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Small Grants Programme

The Flagship Species Fund Small Grants Programme provides urgently needed support to small scale and pilot conservation projects around the world that are concerned directly with the protection of endangered flagship species.

The Programme currently disperses grants once a year.

FFI will not be considering any more applications in 2009.

Small Grants Programme

Current projects

The following projects received support in 2009:

Arachnids of Uruguay: the good, the bad and the ugly.  

Uruguayan arachnids face a number of threats including capture for the growing pet trade, habitat disturbance and human killing of many species due to fear. Despite these impacts there is little information about their habitat, lifecycles or distribution and therefore little data on which to base management planning. The project aims to produce the first ‘Arachnid field manual of Uruguay’, giving information about the species to aid its protection. The project will also implement an educational programme targeted at teachers to present the book and highlight the plight of the species to increase understanding of arachnids many benefits as well as current threats.

Flagship butterflies: Documenting and Monitoring Swallowtail butterfly Diversity In Assam, India

Butterflies are amongst and the most visually appealing invertebrates in Assam (India).  Global conservation funding largely focuses on vertebrates, and invertebrate groups are often underrepresented. This is the case in Assam, which has very high butterfly diversity Research on butterflies is severely limited and threats to butterflies have not been evaluated.  Moreover, local capacity for research and monitoring is severely limited.  Recent deforestation and fragmentation of habitat in the area could potentially affect several forest-dependent swallowtails, and proactive conservation efforts need to be initiated. By identifying flagship swallowtails, this project seeks to work with local stakeholders to generate baseline data and develop capacity for long-term butterfly research and invertebrate conservation in Assam.