Stories on nature conservation from the partners of the Land Acquisition Fund of the IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands. The Land Acquisition Fund provides small grants to local NGOs to acquire threatened patches of wilderness to protect and connect the habitats of endangered species. For more information, see: www.iucn.nl/en/solutions/land-acquisition
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Alberto Campos is a conservation biologist, and he is one of the founders and the director of Aquasis, a Brazilian NGO promoting endangered species and habitat conservation in the state of Ceará. Alberto is also a PhD candidate at the University of British Colombia. With Alberto, we talk about: - His commitment to protect the Araripe Manakin - Why …
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Hana Raza is well-known for her ground-breaking work for the conservation of the Persian Leopard, a leopard subspecies which lives in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Hana is a graduate in Ecology and Wildlife Conservation and works for the NGO Nature Iraq. In 2011, Hana and her team rediscovered the once thought to be extinc…
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Marcy Summers is well-known for her outstanding work for the conservation of the maleo, a chicken-like bird that only lives on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. In 2006, Marcy co-founded ALTO - Alliance for the Tompotika Conservation - a local NGO which protects, among other species, the maleo bird. With Marcy, we talk about: - Her life-changing d…
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