Announcing the 2012 Africa and Asia Seed Grant Recipients!

• Posted at 5:15 pm on March 06, 2012 by Conservation & Science Staff
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Each year the zoo, with support from the Cleveland Zoological Society, chooses several individuals or organizations to receive seed grants ranging from $1000-$3000 for conservation and research projects.  These projects support wildlife and their habitats, or they help fund educational and cultural activities that can beneficially impact wildlife and wild places. 

This year, we chose four projects to support in Africa and five to support in Asia. 

The projects we chose in Africa include:

Jacob Lowenstein: Building scientific capacity for biomonitoring in the Bateke Plateaux

Michelle A. Slavin: Minimizing human-wildlife conflict by improving school community perceptions of wildlife in Kibale National Park

Peter Lindsey: Increasing capacity to protect an IUCN-listed ‘Key 1’ population of black rhinoceros from an intense poaching threat

Roger Parry: Conservation of African lion and cheetah through children’s conservation education and interaction to deter human-wildlife conflict

And the projects in Asia include:

Anthony J. Giordano: Conservation status of the fishing cat in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh

Birute Galdikas: Saving orangutans by safeguarding their habitat

Dol Raj Thanet: Community-based gharial conservation initiative in the Narayani River of Chitwan National Park

Johanna Rode: Trade in slow lorises and other primates on Java: Market and enthnoprimatological surveys

Pierre Fidenci: Indigenous people protecting the endemic Philippine tarsier and its habitat

You can find more information about these projects (and about projects from past years) on our website.