Habitat

Leonard Omondi Akwany

Strategic and Multi-stakeholders Advocacy for Yala Wetland Community Conservation Area and Ramsar Site, Kenya

To mobilize stakeholders and advocate for declaration of Yala wetland as community conservation area and ramsar site to enhance its conservation status

Samya Basu

Elephant Habitat Restoration Programme and Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation in Mayurjharna Elephant Reserve, West Bengal, India

The project is continuation of 1st RSG project in Mayurjharna Elephant Reserve. The project aims to enumerate elephant population, survey the identified elephant route to review the fodder status and understand the dependency of villages on that. The project aims to conserve the restored and remaining natural elephant habitat and implement scientific and traditional methods to mitigate human-elephant conflict in sample villages through interactive community awareness programme.

Susan Cheyne

Orang-utans and Gibbons Compared: Implications of Differences in Feeding and Behavioural Ecology for Conservation

The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project – working to protect the Sabangau peat-swamp forest and biodiversity since 1999.

Soledad Diaz

Preferencias de Hábitat de Enicognathus Ferrugineus (Aves, Psittacidae) en Bosques de Araucaria Araucana

The Project goals are to intensify conservation of this valuable habitat by increasing its knowledge and use this information for management, education and conservation for sustainable purposes.

Som Ale

Assessment of Snow Leopards and their Corridors in Nepal’s East Himalayan Eco-region

This ambitious, long-term project deals with snow leopards in habitats outside Nepal’s protected areas to design viable corridors that connect country’s mountain protected areas harbouring snow leopards. We will begin our work with Rolwaling that connects Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) and Langtang parks, and together they form the “Everest–complex”, one of the three important land-clusters, identified by Nepal Government, for the long-term conservation of snow leopards.

Ian Tchagra Little

Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Land-Use Management Strategies on Grassland Biodiversity

We propose to study bird diversity and reproductive success as responses to differing burning and grazing practices within the MHG with the aim of assessing which agricultural practices that utilise the natural resources of grasslands can be considered ‘conservation friendly’.

Suman Bhattarai

Conservation Based Networking and Library Establishment Project to Strengthen Rhino Conservation Program

Strengthen rhino conservation program through establishing community based networking, information centre concept and empower people to adopt others' success story.

Iregi Mwenja

Conservation of the Endangered Colobus Guereza ssp. Percivali and the Newly Discovered de Brazza’s Monkey Population through Awareness Rising and Communication of Research Findings in Samburu

After three years of groundbreaking studies in rare primates in Samburu forests, it is now time to communicate the findings to the local community and raise awareness on the threats these species are facing with the aim of reducing poaching of the Endangered Mt Uarges guereza and enhancing protection of the newly discovered de Brazza’s monkey population.

Kunal Patel

Present Status and Population Estimation of Rusty Spotted Cat, (Prionailurus Rubiginosus) in Reserved Forest of Kevadi, Gujarat, India

The present project will be an in-depth study on rusty spotted cat population status, trend, preferred habitat availability and involvement of locals in conservation. This survey also aims to collect information that will help prioritize areas for small carnivore conservation in the non protected forests in Western India.

Janak Giri

Local Community Development for Shrinking Habitat Destruction and Human Elephant Conflict in Sunsari, Nepal

This project aims to mitigate the problems of elephant habitat destruction and Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in the proposed region and sustainable Elephant Habitat Management.