2,980Grants to

1,828(Sub)Species

Asia

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 997 grants constituting a total donation of $8,518,929 for species conservation projects based in Asia.

Conservation Case Studies in Asia

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 232531831) - Peleng Tarsier - Awarded $5,000 on September 27, 2023
27-09-2023 - Peleng Tarsier

Local youth-based conservation: An effort to protect the endangered endemic tarsier in Banggai, Sulawesi

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 230532083) - Owston's civet - Awarded $2,935 on September 27, 2023
27-09-2023 - Owston's civet

Assessing civet coffee and wild meat tourism/consumerism in Vietnam, in relation to endangered Owston’s civet (Chrotogale owstoni) conservation.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 232530980) - Elongated tortoise - Awarded $5,500 on May 01, 2023
01-05-2023 - Elongated tortoise

Assessing population, habitat use, and threats of Critically Endangered Elongated Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata) outside protected areas in Bhutan.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 232524734) - Bengal slow loris - Awarded $15,000 on May 01, 2023
01-05-2023 - Bengal slow loris

Ecological survey and community base conservation initiatives of Endangered Bengal slow loris in northeast Bangladesh

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 232531328) - Delacour's langur  - Awarded $12,500 on May 01, 2023
01-05-2023 - Delacour's langur

The MBZ funds has been key for our NGO towards the rediscovery of a remnant population of the critically endangered Delacour’s langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) in the Yen Mo Limestone Complex, in Vietnam. Through drone surveys, 37 individuals across four groups were documented, primarily confined within the Yen Mo District Forest. This discovery marks the third-largest population of the species.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 230531303) - Baker's Drepanolejeunea - Awarded $5,000 on April 27, 2023
27-04-2023 - Baker's Drepanolejeunea

Habitat Assessment and Persistence of the endangered, Luzon-endemic liverwort Drepanolejeunea bakeri Herzog in Mount Bulusan, the Philippines

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 232527685) - Red Panda - Awarded $9,510 on April 27, 2023
27-04-2023 - Red Panda

Linking Citizen Science to turn paper results into red panda conservation outputs in Khotang and Bhojpur Districts, eastern Nepal.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 220530426) - Mouterde's knapweed - Awarded $4,960 on December 20, 2022
20-12-2022 - Mouterde's knapweed

Conservation of the globally endangered Centaurea mouterdei Wagenitz in Chouf District, Mount Lebanon.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 220530454) - White tomiris butterfly - Awarded $3,000 on December 20, 2022
20-12-2022 - White tomiris butterfly

Conservation and restoration of the population of endangered species butterfly (Euchloe tomiris) in Tajikistan

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 222530289) - Ryukyu rabbit tick  - Awarded $10,000 on December 20, 2022
20-12-2022 - Ryukyu rabbit tick

Establishing in-situ monitoring and ex-situ captive breeding of the co-endangered Ryukyu rabbit tick (Haemaphysalis pentalagi) in Japan

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