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Valuing the Southern Bolivian Yungas's Environmental Services: Saving an Important Place for the Endangered Alder Amazon's Conservation

Due to Southern Yungas is an eco-region with global priority of urgent conservation. We aim to build lifelong feelings of pride, respect and membership to biodiversity using Alder Amazon as symbol species to nine local communities in the north end of this eco-region.

When to Kill Livestock? Foraging Decision Making of Snow Leopard (Uncia Uncia) Along a Gradient of Wild Prey and Livestock Abundance

The aim of the project is to understand the foraging behaviour of snow leopard in relation to availability of wild-prey and livestock. We will correlated snow leopard diet to different ratios of livestock to wild-herbivore abundance to identify factors affecting snow leopards livestock depredation behaviour.

Conservation of Snow Leopard through “Predator - Friendly Wool”

The aim of this project is to develop a local enterprise that will promote traditional woollen handicrafts in Tangyar. The goal is to add value to the livestock that will provide wool to develop these traditional handicraft. By mean of introducing new products with traditional design and by assisting villager to develope high quality finished products and marketing them, this project will ensure conservation of Snow Leopard in high livestock predation areas.

Indigenous Community, Co-Managed and Private Conserved Areas: Policy and Practical Implications for Communities and Biodiversity Conservation in Mexico

The aim of the project is to explore the potential contribution of the different IUCN governance categories of protected areas to biodiversity conservation, using Chiapas State, Mexico, as a case study.

Tackling the Bushmeat Crisis through Wildlife Conservation Education

This project aims at raising local awareness on the impact of unsustainable hunting and bushmeat trade on both people and wildlife resources, especially endangered species already faced with extinction.

Human Dimension Importance in Safeguarding Connectivity between Large Carnivore Populations

The project aims to identify human-dimension issues that are omitted by large-scale GIS surveys and to propose new approaches for a viable, long-term conservation initiative concerning the connectivity of large carnivore populations in the Romanian range of Carpathians Mountains.

Evaluation of Habitat and Human – Asiatic Black Bear Conflicts in Mauk Mai Region, Myanmar

The main aim of the project is to assess the habitat and Human-Asiatic Black Bear conflict to find out effective solutions for minimizing human-bear conflict.

Resolving Conflict Between Humans and Threatened Carnivores Around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

The aim of the project is to reduce conflict between humans and large carnivores in Tanzania’s Ruaha landscape by improving the cost-benefit ratio of carnivore presence on village land.

Sustainable Community Conservation of Borassus Aethiopum in the Transitional Zone of Ghana

This project will significantly contribute to reverse the current trend of Borassus aethiopum decline and also provide the basic information needed for the development of conservation guidelines for the use of Borassus aethiopum.

Effectiveness of Alternative Energy Use in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study from Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve and its Buffer Zone

The aim of the project is the promotion of alternative energy has been a major component of biodiversity conservation, because it reduces human pressure in the park and buffer zone forests. The proposed study will provide new insight into linkage between (1) development and use of alternative energy, (2) conservation of biodiversity, and (3) effective natural resource management policies in the communities in which it is implemented.