by BAND | Jan 8, 2020 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
Kenya has lost more than half its wildlife over the past three decades. Most of those losses have occurred outside of national protected areas. Two new reports from the World Bank and PERC single out the potential of wildlife conservancies to reverse this trend...
by BAND | Sep 17, 2019 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
The Guardian today launched The Age of Extinction, a major multi-media reporting initiative to substantially expand global coverage of species loss and related ecological destruction. A key feature of the series will be to explore the most promising solutions for...
by BAND | Sep 16, 2019 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
While the term “endangered species” conjures images of rhinos, elephants and great apes, plants are undergoing their own extinction crisis, especially on islands where range-restricted species are under siege from introduced mammals, habitat conversion, climate change...
by BAND | Sep 14, 2019 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
Researchers with the BAND-funded Mara Predator Conservation Program (MPCP) have recently discovered an active den of highly endangered wild dogs just inside the northern boundary of Mara North Conservancy. The conservancy is an innovative partnership through which...
by BAND | Sep 1, 2019 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
Honeyguide is a Tanzanian NGO working to develop successful models of community conservation across over one million acres of critical habitat in northern Tanzania. Honeyguide engages in long-term partnerships with local communities aimed at achieving ecological...
by BAND | Aug 1, 2019 | Grants in Focus, Nature Conservation
Media reporting on biodiversity loss often focuses on high-profile animals like elephants, rhinos and tigers. Less well known are the dramatic declines facing a range of other species, many of which play critical ecological roles and have profound importance for...
