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Conservation Leadership Programme celebrates landmark USD 10 million in project fundingawarded
Since 1985, the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) has been helping early-career conservationists around the world gain experience, confidence and a support network in the conservation sector. To achieve its capacity-building objectives, CLP offers training, mentorship and networking opportunities to these rising stars in conservation, along with project funding to support their vitalwork to save globally threatened species. This year CLP is delighted to have reached a cumulative total of over USD 10 million of project funding awarded since 1985, representing a significant landmark for the programme since it was first established 35 years ago. The landmark funding amount has supported a total of 819
vital conservation projects across the world, mainly based in developing countries in Africa, Asia & Pacific, Eurasia, Latin Americaand theCaribbean, and theMiddleEast. Most of these projects have received grants through the annual CLP Team Awards, totalling c. USD 8.3 million to date.Other sup- ported projects are CLP internships, in which young conser- vationists are placed within a CLP partner organization where they can gain valuable training and work experience to help advance their careers in conservation. Other projects have been funded through the Kate Stokes Memorial Award (an additional award specifically for CLP alumni) and past Research Fellowship Programmes. These CLP-funded projects havemade key contributions
to conservation worldwide, including new research findings to inform conservation efforts, the discovery of new species, the designation of protected sites, and the establishment of
newNGOs.Many CLP alumni have gone on to lead success- ful careers in conservation. Current positions include the Head of Science at IUCN, Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Conservation Leadership and Education for Nature Program at WWF. This year, the CLP Team Awards is funding 19 projects
with grants worth a combined total of USD 342,830, thanks to support from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The funding will support crit- ical projects across the world focused on saving a range of threatened species across various taxa. Additionally, the 2020 Kate Stokes Memorial Award is supporting a project in Madagascar focused on educating and training local people to adopt sustainable forest man- agement in Mangabe Reserve, an important refuge for threatened wildlife such as the Critically Endangered golden mantilla frog Mantella aurantiaca and indri lemur Indri indri. CLP has also supported three internships with Fauna &Flora International this year, including community forestry
of mangroves in Myanmar, conservation of fruit-and-nut forests in Tajikistan, and marine protected area development and monitoring in Cambodia. CLP is already planning to add to this landmark in project
funding when it announces the winners of the 2021 Team Awards in April 2021. To view a full list of the projects sup- ported by CLP since it was established, visit conservation
leadershipprogramme.org/our-projects/supported-projects. CLP is a partnership between BirdLife International, Fauna& Flora International, and theWildlife Conservation Society.
KATE TOINTON (
orcid.org/0000-0002-7106-8606) Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK E-mail
kate.tointon@
fauna-flora.org
A new action plan developed for the Cape parrot and its habitat
The Cape parrot Poicephalus robustus is endemic to South Africa, with c. 1,800 individuals patchily distributed across Southern Mistbelt forests in three provinces (Downs et al., 2019, 22nd Annual Parrot Count,
cpwg.ukzn.ac.za/wp- content/uploads/2020/08/CPBBD-report-2019.pdf). A taxo- nomic review in 2017 led to the Cape parrot being recognized as adistinct speciesbyIUCN(Collar&Fishpool, 2017,Bulletin of the African Bird Club, 24, 156–170). It was subsequently categorized asVulnerable globally and Endangered nationally (Downs, 2015, EskomRed Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland). Threats to Cape parrots are diverse, including habitat loss and degradation, disease and illegal trade (Downs et al., 2014, Ostrich, 85, 273–875). A10-year conservation action plan for the specieswas first
developedin2002(Warburtonet al.,2002,CapeParrotAction Plan,
academia.edu/2820649/Cape_Parrot_Poicephalus_ robustus_Action_Plan). However, given substantial devel- opments in knowledge, threats, and conservation practice, an updated plan was needed. Consequently, local and inter- national stakeholders, in partnership with the IUCN Spe- cies Survival Commission Conservation Planning Specialist Group, convened for a 2-day workshop in September 2019. Forty-eight participants took part from 23 academic in- stitutions, governmental departments, parastatal and non- governmental organizations, and private enterprises from within the species’ range. The workshop process was guided by a hybrid Conservation Planning Specialist Group/open standards approach (
cmp-openstandards.org). On the first day, participants reviewed the status of the species, defined conservationaims, identified threats and pro-
Oryx, 2020, 54(6), 759–762 © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International. doi:10.1017/S0030605320000642
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