The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP)—an initiative of Fauna & Flora, BirdLife International and the Wildlife Conservation Society—has announced its 2023 award winners. In total, 17 groups of young conservationists have been granted vital funding, and will also be provided with invaluable training and skills development, to strengthen their species-saving projects. This year's award winners are based across the globe—from Honduras to Ghana to Indonesia—and focus on a broad range of species, including the tuco-tuco, a burrowing rodent in Argentina, the Javan slow loris and Sharpe's longclaw, a bird native to Kenyan grasslands.

CLP trains and supports the next generation of conservationists. The programme invests in teams of people at the beginning of their career who are working to protect threatened species in low- and middle-income countries.

Through its 2023 award programme, which is funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and the March Conservation Fund, CLP will provide funding, worth up to a total of USD 280,000, alongside training and support to the 17 projects: six in Africa, five in Asia Pacific and six in Latin America and the Caribbean.

See the full list of projects at conservationleadershipprogramme.org/news/2023-team-awards-announced-latest-conservation-projects.