<div dir="ltr">This is the time of year when the MBZ Conservation Fund sends out a newsletter. I am mailing it on as they fund some projects in America and the do fund projects on insects. I applied to the MBZ years ago to support a project on the rare, Western Australian sun orchid but they were not interested. However, they do keep sending me their newsletter. With the new report on Pollinators in America perhaps the MBZ will become interested in North American bees, Lepidoptera or beetles.<div><br></div><div>Peter<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">MBZ Species Conservation Fund</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:media@mbzfund.org">media@mbzfund.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:30 PM<br>Subject: MBZ Fund Summer 2015: accepting grants, annual report, and more<br>To: "<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="font-size:16px">The Fund supported 63 more conservation projects with $520,511 bringing the total amount donated to species conservation to almost $12.5m in 5 years. <a href="http://mailer.onyadigital.com/t/y-l-dljupk-yhykjrtdyh-q/" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><a href="http://mailer.onyadigital.com/t/y-l-dljupk-yhykjrtdyh-a/" target="_blank">The paper, published in Current Biology,</a> advocates a conservation philosophy that all species are important, no matter their direct use by humans, apparent value, intelligence or attractiveness.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px">The MBZ Fund has just published its latest annual report. You can download your copy from our website - there are many interesting case studies and a photo gallery of grant recipients.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px">After 30 years the <em>Urothemis thomasi</em> has been rediscovered in a remote area of the United Arab Emirates. <a href="http://mailer.onyadigital.com/t/y-l-dljupk-yhykjrtdyh-v/" target="_blank">Watch the video here.</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px">MBZ Fund advisory board member, Mike Parr (Vice President and Chief Conservation Officer of American Bird Conservancy) discusses Black-capped petrel conservation through the Fund. This funding has advanced its conservation significantly.</span></p>
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$12,411,475</td>
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1267</td>
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$32,260,279</td>
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