Partnerships

Partners and collaborators

• A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos
  The project works closely with Dr Shiiwua Manu, the Director of APLORI for academic and student exchanges.

• African Nature Investors Foundation (ANI), Nigeria
  ANI support the Project to gain international funding and support.

• Embrace the Earth, Belgium

• Gombe State University
  The Project has an MOU with the Gombe State around early career staff training and undergraduate field trips.

• Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain, University of Liverpool UK
  
  
• Dr Brian Sedio, University of Texas, Austin, USA

• Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)
  The project has a stong link with NCF regarding conservation in Nigeria, especially UNREDD.

• Nigerian National Park Service
  The project has an MOU with the Park Service around collaborative research.

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England
  The project has a memorandum of collaboration with RBG Kew in regards to plant identification and staff training.

• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute-ForestGEO®, USA
  Our partners for the Ngel Nyaki Forest Dynamics Plot.

• African Nature Investors, Nigeria

• Taraba State Forestry
  The Project has an MOU with the Taraba State Ministry of Environment around research and collaboration.

• Taraba State University (TSU), Nigeria
  
  
• University of Jos, Nigeria

• University of Exeter, United Kingdom
  The Project is hosting Dr Tim Hill and Silveo Stiivanello who are conducting lightening research in the ForestGEO plot. 
  

• University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  UC's School of Biological Sciences provides logistical support to the project.

Funders

Donation to establish a forest monitoring plot
T. Y. Danjuma
The research plot is part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) global network operated through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 

Annual Supporters

We are extremely grateful to these donors for their ongoing financial support:

• Africa Financial Corporation (AFC)
• A. P. Leventis and AG Leventis Foundation
• Retired General T.Y. Danjuma
• University of Canterbury, NZ
• Taraba State Government

Grants

• CTFS ForestGEO research grant to investigate mast seeding
  
  
• Rufford Small Grant to assess the population status of two critically endangered plant species within Ngel Nyaki forest
  
  
• CTFS ForestGEO, to facilitate research within the Ngel Nyaki ForestGEO Plot

• NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), grant to develop an outreach centre and arobretum at Ngel Nyaki

• Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Nigerian chimpanzee conservation (project number 1025977) and gene flow in chimpanzee

• Rufford Small Grants, Seed Dispersal and the Long-Term Survival of Nigeria’s Montane Forests and the role of Cercopithecus nicitans (putty nose monkey) in seed dispersal at Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve

• DHL Nigeria, logistical support

• World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), support to publish The forests of Taraba and Adamawa states, Nigeria. An ecological account and plant species checklist. Chapman JD & Chapman HM (2001)

• Primates Inc, chimpanzee ecology research support, awarded to Paul Dutton (PhD student), chimpanzee genetics research support, awarded to Alex Knight (MSc student)

• Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants for student research and logistical support

• Explorers Club, for student research into the conservation genetics of rare trees, awarded to Josh Thia (MSc student)

• Chester Zoo Studentship Grant, for student research into the conservation genetics of rare trees, awarded to Josh Thia (MSc student)

• New Zealand Royal Society (Canterbury Branch), travel grant to Josh Thia (MSc student)

• NZ Institute of University Women, for student research into forest restoration, awarded to Sasha Roselli (MSc student)

• British High Commission, Abjua, Low Carbon High Growth grant for a fully automated weather station 

Community Grants

• T Y Danjuma Taraba State Community Fund, for teacher training and playground equipment for the nursery school

• Exxon Mobil, funding for the Esso Mobil Nursery School in Yelwa village, funding for the nursery school bore hole

Past partners and collaborators

• Professor Dr Pierre-Michel Forget, Natural History Museum, Paris, France
  PM Forget is a strong associate of the project and is involved in collaborative research and student supervision.
• Federal University of Kashere
  The Project has an MOU with the Kashere around early career staff training and undergraduate field trips.
• Gashaka Biodiversity Project, England/Nigeria
  Our nearest neighbour. The project collaborates with the Gashaka Biodiversity Project (formerly the Gashaka Primate Project) in both research and logistical support.
• Lincoln University, New Zealand
  The project is working closely with Lincoln to introduce agro-ecology into the research.
• Mayfield Community Ecology Laboratory, Australia
  The Mayfield Community Ecology Lab is based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
• Nigerian Meteorological Institute (NIMET)
• WAFROEX (West African Export)
  Our partners for honey processing and sale