Bird Conservation Case Studies | The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 182515710) - White-headed duck - Awarded $10,000 on May 01, 2018

01-05-2018 - White-headed duck

Searching for White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala) Breeding and Wintering Grounds in Central Anatolia and Monitoring of Its Populations

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 182517982) - Black-and-chestnut Eagle - Awarded $5,000 on May 01, 2018

01-05-2018 - Black-and-chestnut Eagle

Conserving the Endangered Black-and-chestnut Eagle (Spizaetus isidori) and his habitat: the Montane Cloud Forests of Peru

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 172517373) - Sharpe's Longclaw - Awarded $11,500 on May 01, 2018

01-05-2018 - Sharpe's Longclaw

Our project is designed to integrating traditional livestock farming with emerging technology for the conservation of highland biodiversity in Kinangop by working with farmers to strengthen sheep flocks. With successful sheep farming is profitable, farmers will not convert pastureland into cropland thereby retaining the natural habitat for Sharpe’s Longclaw. The project also empower local youth to take part in the Conservation of Biodiversity.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 170516936) - Yellow-breasted Bunting - Awarded $4,147 on December 19, 2017

19-12-2017 - Yellow-breasted Bunting

Searching for stop-over and wintering sites of the rapidly declining western Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola aureola)

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 172516196) - Juan Fernández Firecrown - Awarded $7,650 on September 18, 2017

18-09-2017 - Juan Fernández Firecrown

Implementing habitat restoration through invasive species removal and exclusion, and engaging local students in workshops and native planting days in the National Park on Robinson Crusoe Island (Más a Tierra) of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 172515650) - Tahiti Monarch - Awarded $5,587 on September 18, 2017

18-09-2017 - Tahiti Monarch

Helping the Tahiti sandalwood tree (Santalum insulare) to save the Tahiti Monarch (Pomarea nigra)

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 172515082) - Royal Cinclodes - Awarded $3,500 on May 01, 2017

01-05-2017 - Royal Cinclodes

Restoring the critical habitat of the most threatened Andean birds of Bolivia

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 172515064) - White-bellied heron - Awarded $7,100 on May 01, 2017

01-05-2017 - White-bellied heron

Bhutan has the highest population of the White-bellied Heron equivalent to 47 percent of the global population, according to the resolution of the second international workshop on White-bellied Heron conservation held in 2015. With the financial support from international conservation and financial institutions, the long term conservation of this endangered bird was successful where the credit goes to RSPN in particular and other individual ...

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 170515478) - Hooded Vulture - Awarded $5,000 on May 01, 2017

01-05-2017 - Hooded Vulture

Mitigating Trade on Avian Derivatives in South-East Nigeria

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 160514695) - Sociable Lapwing - Awarded $4,950 on December 19, 2016

19-12-2016 - Sociable Lapwing

Assessing the importance of Pakistan for wintering populations of the Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing

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