The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded $28,744,053 to 3049 conservation
projects for all species types with all IUCN classifications throughout the world.
Project managers that have decided to publish their projects, are illustrated on the map below.
Perret’s Toad
Our focal species - Sclerophrys perreti (common name: Perret’s toad) is only known from the Idanre Hill, in Ondo Province, southwestern Nigeria. This species is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ under IUCN red list http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/54732/0. It was previously thought that it may occur in similar habitats in southwestern Nigeria, but subsequent surveys in similar habitat around the type locality have failed to ...
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Lesser Antillean Iguana
Given the continued spread of non-native Green Iguana throughout the Lesser Antilles the regional endemic iguana, Lesser Antillean Iguana, is rapidly declining. With recent hybridization now also present on the island of St. Eustatius we are trying to stop this process, catch all non-native iguanas and prevent future invasions to thereby safeguard this populations' future.
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Tolley's Forest Chameleon
Conservation status of Tolley’s Forest Chameleon (Kinyongia tolleyae), a new species recently discovered in the Albertine Rift of Uganda
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Pig-nosed turtle
The pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) is frequently harvested by subsistence communities and trafficked through Asia. This research project is developing genetic wildlife forensic techniques to help combat the illegal trade and providing sustainability and environmental education to remote communities in New Guinea that harvest the turtles.
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Black-cheeked Ant-tanager
The endemic-endangered Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager (Habia atrimaxillaris: Cardinalidae): A Population status and reproductive evaluation in the disappearing forests of Osa Peninsula
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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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White-backed vulture
In Uttarakhand state, risk of electrocution mortality is observed as major threats to threatened vultures. The present project was focused on protecting the critically endangered vultures from electrocution mortality in Doon Valley, Uttarakhand. Every years during 2014-2017, mortality of 40-50 vultures was recorded due to electrocution. With initiating conservation actions by the project team, electrocution mortality was reduced up to 90 percent ...
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Javan Slow Loris
Little Fireface Project: Conserving Critically Endangered slow loris and other obscure and forgotten nocturnal mammals through ecology, education and empowerment.
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Sumatran orangutan
Sumatran Orangutan Reintroduction at Jantho Nature Reserve, Indonesia - This project is actively expanding the wild distribution and population size of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan.
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Flat-headed Cat
Distribution and conservation status of the flat headed cat, Prionailurus planiceps in Brunei Darussalam
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