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💫Calling all CLP alumni... namely, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
It`s also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what`s happening across the alumni network.
Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven`t already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to seeing you there!
#WeAreCLP
💫Calling all CLP alumni... namely, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
It`s also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what`s happening across the alumni network.
Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven`t already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to seeing you there!
#WeAreCLP
🎉Great news- 2024 CLP Awardee Eva Ayaro and her project features in this @bbcnewsround article and other media this week - including the @the.independent and @skynews!
Yesterday our partner @faunafloraint published its `Ten Species to Watch in 2025` list, including the paperclip-sized Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon - one of the three chameleon species in Tanzania that Eva is working to protect with support from CLP.
We are delighted to see Eva and these miniature marvels, along with the nine other weird and wonderful species on the list, receiving this amazing media coverage. We hope this will help to highlight the need for continued conservation efforts and support for early-career leaders in 2025 and beyond.
Project leader Eva says, "Protecting the Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon is essential not only for conserving a unique species but also for safeguarding the rich biodiversity of Tanzania’s montane forests. This species is a symbol of resilience, yet it remains highly vulnerable. Its survival depends on our efforts to curb illegal trade and protect its delicate habitat."
💫 We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation for making Eva`s CLP project possible.
#WeAreCLP
🎉Great news- 2024 CLP Awardee Eva Ayaro and her project features in this @bbcnewsround article and other media this week - including the @the.independent and @skynews!
Yesterday our partner @faunafloraint published its `Ten Species to Watch in 2025` list, including the paperclip-sized Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon - one of the three chameleon species in Tanzania that Eva is working to protect with support from CLP.
We are delighted to see Eva and these miniature marvels, along with the nine other weird and wonderful species on the list, receiving this amazing media coverage. We hope this will help to highlight the need for continued conservation efforts and support for early-career leaders in 2025 and beyond.
Project leader Eva says, "Protecting the Nguru spiny pygmy chameleon is essential not only for conserving a unique species but also for safeguarding the rich biodiversity of Tanzania’s montane forests. This species is a symbol of resilience, yet it remains highly vulnerable. Its survival depends on our efforts to curb illegal trade and protect its delicate habitat."
💫 We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation for making Eva`s CLP project possible.
#WeAreCLP
🎆 Happy New Year from CLP! 🎆
May 2025 bring peace, joy, good health, and success to each and every one of you 💚
#WeAreCLP
🎆 Happy New Year from CLP! 🎆
May 2025 bring peace, joy, good health, and success to each and every one of you 💚
#WeAreCLP
Happy holidays from the CLP team! 💫
🎇 As we approach the end of the year, we want to extend our thoughts to each and every one of you, with all our very best wishes for the new year ahead 💚
#WeAreCLP
Happy holidays from the CLP team! 💫
🎇 As we approach the end of the year, we want to extend our thoughts to each and every one of you, with all our very best wishes for the new year ahead 💚
#WeAreCLP
🎁 As we approach the holidays, here`s our gift to you...
Follow our #linkinbio to check out our five top tips for successful conservation workshops, from those who know them best! 💫
🤩 After completing our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop back in October, we shared the positive feedback from our participants (read via our #linkinbio)
But now, we want to share the lessons our staff (the workshop facilitators) learned along with key insights on effective workshops from the participants themselves.
🌎 As we look ahead to 2025, and the complex challenges facing our planet, we hope these tips will help guide other workshops to effectively build the skills and knowledge of our future conservation leaders.
If these tips resonate with you and inspire you to implement them in your training, or have other ones to add to the list, let us know in the comments! 👇
#WeAreCLP #ConservationTraining
🎁 As we approach the holidays, here`s our gift to you...
Follow our #linkinbio to check out our five top tips for successful conservation workshops, from those who know them best! 💫
🤩 After completing our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop back in October, we shared the positive feedback from our participants (read via our #linkinbio)
But now, we want to share the lessons our staff (the workshop facilitators) learned along with key insights on effective workshops from the participants themselves.
🌎 As we look ahead to 2025, and the complex challenges facing our planet, we hope these tips will help guide other workshops to effectively build the skills and knowledge of our future conservation leaders.
If these tips resonate with you and inspire you to implement them in your training, or have other ones to add to the list, let us know in the comments! 👇
#WeAreCLP #ConservationTraining
👋 📽️ Meet Morgan Pendaries, a participant of our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
🌎 Morgan’s CLP project is focused on the conservation of a little-studied rodent in Argentina– the Wolffsohn’s viscacha.
🫶 Having attended our CML training, Morgan has returned to Argentina equipped with new knowledge and tools to help him advance his project.
🤝 We are also delighted to hear that the training allowed him to make connections with other early-career conservationists around the world who are facing similar challenges, which we hope will provide a unique peer-to-peer network for him to support his ongoing conservation efforts.
#WeAreCLP #ConservationTraining #ConservationLeadership
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👋 📽️ Conozca a Morgan Pendaries, uno participante en nuestro reciente taller de formación en Gestión y Liderazgo en Conservación (CML) en Ruanda.
🌎 El proyecto CLP de Morgan se enfoca sobre la conservación de un roedor poco estudiado: el Chinchillón Anaranjado.
🫶 Tras asistir a nuestra formación en Ruanda, Morgan ha regresado a Argentina equipado con nuevos conocimientos y herramientas que le ayudarán a avanzar en su proyecto.
🤝 También estamos encantados de saber que la formación le permitió ponerse en contacto con otros conservacionistas de todo el mundo que se enfrentan a desafíos similares, lo que esperamos que le brinde una red única para apoyar sus esfuerzos de conservación.
📽️ "En realidad, una de las cosas que más me gustó de la formación fue conocer a los demás participantes. Tenemos gente de Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Colombia... lugares a los que nunca fui. Es genial escucharlos hablar de sus especies y sus programas de conservación. Además, a veces tenemos problemos muy parecidos.
Vaishnavi y Sarika trabajan en la India con geckos y mariposas, pero tienen los mismos desafios que yo en la Patagonia. Viven muy lejos, pero tienen las mismas problemáticas como trabajar con especies poco conocidas y lugares remotos. Así que es muy bueno hablar con ellos. Y me entusiasma saber cómo desarrollarán su proyecto en el futuro."
👋 📽️ Meet Morgan Pendaries, a participant of our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
🌎 Morgan’s CLP project is focused on the conservation of a little-studied rodent in Argentina– the Wolffsohn’s viscacha.
🫶 Having attended our CML training, Morgan has returned to Argentina equipped with new knowledge and tools to help him advance his project.
🤝 We are also delighted to hear that the training allowed him to make connections with other early-career conservationists around the world who are facing similar challenges, which we hope will provide a unique peer-to-peer network for him to support his ongoing conservation efforts.
#WeAreCLP #ConservationTraining #ConservationLeadership
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👋 📽️ Conozca a Morgan Pendaries, uno participante en nuestro reciente taller de formación en Gestión y Liderazgo en Conservación (CML) en Ruanda.
🌎 El proyecto CLP de Morgan se enfoca sobre la conservación de un roedor poco estudiado: el Chinchillón Anaranjado.
🫶 Tras asistir a nuestra formación en Ruanda, Morgan ha regresado a Argentina equipado con nuevos conocimientos y herramientas que le ayudarán a avanzar en su proyecto.
🤝 También estamos encantados de saber que la formación le permitió ponerse en contacto con otros conservacionistas de todo el mundo que se enfrentan a desafíos similares, lo que esperamos que le brinde una red única para apoyar sus esfuerzos de conservación.
📽️ "En realidad, una de las cosas que más me gustó de la formación fue conocer a los demás participantes. Tenemos gente de Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Colombia... lugares a los que nunca fui. Es genial escucharlos hablar de sus especies y sus programas de conservación. Además, a veces tenemos problemos muy parecidos.
Vaishnavi y Sarika trabajan en la India con geckos y mariposas, pero tienen los mismos desafios que yo en la Patagonia. Viven muy lejos, pero tienen las mismas problemáticas como trabajar con especies poco conocidas y lugares remotos. Así que es muy bueno hablar con ellos. Y me entusiasma saber cómo desarrollarán su proyecto en el futuro."
🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to CLP alumnus, Cedrick Fogwan, on his recent "Science on a Shoestring" Award from @marinemammalogy.
This award recognizes groundbreaking, low-cost ideas that are having a major impact on marine conservation around the world.
🌊 Cedrick`s award honours his work with the @ammco_siren SIREN Citizen Science Program, an innovative, cost-effective approach to bridging data gaps and conserving marine wildlife in Africa.
Cedrick and the five other winners were presented with their awards on-stage at last month`s SMM conference in Perth, Australia.
In addition to receiving the award, Cedrick was selected to participate in a prestigious panel discussion where he shared insights into the development and implementation of the SIREN Citizen Science Program.
Cedrick said: "What an honour to be part of the "Science on Shoestring" panel, sharing our work with the real heroes – the fishermen who report their sightings through our Siren Citizen Science Program. It was also inspiring to learn about other shoestring conservation initiatives from around the world."
🥳 Please join us in congratulating Cedrick and the other 2024 winners: Wint Hte, Vu Long, Federico Secunzu, Nester Brix and Carlos Yaipen-LLanos.
🐸 Cedrick was first supported by CLP in 2022, through one of our Future Conservationist Awards, for his work protecting the goliath frog, an Endangered species being over-hunted for food and the pet trade in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
👉 Through his CLP award, including participation in our Conservation Management & Leadership training, plus a subsequent Kate Stokes Memorial Award for CLP alumni, Cedrick has persuaded several hunters in the Mount Nlonako Reserve, Cameroon, to become citizen scientists and record sightings of the goliath frog, and worked with local groups to help set up snail farming to provide an alternative food source. These efforts have led to rescuing multiple individuals of the goliath frog, and the species is now returning to new rivers in the reserve 🎉
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeadership
🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to CLP alumnus, Cedrick Fogwan, on his recent "Science on a Shoestring" Award from @marinemammalogy.
This award recognizes groundbreaking, low-cost ideas that are having a major impact on marine conservation around the world.
🌊 Cedrick`s award honours his work with the @ammco_siren SIREN Citizen Science Program, an innovative, cost-effective approach to bridging data gaps and conserving marine wildlife in Africa.
Cedrick and the five other winners were presented with their awards on-stage at last month`s SMM conference in Perth, Australia.
In addition to receiving the award, Cedrick was selected to participate in a prestigious panel discussion where he shared insights into the development and implementation of the SIREN Citizen Science Program.
Cedrick said: "What an honour to be part of the "Science on Shoestring" panel, sharing our work with the real heroes – the fishermen who report their sightings through our Siren Citizen Science Program. It was also inspiring to learn about other shoestring conservation initiatives from around the world."
🥳 Please join us in congratulating Cedrick and the other 2024 winners: Wint Hte, Vu Long, Federico Secunzu, Nester Brix and Carlos Yaipen-LLanos.
🐸 Cedrick was first supported by CLP in 2022, through one of our Future Conservationist Awards, for his work protecting the goliath frog, an Endangered species being over-hunted for food and the pet trade in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
👉 Through his CLP award, including participation in our Conservation Management & Leadership training, plus a subsequent Kate Stokes Memorial Award for CLP alumni, Cedrick has persuaded several hunters in the Mount Nlonako Reserve, Cameroon, to become citizen scientists and record sightings of the goliath frog, and worked with local groups to help set up snail farming to provide an alternative food source. These efforts have led to rescuing multiple individuals of the goliath frog, and the species is now returning to new rivers in the reserve 🎉
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #ConservationLeadership
👉 CLP Training Feedback! 🌟
Over the last month, our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop participants completed a post-training survey anonymously to give us their honest thoughts ...
👀 🙌 ...we are delighted to say that their responses were overwhelmingly positive 💫
✨ All survey respondents rated the training as "Excellent"
✨ One described it as a "truly transformative experience"
✨ Another testified to the "enormous learning" and "unique opportunity" provided by the training
🙌 As one survey respondent said – “I think there will be a before/after in my career, I’m so motivated” – our participants have now returned home from Rwanda equipped with renewed confidence, motivation and knowledge to embark on their vital conservation work.
🤝 Some have told us they have already started passing on what they learned to their team members to help them effectively deliver their CLP projects.
👍 Others are making changes to the way they run their own workshops as a result of the training: "I will integrate the skills and knowledge gained from the CLP training into [my institution`s] workshops, ensuring that participants benefit from practical, hands on learning experiences that can enhance their capacity in conservation and project management."
ℹ️ Follow our #LinkInBio to read more
We are incredibly grateful to the @hempelfoundation, the March Conservation Fund, Fondation Segré and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for their support.
We are also thankful for our partnership of @birdlife.international, @faunafloraint and @thewcs.
Last (but by no means least), we would like to thank our 2024 CML participants for taking time to give us their feedback; for their enthusiasm and dedication during the training; as well as the support, friendship and encouragement they have given each other throughout the journey 💚
📸All photos feature landscapes and wildlife from the wonderful training venue of @savinggorillas, Rwanda.
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #Conservation #Training #Rwanda #ConservationManagement #ConservationLeadership
👉 CLP Training Feedback! 🌟
Over the last month, our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop participants completed a post-training survey anonymously to give us their honest thoughts ...
👀 🙌 ...we are delighted to say that their responses were overwhelmingly positive 💫
✨ All survey respondents rated the training as "Excellent"
✨ One described it as a "truly transformative experience"
✨ Another testified to the "enormous learning" and "unique opportunity" provided by the training
🙌 As one survey respondent said – “I think there will be a before/after in my career, I’m so motivated” – our participants have now returned home from Rwanda equipped with renewed confidence, motivation and knowledge to embark on their vital conservation work.
🤝 Some have told us they have already started passing on what they learned to their team members to help them effectively deliver their CLP projects.
👍 Others are making changes to the way they run their own workshops as a result of the training: "I will integrate the skills and knowledge gained from the CLP training into [my institution`s] workshops, ensuring that participants benefit from practical, hands on learning experiences that can enhance their capacity in conservation and project management."
ℹ️ Follow our #LinkInBio to read more
We are incredibly grateful to the @hempelfoundation, the March Conservation Fund, Fondation Segré and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for their support.
We are also thankful for our partnership of @birdlife.international, @faunafloraint and @thewcs.
Last (but by no means least), we would like to thank our 2024 CML participants for taking time to give us their feedback; for their enthusiasm and dedication during the training; as well as the support, friendship and encouragement they have given each other throughout the journey 💚
📸All photos feature landscapes and wildlife from the wonderful training venue of @savinggorillas, Rwanda.
#WeAreCLP #ConservationLeadershipProgramme #Conservation #Training #Rwanda #ConservationManagement #ConservationLeadership
📽 Two of our 2024 awardees, Vaishnavi Apte and Ahirbudhnyan M, both from India, have a chat during our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training in Rwanda, at the incredible @savinggorillas campus💫
Vaishnavi explains to Ahir how she thought the training was "amazing" - particularly because of the fresh perspectives she gained from learning about other participants` projects and approaches, and the potential collaborations that have been kickstarted through this unique networking opportunity 🙌🤝
🦎 Vaishnavi and her team at @ncf.india are leading a CLP project to protect the Critically Endangered Satara gecko in the Western Ghats- a little-understood species found in only one unprotected lateritic plateau. The team is identifying key threats to this mysterious gecko and its unique habitat, and working with local people to formulate a conservation plan for the species.
🪶 Ahir and his team at @kscste_kfri are also undertaking a CLP project in the Western Ghats, but on a very different species: the Malabar grey hornbill (categorised as Vulnerable). A key seed disperser inhabiting unprotected forests and plantations, this species nests in the same tree cavities year after year, so the team is working with local people and landowners to tag this hornbill`s nesting trees and sites to protect them from logging and habitat loss.
#WeAreCLP
📽 Two of our 2024 awardees, Vaishnavi Apte and Ahirbudhnyan M, both from India, have a chat during our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training in Rwanda, at the incredible @savinggorillas campus💫
Vaishnavi explains to Ahir how she thought the training was "amazing" - particularly because of the fresh perspectives she gained from learning about other participants` projects and approaches, and the potential collaborations that have been kickstarted through this unique networking opportunity 🙌🤝
🦎 Vaishnavi and her team at @ncf.india are leading a CLP project to protect the Critically Endangered Satara gecko in the Western Ghats- a little-understood species found in only one unprotected lateritic plateau. The team is identifying key threats to this mysterious gecko and its unique habitat, and working with local people to formulate a conservation plan for the species.
🪶 Ahir and his team at @kscste_kfri are also undertaking a CLP project in the Western Ghats, but on a very different species: the Malabar grey hornbill (categorised as Vulnerable). A key seed disperser inhabiting unprotected forests and plantations, this species nests in the same tree cavities year after year, so the team is working with local people and landowners to tag this hornbill`s nesting trees and sites to protect them from logging and habitat loss.
#WeAreCLP
Meet 2023 CLP awardee Simon Ojodomo, from Nigeria, who joined us at our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
Simon is a team member of a CLP project focused on conserving the rare flowering plant, Dombeya ledermannii, which is found only in Nigeria and Cameroon.
This plant is losing its habitat and is being unsustainably exploited for bast fibre (a material used in the production of textiles, rope, twine, bagging materials and industrial fabrics), making it Critically Endangered on the #IUCNRedList.
To try to protect this species from further decline, Simon and his team set out to involve the local community in collecting ecological information on this plant and have already trained 25 people through their collaborators @aplori_org and @nigerianmontaneforestproject.
They have also developed a predicted distribution map, which has identified an interesting new location for D. ledermannii - the Obudu Plateau, where this species had not been reported to occur before.
The team now continue their vital work, helped by the valuable lessons Simon brought back with him from our CML workshop.
#WeAreCLP
Meet 2023 CLP awardee Simon Ojodomo, from Nigeria, who joined us at our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
Simon is a team member of a CLP project focused on conserving the rare flowering plant, Dombeya ledermannii, which is found only in Nigeria and Cameroon.
This plant is losing its habitat and is being unsustainably exploited for bast fibre (a material used in the production of textiles, rope, twine, bagging materials and industrial fabrics), making it Critically Endangered on the #IUCNRedList.
To try to protect this species from further decline, Simon and his team set out to involve the local community in collecting ecological information on this plant and have already trained 25 people through their collaborators @aplori_org and @nigerianmontaneforestproject.
They have also developed a predicted distribution map, which has identified an interesting new location for D. ledermannii - the Obudu Plateau, where this species had not been reported to occur before.
The team now continue their vital work, helped by the valuable lessons Simon brought back with him from our CML workshop.
#WeAreCLP
❓"What does `leadership` mean to you?"
This is what we asked our trainees on the last day of our Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop, which took place from 8-17 October in Kinigi, Rwanda.
👀 We think these brilliant responses from CML trainees @ezra_mremi @wild_notebook and @mawuseplay will inspire and resonate with many of you!
Our 18 trainees joined us at the incredible @savinggorillas campus committed to learn and develop as conservation leaders 💫
They left Rwanda equipped with new knowledge, tools and support to help them in their extraordinary efforts to save some of the world`s rarest and least understood species 🙌
We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation, the March Conservation Fund and Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
As ever, we thank our wonderful partnership of @birdlife.international, @faunafloraint and @thewcs.
#WeAreCLP
❓"What does `leadership` mean to you?"
This is what we asked our trainees on the last day of our Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop, which took place from 8-17 October in Kinigi, Rwanda.
👀 We think these brilliant responses from CML trainees @ezra_mremi @wild_notebook and @mawuseplay will inspire and resonate with many of you!
Our 18 trainees joined us at the incredible @savinggorillas campus committed to learn and develop as conservation leaders 💫
They left Rwanda equipped with new knowledge, tools and support to help them in their extraordinary efforts to save some of the world`s rarest and least understood species 🙌
We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation, the March Conservation Fund and Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
As ever, we thank our wonderful partnership of @birdlife.international, @faunafloraint and @thewcs.
#WeAreCLP
[Spanish translation 👇] 💚🌱 Meet Carolina S. Ugarte, a 2024 CLP award-winner, who is one of 18 early-career conservationists who joined our Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
🐈 Carolina`s CLP project is focused on the conservation of the guigna, the smallest wildcat in the Americas. In the Los Lagos region of Chile, this tiny felid is facing the loss of its forest home.
🐔 As the guigna increasingly comes into contact with people in these human-dominated landscapes, the species now faces another threat: retaliatory killings due to its predation on poultry.
💚Carolina and her team are working with the local communities to promote peaceful coexistence and to reduce poultry predation by guignas, including testing an innovative auditory deterrent.
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Conozcan a Carolina S. Ugarte, ganadora del premio CLP 2024, una de los 18 conservacionistas principiantes que se han unido a nuestro taller de formación en Manejo y Liderazgo en Conservación (CML) en Ruanda.
El proyecto CLP de Carolina se centra en la conservación de la güiña, el gato silvestre más pequeño de América.
En la región de Los Lagos, Chile, este pequeño felino se enfrenta a la pérdida de su hábitat debido.
Como la güiña entra cada vez más en contacto con la gente en estos paisajes dominados por humanos, la especie se enfrenta a otra amenaza: la caceria en represalia por su depredación a aves de corral.
Carolina y su equipo están trabajando con las comunidades locales para promover la coexistencia entre humanos y güiñas y reducir la depredación de aves de corral por parte de las güiñas, lo que incluye probar un innovador disuasor auditivo.
[Video: Spanish translation] Este es mi primer curso en liderazgo en conservación y manejo y estoy muy feliz de hacerlo, he aprendido mucho sobre liderazgo, manejo y diseño de proyectos, comunicación. Para mi la parte del manejo y diseño de proyectos me ha abierto la mente sobre cómo puedo llevar a cabo mi proyecto y cómo yo, cómo líder del equipo puedo trabajar con mi equipo y con los tomadores de decisiones. También cómo puedo tomar ventajas sobre mi personalidad para llevar a cabo un buen proyecto
#WeAreCLP
[Spanish translation 👇] 💚🌱 Meet Carolina S. Ugarte, a 2024 CLP award-winner, who is one of 18 early-career conservationists who joined our Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
🐈 Carolina`s CLP project is focused on the conservation of the guigna, the smallest wildcat in the Americas. In the Los Lagos region of Chile, this tiny felid is facing the loss of its forest home.
🐔 As the guigna increasingly comes into contact with people in these human-dominated landscapes, the species now faces another threat: retaliatory killings due to its predation on poultry.
💚Carolina and her team are working with the local communities to promote peaceful coexistence and to reduce poultry predation by guignas, including testing an innovative auditory deterrent.
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Conozcan a Carolina S. Ugarte, ganadora del premio CLP 2024, una de los 18 conservacionistas principiantes que se han unido a nuestro taller de formación en Manejo y Liderazgo en Conservación (CML) en Ruanda.
El proyecto CLP de Carolina se centra en la conservación de la güiña, el gato silvestre más pequeño de América.
En la región de Los Lagos, Chile, este pequeño felino se enfrenta a la pérdida de su hábitat debido.
Como la güiña entra cada vez más en contacto con la gente en estos paisajes dominados por humanos, la especie se enfrenta a otra amenaza: la caceria en represalia por su depredación a aves de corral.
Carolina y su equipo están trabajando con las comunidades locales para promover la coexistencia entre humanos y güiñas y reducir la depredación de aves de corral por parte de las güiñas, lo que incluye probar un innovador disuasor auditivo.
[Video: Spanish translation] Este es mi primer curso en liderazgo en conservación y manejo y estoy muy feliz de hacerlo, he aprendido mucho sobre liderazgo, manejo y diseño de proyectos, comunicación. Para mi la parte del manejo y diseño de proyectos me ha abierto la mente sobre cómo puedo llevar a cabo mi proyecto y cómo yo, cómo líder del equipo puedo trabajar con mi equipo y con los tomadores de decisiones. También cómo puedo tomar ventajas sobre mi personalidad para llevar a cabo un buen proyecto
#WeAreCLP
Conservation Leadership Programme
CLP is a partnership working to promote the development of future biodiversity conservation leaders.
http://www.ConservationLeadershipProgramme.org
📢 GRANT OPPORTUNITY for early-career conservationists in the Americas!
The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund is now accepting proposals from early-career conservationists (aged 35 years or younger) in the Americas region.
⏰ Application deadline: 30 March, 2025
ℹ️ Apply for grants of up to $25,000 to support conservation efforts for five threatened species groups — amphibians, freshwater fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises and freshwater turtles — in urgent need of intervention and conservation action.
This fund was established in 2024 by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Re:wild to honour the passion of the late Gustavo Fonseca, long-standing GEF director of programs, for species conservation and building capacity of the next generation of conservationists.
Re:wild | Re:wild.org • Fonseca Species Conservation Fund
www.rewild.org
The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund is available to young conservationists under the age of 35 in any GEF-eligible country to either start or progress their careers. The FSCF is supported by the GEF...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
💫Calling all CLP alumni...
🏆 ...that is, previous recipients of CLP Team Awards and/or Career Placements (previously known as internships).
🤸♀️ We have set up a new group on LinkedIn exclusively for our alumni.
ℹ️ On this group, we aim to share information useful to our alumni, including training, funding, networking, mentoring or any other professional development opportunities.
🫂 It's also a great way for alumni (and CLP staff) to stay in touch, share stories, offer advice, and learn more about what's happening across the alumni network.
✍ Get in touch or request to join the group through your LinkedIn profile (if you haven't already got one, we highly recommend you set one up in the interests of benefiting your professional growth and networks).
We look forward to catching up with you there!
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📢 Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy invites applications for its 2025 Wilkes Climate Prize!
⏰ Deadline for first round of submissions: 28 February, 2025.
💡 The Prize supports innovative ideas to help fund and accelerate solutions to climate change.
ℹ️ Organizations at all stages, both for-profits and nonprofits, anywhere in the world are eligible to submit ideas.
2025 Prize Application - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
wilkescenter.utah.edu
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🎆 Happy New Year from CLP! 🎆
May 2025 bring peace, joy, good health, and success to each and every one of you 💚
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Happy new year
🦅 Avian Research Funding Available! Application deadline: 01 February, 2025.
🐦 The Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) is offering four types of research awards to fund avian research anywhere in the world.
🦚 Awards support ornithologists, graduate students, young professionals, and independent researchers without access to funds.
🌍 Eligibility is open to citizens of all countries
💰 Grants range from US$2,000 to US$5,000 (varying with each award program)
🖋️ WOS membership is required
wilsonsociety.org/awards/research-grants/
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💫 Happy holidays from the CLP team! 💫
🎇 As we approach the end of the year, we want to extend our thoughts to each and every one of you, with all our very best wishes for the new year ahead💚
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Wish all of you at CLP many happy returns and a prosperous 2025
🎉 Congratulations to CLP alumnus Dr Siddhartha Pati on his recent successes!
🏆 Dr Pati received the prestigious Biju Patnaik Wildlife Conservation Award 2024 from the Department of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Odisha, India.
👉 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/siddhartha-pati-gets-biju-patnaik-wildlife-conservat...
The award celebrates Dr Pati’s extensive contribution to horseshoe crab conservation in the region, which he has spearheaded since 2014.
🎖️ Supported by a CLP Future Conservationist Award in 2018, Dr Pati has combined scientific research and community engagement in recognition of both the ecological importance and cultural value of the species.
📑 If that wasn't enough, Dr Pati and his co-authors have recently published the first genomic baseline data for the evaluation of Asian horseshoe crabs’ conservation status, along with core habitats that potentially act as refugia and corridors.
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.13074
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Congratulations 👏🎉
🎁 As we approach the holidays, here's our gift to you: Five tips for successful conservation workshops, from those who know them best! 💫
🤩 After completing our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop back in October, we shared the positive feedback from our participants:
👉 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/news/cml-2024/
But now, we want to share the lessons our staff (the workshop facilitators) learned along with key insights on effective workshops from the participants themselves:
👉 www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/five-tips-for-successful-conservation-workshops-from-thos...
🌎 As we look ahead to 2025, and the complex challenges facing our planet, we hope these tips will help guide other workshops to effectively build the skills and knowledge of our future conservation leaders and local community advocates.
If these tips resonate with you and inspire you to implement them in your training, or have other ones to add to the list, let us know in the comments! 👇
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The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) recently completed its 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop in Rwanda and received hugely positive feedback from the participants. Here,...1 CommentComment on Facebook
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It is absolutely brilliant to see TWO CLP alumni named as Nominees of the 2025 Future For Nature Awards! Congratulations Gabriela Ochoa and Kumar Paudel on receiving this very well-deserved recognition for your incredible conservation efforts 🎉 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQa_QMH0L_Q
🦈 Gabriela was first supported by CLP in 2019 for her work implementing an education campaign focused on shark conservation in the Miskito Cays region of Honduras. A CLP Follow-Up Award in 2023 enabled her to build on this by increasing capacities of local stakeholders to contribute directly to the conservation of sharks in the same region. ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/creating-capacities-for-the-conservation-of-shark...
🌳 Kumar's first CLP Team Award in 2018 allowed him to conduct the first conservation status assessment of Maire's yew tree in Nepal - revealing the species was being unsustainably harvested for its cancer-treating properties. A CLP Follow-Up Award in 2022 built on this work, focusing on restoring wild populations of this threatened tree and gaining support from local stakeholders in its conservation. ℹ️ www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/restoring-wild-maries-yew-nepal/
👏 Congratulations to all the 2025 Future For Nature Award nominees!
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Fantastic to see this wonderful Mongabay article out featuring conservation efforts by one of our 2024 award-winning teams in Colombia! 🎉 🎉
The article describes an indigenous-led project in the community of Musuiuiai in Putumayo, Colombia, to obtain data on the threatened lowland tapir’s presence and understand the environmental factors affecting the species.
Led by a member of the Musuiuiai, José Jarol Muchavisoy, the project team - which includes Bayron Calle-Rendón, a participant of our recent international training workshop - will work hand-in-hand with other members of the community to preserve their biocultural diversity.
Having declared their lands a Territory of Life- Indigenous and Community Conserved Area (ICCA), the Musuiuiai now hope to reduce tapir hunting in neighboring tribes through outreach and collaboration.
The article describes the fascinating origins of the community's spiritual beliefs about the tapir's sacred status and how this supports conservation efforts.
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/indigenous-guardians-embark-on-a-sacred-pact-to-protect-the-lowland-tap...
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Indigenous guardians embark on a sacred pact to protect the lowland tapir in Colombia
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👋 📽️ Meet Morgan Pendaries, a participant of our recent Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) training workshop in Rwanda.
🌎 Morgan’s CLP project is focused on the conservation of a little-studied rodent in Argentina– the Wolffsohn’s viscacha. Read more: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/unravelling-wolffsohns-viscacha-conservation-of-a...
🫶 Having attended our CML training, Morgan has returned to Argentina equipped with new knowledge and tools to help him advance his project.
🤝 We are also delighted to hear that the training allowed him to make connections with other early-career conservationists around the world who are facing similar challenges, which we hope will provide a unique peer-to-peer network for him to support his ongoing conservation efforts.
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👋 📽️ Conozca a Morgan Pendaries, uno participante en nuestro reciente taller de formación en Gestión y Liderazgo en Conservación (CML) en Ruanda.
🌎 El proyecto CLP de Morgan se enfoca sobre la conservación de un roedor poco estudiado: el Chinchillón Anaranjado.
🫶 Tras asistir a nuestra formación en Ruanda, Morgan ha regresado a Argentina equipado con nuevos conocimientos y herramientas que le ayudarán a avanzar en su proyecto.
🤝 También estamos encantados de saber que la formación le permitió ponerse en contacto con otros conservacionistas de todo el mundo que se enfrentan a desafíos similares, lo que esperamos que le brinde una red única para apoyar sus esfuerzos de conservación.
📽️ "En realidad, una de las cosas que más me gustó de la formación fue conocer a los demás participantes. Tenemos gente de Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Colombia... lugares a los que nunca fui. Es genial escucharlos hablar de sus especies y sus programas de conservación. Además, a veces tenemos problemos muy parecidos.
Vaishnavi y Sarika trabajan en la India con geckos y mariposas, pero tienen los mismos desafios que yo en la Patagonia. Viven muy lejos, pero tienen las mismas problemáticas como trabajar con especies poco conocidas y lugares remotos. Así que es muy bueno hablar con ellos. Y me entusiasma saber cómo desarrollarán su proyecto en el futuro."
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📢 New year, new conservation grant? Here's an exciting new grants programme for 2025!
The 'On the Edge Fund' aims to increase conservation attention and raise the profile of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species in the plant, fungi and animal kingdoms.
The fund was created to help emerging conservationists take the next step and give storytellers an opportunity to influence behaviour change locally.
The twist? Storytellers and conservationists are paired up to maximise impact on the ground.
On the Edge will be awarding a minimum of six new conservation grants of up to £30,000 (open from January 1st, 2025) and six new storytelling grants of between £5,000 - £15,000 (open from April 1st, 2025).
ℹ️ All the details can be found via the link below.
Reconnect with nature | On the Edge
www.ontheedge.org
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What a great opportunity for us as the conservationists who are working on ground community level
Thanks for sharing this information to conservationist working with local communities around the world
🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to CLP alumnus Cedrick Fogwan on his recent "Science on a Shoestring" Award from the Society for Marine Mammalogy.
This award recognizes groundbreaking, low-cost ideas around the world that are having a major impact on marine conservation.
🌊 Cedrick's award honours his work with the African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization - AMMCO and its SIREN Citizen Science Program, an innovative, cost-effective approach to bridging data gaps and conserving marine wildlife in Africa.
Cedrick and the five other winners were presented with their awards on-stage at last month's SMM conference in Perth, Australia.
In addition to receiving the award, Cedrick was selected to participate in a prestigious panel discussion where he shared insights into the development and implementation of the SIREN Citizen Science Program.
Cedrick said: "What an honour to be part of the "Science on Shoestring" panel, sharing our work with the real heroes – the fishermen who report their sightings through our Siren Citizen Science Program. It was also inspiring to learn about other shoestring conservation initiatives from around the world."
🥳 Please join us in congratulating Cedrick and the other 2024 winners: Wint Hte, Vu Long, Federico Secunzu, Nester Brix and Carlos Yaipen-LLanos.
🐸 Cedrick was first supported by CLP in 2022, through one of our Future Conservationist Awards, for his work protecting the goliath frog, an Endangered species being over-hunted for food and the pet trade in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
👉 Through his CLP award, including participation in our Conservation Management & Leadership training, plus a subsequent Kate Stokes Memorial Award for CLP alumni, Cedrick has persuaded several hunters in the Mount Nlonako Reserve, Cameroon, to become citizen scientists and record sightings of the goliath frog, and worked with local groups to help set up snail farming to provide an alternative food source. These efforts have led to rescuing multiple individuals of the goliath frog, and the species is now returning to new rivers in the reserve 🎉
Read more about Cedrick's CLP-supported work:
ℹ️https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/goliath-frog-cameroon
ℹ️https://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/project/working-with-the-community-to-save-the-goliath-frog-in-cameroon
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Thank you for the warm congratulations. It was also a wonderful opportunity to meet and connect with so many new friends, including Sandra Teoh, another CLP alumna and National Geographic Explorer. Sandra studies the social ecology of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in Langkawi, Malaysia.
This is great, congratulations and more strength.
Congratulations to you Cedrick, for the marvelous work you continue to do on in your profession
👉 CLP Training Feedback! 🌟
Over the last month, our 2024 Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop participants completed a post-training survey anonymously to give us their honest thoughts ...
👀 🙌 ...we are delighted to say that their responses were overwhelmingly positive 💫
✨ 100% of the survey respondents rated the training as "Excellent"
✨ One described it as a "truly transformative experience"
✨ Another testified to the "enormous learning" and "unique opportunity" provided by the training
🙌 As one survey respondent said – “I think there will be a before/after in my career, I’m so motivated” – our participants have now returned home from Rwanda equipped with renewed confidence, motivation and knowledge to embark on their vital conservation work.
🤝 Some have told us they have already started passing on what they learned to their team members to help them effectively deliver their CLP projects.
👍 Others are making changes to the way they run their own workshops as a result of the training: "I will integrate the skills and knowledge gained from the CLP training into [my institution's] workshops, ensuring that participants benefit from practical, hands on learning experiences that can enhance their capacity in conservation and project management."
ℹ️ Read more about our 2024 CML training and how it has helped our participants to grow personally and professionally: www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/news/cml-2024/
We are incredibly grateful to the Hempel Foundation, the March Conservation Fund, Fondation Segré and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for their support.
We are also thankful to our incredible partnership of BirdLife International, Fauna & Flora and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Last (but by no means least), we would like to thank our 2024 CML participants for taking time to give us their feedback; for their enthusiasm and dedication during the training; as well as the support, friendship and encouragement they have given each other throughout the journey 💚
📸All photos feature landscapes and wildlife from our wonderful training venue of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund campus, Kinigi, Rwanda.
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I did the training in 2022. The training was an incredible experience. In addition to getting to know a country with incredible biodiversity and culture and making new friends from different parts of the world, some of whom I keep in constant contact and collaboration with to this day, I also learned skills and competencies that I use to this day and have greatly improved many conservation and resource raising practices. Besides, leading a CLP funded project gave me a great experience in the conservation sector helping me achieve one of my big dreams: be selected for a job in a research institute for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. It was really life changing. CLP is really doing great work!
❓"What does 'leadership' mean to you?"
This is what we asked our trainees on the last day of our Conservation Management & Leadership (CML) workshop, which took place from 8-17 October in Kinigi, Rwanda.
👀 We think these brilliant responses from CML trainees @ezra_mremi @wild_notebook and @mawuseplay will inspire and resonate with many of you!
Our 18 trainees joined us at the incredible @savinggorillas campus committed to learn and develop as conservation leaders 💫
They left Rwanda equipped with new knowledge, tools and support to help them in their extraordinary efforts to save some of the world's rarest and least understood species 🙌
We are grateful to the @hempelfoundation, the March Conservation Fund and Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
As ever, we thank our wonderful partnership of @birdlife.international, @faunafloraint and @thewcs.
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Conservation leaders for tomorrow 👍👍👍👍👍
