Conservation Award Winners for 1996

Subscription Awards for the American Journal Of Primatology

• Sixteen subscriptions were continued for individuals in habitat countries where primate literature is scarce.
  
  

Senior Biology And Conservation Award ($500 Honorarium)

• Alexander Peal of Liberia for his devoted efforts over two decades, and under difficult circumstances, to establish and maintain wildlife parks and reserves in his homeland, and for his contributions to primate research and protection.

Conservation Award ($500)

• Mukesh Chalise of Nepal.

Small Grants ($500 Each)

• Mukesh Chalise of Nepal, [ASP Bulletin Sep 1998, Vol 22(3) p. 7], for Familiarization of Environmental Problems Through Conservation Education.
  
  
• Anwaruddin Choudhury of India, [ASP Bulletin Sep 1998, Vol 22(3) p. 8-9], for A Survey of Primates in the Jaintia Hills.
  
  
• MaLinda Henry of Miami University of Ohio for Inter-Specific Competition for Food Resources between Pan paniscus and Homo sapiens in the Lomako Forest of Zaire.
  
  
• Zhaoyuan Li of China, [ASP Bulletin Jun 1997, Vol 21(2) p. 4], for Impacts of Habitat Fragmentation on the Behavior and Social Structure of the White-headed Langur, Presbytis leucocephalus in China.
  
  
• W. Scott McGraw of SUNY Stony Brook, [ASP Bulletin Mar 1999, Vol 23(1) p. 8-9], for a Survey of Endangered Primates in Eastern Ivory Coast.
  
  
• Richard Nisbett of the University of Oklahoma for Continuation of Radio Broadcasts in Support of the Society for the Conservation of Nature in Liberia.
  
  
• Erwin Palacios of Colombia, [ASP Bulletin Sep 1998, Vol 22(3) p. 8], for Ecological Bases for Lake- and River-Side Habitat Use of Alouatta seniculus in Colombian Amazonia.
  
  
• Anne Savage of the Roger Williams Park Zoo, [ASP Bulletin Mar 1997, Vol 21(1) p. 2-3], for The Use of "Bindes" as an Alternative to Long-term Resource Consumption in Colombia.
  
  
• Ian Singleton of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust for Seasonal Migration and Population Structure of Sumatran Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) in the Gunung Leuser National Park.

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