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Maasai Landscape Conservation Fund Launches

by BAND | Aug 3, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Investing in community-based organizations in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania to achieve lasting, locally-driven results in one of the world’s most iconic conservation landscapes.   Spanning over 10 million acres, the contiguous grassland ecosystems of southern...

The Importance of Conserving Bats During the Pandemic

by BAND | Jun 4, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Bats have been much in the news of late because they harbor a range of viruses similar in type to the one now ravaging human populations.  In this important video, Dr. Winifred Frick, Chief Scientist for Bat Conservation International (BCI), discusses the links...

Mongabay Launches Podcast Series on Salamander Decline

by BAND | Jun 4, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Mongabay, the environmental news service, has launched an in-depth podcast series on salamander decline based on a reporting series funded by the BAND Foundation. This series, which will run for the next several months, will focus on a deadly pathogen, known commonly...

Ruaha Carnivore Project staff featured in WildAid Campaign

by BAND | Jan 22, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

Living on the landscape with lions and other large predators can impose significant costs on local communities.  When lions prey on livestock, people sometimes retaliate by killing lions.  Human/wildlife conflict is one of the leading factors contributing to the 50%...

The Myth of the Squirrel: Awakening People to the Grassland Heritage of America’s Southeast

by BAND | Jan 20, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

When most people think of American grasslands, they imagine the vast open prairies of the Great Plains.  Few recognize that some of the most varied and important grassland habitat actually occurred in the Southeast.  Contrary to popular lore, the Southeast was not an...

Video Showcases the Importance of the Maasai Mara’s Wildlife Conservancies

by BAND | Jan 10, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation

The Maasai Mara ecosystem is one of the world’s most important conservation landscapes.  It is also home to the Maasai people whose pastoralist traditions have allowed wildlife to coexist with humans and livestock for centuries.  Today, this ecosystem is severely...
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