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The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has awarded 801 grants constituting a total donation of $8,069,572 for species conservation projects based in Africa.
Community-Based Marine Turtle Conservation in Liberia
Marine Turtle Conservation along the Liberian Bassa coastline was initiated in 2012. The progress of the project is encouraging as hunters and poachers living in communities surrounding the beaches are now protecting the species. Sea Turtle monitoring is active and on-going in Little Bassa, Duo, Samuel Brown Town, Sand Farm and Bassa Point Township -- stretching 22.7 kilometers.
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Sheep for longclaw: Integrating livestock farming with conservation of Sharpe's Longclaw in Kinangop
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Updating the conservation strategy of the greater big-footed mouse in the dry forest of Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar
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Population Viability of the Endangered Sanje Mangabey in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
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Community based conservation of the Irangi Puddle Frog is part of the Mystery Amphibian Rescue and Conservation: The Rebirth of Irangi and Sagalla frogs in Kenya which is an innovative species conservation project by Gold Kenya. Phrynobatrachus irangi is an endangered species threatened to habitat loss and this project address its conservation in a model that has emerged as an outright success story.
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Save Microberlinia bisulcata
Efforts to save Microberlinia bisulcata a CR and endemic species of Mt Cameroon has failed because of ignorance of its conservation, the lack of resources for effective monitoring and the absence of a legal restriction on the logging of the species.
We will thus address this through sensitization, empowerment of local authorities to protect it and a circular to restrict logging of the species.
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EXPANDING HABITATS FOR TWO ENDEMIC AND CRITICALLY ENDANGERED BIRDS IN NGANGAO FOREST,TAITA HILLS, KENYA.
Taita Apalis and Taita Thrush are critically endangered birds endemic to Taita Hills and are both threatened with extinction. It is race against time as their habitats continue to be lost. In this work we struggle to expand their habitats to safe them from possible extinction.
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Seeking people-primate coexistence: endangered primate responses to anthropogenic activities and land transformation in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
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Range-wide population status, genetics, and conservation of the pancake tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri) in east Africa
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RIPPLE Africa's Fish Conservation Project helps local communities in the Nkhata Bay District of northern Malawi to preserve and increase stocks of the endangered cichlid, Oreochromis lidole (Chambo Fish) in Lake Malawi. Fish Conservation Committees made up of local people educate fishermen, issue local fishing permits, monitor the size and mesh sizes of of nets and enforce a closed breeding season.
View Chambo Fish project