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Practical Conservation for Neglected Species
 We work with endangered and neglected people, wildlife and habitats, finding practical solutions to serious problems. Our projects are selected according to their conservation priority, potential for community-based action and lack of charisma. There are no pandas or elephants here! We concentrate on unpopular creatures living in places where life is difficult for everyone and conservation can never become an issue until peoples' basic rights and requirements are fulfilled. Winning many prestigious conservation awards and gaining a reputation for dedication, perseverance and a dogged determination to speak the truth, Mampam Conservation philosophy can be summarized simply: "If we don't do it, nobody else will!"
While we have got a lot of the content from our old site moved on to this new one, it is far from complete! Please be sure to come back often to see the new content, image galleries, and other information on Mampam Conservation.
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 When Mampam Conservation were banned from working in Bui National Park, Ghana, in 2001, it marked the end of independent biological reseach in the area. Now work has begun on a controversial hydroelectric dam that will destroy the riverine habitat of the park and, we believe, lead to the local extinction of many animal species including the hippopotamus. Read the lies and truths about the Bui Dam Project here!
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 Giant frugivorous monitor lizards only live in the Philippines and are under serious threat from habitat destruction. The butaan of Polillo Island are disappearing fast! We developed a range of non-intrusive methods to study these animals on Polillo Island and have used them to explore other areas of the Philippines, with very exciting results.
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The latest news from Mampam Conservation, including new site features, project updates, products and more!
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 Conducting bat surveys isn't easy. Bats hate scientists and are very
good at avoiding them. Identifying the bats has often required
microscopic examinations of skull morphology and other characteristics.
So first you had to catch the bat, and then you had to kill it. No
wonder nobody wanted to study them!
We've tried to change this
by producing a fieldguide that will allow you to identify free flying
bats with an ultrasound detector.
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 First published in 1995 by Viper Press
(the publishing arm of Mampam Conservation), Daniel Bennett's "Little
Book of Monitor Lizards" survived subsequent editions in German and an
edited English addition to appear online in 1999, once more under the
complete control of the author. Still one of the most comprehensive and
accurate guide to monitor lizards ever published, the "Little Book of
Monitor Lizards" is now used as a source of funding for projects
worldwide concerned with monitor lizard conservation, research and
education.
Click here for the Monitor Lizard site
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 The Western Ghats are a chain of mountains running from
Bombay to the southern tip of India. They are home to some of the most
diverse frog communities on Earth. Over 90% of the species there are
found nowhere else, and there is evidence that individual hilltops
harbour unique species. We produced a multimedia guide to the amphibians of Coorg that includes advertisment calls and details of larval stages
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 Our pet-owners' guide to savannah monitor lizard is the first ever written by people who have studied the animals in the wild and bred them in captivity. Not many pet stores want to sell this book, for obvious reasons! There are seven books in print about the savannah monitor, but we think this is the only one worth reading! BUY IT HERE!
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The
International Varanid Interest Group is a volunteer-based organization
established to advance varanid research, conservation, and husbandry,
and to promote scientific literacy among varanid enthusiasts worldwide.
Membership to the IVIG is free, and open to anyone with an interest in
monitor lizards. Click Here
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About Mampam |
The International Varanid Interest Group is a volunteer-based organization established to advance varanid research, conservation, and husbandry, and to promote scientific literacy among varanid enthusiasts worldwide. Membership to the IVIG is free, and open to anyone with an interest in monitor lizards. Enter Here
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The Butaan Project |
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The only obligate fruit-eaters among reptiles are two species of monitor lizard that live in the Philippines. Frugivorous vertebrates tend to be able to fly (almost all are bats and birds) and so these lizards have a unique ecological role as highly specialized and relatively immobile fruit eaters. Before this project started, the only studies of this unique giant and endangered lizard had involved killing the animals. We have developed a set of techniques that allow us to learn about these animals in a completely non-destructive way.
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Little Book of Monitors |
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Glauert's goanna is an elegant, rock-dwelling lizard with a very long tail and long limbs. Mertens described it from two specimens previously assigned to V.timorensis similis. This beautiful goanna is found only in the extreme north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and also occurs on a number of islands off the coast... |
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