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Field Museum
Grants to Field Museum
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$150,000Active Strategy
2012 (Duration 2 years)
Conservation & Sustainable Development
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Environment, Culture, and Conservation Program of the Field Museum of Chicago integrates biological inventory and cultural preservation objectives in the Tropical Andes through an "assets-based conservation" process. The project will apply this approach in indigenous territories strategically located near Ampiyacu-Apayacu and Sierra de Divisor conservation landscapes in Northeastern Peru. Quality of Life plans will use cultural values, local knowledge and social and organizational structures to establish community conserved areas and heighten the chance that traditional livelihoods will survive outside pressures.
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$350,000Active Strategy
2010 (Duration 3 years)
Conservation & Sustainable Development
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To involve local communities in conserving critical habitats that lack official protection and to build Malagasy capacity for conservation biology (over three years).
The MacArthur Foundation awarded Field Museum $500,000 between 2010 and 2013.
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