RFP: Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction Winner projects 2018 Q3 1st round SSC Num. Applicant Project Title Citizenship Residency Gender Amount Specialist Group Taxa Region A multidisciplinary approach to safeguarding cheetah and African wild dogs 1 Jessica Watermeyer South Africa Zimbabwe F $49,660 Cat & Canid Mammals Africa in southern Zimbabwe 2 Steeves Buckland Saving the world’s rarest duck – releasing the first Madagascar pochards Mauritius Madagascar M $29,800 Duck Birds Africa 3 Christopher Jordan* Addressing the Threat of Baird’s Tapir Poaching in Central America US Nicaragua M $40,000 Tapir Mammals America 4 Eddy Kambale Syaluha Health monitoring for critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas Congo DRC M $19,280 Primate Mammals Africa 5 Darcy Ogada* Stop Poisoning Now: tackling wildlife poisoning in northern Kenya Kenya Kenya F $33,775 Vulture Birds Africa Rangelands Restoration for Hirola, The World’s Most Endangered Antelope, 6 Abdullahi Ali* Kenya Kenya M $29,700 Antelope Mammals Africa Kenya 7 Dave L. Waldien* Conservation of Fiji’s Endangered Cave Bats US US M $35,146 Bat Mammals America 8 Ruston Hartdegen* Expanding an Amphibian Rescue Center at the Dallas Zoo US US M $18,955 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles America 9 Corinne Kendall* Saving Vultures in Southern Tanzania US US F $29,400 Vulture Birds America Building an Evidence Base for Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) Conservation 10 Phoebe Griffith UK UK F $29,275 Crocodile Amphibians and Reptiles Europe in Nepal 11 Lucy Keith-Diagne* African Manatee Research and Conservation US Senegal F $30,000 Sirenia Mammals Africa 12 Brian Crudge* Understanding motivations for hunting sun bears in Southeast Asia Ireland Cambodia M $31,000 Bear Mammals Asia 13 Jean Linsky Securing the future of threatened tree giants in Borneo Canada Taiwan F $50,000 Global Tree Plants Asia Critically Endangered Crocodiles as Underrepresented Flagships of the 14 Matthew Shirley* US US M $30,000 Crocodile Amphibians and Reptiles America Upper Guinea Forests Roost protection and demand reduction of the only known roost for the 15 Susan M. Tsang* US US F $48,000 Bat Mammals America Indonesian endemic gray flying fox Implementing the newly developed Conservation Action Plan for the 16 Constanza G. Napolitano* Chile Chile F $40,000 Cat Mammals America threatened Guigna (Leopardus guigna) in Chile Conservation of the banded ground-cuckoo Neomorphus radiolosus in 17 Margarita Baquero Ecuador Ecuador F $29,000 Birdlife Birds America northwest Ecuador 18 Richard Bergl Conservation of Africa's most endangered apes Ireland US M $30,264 Primate Mammals America Preserving a Mediterranean grasshopper on the 19 Laurent Tatin* France France M $29,290 Grasshopper Invertebrates Europe brink of extinction Poweshiek skipperling: Prairie Butterfly on the 20 Cale Nordmeyer US US M $29,600 Butterfly Invertebrates America Brink 12 * IUCN SSC Members Total $662,145 Average $33,107 RFP: Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction Winner projects 2018 Q3 2nd round SSC Num. Applicant Project Title Citizenship Residency Gender Amount Specialist Group Taxa Region 1 Ian Singleton Sumatran Orangutan Reintroduction at Jantho Nature Reserve, Indonesia United Kingdom Indonesia M $29,326 Primate Mammals Asia Grauer’s Gorilla Conservation in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic 2 Augustin Basabose Congo, Democr Congo, Democr M $29,660 Primate Mammals Africa Republic of the Congo A Refuge for Reintroduced Critically Endangered Amphibians in the Face of 3 Mike Hudson United Kingdom United Kingdom M $26,952 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles Europe the Worst Vertebrate Disease Ever Recorded CONSERVATION OF THE RECENTLY REDISCOVERED NUBIAN 4 Luca M Luiselli* Italy Italy M $30,390 Tortoise and freshwater tuAmphibians and Reptiles Europe FLAPSHELL TURTLE IN SOUTH SUDAN Using Artificial Nests to Improve Breeding Success of Endangered African 5 Kevin Graham United States United States M $50,000 Penguin Birds America Penguins 6 Mario Espinoza* Looking for lost fish: status of the largetooth sawfish in Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica M $44,583 Freshwater Fishes Fishes America 7 Serene Chng* Investigating the bird trade on the Malaysia-Thailand border Singapore Malaysia F $29,995 Asian Songbird Trade Birds Asia Conservation of the Critically Endangered White-bellied Heron, Ardea 8 Sarala Khaling India India F $50,000 Heron Birds Asia Insignis in Northeast India Using stable isotope ecology to save South Africa’s ‘living fossils’ today and 9 Katherine McCulloh United States United States F $50,000 Southern African Plant Plants America in the future 3 * IUCN SSC Members Total $340,906 Average $37,878 RFP: Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction Winner projects 2019 Q1 3rd round SSC Num. Applicant Project Title Citizenship Residency Gender Amount Specialist Group Taxa Region 1 Federico P. Kacoliris* Recovering the critically endangered El Rincon Stream Frog Argentina Argentina M $29,930 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles America Conservation Action for the Endangered Andean frog, Telmatobius 2 Roberto Elias Piperis* Peru Peru M $29,616 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles America macrostomus, in Junín and Pasco, Peru 3 teerapong pomun Fish Conservation Zones in the Ing and Mun River Basins Thailand Thailand M $26,700 Freshwater Fishes Fishes Asia Leaveraging technology to save the Fatu-Hiva Monarch (Pomarea whitneyi) 4 Thomas GHESTEMME France French Polynesia M $46,950 Invasive Species Birds Europe from extinction. Ambika Prasad Prasad Research and conservation for the Critically endangered Chinese pangolin in 5 Nepal Nepal M $29,780 Pangolin Mammals Asia Khatiwada* the eastern Himalaya of Nepal Monitoring and assessing populations of the northern sportive lemur in and 6 Edward Louis* United States United States M $28,229 Primate Mammals America around Montagne des Français, Madagascar 7 Vincent Droissart* Long-term conservation of the most threatened Malagasy orchids Belgium France M $40,000 Orchids Plants Europe Is continuous importation of European bumble bees driving the Patagonian 8 marina arbetman* Argentina Argentina F $45,000 Bumblebee Invertebrates America bumble bee to extinction? The Giant of the Pampas: creating the grassroots to conserve Ceratophrys 9 Gabriela Agostini* Argentina Argentina F $24,450 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles America ornata in the South American grasslands Creating and protecting an African flagship; addressing priority actions of the 10 Barney Long* United Kingdom United States M $45,000 Primate Mammals America newly launched Red Colobus Action Plan 11 George Bouroș Conserve the most endangered carnivore of Europe: European Mink Romania Romania M $29,800 Small Carnivores Mammals Europe 8 * IUCN SSC Members Total $375,455 Average $34,132 RFP: Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction Winner projects 2019 Q2 4th round SSC Num. Applicant Project Title Citizenship Residency Gender Amount Specialist Group Taxa Region Saving the Alagoas Antwren: a flagship species for conservation in the 1 Pedro Develey Brazil Brazil M $29,921 Birds Birds America northeast Atlantic Forest of Brazil FishNet Madagascar: Community led conservation management plan to 2 Brian Zimmerman* United Kingdom Madagascar M $39,496 Freshwater Fishes Fishes Africa save Critically Endangered freshwater fish species Investigating heritability of pathogen tolerance in threatened Panamanian 3 Luke Linhoff* United States Panama M $28,800 Amphibian Amphibians and Reptiles America frogs Impacts of Prawn trawling on species of Hammerhead sharks, Sawfishes, 4 Boaz Kaunda-Arara* Kenya Kenya M $45,300 Marine Fishes Fishes Africa Wedgefishes, and Guitarfishes in coastal Kenya Enhancing the protection and monitoring capacities of tamaraw populations 5 Emmanuel Schutz* France Philippines M $29,425 Asian Wild Cattle Mammals Asia in Mindoro, Philippines Capacity building for the conservation and management of the Orinoco 6 Omar Hernandez* Venezuela Venezuela M $29,292 Crocodile Amphibians and Reptiles America crocodile in Capanaparo River: A community approach 7 Christopher Kelly The KwaZulu-Natal Vulture Conservation Project South Africa South Africa M $30,000 Vulture Birds Africa 8 David O. Obura* Updating global policy with the extinction status of reef-building corals Kenya Kenya M $49,850 Coral Invertebrates Africa 9 Ricardo Boulhosa Jaguar conservation in the Iguaçu National Park in Brazil Brazil Brazil M $34,909 Cat Mammals America Establishment of a long-term monitoring programme for great apes in Monte 10 Grainne M. McCabe Ireland Equatorial Guinea F $32,734 Primate Mammals Africa Alen National Park, Equatorial Guinea The development of a recovery action strategy for the critically endangered Seahorse, Pipefish & 11 Louw Claassens* South Africa South Africa F $49,895 Fishes Africa Estuarine pipefish Syngnathus watermeyeri Seadragon Saving the remaining genetic diversity of species that are “extinct in the wild” 12 Abby Meyer* United States United States F $40,150 Hawaiian Plant Plants America : resurrecting Brighamia insignis Irene Margareth Romaria Strengthening protection of Javan leopards in a priority landscape of Meru 13 Indonesia Indonesia F $42,545 Cat Mammals Asia Pinondang Betiri, East Java, Indonesia Conserving Sunda Pangolins, Hairy-nosed Otters and Fishing Cats in the 14 Daniel Willcox* United Kingdom Vietnam M $29,800 Pangolin Mammals Asia forgotten wetlands of U Minh, southern Vietnam. 9 * IUCN SSC Members Total $512,118 Average $36,580 RFP: Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction Winner projects