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25 MARKS OF SUCCESS by Wally and Joni Van Sickle Twenty-five years of working to conserve the biodiversity • In 2006, Roy Young and Rosa Venezia donated a building to of a planet is a challenge to summarize in one page. Realizing IDEA WILD, which has generated almost $900,000 in revenue this is just the very tip of the iceberg, we decided to simply to date. present 25 marks of success. Success can be broadly defined as • Long time investors Chan and Mary Jane Mortimer are an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. IDEA WILD’s purpose received with much enthusiasm as they design international is to equip, empower, and activate the world’s most promising trips to visit projects they have supported through IDEA WILD. environmental leaders to grow and strengthen the movement to • Foundation donors like the Moore Family Foundation and conserve the planet’s biodiversity. Swift Foundation have loyally supported IDEA WILD for • Together we have raised over 9 million dollars--starting with a sixteen years straight (very rare) and have directly made over $10 check. twelve hundred projects possible. • Eighty-five percent of all money raised went directly to the • Jason and Lisa Koppmann were the first of many front lines of conservation. compassionate people to ever sponsor a whole project and • Practice-based conservation has been encouraged over pure have continued to do so every year for over 20 years. science and policy based conservation. • Our long term investment in the cause is realized by the fact • Equipment has been sent to projects in 119 countries. that ninety-seven percent of all our recipients are still working • Almost half (47%) of our recipients worked with indigenous in the field of conservation biology. groups and 82% worked with local stakeholders who rely on • We have been astounded by the dedication of our sheroes healthy ecosystems for their survival. and heroes such as Arif Setiawan, who rode a bus for 16 • Staff and volunteers have traveled and introduced IDEA WILD hours to hand deliver his proposal requesting binoculars to to environmental leaders at universities, non-profits, protected help conserve an endangered primate in Indonesia. areas, and government agencies in 41 countries. • Countless quotes express appreciation for our efforts, such • We have created an army of conservation heroes and sheroes as this one from Bill Lamar, Herpetologist and award winning and have provided equipment directly to 5163 environmental author: “I cannot tell you how often I have run into happy leaders recipients of your largesse. I just wish there were • On average, equipment was used on not more funding organizations as direct as one but three conservation projects, yours.” expanding our impact to over • We are pioneers in the field of 15,000. conservation biology, reaching beyond • Over 4500 dedicated people fuzzy cute red pandas and other have helped hand deliver charismatic species to support projects equipment (97% success) conserving rare plants, tarantulas, to the environmental snails, naked mole rats, caecilians, leaders saving thousands bats, insects, fungi, soil nematodes, of donor dollars on and ugly fish. shipping costs. • Optimism remains our number • Over 45,000 passionate one value. volunteer hours have been • Open mindedness given with heartfelt purpose. dominates the mindset in • Millions of data points have our small but mighty team of been collected-- each offering empowered staff, volunteers, a clue to conserving a species board, donors, and recipients. or ecosystem. • We are still the only • Numerous protected areas have conservation organization on the planet that been created including the newest provides small equipment grants, making us national park in Costa Rica, Los more popular each year -- We have received 7266 Quetzales National Park. proposals in the last 15 years, and 777 in the last • Many new plant, fungi, bird, reptile, mammal, year alone. fish, insect, and amphibian species have been • Our work greatly affects the next seven discovered and a Cuban isopod and Colombian generations of humanity and passing on a world bee have been named in my honor-- quite an of undiminished options is the ultimate success. honor indeed. YOU ARE A PART OF OUR CONTINUED SUCCESS - THANK YOU!

IDEA WILD BIODIVERSITY / 2017 he was on a dive trip in Coral Bay as possible existing A RAY OF HOPE there, saying goodbye by Wally Van Sickle III when his dive boat was hit by to the cities and their a 30 foot wave. Owen unwanted comforts. Her Endless streamers of sand stretch broke his back and personal mission drives for miles across a wilderness of shallow her to protect that forest coastal waters. Blues of every shade and its inhabitants and mark the differing depths of sea water she knows that unless she brings back and add color between the patterns of THE LAST UNICORN the scientific evidence to prove the saola, and anything else that triggers the bright sand. The landscape is modified by Wally Van Sickle III worth of the forest to her fellow traps. Currently, anti-poaching patrols daily by the motion of the water creating species, she will not be able to have removed over 130,000 snares. An patterns reflecting wave and wind. A precipitous mountain save it. unknown number remain and they are Offshore sand cays break the surface and range forms a spine between Camille is French, constantly being reset. occasionally offer a surface for vegetation Vietnam and Laos. Over 600 miles of though growing up The Lao word for conservation is to take hold. Such is the water nation of during the near rough, steep, and in places impenetrable in the French “anoulak” and when Camille began her The Bahamas. death experience and recovery he provide jungle covers the ancient mountain range. Caribbean, she Ph.D. research in 2011 she simultaneously The black outline of a giant batoid connected to his life’s purpose. No longer warm Peaks are often shrouded in clouds and never lived a founded a conservation organization glides through the coastal shallows satisfied with a life of aimless wandering he shallow rainfall, as moisture laden winds come day of her life with the name Project ANOULAK flapping its underwater wings. Shimmering knew it was time to do something for the resting, in off the Gulf of Tonkin and inundate in France. In (http://conservationlaos.com/). They help streams of light reflect off the back, creating ocean and its many life forms. feeding, the isolated Annamite Mountain range particular, conduct active patrols and snare removal, a mirage-like effect and adding mystery He went on to earn his BSc, first breeding, with a tropical monsoon climate. Several she train Laotian students to be the next to this ancient resident of the sea. The class honours degree and Ph.D. in marine and nursery thousand feet below on the eastern has generation of conservationist, conduct ray is seeking the warmth of the shallow ecology with a doctoral thesis entitled, areas. Impacts side a flat plain leads to school based education programs and water where abundant sunshine heats up “The ecology and biology of stingrays are likely even the sea. they inform, engage, and empower local its body. Food lies just under the sand. (Dasyatidae) at Ningaloo Reef, Western more significant As the full moon communities in ecosystem protection. Electrosensitivity allows the ray to locate Australia.” Before leaving Australia, Owen in creek systems rose over Bach Ma Wildlife research is also a vital component hidden prey items and fill its stomach. published 11 scientific publications with his and offshore National Park, the sky of ANOULAK and helps keep Camille in sand cays where turned to a dark purple the forest. juvenile life hue with the Annamites Her Ph.D. research required OWEN RICHARD O’SHEA : THE BAHAMAS history stages are changing from a vibrant green bioacoustic software, weather interrupted. to darker purple. A moving stations, and a laptop computer Owen and his carpet of moonlit fog found to estimate density, taxonomic Overhead an unusual object advisor and mentor, Mark Meekan. Soon team, with the help its way through the passes and status, and behavioral ecology whizzes past. A modern day technological after, in 2013, he took a research position of a donated drone over the steep edge falling towards of the white-cheeked gibbon marvel in the form of a tiny drone carries a with the Shark Research and Conservation from IDEA WILD, work the sea. The scene was surreal and and other primates. All were camera and sends real time video back to Program at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in to assess population created an other-worldly landscape. provided by IDEA WILD. a nearby researcher intent on locating and The Bahamas while also teaching at the estimates, relative Somewhere out in the moonlit been GPS units, two-way radios, tagging rays. The ray has been spotted Island School where hundreds of students abundance and demography jungle a unicorn like animal slipped into dedicated and vegetation measuring and now the hunter becomes the hunted. learn about the marine ecosystem. Owen of two species of stingray: the a pool for a drink. Unusually long, black to primate research even gear were provided in two Within a few moments, a corral of promotes local environmental issues in southern stingray and chupare parallel horns with sharp tips adorn its as a young girl, and now works to help additional IDEA WILD equipment human legs shows up and surrounds the regional schools as well as important life whiptail stingray. The drone will head. The animal is an ancient, ancestral conserve some of the most beautiful grants to ANOULAK. ray. Waves splash at the waist and knees of lessons, like learning to believe in yourself be used over different seasons and bovid and is one of the world’s rarest primates on the planet including the red- Rachel Carson said “Those who the research crew. The silhouette of a giant and your ability to go out in the world in different habitats to collect data that animals. White patches and whiskers shanked douc and white cheeked gibbon. dwell among the beauties and mysteries man with a large net closes in and expertly and make a difference. In 2017 Owen would not be possible with conventional embellish a chocolate brown face. The Recently published in the Journal of of the earth are never alone or weary of and without harm captures the ray. Next, founded CORE, the Centre for Ocean means. The information will help create animal is silent and stealthy and is almost Primatology is Camille’s scientific article life.” Camille is one of those people and his team takes weight and morphometric Research and Education, with the goal a framework for an ecosystem driven never seen by human eyes. The saola, as on the singing patterns of white-cheeked we are honored to help her in her efforts measurements, as well as genetic and of conducting applied scientific research approach to conservation and hopefully it is called, was not even discovered by gibbons in the Annamite Mountains to conserve the beauties and mysteries of blood samples. A tag is attached as a final and establishing educational initiatives maintain viable habitat for these amazing science until 1992! of Laos. Understanding these singing the Annamite Mountains. task and the ray is released back into the for Bahamian students and communities sea creatures. The Annamite Mountains are full of patterns is extremely useful to conducting wilds of The Bahamas. (www.coresciences.org). astounding and endemic biodiversity. The population estimates and monitoring their Project Cost: $690, $1100, $1073 Project Cost: $1154 Annamite rabbit, red-shanked douc, large conservation efforts. OWEN RICHARD O’SHEA HOW IDEA WILD MADE A DIFFERENCE antlered muntjac, white-cheeked gibbon, Indochinese tiger, Asian elephants, and Owen Richard O’Shea is indeed a It is currently estimated that sharks Chinese pangolin are a few of the many CAMILLE NOEMIE ZOE COUDRAT : LAOS giant of a man. He not only gives pause and rays are harvested by humans at a mammal species. Multicolored pheasants to the rays he captures but to the many rate of 11,000 per hour and approximately and other birds add even more color and students he works with. His robust stature, 100 million per year. This level of harvest diversity to the landscape. Her doctoral research was titled, “Primate distribution, abundance and curly entangled hair, and limbs covered far exceeds what is sustainable and what conservation in Nakai-Nam Theun National with tattoos give him the appearance of a possibly could recover. Sharks and rays CAMILLE NOEMIE ZOE COUDRAT Viking warrior. However these judgmental take long times to mature, grow slowly, by Wally Van Sickle III & Protected Area, central eastern Laos: stereotypes could not be farther from the and produce few young over their lifetimes. Janelle Kaczmarzewski implications for future local conservation truth. In reality, Owen is a grand teddy Thankfully some nations, like The Bahamas project” and her master’s research bear. Even his numerous tattoos of manta in 2011, have completely banned shark also related to primate conservation rays and sharks reflect all the marine fishing. in the western Cardamom Mountains animals he loves and works to conserve. Unfortunately, coastal modification of Cambodia. Camille has also taught Originally from the U.K., a young and degradation in The Bahamas is affecting conservation methods at the National Owen wandered south to Western Australia both sharks and rays. These impacts include University of Laos and has published where his life path radically shifted. At 22, displacement from selective habitats that numerous children’s books regarding Owen O’Shea wildlife conservation in the Annamite Camille Mountains. is definitely PRESIDENT / FOUNDER: BOARD OF DIRECTORS: MISSION: HOW IDEA WILD MADE A DIFFERENCE Wally Van Sickle, M.S. Alexander Higgins, J.D. IDEA WILD works to equip, empower and activate a tiny SECRETARY / CO-FOUNDER: Mimi Hillenbrand, M.S. the world’s most promising environmental leaders superhero. The beautiful, magical, and Joni Triantis Van Sickle, M.S. Frederick Lindzey, Ph.D. to grow and strengthen the movement She is one PROJECT DIRECTOR: Chan Mortimer to conserve the planet’s of the people mysterious Annamite flora and fauna are under threat due to the endless demand Ann Marie Gage Jim Quinlan biodiversity. who are most DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT: Richard Reading, Ph.D. of the bush meat and traditional Asian IDEA WILD is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. at home in the Camille Coudrat Nicole Patterson Kate Readio medicine markets. Commercial poachers Contributions are tax-deductible. forest. Her first 420 Riddle Drive NEWSLETTER: are able to navigate the difficult terrain Tax ID # 83-0299770 choice would be to Fort Collins, CO 80521 Ann Marie Gage spend as much time and set up long lines of wire cable snares (970) 482-6748 which indiscriminately capture primates, All illustrations by Wally Van Sickle III [email protected] • www.ideawild.org

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When top predators disappear, all hell breaks loose. Ecosystems that are normally kept in check by the culling that occurs via predators get out of control as prey populations explode. The resulting imbalance is unsustainable. This dynamic has been witnessed by biologists in the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, where harpy eagles have become rare. The eagles are In the last two decades, Africa’s giraffe populations have decreased by 35%. killed in retaliation for predation on domestic animals, and hunted Estimates suggest there are about 90,000 individuals remaining in the wild. for food and for sport. Everton Bernardo Pereira de Miranda Some of these live in the deserts of northwestern Namibia. Emma Hart was used cameras to monitor the nests of harpy eagles to learn about the first to investigate the social organization and acoustic communications these dynamics. He determined how the gender, chick stage, and Photos courtesy Emma Hart (UCD, GCF) of giraffes in this region. She also compared the population dynamics of other factors impact prey selection. He also investigated how the elephants and giraffes in relation to predation and foraging competition. The study is part of a long term monitoring program by the Giraffe activity patterns of prey are affected by the presence of harpy eagles in the vicinity, and the effects of abandoned carcasses on harpy Conservation Foundation (GCF). It provided important data for improved giraffe conservation management. Emma trained Namibian eagle feeding. IDEA WILD provided climbing equipment that enabled Everton and the undergraduate students and volunteers working on students and community game guards to use the binoculars, camera, GPS, and external hard drive supplied by IDEA WILD. Emma and the project to install cameras over harpy eagle nests. The equipment will remain in use for the duration of this long term project. Findings her team collaborated closely with local communities to build relationships, alleviate human-animal conflict in the area, and increase were published in Everton’s doctoral dissertation and in scientific journals, documented on national television, and publicized for bird peoples’ awareness of the ecological and economic importance of giraffes, elephants and their habitat. Findings were shared with local watchers. Cost: $600 and international stakeholders, provided to policy makers, reported to the Giraffe Database, and published in Emma’s doctoral thesis, peer reviewed scientific journals, and in the popular press. Cost: $780 Photos courtesy Georgia Coward The Maldive Islands lie just 4.5 feet above sea level. They harbor the seventh largest reef system in the world and serve as vital habitat for countless species migrating between Africa and Indonesia. The Maldives are also among the most densely populated island nations, with very little land and ever-rising sea levels. This makes reef resources critical for human survival. They provide the primary source of protein, employment from fishing, and revenue from tourism. Tourism alone supplies about 30% of the gross national product. The reefs also protect residents from monsoons and tsunami waves. However, extensive coral mining to support land reclamation and provide building materials has caused degradation and loss of entire reef systems. Georgia Coward helped to rehabilitate the Maldives degraded reef systems. She developed and implemented a novel technique to grow corals. It requires little maintenance and produces corals that can be easily transplanted from a nursery to the reef of interest. “Reef Guardian” high school students and marine biologists were trained in coral reef mariculture. This included training in the use of four temperature loggers and a camera with an underwater housing donated by IDEA WILD. The temperature loggers remain on the reef for monitoring. The camera GCF reports that a recent genetic study on giraffe taxonomy by their team and partners was given to the Reef Guardian club to continue engagement in coral reef rehabilitation has revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species with five subspecies. It is unknown and monitoring. Georgia produced a manual containing techniques to grow coral, whether the different species have interbred (hybridized) in their overlapping ranges. develop nurseries, and transplant corals to degraded reefs. This was distributed to GCF collects tissue biopsy samples from giraffe populations with sampling equipment schools, resorts, and agencies working to conserve coral reefs throughout the Maldives. Results were published in scientific journals, supplied by IDEA WILD. After analysis, these results will provide crucial information on the CORAL magazine, on social media, and in presentations at resorts, and scientific conferences. Cost: $1170 genetic diversity of giraffe populations.

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25 MARKS OF SUCCESS: IDEA WILD founders reflect after 25 years Dan and Glenda Adams, Gaetan Spake and of biodiversity conservation efforts. (Page 1) Allison Adams, Heman and Pat Adams, Darcy IDEA WILD Anderson, Melissa Arnotti, Harold and Elsa Arns, Kathy Bacon, Lynne and Ron Baker, A RAY OF HOPE: A dedicated researcher and educator in R.J. and Marlowe Bareis, Robert and Barbara SUPPORTERS Belle, Richard Bender, Harold and Annie Bergman, Christian Bilyeu, Kari Blackett, Jessie2016 Lowry and Blank Park The Bahamas harnesses his passion for stingrays in an Zoo, Richard and Ann Boelter, Dave and June Boon, Jim and Pam Borglum, Carrie Bowers, Robert and Elizabeth ecosystem driven approach to conservation. (Page 3) Bowers, Susan Braunstein, Lila Bredberg, Douglas Brown, Ray and Carole Brown, Amanda Broz, Robert and Michelle Bunnell, Ekdal Buys, Sheila Cain, Alan Carner, Kaye Lynne and James Carpenter, Dennis and Cheryl Catalano, THE LAST UNICORN: IDEA WILD empowers Becky and Jean-Pierre Cavigelli, Tom and Jean Christen, Jane and Kelly Clark, Elizabeth Cohen, Brian Colon, Kibbe Conti, Mickey Conway, Mary Jo Crawford, Sandra Cumming, Larry and Constance Dahlstrom, Dakota Charitable a Lao conservation NGO with tools for local Foundation, Tom and Gia Danson, Randy and Collette Decker, Roy and Mary Deibert, Dawn Demers, Laura Gippert communities to protect the ecosystem and and Sam DeNunzio, Richard Draegy, Sensei and Michelle Dusenbery, Joni Ellis, Louise Ewing, Family Dental Care, Mary Jo Farrington, Kaeley Fenhaus, Scott and Wanda Finch, Sue Francis, Darrell and Lori Frank, Jessie Franz, Larry species of the Annamite Mountains. 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