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CONSERVING NEOTROPICAL MIGRANTS BY MANAG The project will conserve Neotropical migratory birds by promoting bird-friendly management of coffee farms in Cartago and Limon Provinces of Costa Rica. Partners aim to quantify the direct economic benefits to coffee farmers from bird-friendly management practices, via increases in ecosystem services to their own farms. The project area is the Volcanica Central Talamanca Biological Corridor, where conservation actions can benefit over 300 bird species including Neotropical migrants and residents. Project objectives are to (i) Engage with coffee farmers and other stakeholders to understand needs, current practices and knowledge regarding ecosystem services, as well as realistic and feasible management options; (ii) Conduct field research to quantify the ecological importance and economic value of two key ecosystem services: pest control and pollination; and (iii) Work with local partners and international networks to communicate the economic benefits of supporting Neotropical migratory birds. Partners will: (1) Strengthen and expand a coffee farm network, (2) Assess pest control services provided by birds, (3) Assess pollination services provided by bees, in collaboration with the Gund Institute for Environment, (4) Quantify relationships between farm management and ecosystem services, (5) Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders and (6) Scale up the impact of project findings.
SAVING WOOD THRUSH WINTER HABITAT IN TRO GDFCF will conserve wintering habitat of Wood Thrush (WOTH) and other neotropical migrant birds with which WOTH is associated. This two-year proposal builds on a successful current USFWS-supported project (2017) while introducing new and refined components based on the experiences of Phase I. Specifically this project involves: (1) season-long detection and monitoring of wintering Wood Thrush (WOTH) in three areas of Caribbean rainforest within and adjacent to rea de Conservacin Guanacaste (ACG) via trained resident 'parataxonomists' from local communities; (2) the protection and stewardship of protected Caribbean rainforest properties that enlarge available habitat for neotropical migrant birds, (3) the identification of food sources of wintering WOTH through a 'diet analysis' utilizing DNA metabarcoding and related bioinformatics; and, (4) the installation of a new MOTUS station for tracking neotropical migrants in this region. GDFCF will collaborate with Queen Mary University for DNA analysis of samples and the local Costa Rica Bird Observatories in field work and installation and operation of a MOTUS station. The activities in this project will provide conservation results for WOTH, inform current and future conservation management for neotropical migrant birds that depend on large blocks of protected forest, and continue the evolution of this community-led restoration model.
Conservation and Monitoring program of Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtle.that nesting in the North Pacific of Costa Rica The recipient will 1) implement a long-term conservation project for the leatherback sea turtle at Playa Langosta, Las Baulas National Park and 2) extend nesting surveys and nest protection activities for leatherbacks to the secondary nesting sites of Playa Nombre de Jesus, Zapotilla, Onda and Real during the 2016- 2017 nesting season. Specific project activities include: training of local and international research assistants and volunteers to help conduct nesting surveys and nest protection activities, improving camp infrastructure, hatchery construction and operation, data collection and analysis, and environmental education and outreach, including local school field trips and a turtle festival.
SAVING WOOD THRUSH WINTER HABITAT IN TRO GDFCF will conserve wintering grounds habitat of Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina, WOTH) and other neotropical ..migrant birds with which WOTH is typically associated through a project that (1) focuses on new and intensive ..monitoring, (2) manages land with local communities and (3) determines and analyzes diet with unprecedented ..resolution. These actions and information will inform current and future conservation management in these ..mid-elevation Atlantic rainforests.
West Hemisphere Branch-International Grants Supporting the Master in Conservation Practice at CATIE through six scholarships covering academic costs for Latin American conservation practitioners.
Marine Turtles ConservationFund-Species Conservation Grant Conservation and Research Project of Leatherback and Black sea turtle nesting at the North Pacific of Costa Rica: Langosta, Nombre de Jess and Zapotillal Beaches
Wildlife Without Borders - Western Hemisphere Maestra en Conservacin y Manejo de Vida Silvestre: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
Development of economic opportunities, such as ecotourism, as an alternative to unsustainable.agricultural and other destructive practices upon the natural ecosystems in the communities on La.Amistad The purpose of this project is to support the conservation of the La Amistad International Park in Costa Rica through the development of economic opportunities related to ecotourism in the communities within and adjacent to the park. The project is intended to conserve the largest natural forest of Costa Rica and the rich array of wildlife that is supports including jaguars, pumas, Bairds tapirs, and peccaries by addressing the impacts of poaching, wildlife trafficking, and illegal and unsustainable natural resource extraction. Specific activities include: (1) identify and develop business plans for at least twelve ecotourism related ventures; (2) strengthen local tourism and community associations; (3) deliver training to both community groups as well as to protected area personnel on the benefits and impacts of tourism, including exchanges with successful community-based ecotourism projects in other areas of the country; (4) deliver training on the design, construction and maintenance of trails; and (5) support sales and marketing activities to promote ecotourism in the park.
RESTORING NMB HABITAT IN OSA CONSERVATIO Osa Conservation will restore degraded habitat (250,000 native trees and 18,555 live stakes across 250 hectares) to build capacity for improved agroforestry and silvopastoral techniques, and engage communities in conservation of migratory birds through citizen science monitoring of bird populations. Grant funding is requested for work in the Amistosa corridor. Match funding will be provided to community outreach and restoration in the Amistosa Corridor, and continue the restoration, outreach, and monitoring on the Osa Peninsula. Match funding will also support capacity building in the management of existing protected areas with important Neotropical migratory bird habitat, and use cutting-edge conservation technology to monitor and improve our understanding of ecosystems for adaptive management and the long-term impact of restoration on target migratory bird species populations over-wintering in the Amistosa Corridor.
Providing Solutions and Reducing Conflicts between Farmers and Jaguars in Costa Rica This project will reduce jaguar depredation and mortality in the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor, Barbilla-Destierro Bioldogical SubCorridor, and the buffer zone of Tortuguero National Park by 1) applying and testing anti-depredation methods on 10 strategically located farms, 2) support and strengthen the Wildcat Conflict Response Unit (CRU) teams in 9 out of 10 conservation areas to respond to conflicts, educate farmers and prevent retaliatory killings, 3) identify the most successful anti-depredation techniques to replicate in conflict hotspots throughout the jaguar corridor, and 4) promoting and supporting farmers in actions to decrease hunting of wildlife on their properties.
CONS.VULNERABLE WOOD THRUSH HABITAT Historic land use and contemporary farming practices threaten vestiges of mature tropical rainforest on private lands ..throughout the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica. As such, the continued loss of mature forest in Costa Rica - the ..preferred winter habitat for Wood Thrush - has been implicated in the species' ongoing population decline. Based on ..the need to protect and restore quality overwintering habitat for Wood Thrush on private lands, we propose a project ..focused on the protection and restoration of mature forest following Costa Rica's National Strategy of Conservation ..referred to as 'Know, Preserve, and Use.' We will combine a robust conservation easement program to: protect ..mature and regenerating forest habitat for Wood Thrush; an ambitious reforestation program to create new Wood ..Thrush habitat; an agricultural certification program to incentivize private landholder participation in easement ..programs and Wood Thrush conservation; and educational and outreach activities focused on landowner ..recruitment, migrant birds as ecosystem services, and bird-friendly communities.
CONSERVATION AND MONITORING PROGRAM OF LEATHERBACK AND BLACK SEA TURTLES THAT NEST IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OF COSTA RICA The purpose of this project is to implement a conservation program for the East Pacific leatherback and black turtle nesting populations in Costa Rica and to protect nests from poaching, predators, and tidal inundation. Activities include: (1) training field teams to conduct nighttime nesting surveys and protection patrols at several of the key remaining nesting sites; Playa Langosta, Playa Nombre de Jess, Zapotilla, Honda, and Real; (2) relocating nests to safe beach hatcheries; and (3) environmental education and outreach in local schools with field trips and a turtle festival.
Marine Turtle Conservation Fund The recipient will 1) continue to implement a long-term research and conservation project for the leatherback sea turtle at Playa Langosta, Las Baulas National Park and 2) extend nesting surveys and nest protection activities for leatherbacks to the secondary nesting sites of Playa Nombre de Jesus, Zapotilla, Onda and Real during the 2013- 2014 nesting season. Specific project activities include: training of local and international research assistants and volunteers to help conduct nesting surveys and nest protection activities, improving camp infrastructure, hatchery construction and operation, data collection and analysis, and environmental education and outreach, including local school field trips and a turtle festival.
IAC Convention outreach to decision makers in the IAC member countries to.raise awareness and communicate recommendations of actions to mitigate the.threats of East Pacific leatherback turtles The recipient will; 1) convene national technical workshops in East Pacific leatherback range states to review scientific knowledge to determine priority actions to address leatherback fisheries bycatch; and 2) arrange meetings with high level governmental decision makers in these same range state countries to discuss implemtation of priority actions identified by national workshops.
CONSERVATION AND MONITORING PROGRAM OF LEATHERBACK AND BLACK SEA TURTLES THAT NEST IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OF COSTA RICA The purpose of this project is to implement a conservation program for the East Pacific leatherback and black turtle nesting.populations in Costa Rica and to protect nests from poaching, predators, and tidal inundation. Activities include: (1) training field.teams to conduct nighttime nesting surveys and protection patrols at several of the key remaining nesting sites; Playa Langosta,.Playa Nombre de Jess, Zapotilla, Honda, and Real; (2) relocating nests to safe beach hatcheries; and (3) environmental education.and outreach in local schools with field trips and a turtle festival.
SAVING WOOD THRUSH WINTER HABITAT IN TRO SAVING WOOD THRUSH WINTER HABITAT IN TRO
Conservation and research project of latherback sea turtle nesting at the North Pacific of costa rica: Langosta, Nombre de Jesus, Zapotillal, Onda and Real beaches. The recipient will 1) continue to implement a long-term research and conservation project for the leatherback sea turtle at Playa Langosta, Las Baulas National Park and 2) extend nesting surveys and nest protection activities for leatherbacks to the secondary nesting sites of Playa Nombre de Jesus, Zapotilla, Onda and Real during the 2013- 2014 nesting season. Specific project activities include: training of local and international research assistants and volunteers to help conduct nesting surveys and nest protection activities, improving camp infrastructure, hatchery construction and operation, data collection and analysis, and environmental education and outreach, including local school field trips and a turtle festival.
Wildife Without Borders - Amphibians In Decline Identifying antifungal cutaneous bacteria for potential biocontrol of the amphibian chytrid fungus in Costa Rica
Enhancing Coexistence of Jaguars in Costa Rica: Design and Analysis of Community-Based Incentives This project will design a community-program of incentives for the Costa Rican Ministry of Environment to use to increase adoption of practices to prevent jaguar damage on livestock and ultimately reduce human-jaguar conflicts and retaliatory killings throughout the country. Specifically, the project will: 1) develop a typology of ranchers based on their motivations and needs in order to increase effectiveness of incentives; and 2) generate a policy proposal for Payments for Enhancing Coexistence (PEC) with big cats ready for submission to the Costa Rican Ministry of Environment for testing and institutionalization. FWS involvement may include: providing technical assistance, negotiating and adapting activities identified in the project proposal, and key communications and interactions with the Costa Rican Ministry of Environment.
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere This project will provide partial scholarships for 13 students to attend the Masters in Conservation Practice, a training program that addresses the real-world training needs of professionals active in conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean by developing and strengthening the students' competencies to deliver biodiversity conservation at the local level in a participatory, equitable, and sustainable way.
Conservation and Monitoring program of Chelonian mydas and Dermochelys coriacea that nesting in the North Pacific of Costa Rica The recipient will 1) continue to implement a long-term research and conservation project for the leatherback sea turtle at Playa Langosta, Las Baulas National Park and 2) extend nesting surveys and nest protection activities for leatherbacks to the secondary nesting sites of Playa Nombre de Jesus, Zapotilla, Onda and Real during the 2015- 2016 nesting season. Specific project activities include: training of local and international research assistants and volunteers to help conduct nesting surveys and nest protection activities, improving camp infrastructure, hatchery construction and operation, data collection and analysis, and environmental education and outreach, including local school field trips and a turtle festival.
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere The Recipient will enter into a two-year cooperative agreement with the Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America and Caribbea (WWB-LAC) program to develop and implement a new Master in Conservation Practice (MCP) in 2013 by leveraging the highly interdisciplinary, hands-on approach incorporated in the Master in Development Practice (MDP) but with a stronger focus on biodiversity conservation. The MCP will address the real-world training needs of professionals active in conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean by developing and strengthening the students' competencies (knowledge, abilities, and attitudes) to deliver biodiversity conservation at the local level in a participatory, equitable, and sustainable way. their capacities to mainstream biodiversity conservation into sustainable development at the local level. The MCP will be a Professional Master's degree taught by experienced conservation professionals. The core competencies of the program will be: 1) ecological processes and biodiversity conservation; 2) facilitation of participatory processes; 3) designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring and evaluation of organizations, processes and projects; 4) promotion and support of local entrepreneurial inititives; 5) knowledge management and training skills based on intercultural dialogue methods; 6) conflict resolution; 7) promotion of equity; and 8) support and development of local governance as articulated within local and national policy and laws. FWS funds will provide scholarships to cover the tuition of 6 students over a two-year period.
CONSERVATION OF GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER HA Project partners will begin a three-phase project focused on the conservation of important Golden-winged Warbler habitat, following Costa Rica's National Strategy of Conservation, referred to as "Know, Preserve, and Use." The project will occur in the biologically diverse highlands of the Cerro de la Muerte Mountains, a focal wintering area for the Golden-winged Warbler. Within the focal area partners will develop educational activities and conservation actions so that community members: (1) will learn how to manage land for vulnerable migrant bird populations, and (2) will restore agricultural and grazing lands for Golden-winged Warblers by reforesting landscapes with native trees and shrubs grown from a local nursery. Partners will increase habitat available for Golden-winged Warblers in the heart of their winter range. These project strategies will generate informed and bird-friendly local communities while conserving existing and creating new, habitat for overwintering Golden-winged Warbler populations.
Save Marine Turtles (SmART): Protecting Endangered Leatherbacks and Other Nesting Marine Turtles The recipient will; 1) conduct a six day training workshop for 12 participants from 3 nesting beach communities to devlelop leaderhsip skills; and 2) conduct skill building clinics to develop technical skills for monitoring beaches; and 3) community members will survey and protect sea turtle nests on three beaches during the leatherback nesting season.
THE PATH OF THE JAGUAR: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY-FOCUSED CONSERVATION TO BUILD A WILDLIFE CORRIDOR. The purpose of this project is to increase the functionality of the wildlife corridor linking La Amistad International Park with the lowlands of the Osa Peninsula by bringing together technology solutions to reduce poaching while working with local communities to improve livelihoods. This project is intended to conserve jaguars and their prey by addressing the impacts of poaching, retaliatory killing, and habitat conversion. Activities include: (1) implementing acoustic anti-poaching arrays (gunshot detectors) to pinpoint poaching in real time; (2) collaborating with landowners and farmers to develop wildlife friendly livelihoods, including Jaguar Friendly Coffee; and (3) working directly with communities to support habitat restoration and conservation education.
Community-based management of jaguars by means of incentives for coexistence: pilot test in Costa.Rica Project will enhance peaceful co-existence between big cats and humans in seven communities across Costa Rica. The project is intended to conserve jaguars and pumas by converting them into a valuable asset for local communities thereby reducing retaliatory killings of big cats. Specific activities include: 1) formal establishment of a national organization of ranching communities and advisory board; 2) development of dialogue mechanisms between ranchers using different media, such as social meetings, bulletins and social networks; 3) community-based technical assistance for ranchers affected by jaguar predation, where locals are involved in the implementation and evaluation of preventive practices to reduce livestock vulnerability; 4) distinction of local products by a green label representing big cat conservation for presentation at local and national fairs; and 5) a pilot payment for production of biodiversity program, using community-based camera-trapping and tracking as regulation and measurement methods
Wildlife Without Borders - Western Hemisphere Maestria en conservacion y manejo de vida silvestre para latinoamerica, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere This project will reduce jaguar depredation and mortality in the San Juan-La Selva Biological Corridor, Barbilla-Destierro Bioldogical SubCorridor, and the buffer zone of Tortuguero National Park by 1) applying and testing anti-depredation methods on 10 strategically located farms, 2) support and strengthen the Wildcat Conflict Response Unit (CRU) teams in 9 out of 10 conservation areas to respond to conflicts, educate farmers and prevent retaliatory killings, 3) identify the most successful anti-depredation techniques to replicate in conflict hotspots throughout the jaguar corridor, and 4) promoting and supporting farmers in actions to decrease hunting of wildlife on their properties.
Marine Turtle Postal Fund Conservation and Research Project of Leatherback and Black sea turtle nesting at the North Pacific of Costa Rica: Langosta, Nombre de Jess and Zapotillal Beaches
Protecting And Restoring Migratory Bird Habitat In The Osa Peninsula This project carries out conservation activities to protect bird habitat in Costa Rica.
Wildlife Without Borders - Western Hemisphere Supporting the Master in Conservation Practice at CATIE through six scholarships covering academic costs for Latin American conservation practitioners.
Marine Turtle Conservation Fund Sea Turtle Research, Conservation and Capacity Building at Tortuguero, Costa Rica
CONSERVATION OF GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER HA Project partners will begin a three-phase project focused on the conservation of important Golden-winged Warbler habitat, following Costa Rica's National Strategy of Conservation, referred to as 'Know, Preserve, and Use.' The project will occur in the biologically diverse highlands of the Cerro de la Muerte Mountains, a focal wintering area for the Golden-winged Warbler. Within the focal area partners will develop educational activities and conservation actions so that community members: (1) will learn how to manage land for vulnerable migrant bird populations, and (2) will restore agricultural and grazing lands for Golden-winged Warblers by reforesting landscapes with native trees and shrubs grown from a local nursery. Partners will increase habitat available for Golden-winged Warblers in the heart of their winter range. These project strategies will generate informed and bird-friendly local communities while conserving existing and creating new, habitat for overwintering Golden-winged Warbler populations.
Conservation and Monitoring program of the Leatherback and black sea turtle nesting in North Pacific Costa Rica. 1) training field teams to conduct nighttime nesting survey and protection patrols at several of the key remaining nesting sites; Playa Langosta, Playa Nombre de Jesus, Zapotilla, Onda and Real; 2) relocation of nests to safe beach hatcheries; and 3) environmental education and outreach to local schools with field trips and a turtle festival..
Marine Turtles ConservationFund-Species Conservation Grant Sea Turtle Research, Conservation & Capacity Building at Tortuguero, Costa Rica
West Hemisphere Branch-International Grants Maestria en Conservacion y Manejo de vida silvestre para Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, Centroamerica
Amphibian Program-International Grants Identifying antifungal cutaneous bacteria for potential biocontrol of the amphibian chytrid fungus in Costa Rica
Protecting and Restoring Migratory Bird Habitat in the Osa Peninsula II This project will renew one-year conservation agreements, patrol protected areas, expand bird censuses, and educate students about the link between forests and migratory birds.