type and their main constituent genera....View Project

Fish
Future Conservationist Award Fish