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Threats to nesting leatherback turtles in Pongara National Park, Gabon
Pongara National Park, located just 15 minutes by boat from Libreville, Gabon's capital, is a key leatherback turtle nesting area. Around 3,500 nests are laid each year between the months...View Project
Conservation of African wild dogs in northern Mozambique
The vast wilderness of Mozambique provides potential habitat for the Endangered African wild dog, allowing for a more or less continuous range for the dogs across neighboring countries. Using both...View Project
Red siskin (Carduelis cucullata) research and conservation programme
The endangered Red Siskin has been extirpated throughout most of its historic range, primarily due to trapping for the caged bird trade. In 2000 a previously unknown population was discovered...View Project
Conservation of the Syrian serin in Lebanon
The Syrian serin is one of the species of birds that breeds in and migrates through Lebanon and is considered "globally threatened" by IUCN (Evans 1994). It is a "restricted-range"...View Project
Assessment of seabird bycatch in Peruvian artisanal fisheries
Albatross and petrel bycatch in global fisheries has been a growing concern since the early 1990s. Information on seabird bycatch is scarce for the southeast Pacific. This gap makes difficult...View Project
Conservation of Tricholoma matsutake in Northwest Yunnan, China
The ectomycorrhizal species Tricholoma matsutake has been exported since 1985 from southwest Yunnan, China. It has quickly eclipsed logging and pastorialism to become the major contribution to rural livelihood and...View Project
Conservation of an island endemic; Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis)
The Calayan Rail (Gallirallus calayanensis), an endemic of Calayan Island in the Babuyan Islands, Philippines, was discovered and described last year by Allen et al. (2004) and was assigned a...View Project
Project Pawi: recovery of the Trinidad piping-guan
The Trinidad piping-guan, or pawi, is considered Critically Endangered due to its extremely small population, continuing habitat loss and illegal hunting. Our project addresses several priority actions proposed in Threatened...View Project
Distribution and abundance of Solomys ponceleti and S. salebrosus in Solomon Islands
This research project intends to investigate the distribution, habitat preference, and conservation status of two native giant rats Solomys ponceleti and S. salebrosus endemic to Choiseul and Bougainville Islands in...View Project
YARÉ: Yariguíes assessment and research of endangered species
Serranía de los Yariguíes is an isolated spur of Colombia’s Eastern Andean Cordillera. It straddles three endemic bird areas (EBAs), two of which are rated critical, but remains almost completely...View Project
Development of conservation measures for the Darevsky’s viper in the Caucasus
The Darevsky's viper is critically endangered and found so far only in a small area in extreme N.W. Armenia adjacent to the border with Georgia. The principal threats are livestock...View Project
The Tulbagh renosterveld Project
The Cape Floristic Region (CFR) is recognised as a global biodiversity hotspot and has recently received World Heritage status. Renosterveld, which occurs in lowland areas, is the most threatened vegetation...View Project
A field survey for the grey-shanked douc langur
The grey-shanked Douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) is endemic to Vietnam and occurs in a restricted range in the central coastal region and the central highlands of Vietnam (Quang Nam, Quang...View Project
Conservation of Melocactus actinacanthus (Cactaceae)
Melocactus actinacanthus is a critically endangered cactus in Cuba. The unique known population was strongly reduced by amateur collectors and habitat destruction. In fact, the current population size is less...View Project
Monitoring and conservation of Globally Threatened species in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is one of Europe's biodiversity hotspots, especially for many globally and near threatened species of breeding, migrating and resting birds, and it serves as a bottleneck through which many...View Project
Finding Napo: conservation of Napoleon Wrasses and rare corals at Namu Atoll
Rare coral reef animals are highly endangered by the present threats imposed on reefs, yet a lack of information on their distribution, abundance and population dynamics means that rare species...View Project
Ecology and conservation of reef fish spawning aggregations in the Abrolhos Bank, Brazil
The Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations project aims to determine the location and characteristics of spawning aggregations of threatened and commercially important reef fishes (Lutjanidae and Serranidae) in the Abrolhos Bank,...View Project
The last East African sirenians: conservation of dugongs in Bazaruto Archipelago
Dugongs are Critically Endangered throughout most of the western Indian Ocean. In East Africa, the last viable population inhabits Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique, but its survival is threatened by human-caused mortality...View Project
Conservation of the Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni)
This project will study the ecological requirements of the range-restricted and Critically Endangered Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) by systematically visiting its known distributional range in Chapada do Araripe throughout the...View Project
Gaynawaan 2004: conservation of threatened vertebrates at Mount Sinaka, Mindanao
This project will step-up the conservation of Mount Sinaka, a 19 sq km Important Bird Area (IBA), by focusing research and monitoring on globally threatened and indicator vertebrates, which are...View Project
