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The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 124 grants constituting a total donation of $1,159,077 for species conservation projects based in Europe.
The Gran Canaria Crested Grasshopper was only known from a single specimen collected in 1949 until it was rediscovered on Gran Canaria in 2015. We now started a conservation project for this species. Our aim is to study distribution and population size of the species and identify priority areas for its conservation.
View Gran Canaria Creasted Grasshopper project
Improving the knowledge of Sardinian grass snake (Natrix natrix cetti)
View Sardinian grass snake project
Current distribution of sandy mole rat (Spalax arenarius)
View Sandy mole rat project
Our aim is to preserve the Adriatic Marbled Bush-Cricket from extinction. This species is only known from three small populations in Italy and one larger in Slovenia. We have compiled two national action plans for the species, which are now being implemented. Our project has helped to raise awareness and implement the first conservation action for this rare bush-cricket species .
View Adriatic Marmored Bush-cricket project
Freshwater crayfish conservation in northern Italy: prevention of extinctions and restoration of a key population of Austropotamobius pallipes.
This project will allow to obtain effective and update data on the causes driving the exctinctions currently occurring in northern Italy. It will also restore a key population in the Monte Barro regional Park and provide management instructions for the last streams inhabited by A. pallipes.
View White-clawed Crayfish project
Awareness for conservation of Eriogaster catax in Cluj county,Romania, a IUCN Data Deficient Species
View Eastern Eggar project
Epirus grasshopper conservation: linking ecology and genetics and under a conservation perspective
View Epirus Grasshopper project
Saving the Angels of the Atlantic from extinction: Conservation project in the Canary Islands
View European angel shark project
Describe and understand the key features of the food web that support the local speckled lizard populations, as a conservation tool.
View Tenerife speckled lizard project
The Horrid ground-weaver spider (Nothophantes horridus) is a Critically Endangered spider that is endemic to the UK. Buglife are undertaking new surveys and ecological research to better understand the status, distribution and habitat requirements of this species in order to support its conservation.
View Horrid ground-weaver project