Saving Wildlife
Wildlife Trust’s Edge of the Sea Aquatic Conservation Program was created in 2001 to address urgent conservation issues in coastal areas and to save threatened species and improve local capacity for their protection and management. The primary goal of this program is to better ensure the survival and recovery of species such as manatees, sea turtles and North Atlantic right whales and to protect and preserve the habitats in which these species reside. Wildlife Trust conservation scientists strive to achieve this goal by strengthening the scientific foundation for resource decision-making and policy development and by incorporating the involvement of local scientists and conservationists.
Amphibian Declines
Wildlife Trust and its global partners are researching the emergence and spread of chytridiomycosis, a pathogen that has been linked to the rapid declines and extinctions of amphibian populations worldwide.
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Aquatic Conservation Program
Wildlife Trust's Edge of the Sea program was created in 2001 to address urgent conservation issues in coastal areas. The program strives to promote better management of coastal habitats to help ensure that ecosystems remain intact, endangered species survive, and coastal people and their descendants benefit from their lives at the edge of the sea.
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Asian Elephant Conservation in India
Wildlife Trust Alliance partner, Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF), focuses on radio-tracking elephants using GIS technology. This data allows biologists to map and protect elephants traffic corridors all over Asia.
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Coastal Conservation in Cuba
This project focuses on the development and implementation of a Manatee Conservation Plan as a conduit to broader coastal conservation actions in Cuba.
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Collaborative Regional Network for West African Manatee Research
The West African manatee is one of the least understood marine mammals in the world. The range of the species is larger than the width of the United States, yet to date there have been only a handful of studies, many of which were short term surveys with no follow up or local capacity building.
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Manatee Carrying Capacity
Since manatees are a sub-tropical to tropical species, the availability of reliable, warm-water winter refuges is essential to their survival.
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Manatee Habitat Assessment
Working with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Manatee Recovery Team Habitat Working Group, Wildlife Trust aquatic conservation scientists developed a habitat assessment checklist to help protect these animals and their habitats.
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Manatee Photo-Identification
Manatees are individually identifiable based on natural markings and scars resulting from encounters with boats and entanglement with fishing gear.
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Manatees and Florida Springs
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACOE) has developed a plan for dredging the spring run leading to the Homosassa Springs main spring vent in Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park.
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Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles as Sentinels of Ecological Health
Wildlife Trust is currently coordinating a multi-tiered international collaboration of experts to share knowledge on saving stranded marine mammals and monitoring both sea turtle and marine mammal health for disease. These diseases are a huge threat to biodiversity. Over the past few decades a growing number of diseases that jump between species - including wildlife, domesticated animals, and humans - has escalated significantly.
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Protecting Endangered Right Whales
The endangered North Atlantic right whale migrates to the Southeast U.S. each winter to give birth to their calves. This region is the only know calving ground for the species.
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Protecting Manatee Habitats
Limitations on the range of the endangered Florida manatee are largely determined by water temperature.
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West African Manatee Conservation
The West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) is the most endangered and least understood member of the Order Sirenia. The species is endemic to rivers, estuaries and lagoon systems of the African Atlantic coast, ranging from Mauritania to Angola.
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