2,742Grants to

1,709(Sub)Species

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 298 grants for this species type, constituting a total donation of $2,761,748.

Plant Conservation Case Studies

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 13254964) - Chilenito - Awarded $15,000 on September 30, 2013
30-09-2013 - Chilenito

The present study aims to explore the demographic tendencies of Eriosyce chilensis, a species distributed in an extremely narrow coastal strip in the Mediterranean zone at central Chile. To infer the demographic tendencies of E. chilensis we will conduct detailed mapping of the species distribution, filogeographic analyses and reproductive experiments. spatial, genetic and experimental tools.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 13256165) - Sakoambanditse - Awarded $12,500 on May 29, 2013
29-05-2013 - Sakoambanditse

This project is about to support and empowered local communities surrounding Analavelona sacred forest to conserve its natural ecosystems through sustainable use of natural resources. So farmers keep use grassland surrounding the forest as pasture but find a strategy to prevent the fire use to renew pasture to spread and destroy forest boundary.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 13056010) - Kingiodendron pinnatum - Awarded $4,000 on May 29, 2013
29-05-2013 - Kingiodendron pinnatum

Kingiodendron pinnatum (DC.) Harms (Family: Caesalpiniaceae), an endangered species and population is under threat due to habitat degradation and unscientific overexploitation of the oleo-resin and timber. The present study is aimed at survey and documentation of population size, structure and dynamics of species in Western Ghats, Karnataka and awareness programme on its importance and problem associated with the species and conservation aspects

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 13255498) - Normania - Awarded $12,500 on May 29, 2013
29-05-2013 - Normania

The project is dedicated to Normania triphylla Lowe, an endemic target species, with critically endangered status found in the Madeira Laurisilva forest, a habitat classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. The project goals are the survey of species distribution, evaluation of ecogeographic diversity, in situ and ex situ conservation, monitoring and reinforcement of plant populations. The work will be carried by ISOPlexis Genebank, Madeira ...

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 12254442) - Large bellflower - Awarded $9,000 on September 23, 2012
23-09-2012 - Large bellflower

Fewer than 50 large bellflowers survive on unstable cliffs of High Peak, St Helena. They are believed to hybridise extensively with the small bellflower (Wahlenbergia angustifolia), and are threatened with imminent extinction. This project aims to understand the hybridisation issues through genetic analyses and pollination studies. Once pure individuals have been identified, informed conservation plans will be produced and a cultivated breeding ...

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 12254271) - Sinkhole Cycad - Awarded $5,000 on September 20, 2012
20-09-2012 - Sinkhole Cycad

Montgomery Botanical Center, Belize Botanic Gardens, Florida International University, Green Hills Botanical Collections, and Ya’axche Conservation Trust will collaborate on in situ fieldwork to identify populations of Zamia prasina (now believed to be Zamia decumbens) a critically endangered species endemic to Belize. This rare sinkhole dwelling species is of great conservation concern, habitat is limited and plants are apparently being ...

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 1225527) - Puerto Rico manjack (PR), Black sage (BVI) - Awarded $4,000 on September 20, 2012
20-09-2012 - Puerto Rico manjack (PR), Black sage (BVI)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's UK Overseas Territories Programme are working together with British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rican partners to conserve the Critically Endangered plant, Cordia rupicola, a member of the Boraginaceae family.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 12053781) - Arahara - Awarded $4,000 on May 23, 2012
23-05-2012 - Arahara

Critically Endangered, Rare, Phylloxylon xiphoclada (Fabaceae): shrub, flattened, cladodinous stems,white, pea-like flowers. Its wood exceptionally hard ,used for tool handles, to have medicinal uses. Herbarium specimens collected from a small area (less than 10 km²) on the Malagasy Highlands. Most of the plants in the population had been burnt by a wildfire. Such fires are frequent, major threat to the survival of this species.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 12253992) - Honduran rosewood - Awarded $10,480 on March 08, 2012
08-03-2012 - Honduran rosewood

Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Ya’axché Conservation Trust, and partners are increasing patrols in the Golden Stream Corridor Preserve, Toledo District, Belize to thwart the urgent threat of illegal logging in and around the Preserve, and are conducting population assessments and species verification of D. stevensonii to design and sustain long term conservation strategies for this highly valued tree species.

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