Loiselle Conservation FundThe ACA established the Dr. Paul Loiselle Conservation fund to fulfill one of its key objectives which is preserve cichlid species and their habitats.
Paul V. Loiselle, Ph.D.
Dr. Paul V. Loiselle is an enthusiastic aquarist of 50 years’ experience. During the course of his career, Paul has had the opportunity to study cichlids in Madagascar, West Africa, Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, Haiti, Mexico, Central America, and the Peruvian Amazon. Emeritus Curator of Freshwater Fishes at the New York Aquarium, he is actively involved in conservation programs focused on the fishes of Madagascar.
Paul is co-chair of the I.U.C.N.’s Madagascar Region Freshwater Fish Specialty Group. He represents the New York Aquarium on the Association of Zoos and Aquarium’s Freshwater Fish Taxa Advisory Group, and serves as a scientific advisor to the Lake Victoria Cichlid Species Survival Program and the Madagascar Faunal Interest Group. A founding member and Fellow of the American Cichlid Association, an Honorary Fellow of the Association France Cichlid and a Life Member of the North Jersey Aquarium Society, he is an internationally published author of numerous articles on the care and breeding of ornamental fishes and such books as The Cichlid Aquarium, Your Garden Pond, and The Fishkeeper’s Guide to African Cichlids. |
Loiselle Conservation Fund
Mission Statement
The goal of the Loiselle Conservation Fund is to effect the preservation of cichlid species and their habitats through 1. appropriate intervention to save cichlid species immediately threatened by extinction, 2. the preservation of the ecological integrity of critical cichlid habitats, 3. by supporting research that bears directy upon the first two stated objectives and 4. by working to build the capacity of range state institutions to function as effective agents of cichlid conservation. |
You can donate directly to the Paul Loiselle conservation fund by clicking on the button below.
100% of your donation is tax deductible |
Conservation Related Activities Supported to Date
2017 Genetic enhancement of a relict population of Paretroplus menarambo in Lake Tseny through translocation of fish from the Andapa facility 2015 - 2017 Funding the operation of Guy Tam Hyok’s Andapa-based in situ captive breeding program for the critically endangered Malagasy cichlid species Paratilapia sp. Andapa, Ptychochromis insolitus, Paretroplus menarambo, Pe. maculatus and Pe. nourissati in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Toronto Zoo. 2013 Promotion of cichlid conservation through classroom education in Costa Rica. Sequencing of the genome of a predatory Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlid, Prognathochromis sp. Juma hunter. 2012 Ichthyofaunal survey of the Mananara du Sud River, a suspected biodiversity “hot spot” in southeastern Madagascar. 2010 Study of resource partitioning by an assemblage of sympatric Crenicichla species. 2009 An evaluation of the impact of naturalized exotic loricariid catfish on cichlid communities and their habitats in southern Mexico. An evaluation of the impact of the exotic cichlid Hemichromis guttatus upon the fish communities of Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. 2008 Studies of the evolutionary ecology of cichlid comunities in a blackwater stream in Venezuela. 2007 Studies of the evolutionary ecology of cichlid communities in the Usumacinata basin of Mexico. |
|