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PROGRAM ON GLOBAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Grants Authorized 2005
MacArthur is dedicated to conserving biodiversity and enhancing knowledge of how to use natural resources sustainably over the long term. Work is supported in a small number of tropical bio-geographic zones, chosen for their richness of species diversity, endemism, limited institutional capacity, and level of threat. We support such biodiversity “hotspots” in the Northern and Southern Andes, the Albertine Rift, Eastern Himalayas, Madagascar, Lower Mekong, and Melanesia. MacArthur also funds projects to build and strengthen the conservation capacity of local, regional, and national organizations, as well as research exploring conservation approaches that address the important interaction between people and protected areas.
AFRICA
African Wildlife Foundation, Washington, D.C.
$450,000 to strengthen long-term management capacity for conservation and to provide short-term emergency support in the Virunga-Bwindi trans-boundary region of the Albertine Rift (over three years).
Conservation through Public Health, Port Townsend, Washington
$190,000 in support of building Uganda Wildlife Authority’s capacity for wildlife health monitoring (over three years).
Fauna and Flora International, Washington, D.C.
$370,000 in support of enhanced protected area management in Uganda through the incorporation of local cultural values (over three years).
Greenwatch, Kampala, Uganda
$280,000 in support of capacity building for Ugandan judicial and law enforcement officers (over three years).
Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, Kampala, Uganda
$220,000 in support of building capacity for conservation training in Uganda (over three years).
Mbarara University of Science and Technology Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kabale, Uganda
$270,000 in support of strengthening adaptive management of conservation landscapes in the Albertine Rift (over three years).
National University of Rwanda Department of Biology, Butare, Rwanda
$390,000 to provide quality conservation sciences courses and training for undergraduate students from Rwanda and neighboring countries in the Albertine Rift (over three years).
Office Rwandais du Tourisme et des Parcs Nationaux, Kigali, Rwanda
$500,000 in support of the establishment of a conservation training center (over three years).
Uganda Wildlife Authority, Kampala, Uganda
$215,000 in support of improved management of Rwenzori Mountains National Park (over three years).
University of East Anglia Overseas Development Group, Norwich, United Kingdom
$160,000 in support of developing models for cross-scale conservation partnerships in Rwanda (over three years).
Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York
$300,000 in support of regional collaboration and NGO capacity building in the Albertine Rift region (over three years).
$470,000 in support of planning, capacity building, and coordination for landscape-level conservation across four nations of the Albertine Rift (over three years).
ASIA-PACIFIC
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
$225,000 to undertake biodiversity surveys of the Gaoligong Mountain Range in collaboration with Chinese partner agencies in Yunnan Province (over three years).
Columbia University Center for United States-China Arts Exchange, New York, New York
$400,000 to strengthen the management and conservation capacity of Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province (over three years).
Community Forestry International, Santa Barbara, California
$350,000 in support of developing a regional community forestry policy framework for the states of Northeast India (over three years).
Inner Asian Conservation, Hamden, Connecticut
$320,000 in support of developing new protected areas by working with local communities and the state government of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India (over three years).
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
$315,000 to strengthen institutional and policy innovations for conservation across international boundaries in the Eastern Himalaya region, using the Kangchenjunga landscape as the case study (over three years).
Mountain Institute, Washington, D.C.
$300,000 to promote effective conservation management of the Kangchenjunga landscape in eastern Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim through directed community participation (over three years).
Resources Himalaya Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
$150,000 to provide scientific and technical training and support for conservation organizations in the Eastern Himalaya (over three years).
Royal Society for the Protection of Nature, Thimphu, Bhutan
$215,000 in support of implementing the management plan for Phobjikha Conservation Area in cooperation with the local community (over three years).
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, New Delhi, India
$200,000 to study and learn from the traditional ecological knowledge systems of the indigenous peoples of Northeast India (over three years).
World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
$145,000 to develop guidelines for good environmental governance to assist the processes and institutions involved in decision making in Yunnan Province, China (over two years).
World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
$300,000 in support of the formal establishment of the first-ever community-managed protected area in Nepal (over three years).
$700,000 to assist the Royal Government of Bhutan in strengthening the corridor system that connects the protected areas of Bhutan into a single continuous landscape (over three years).
LATIN AMERICA
Amazon Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.
$250,000 in support of research and conservation of the Pampas del Heath in Madidi National Park buffer zone, Bolivia (over three years).
American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
$225,000 to develop and test a set of training modules in biodiversity and conservation science targeting conservation professionals and university educators to strengthen conservation management in the Southern Andes (over three years).
BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom
$58,000 in support of conservation and management of Cockpit Country Forest Reserve, Jamaica (over two years).
Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, Cordillera Azul, Lima, Peru
$300,000 in support of the management and strengthened protection of Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru (over three years).
Centro para el Desarrollo del Indigena Amazonico, La Perla, Peru
$275,000 in support of conservation and management of Machiguenga and Megantoni protected areas in Central Peru (over three years).
Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois
$200,000 in support of training conservation communicators in priority protected areas of Bolivia and Peru (over three years).
Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
$250,000 in support of buffer zone management of Amboro National Park, Bolivia (over two years).
Fundacion Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
$250,000 in support of establishing the first graduate program in conservation science in Peru (over three years).
Fundacion Para el Desarrollo del Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidas, La Paz, Bolivia
$150,000 to strengthen local fundraising capacity in priority protected areas and implement a fundraising program for university conservation training programs in Bolivia (over two years).
Fundacion Yangareko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
$300,000 to strengthen local capacity to co-manage Manuripi Wildlife Reserve and buffer zone in Western Pando, Bolivia (over three years).
Instituto del Bien Comun, Lima, Peru
$235,000 to improve fisheries management and build local capacity to protect the Pachitea watershed of central Peru (over three years).
Liga para la Defensa del Medio Ambiente, La Paz, Bolivia
$100,000 to widely disseminate information, research, and analysis about biodiversity conservation and sustainable development that should be considered in the drafting of the new Bolivian Constitution (over two years).
Organization for Tropical Studies, Durham, North Carolina
$200,000 to establish field courses for conservation practitioners in Peru (over three years).
PROFONANPE, Lima, Peru
$90,000 in support of implementing a fundraising strategy for Peru’s protected area system and conservation training programs in national universities (over two years).
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, Lima, Peru
$400,000 to support the development and application of legal tools and policies for effective protection of Peru’s biological diversity at the regional and municipal levels and within the protected area system (over three years).
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana Escuela de Post Grado, Iquitos, Peru
$200,000 to strengthen an interdisciplinary graduate program for conservation professionals in the Peruvian Amazon (over three years).
University of Florida, Geography Department, Gainesville, Florida
$245,000 in support of conservation of migratory fish in the Madre de Dios watershed in Peru (over two years).
Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York
$350,000 to strengthen community natural resource management in the Greater Madidi Landscape, Bolivia and Peru (over three years).
World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
$200,000 to improve fisheries management and protection of Abanico del Pastaza wetlands in Northern Peru (over three years).
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California
$160,000 in support of expanding local capability to map forest disturbances in Peruvian forests.
Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Canada
$103,000 to strengthen institutional capacity.
Indiana University, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, Indiana
$145,000 in transition support for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research network (over three years).
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Canada
$325,000 in support of integrating peace and conflict impact assessments into conservation interventions in the Albertine Rift (over two years).
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources-United States, Washington, D.C.
$300,000 to facilitate the exchange of scientific ideas and generation of new management tools for coral reef ecosystems that are under stress due to the effects of global climate change (over three years).
Nature Conservancy Asia/Pacific Region, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
$500,000 to develop practical methods for applying resilience principles to coral reef conservation and sharing the science and methodology of coral resilience through training programs in areas of high coral reef importance around the world (over three years).
Stanford University, Institute for the Environment, Stanford, California
$350,000 in support of a demonstration project that applies benefit-cost analytical tools to ecosystem management and ecosystem services at the landscape scale in three test sites in Africa, China, and California (over three years).
University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, Michigan
$305,000 in transition support for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (ifri) research network (over three years).
Wildlife Trust, Palisades, New York
$200,000 in support of EcoHealth, a scholarly journal linking ecological change and health (over three years).
World Bank International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, D.C.
$500,000 in support of the Development Marketplace to incubate innovative mechanisms to conserve biodiversity.
World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
$350,000 to explore measures of the effectiveness of the conservation community in addressing the social dimensions of conservation (over three years).
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut
$250,000 to establish Online Access to Research in the Environment (over three years).
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