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The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund is a significant philanthropic endowment established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field of species conservation and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. To date the fund has awarded over 800 grants to a diverse range of species across the world.
Ludwig’s Bustard (Neotis ludwigii)
Project number 0925803
Awarded Amount: $20,000
Ludwig’s Bustard is a poorly known bird that is under threat from a single source of anthropogenic mortality – collision with overhead power lines. Our project aims to find out more about the impacts of collisions on this long lived species, and investigate ways to mitigate them through censuses, mortality surveys, satellite tracking, line marking experimentation and studying the visual capacity of collision prone species.
Lemur Conservation in Madagascar
Christoph Schwitzer, Head of Research at the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, received two grants from the Fund to study lemurs in Madagascar. The first grant was to study the Sahamalaza sportive lemur, while the second grant provided general support for assessing the status of a large number of new lemur species.