Conservation Case Studies in Europe | The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 162514520) - Italian cave-dwelling flatworm - Awarded $20,000 on December 19, 2016

19-12-2016 - Italian cave-dwelling flatworm

Conservation assessment of the subterranean aquatic planarians of Italy

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 162514588) - Beluga sturgeon - Awarded $13,500 on December 19, 2016

19-12-2016 - Beluga sturgeon

Survey and Research on the Natural Habitat in the Southwest of the Black Sea the Criticall Endangered Anadromous Sturgeon Species

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 162513888) - Gran Canaria Creasted Grasshopper - Awarded $12,500 on September 22, 2016

22-09-2016 - Gran Canaria Creasted Grasshopper

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.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 160513460) - Sardinian grass snake - Awarded $5,000 on September 22, 2016

22-09-2016 - Sardinian grass snake

Improving the knowledge of Sardinian grass snake (Natrix natrix cetti)

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 160513635) - Sandy mole rat - Awarded $1,990 on September 22, 2016

22-09-2016 - Sandy mole rat

Current distribution of sandy mole rat (Spalax arenarius)

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 162512530) - Adriatic Marmored Bush-cricket - Awarded $7,500 on April 21, 2016

21-04-2016 - Adriatic Marmored Bush-cricket

Preserving the Adriatic Marmored Bush-Cricket from Extinction

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 162512949) - White-clawed Crayfish - Awarded $7,500 on April 21, 2016

21-04-2016 - White-clawed Crayfish

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. pallipesh.

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 150511930) - Eastern Eggar - Awarded $3,000 on December 09, 2015

09-12-2015 - Eastern Eggar

Awareness for conservation of Eriogaster catax in Cluj county,Romania, a IUCN Data Deficient Species

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 152511678) - Epirus Grasshopper - Awarded $12,500 on December 09, 2015

09-12-2015 - Epirus Grasshopper

Epirus grasshopper conservation: linking ecology and genetics and under a conservation perspective

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Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation (Project No. 152511899) - European angel shark - Awarded $15,000 on December 09, 2015

09-12-2015 - European angel shark

Saving the Angels of the Atlantic from extinction: Conservation project in the Canary Islands

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