📢 FUNDING opportunity!
🎉 Applications to the Kate Stokes Memorial Award 2025 are now open!
⏰ Deadline: 12 May, 2025.
👉 What is the Kate Stokes Memorial Award?
The Kate Stokes Memorial Award was established in memory of Kate Stokes, former CLP Programme Officer, who tragically died in 2006. In her memory, a grant worth US $5,000 is awarded on an annual basis by the trustees of the Kate Stokes Memorial Trust to an exceptional team that demonstrates Kate’s same passion and commitment to biodiversity conservation.
👉 Who can apply?
CLP alumni (previous CLP award-winners, interns/career placement mentees or a Research Fellowship Programme grantees or scholars) who are continuing their efforts to conserve threatened species by engaging local communities; increasing knowledge and understanding of conservation; and developing the capacity of local stakeholders.
👉 Proposals must be:
✨ Addressing a conservation priority to deliver a tangible outcome
✨ No more than one year in length
✨ Feasible and cost-effective, with a budget of no more than US $5,000
✨ Aiming to build local capacity for biodiversity conservation
✨ Focusing on outreach to, and education for, local communities, especially young people
ℹ️ Visit our website for more information and an application form: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/grants/grant-overview/kate-stokes-memorial-award/
Good luck with your application!
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4 days ago
🎉 Time Magazine’s Women of the Year honours CLP alumna, Purnima Devi Barman
ℹ️ time.com/7216405/purnima-devi-barman-hargila-storks/
Each year, TIME selects a group of women pushing change for a better, more equitable world. This year, CLP alumna Purnima Devi Barman is on the list alongside 12 other hugely influential women.
👏 This is an enormous testament to Purnima’s dedication to saving one of the world’s most threatened birds: the greater adjutant stork.
📆 Purnima’s conservation journey started in 2007, when she felt a “call" to protect the ~450 storks left in her home region of Assam, India.
👉 These endangered storks (or "hargila", as they are known locally) faced an uncertain future, persecuted by locals who believed they were bad omens and disease carriers.
🌱 With CLP support in 2009, Purnima began forming a group of women (her “stork sisters”) to help change locals' beliefs and end the stork's persecution. Two further CLP awards in 2012 and 2015 helped her continue this work and devise a long-term conservation plan for the species.
ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/greater-adjutant-stork-assam-india/
🎉 Thanks to these projects and Purnima’s subsequent efforts with the help of her now 20,000-strong “Hargila Army”, the storks have made a comeback:
📈 The population in Assam has grown to over 1,800 individuals (a 300% increase since 2007)
🌳 45,000 new trees have been planted to provide breeding sites
📈 Nest numbers have increased from 27 to 250
Consequently, in 2023, the greater adjutant stork was down listed from Endangered to Near Threatened by the IUCN 🎉
Congratulations to Purnima and the other 12 honorees named on Time’s Women of the Year list!
✨ BirdLife International Fauna & Flora Wildlife Conservation Society
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