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Conservation Leadership Programme 2021 Team Awards announced

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2021

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Oryx , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , July 2021 , pp. 493
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In April, the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) announced the winners of its 2021 Team Awards, which will provide support for 22 teams of early-career conservationists leading critical projects on globally threatened species. These local biodiversity champions will receive project funding worth a combined total of USD 437,405, thanks to support from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

As part of the award, one member from each team will participate in CLP's international Conservation Leadership & Management course, which aims to bolster trainees’ careers by building their professional skills and peer-to-peer networks. For the second consecutive year, the course will be held online, followed by an in-person reunion when it is safe to do so. The awardees will also benefit from long-term mentoring from experts working within the conservation sector and will join CLP's global alumni network to gain access to learning resources, grants, and other key information to further sustain their future as conservation leaders.

This year's award-winning projects will take place in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Africa, undertaking research and conservation action for threatened species, including the black softshell turtle Nilssonia nigricans, red panda Ailurus fulgens and lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus in India; blue-winged goose Cyanochen cyanoptera in Ethiopia; sand-dune lizard Liolaemus multimaculatus in Argentina; and horseshoe crab Tachypleus tridentatus in Indonesia. Other marine-related projects will focus on conserving coral reefs in Brazil and the last remaining population of the Ganges river dolphin Platanista gangetica in Nepal.

Two Conservation Leadership Awards (USD 50,000 each) were granted this year. These 2-year projects will support CLP alumni to build on their previous work and ensure long-term conservation outcomes. One project will expand its conservation work on the Togo slippery frog Conraua derooi from Ghana into Togo, and the other will continue conserving threatened endemic bat species in Viet Nam.

To view a full list of the funded projects, visit conservationleadershipprogramme.org/our-projects/latest-projects-2021. The Conservation Leadership Programme was initiated in 1985 and is a partnership between BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora International and the Wildlife Conservation Society.