• $850,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — The Wildlife Conservation Society will develop knowledge and tools to strengthen environmental governance in Cambodia and Laos and encourage government and private sector actors involved in agro-industrial development to shift policies and practices in ways that reduce pressures on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agro-industrial plantations are expanding rapidly in Cambodia and Laos. Much of this development has degraded natural resources and ecosystems upon which local people have depended, and caused local people to be denied access to, or displaced from, areas over which they historically have exercised rights. The rapid growth of agro-industrial concessions threatens to undo many past conservation successes and is becoming a defining issue for conservation in the region. WCS will investigate the patterns of investment in this sector, including documenting the companies developing the agro-industry sector (from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and China), and their joint venture partners in Cambodia and Laos.

• $25,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To update the 2005 report, Myanmar: Investment Opportunities in Biodiversity Conservation.

• $550,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 3 years)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To enhance conservation of three key landscapes in the Albertine Rift countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda (over three years).

• $268,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To support REBIOMA, a global network of biodiversity data for reef to ridge conservation planning, monitoring and management (over three years).

• $600,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To support community-based natural resource management and sustainable livelihood initiatives in Madagascar's MaMaBay ecosystems (over three years).

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To conserve wetlands and strengthening biodiversity conservation capacity in Cuba (over three years).

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To build consensus on key recommendations for addressing climate change adaptation for conservation in the Albertine Rift region.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To support an ecosystem-based management approach to Fiji's Vatu-i-Ra Seascape (over two years).

• $17,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To test the ability of new remote sensing tools to map and monitor disturbances caused by illegal logging within protected areas in Northeast Madagascar.

• $400,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To implement a range of spatial, technical and temporal adaptation tools across the spectrum of predicted climate impacts on the west coast of Madagascar (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Wildlife Conservation Society $3,260,000 between 2009 and 2012.