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The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 125 grants constituting a total donation of $1,174,077 for species conservation projects based in Europe.
This project is focused on diversity and role of Ichneumon-wasps in indicating the condition of natural Carpathian forests ecosystems. We include outreach activities aiming to share knowledge with foresters, students and amateur entomologists, and attract attention of general public to role of these insects in forest ecosystems and necessity of their protection
View Ichneumon-wasp project
Conservation assessment of the subterranean aquatic planarians of Italy
View Italian cave-dwelling flatworm project
”Survey and Research in the Natural Habitat in the Northwest of the Black Sea, of the Criticall Endangered Anadromous Sturgeon Species” It was an extremely interesting project that helped us to continue our monitoring and research of the Flagspecies of the Danube River, Beluga Sturgeon, Russian Sturgeon and Stellate Sturgeon and make a step forward in their conservation.
View Beluga sturgeon project
Eolizard. Vulnerability to invasion and conservation genetics of the endemic Aeolian lizard, Podarcis raffoneae
View Aeolian Wall Lizard project
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