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10 May 202120 May 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Take part: Horizon scan survey on community based conservation

News survey

Take part: Horizon scan survey on community based conservation The Calgary Zoological Foundation is undertaking a Horizon Scan of the risks and opportunities in community-based conservation, and is hoping for your participation. They would be most grateful if you could kindly identify and describe at least one obstacle to, and one opportunity for effective community-based conservation within the next 15 years. They define ‘effective’ community-based conservation as contributing to positive conservation and livelihood outcomes. Your responses will be anonymous, but…

27 Apr 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Woman in conservation interview: Kalyar Platt, Turtle Survival Alliance

Meet the Partners women in conservation

Kalyar Platt, PhD is Director of the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) Myanmar Program based in Yangon Myanmar. Did you have a role model that influenced your decision to work in conservation? The role model that influenced my decision to work in the field of wildlife conservation is the internationally recognised chimpanzee expert Dr. Jane Goodall who advocated for chimpanzee protection for 55+ years. Women conservationists face criticism in Myanmar just like Dr. Goodall faced early in her…

20 Apr 202106 May 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Latest Red List update means 24 tortoises and freshwater turtles in Southeast Asia are now listed as Critically Endangered

Articles, News Red List, tortoise and freshwater turtles

Latest Red List update means 24 tortoises and freshwater turtles in Southeast Asia are now listed as Critically Endangered The recent update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM saw five freshwater turtles in Southeast Asia newly listed as Critically Endangered. These latest assessments bring the total number of Critically Endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles in the region to 24. In addition, there were seven freshwater fishes newly assessed as being on the brink of extinction. This brings the…

17 Mar 202118 Mar 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Woman in conservation interview: Kanitha Krishnasamy, TRAFFIC

Meet the Partners, News women in conservation

Kanitha Krishnasamy is the Director for Southeast Asia at TRAFFIC. Why did you choose to become a conservationist? I think in some ways conservation chose me! I’ve always had an interest in animals, and wanted to learn more about them. But the Malaysian public education system is such that you don’t often get what you want. I was offered a degree in Forestry, which was not something I had selected. Learning about the forestry industry (which…

04 Mar 202117 Mar 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Woman in conservation interview: Marites Gatan-Balbas, Mabuwaya Foundation

Meet the Partners women in conservation

I am Marites Gatan-Balbas, but most people call me Tess. I am the Chief Operating Officer of the Mabuwaya Foundation. I manage the day-to-day activities of the foundation, but I love giving school lectures, organising workshops, facilitating community consultations and coordinating with our partners and collaborators. Why did you choose to become a conservationist? I am a graduate of Forestry. My parents are farmers, but they were able to send me to the local university in Isabela Province….

04 Mar 202104 Mar 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Woman in conservation interview: Mirza Kusrini, Bogor University

Meet the Partners, News women in conservation

Mirza is a lecturer at the Faculty of Forestry & Environment, Institut Pertanian Bogor University, and a researcher, focusing on amphibians and reptiles. How did you choose your field of study? Nature and wildlife always fascinated me when I was a child. It was not only my parents that brought me to nature, growing up I watched documentaries like Born Free and read the Adventure series of young adult books written by Willard Price. The protagonists…

03 Mar 202104 Mar 2021 by speciesonthebrink

Woman in conservation interview: Trang Nguyen, WildAct

Meet the Partners women in conservation

Trang Nguyen is the Founder and Executive Director of WildAct. Did you have a role model that influenced your decision to work in conservation? Dian Fossey definitely had a big impact in my career choice. I remember when I was very small and back in the day where wildlife conservation was a very new concept in Vietnam, I watched Gorillas in the Mist. I had some very first ideas of what conservationists and conservation researchers do…

24 Feb 202124 Feb 2021 by speciesonthebrink

ASAP talks freshwater fish with Mike Baltzer from Shoal

Meet the Partners, News freshwater fish

To celebrate the launch of WWF’s report ‘Forgotten Fishes’, we spoke with Mike Baltzer, Executive Director of Shoal. Mike shared his thoughts on the threats facing freshwater fishes globally and in Southeast Asia, as well as some of the reasons he is hopeful for the future. A report called Forgotten Fishes has just been released by WWF, which Shoal collaborated on. Can you briefly summarise the report? The report is a call to action by many of the leading…

17 Dec 2020 by speciesonthebrink

Urgent action needed as 16 freshwater fish in Southeast Asia declared Extinct in latest Red List update

Articles, News extinction, freshwater fish, Red List

Urgent action needed as 16 freshwater fish in Southeast Asia declared Extinct in latest Red List update The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, published last week, saw 31 species moved into the globally Extinct category. Among these were 16 freshwater fish from Southeast Asia, a substantial portion of which were endemic to Lake Lanao and its outflow stream in the Philippines. The update also saw 24 species in Southeast Asia newly listed as Critically Endangered,…

19 Oct 2020 by speciesonthebrink

First Rapid Action Fund grants made amid COVID-19 impacts

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First Rapid Action Fund grants made amid COVID-19 impacts After recently launching the first ASAP species grant programmes exclusively for ASAP Partners, we are excited to have already been able to award 5 grants under the ASAP Species Rapid Action Fund, addressing urgent conservation needs of ASAP species. Response to the ASAP Species Conservation Grants was overwhelming, with over 50 applications submitted. Only a limited number of projects can be supported, and we will be announcing successful projects in December. …