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| Heard, N.; Launay, F.; Sanderson, J. | |
| Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund wild cat funding: an overview | |
| 2014 Cat News (60): 41-42 | |
We present a review of all funding provided to wild cat conservation projects by the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund since the fund began making donations in mid-2009. Our objectives were to assess the projects which have a felid named as the primary target species, and are to enlighten readers and thus to encourage more proposals covering more species, to increase the quality of proposals, and to encourage work on threatened and overlooked species. In the interest of transparency we provide a list of each species and the amount of funding that has been provided by the fund. We found that from 2009 to April 2014 US$ 683,583 was provided to 56 wild cat conservation projects. Approximately 69% of the total amount invested supported species or sub-species listed as EN or CR by the IUCN Red List. The most successful proposals were on behalf of leopard and tiger conservation efforts. US$ 124,000 went to 8 tiger projects, around 18% of cat funds allocated, and US$ 117,970 to 10 leopard projects, around 17% of funds allocated. Over 78% of all funds went to support conservation efforts for seven big cat species. |
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