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Chicago Board of Trade Endangered Species Fund

The Chicago Board of Trade Cameroon Kenya Tanzania
Endangered Species Fund (CBOT Species: Pangolin Species: Domestic dog Species: Black rhinoceros
ESF) was founded in 1988 by Project: Engaging the local Project: Advancing wildlife medicine Project: Uncovering the elusive black
Chicago Zoological Society Trust- community to end the illegal and care in Kenya through training rhino habitat in Tanzania’s Selous
ee Jerry Manne and his colleagues hunting, consumption, and trade of and development of veterinary and Mikumi Ecosystem
at the Chicago Board of Trade. pangolin species in the Yoko Council animal care staff
United States
Since then, the CBOT ESF—which Chile Species: Giraffe Species: Blanding’s turtle
is administered by the Chicago
Species: Humboldt penguin Project: Promoting mutual pathways Project: Determining transmission
Zoological Society in collaboration Project: Generating predictive for human-giraffe co-existence in and infection of Emydomyces tes-
with an Advisory Committee—has
computational models of Humboldt Eastern Kenya tavorans over time in the Blanding’s
supported projects around penguin population diversity and turtle (Brookfield, Illinois)
the globe focused on conservation migration as a function of El Niño/La Nigeria
and research of specific threat- Niña events and climate change Species: Mountain amphibian Species: Marine species
ened, vulnerable, or endangered Project: Ecological survey and raising Project: Wiring the bay: Empowering
species or specific habitats that Ecuador awareness for threatened mountain marine wildlife conservation through
are of high biological value or Species: Andean condor amphibians in Obudu Plateau underwater sound monitoring in
substantially threatened. Project: Spatial ecology and Peru Sarasota Bay (Florida)
conservation of the Andean condor
Species: South American fur seal Species: Primates
The CBOT ESF provides funding, in the Southern Andes of Ecuador Project: Tropical Forests: Providing
such as strategic seed grants, and South American sea lion Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s gorillas,
Project: Comparing chronic stress
for projects in the range Ethiopia
Species: African bush elephant signals during warm El Niño and cold orangutans, and monkeys with a new,
of $1,000 to $7,000. La Niña conditions in South American innovative facility in which they can
The list to the right gives brief Project: The effects of habitat loss,
encroachment, and feed shortage on fur seals and South American sea be cared for while enhancing the
descriptions of the 15 projects the African bush elephant population lions from Punta San Juan using fecal Zoo’s research to aid in their protec-
identified in 2023 to receive a
in Babile Elephant Sanctuary, glucocorticoid metabolites tion in the wild (Brookfield, Illinois)
total of $107,591 in grants. Ethiopia: A conservation perspective
Species: South American sea lion
Species: 16 species at Brookfield
Guatemala and Peruvian fur seal
Zoo Chicago
Species: Campbell’s alligator lizard Project: Contaminant abundance
Project: Biological validation of
Project: Enhancing canopy and ENSO strength recorded in
adrenal hormone assays for multiple
ecosystems: Integrating epiphytes teeth of vulnerable pinnipeds
species (Brookfield, Illinois)
into habitat restoration for the (Punta San Juan)
conservation of Abronia campbelli

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