The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund (FSCF) is for early career conservationists in GEF-recipient countries to start or progress their careers. The fund provides 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 — urgently needing intervention and conservation action.

This funding round’s specific theme will be ‘restoration’ to tie in with the UN Decade of Restoration, with a particular emphasis on mountain restoration. Still, other habitat protection and restoration projects are also welcome for a maximum of €30,000.

This Fund provides targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives for all animal, fungal and plant species. The Fund uses the IUCN Red List as the primary guide to the conservation status of a given species.

Conservation Insight Grants are available for projects that focus on endangered species for a duration of up to two years. The grant provides funding ranging from £3,000 to £10,000 per year, with a maximum total of £20,000.

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We are pleased to invite you to read the Newsletter Edition 35 of IUCN SSC Deer Specialist Group.  The Group is also open to receiving articles, and news for the next issue. Contact dsg.iucn2020@gmail.com for more information.

Newsletter May 2024

• Nadine Ruppert, IUCN SSC Asia & IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group: South East Asia Section, 2021-25, published 20 November 2023: Recommendations for the establishment of a trans-island canopy bridge network to support primate movement across Langkawi Island, Malaysia.
• Dustin Wolkis, IUCN SSC Seed Conservation Specialist Group.IUCN SSC Indonesia Species Specialist Group, published 30 November 2023: Viability of Endangered ‘Ōhai (Sesbania tomentosa) Seeds After Three Decades of Ambient Conditions
• Thomas, Abeli, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist group, Extinct in the Wild task force. IUCN SSC Freshwater Plant Specialist Group, published 21 February 2024: Rediscovery of Nymphaea thermarum Eb. Fisch. in Rwanda
• Sebastian Brackhane, IUCN SSC Crocodile Specialist group, published 8 April 2024: Wildlife conservation through traditional values: Alarming numbers of crocodile attacks reported from Timor-Leste

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