ASP Conservation Small Grant Award Winners for 2006

Small Grants (up to $1500)

• Anne Axel, Michigan State University – "Modeling lemur-habitat relationships along environmental and disturbance gradients in spiny forests in southern Madagascar" – $1380 [Ringtailed Lemur (Lemur catta) & Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) in Madagascar].
• Margie Clarke, Duke University – "Survey of the howling monkey population at La Pacifica, Costa Rica: Adaptation to changing land management practices" - $1500 [Mantled Howlers (Alouatta palliata) in Cost Rica].
• Honnavilli Kumara, University of Mysore - "Population density assessment of the slender loris (Loris lydekkerianus): A pilot study" - $1493 [Slender loris (Loris lydekkerianus) of India].
• Stacy Lindshield, Iowa State University – "Connecting primates to places: An applied conservation project in the Talamanca Region, Costa Rica" - $1500 [Mantled Howling Monkey (Alouatta palliata) in Cost Rica].
• Fernando Martinez, Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association (ARCAS) – "Spider monkey rehabilitation, release and research activities in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala:" - $1500 [Geoffrey’s Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) in Guatemala].
• Rachel McShane, Antioch New England Graduate School – "Living on the edge: farmers and primates around Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda" - $1500 [Chimpanzees, baboons, vervets, L’hoesti’s monkeys in Rwanda].
• Jill Pruetz, Iowa State University – "Local regulation of wild fruit harvest by humans and changes in political stability in Senegal: Reduced competition with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) over a keystone fruit (Saba senegalensis)?" - $1500 [Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Senegal].
• Emilienne Rasoazanabary, University of Massachusetts – "The human factor in mouse lemur conservation: Local resource utilization and habitat disturbance at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, SW Madagascar" - $1500 [Mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus) in Madagascar].
• Tamaini Snaith, McGill University – "The effects of habitat disturbance on the primate community at Kibale National Park: a 35-year study" - $1150 [Red colobus (Piliocolobus tephroscelesin) in Uganda].
• Qing Zhao, Peking University – "Golden monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) habitat evaluating in Shennongjia National Sanctuary" - $1493 [Golden monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in China].

TOTAL AMOUNT:  $$14,516