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The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 946 grants for this species type, constituting a total donation of $9,376,790.
The objective is to establish a new safety-net population of orangutans in Sumatra through the rehabilitation and release of confiscated individuals. This project will allow us to release 15 individuals by June, 2014. After release SOCP will protect and monitor these orangutans by maintaining our onsite veterinarian and employing local staff to survey their foraging and nest-building behaviours, health, and reproductive fitness.
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This project’s’ primary objective is to help conserve Sri Lanka’s three endangered and endemic non-human primates, by training communities living around areas with suitable conservation attributes (safe havens) to manage these areas and derive benefits through sustainable development.
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The Endangered Livingstone's Fruit Bat, endemic to two islands in the Comoros archipelago, is under threat due to anthropogenic pressure on long-term roost sites. This project will work with landowners and village management committees to devise and pilot an innovative Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme to protect key roost sites. The scheme will be integrated within wider integrated landscape management planning to ensure sustainability.
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Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus) is restricted to small areas of Great Annamite Range both in Laos and Vietnam. The species.is globally threatened at "Endangered". Key threats for the species are hunting/snaring and habitat loss/ degradation. This Project aims to enhance survival of Laotian Rock Rat population in Phong Nha - Ke Bang NP (Vietnam) throughthrough conservation education and trap/snare removal
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The globally Endangered Kolar Leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros hypophyllus) is endemic to Karnataka, India. No information other than the original description exists of this species. The project aims for conservation of the species, understand its distribution, population status and threats affecting its survival.
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The critically endangered Javan Rhino may be the world's rarest large terrestrial mammal, with only about 60 individuals surviving in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park (UKNP). The Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area team at UKNP, with significant local community support, cleared 15 hectares of invasive Arenga palm to encourage growth of rhino food plants and create additional suitable Javan rhino habitat.
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In this project we are going to involve local community in direct conversation of Indus River Dolphin . We will select some young,educated and motivated people from community living near Dolphin Hotpots and train them for monitoring of dolphins.These people will be called Indus "Dolphin Rescue Volunteers" .
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We are Monitoring primates species that are Critically Endangered. We are running the first long term study in Panama using a new method to set camera traps at 10 m elevation, the Orion Camera System (OCS), which will be published soon in an international scientific journal. The project is the first studying the arboreal mammals for long period in Panama with12% of our fauna.
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Fishing cats (IUCN: Endangered) occur in fragmented populations throughout their range. We are working on investigating the occurrence and distribution of fishing cats in the coastal wetlands of northeastern Andhra Pradesh, India. With the use of wildlife cameras and local awareness, we are creating a fishing cat conservation initiative that will help protect fishing cats and their habitat.
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The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) is an endangered small wildcat inhabiting the high Andean plateau of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. This project will establish a long-term camera trap monitoring network for Andean Cat populations in the altiplano of the Northern Macrozone in Chile. Systematic monitoring will allow assessing ecologically important data, population trends and threats, and identifying priority areas for conservation.
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