Rapid Action Fund

The emergency A major road upgrade in West Toba will divide the Sikulaping Protected Forest and Siranggas Wildlife Reserve in North Sumatra. This will prevent arboreal mammals from accessing previously connected patches of natural forest, including Sumatran Orangutan. The area contains at least 40 Sumatran Orangutans; ensuring these patches of forest remain connected will be important for this population’s long-term survival. Other globally threatened primates that will be negatively impacted by the road development include the Endangered Black-crested Sumatran Langur,…

The emergency Project Palaka is the only ex situ amphibian conservation project in the Philippines, as well as the only group conducting both in situ and ex situ conservation efforts for Gigante Wrinkled Ground Frog. The species was successfully bred in captivity for the first time by Project Palaka and surveys in the Gigantes Islands have substantially improved understanding of the species’s natural history and its threats. However, changes in management attitudes highlighted the precarious nature of the project’s ex…

The emergency Tortoises and freshwater turtles remain one of the most highly traded vertebrate groups globally, despite an increase in focus on conservation and improved protection. The Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC) in Cuc Phuong National Park is co-managed by the government of Vietnam and the Asian Turtle Programme. It is the country’s only specialised ex situ centre for threatened tortoises and freshwater turtles and leads on several globally important conservation breeding programmes. Large confiscations of threatened tortoises and freshwater turtles…