Conservation and Sustainable Development
Recent Grants
Asia - Eastern Himalaya
Asia - Lower Mekong
Asia - Melanesia
Africa - Madagascar
Africa - Albertine Rift
Latin America - Caribbean
Latin America - Northern Andes
Latin America - Southern Andes
Number of Grants:
13
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (Belmont, Massachusetts)
$250,000 to establish a small grants fund to support exploration and sustainable use of biodiversity in Northeast India (over two years). (2009)
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, California)
$200,000 to complete biodiversity surveys of the Gaoligong Mountain Range in collaboration with Chinese partner agencies in Yunnan Province (over two years). (2008)
Community Forestry International (South Lake Tahoe, California)
$350,000 to develop a regional community forestry policy framework for the states of Northeast India (over three years). (2008)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Katmandu, Nepal)
$400,000 to support transboundary landscape conservation policy and institutional innovations in the Eastern Himalaya (over three years). (2008)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Katmandu, Nepal)
$150,000 to support an assessment of climate change vulnerability of mountain ecosystems in the Eastern Himalaya. (2007)
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Gland, Switzerland)
$200,000 to assess the conservation status of freshwater fishes, freshwater mollusks, and ecologically important aquatic insects in the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot. (2008)
Mountain Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 to support community conservation in the transboundary region of the Khangchendzonga region between Nepal and Sikkim, India (over three years). (2008)
Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (Thimphu, Bhutan)
$200,000 to implement the management plan for Phobjikha Conservation Area in cooperation with the local community (over three years). (2008)
University of Montana, College of Forestry & Conservation (Missoula, Montana)
$200,000 to develop and deliver an integrated and applied conservation education program at the Ugyen Wangchuck Environmental and Forestry Institute, Bhutan (over three years). (2008)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$250,000 in support of efforts to strengthen a protected area network in Burma's northern forest complex (over three years). (2008)
World Wildlife Fund Bhutan Programme (Thimphu, Bhutan)
$750,000 to strengthen biological corridors for biodiversity conservation in Bhutan (over three years). (2008)
World Wildlife Fund Nepal Program (Katmandu, Nepal)
$450,000 to prepare the KCA Management Council for the sustainable management of the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (over three years). (2008)
Yunnan Nationalities University (Kunming, China)
$25,000 in support of the collection and documentation of information on traditional ethnic design and clothing manufacture of the ethnic minority groups residing in Yunnan Province, China. (2007)
Number of Grants:
14
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$350,000 to consolidate and build upon previous efforts to strengthen protected area management and biodiversity conservation within the North and Central Annamite Landscapes of Vietnam and Laos (over three years). (2009)
BirdLife International (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
$500,000 to evaluate systematically the impact of different site conservation approaches in the Lower Mekong, ranging from large integrated conservation and development projects to community-based initiatives (over three years). (2009)
Community Forestry International (South Lake Tahoe, California)
$250,000 to analyze and document Cambodia's on-going forest management transition and its implications for long-term conservation (over three years). (2009)
Conservation International (Arlington, Virginia)
$300,000 to support efforts to protect a key biodiversity area in the Lower Mekong through scientific research, community engagement, law enforcement, and protected area status (over three years). (2009)
Education for Nature-Vietnam (Hanoi, Vietnam)
$200,000 to expand the anti-illegal wildlife trade program in the Central Annamites (over three years). (2009)
Fauna & Flora International (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 to support efforts to build a new generation of highly qualified and experienced Cambodian conservation leaders and biologists (over three years). (2009)
International Crane Foundation World Center for the Study and Preservation of Cranes (Baraboo, Wisconsin)
$250,000 to support provincial governments and communities and bolster ongoing management of wetlands that form a critical component of the biological diversity of the Mekong River Basin (over two years). (2009)
New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 to support conservation and management of rattan cane in Central Truong Son Mountains, Vietnam (over three years). (2009)
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, North Carolina)
$320,000 to improve understanding of amphibian and reptile diversity in the Lower Mekong through investigation, professional training and specimen collection, with a focus on species conservation (over three years). (2009)
Peking University Center for Nature and Society (Beijing, China)
$400,000 to support the Center for Nature and Society (over two years). (2009)
Quang Tri Provincial Forest Protection Department (Dong Ha, Vietnam)
$200,000 to strengthen protected area management in Quang Tri province and consolidate conservation investments in the Central Annamites priority landscape of Vietnam (over three years). (2009)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$690,000 to support sustainable biodiversity conservation of the capstones of the Annamite Mountains in Cambodia and Laos (over three years). (2009)
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development (Little Rock, Arkansas)
$750,000 to fund efforts to develop sustainable finance, legal, and policy mechanisms that will secure and support long-term conservation outcomes in the Greater Annamites (over three years). (2009)
World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of an assessment of climate change vulnerability and impact of the freshwater and forest ecosystems in the Lower Mekong focal area (over two years). (2007)
Number of Grants:
14
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$250,000 to develop protected area capacity in the Solomon Islands. (2007)
Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (Boroko, Papua New Guinea)
$225,000 to defend and protect communal land, sea and natural resources through legal and policy tools (over three years). (2007)
Community Conservation Network (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
$250,000 to enhance the ability of locally managed marine areas to develop and operate efficiently for greater conservation impact in New Guinea (over three years). (2007)
Environmental Defender's Office Limited (Sydney, Australia)
$250,000 to provide litigation support and technical assistance for protecting Papua New Guinea's customary landowners (over three years). (2007)
Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific International (Suva, Fiji)
$350,000 to expand community-based coastal resources management approaches in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (over three years). (2007)
Live and Learn Environmental Education - South Pacific (Suva, Fiji)
$225,000 to develop conflict management models to advance sustainable management of biodiversity in the Solomon Islands (over three years). (2007)
Marine Aquarium Council (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
$250,000 to implement industry standards and a certification process for the aquarium fish trade in a manner that supports conservation, resource management, and sustainable livelihoods (over three years). (2007)
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Virginia)
$325,000 to strengthen marine conservation in the Solomon Island Archipelago (over three years). (2007)
SeaWeb (Silver Spring, Maryland)
$225,000 in support of communications training to enhance ocean conservation in Fiji by expanding the reach of lessons learned from the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network (over three years). (2007)
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia)
$350,000 to promote sound national government policies and effective capacity in fisheries management that meet local needs for sustainable marine resource use across the region (over three years). (2007)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (Apia, Samoa)
$165,000 to strengthen the capacity of national government and local communities in Vanuatu to respond more effectively to climate change impacts in coastal areas (over three years). (2007)
University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
$250,000 to develop and field test community management systems to protect the coral reefs and marine ecosystems of Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands (over three years). (2007)
University of the South Pacific (Suva, Fiji)
$800,000 to develop and implement successful community-based marine management in the South Pacific region by acting as the focal point for the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network (over three years). (2007)
World Wide Fund for Nature, South Pacific Programme (Suva, Fiji)
$350,000 to enhance the ability of locally-managed marine areas in Fiji and the Solomon Islands to develop and operate efficiently and independently as a model for greater conservation impact across Melanesia (over three years). (2007)
Number of Grants:
19
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of curriculum development and training for universities and conservation professionals in Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
Asity (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$200,000 in support of conservation of the Mangoky-Ihotry complex and building the capacity of a Malagasy NGO (over three years). (2007)
Blue Ventures Conservation (London, United Kingdom)
$280,000 in support of community managed coastal and marine protected areas in southwest Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
Centre Ecologique Libanona (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar)
$115,000 to establish field-based training programs in southern Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
Conservation International (Arlington, Virginia)
$650,000 in support of climate change adaptation for conservation in Madagascar (over two years). (2008)
Development and Environmental Law Center (Fianarantsoa, Madagascar)
$270,000 to build capacity for the application of public interest law to environmental law and to improve community governance and management of natural resources in Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$325,000 in support of an assessment of the impact of climate change on the elevational distribution of Malagasy land vertebrates and building capacity in conservation biology (over three years). (2007)
Groupe D' Etudes Et De Recherche Sur Les Primates De Madagascar (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$125,000 in support of primate research and conservation planning in Makira Protected Area by a Malagasy NGO (over three years). (2007)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, Missouri)
$300,000 to assess impacts and mitigate consequences of climate change upon Madagascar's plants (over three years). (2007)
Tany Meva Foundation (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$350,000 to strengthen the Trust Fund capacity to support community management of conservation areas (over three years). (2007)
Universite De Toliara Institut Halieutique Et Des Sciences Marines (Toliara, Madagascar)
$150,000 in support of the establishment of field-based training sites for marine protected areas (over three years). (2007)
University of Antananarivo Department of Forestry (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$300,000 in support of increasing the understanding of the types and qualities of governance for protected area management in Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
University of California, Berkeley Deparment of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Berkeley, California)
$50,000 to expand scientific research for conservation decision making in Madagascar using the REBIOMA database (over three years). (2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$400,000 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). (2009)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$230,000 to expand scientific research for conservation decision making in Madagascar using the REBIOMA database (over three years). (2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$500,000 in support of the consolidation of an integrated strategy for conservation and sustainable natural resource use in Madagascar's Antongil Bay Landscape (over three years). (2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 in support of research on coral reef vulnerability and resilience to climate change in order to guide the establishment of marine protected areas in Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
World Wide Fund for Nature Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$350,000 to develop and implement climate change adaptive strategies in the marine and coastal areas of the Diana Region of northwest Madagascar (over three years). (2009)
World Wide Fund for Nature Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$300,000 in support of the creation of resilient marine protected areas in the northwest and southwest regions of Madagascar (over three years). (2007)
Number of Grants:
17
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (Kampala, Uganda)
$120,000 to strengthen civil society organizations in Uganda to contribute towards the development of appropriate policies for biodiversity conservation and oil governance in the Albertine Rift region (over two years). (2009)
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (Kampala, Uganda)
$300,000 in support of securing the legal and ecological integrity of conservation areas and promoting property and access rights for local communities in the western region of Uganda (over two years). (2008)
African Wildlife Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 to strengthen capacity for tourism management and human-wildlife conflict resolution in the Virunga Bwindi region of the Albertine Rift (over three years). (2008)
Albertine Rift Conservation Society (Kampala, Uganda)
$380,000 to develop a regional monitoring system and build NGO capacity in the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2008)
Conservation Through Public Health (Port Townsend, Washington)
$300,000 to build capacity for wildlife health monitoring in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (over three years). (2008)
Fauna & Flora International (Washington, D.C.)
$320,000 to build institutions for sustainable integration of cultural values into the management of national parks in Uganda (over three years). (2008)
Fauna & Flora International (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 in support for the protection of mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. (2007)
Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (Kampala, Uganda)
$320,000 to build capacity for conservation training in Uganda (over three years). (2008)
Mbarara University of Science and Technology Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (Kabale, Uganda)
$350,000 to strengthen conservation capacity by anticipating and preparing for change in the Greater Virunga Landscape (over three years). (2008)
National University of Rwanda Department of Biology (Butare, Rwanda)
$420,000 to strengthen capacity to offer graduate education in conservation science to students from Rwanda and neighboring countries in the Albertine Rift (over three years). (2008)
Office Rwandais du Tourisme et des Parcs Nationaux (Kigali, Rwanda)
$450,000 to strengthen a conservation training center (over three years). (2008)
Sokoine University of Agriculture Department of Wildlife Management (Morogoro, Tanzania)
$300,000 in support of building capacity to identify, analyze and negotiate conservation and development trade-offs (over three years). (2008)
Uganda Wildlife Authority (Kampala, Uganda)
$170,000 to monitor impacts of climate change in Ruwenzori Mountains National Park and of oil exploration in protected areas of the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2008)
University of Cambridge Department of Zoology (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
$315,000 in support of valuating ecosystem services in the Greater Virunga landscape of the Albertine Rift (over three years). (2008)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$650,000 to establish a long-term climate and ecological monitoring network across the protected areas of the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2009)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$570,000 to secure and conserve priority landscapes in the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2008)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$250,000 in support of an assessment of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Albertine Rift region (over two years). (2007)
Number of Grants:
14
Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
$350,000 to strengthen governance and build effectiveness of key civil society conservation organizations in the Caribbean (over three years). (2007)
Cornell University Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (Ithaca, New York)
$475,000 in support of training and monitoring for conservation and management of natural resources in Cuban protected areas (over three years). (2007)
Counterpart International (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000 to protect coastal marine biodiversity in Monte Cristi National Park, Dominican Republic (over three years). (2007)
Environmental Defense Fund (New York, New York)
$450,000 to protect coastal and marine resources in Cuba (over two years). (2008)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (Eugene, Oregon)
$300,000 to build the capacity of public interest lawyers in the Insular Caribbean to protect the region's threatened biodiversity (over three years). (2007)
Environmental Law Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to develop judicial education programs on biodiversity conservation in Hispaniola and Jamaica (over three years). (2007)
Fairchild Tropical Garden (Miami, Florida)
$270,000 in support of a plant conservation strategy for the Cockpit Country of Jamaica (over three years). (2007)
Grupo Jaragua (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
$345,000 in support of conservation of the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve in the Dominican Republic (over three years). (2007)
New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 in support of plant conservation and sustainable management of the Jaragua-Bahoruca-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, Dominican Republic (over three years). (2007)
University of the West Indies, Mona Department of Life Sciences, Mona (Kingston, Jamaica)
$250,000 in support of applied research that contributes to the conservation of Cockpit Country and Black River Morass, Jamaica (over three years). (2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 in support of conservation of Ciénaga de Zapata wetlands and building capacity for management of Cuba's protected areas system (over three years). (2007)
Wildlife Trust (New York, New York)
$150,000 to strengthen technical capacity and policy frameworks for marine conservation in Cuba (over three years). (2007)
Windsor Research Centre (Trelawny, Jamaica)
$320,000 to establish economic incentives for and strengthening community involvement in conservation of the Cockpit Country and Martha Brae Watershed, Jamaica (over three years). (2007)
World Wildlife Fund - Canada (Toronto, Canada)
$250,000 to develop a species-centered approach to understanding adaptation to climate change in the Insular Caribbean (over three years). (2007)
Number of Grants:
20
Altropico (Quito, Ecuador)
$265,000 in support of advancing the Chiles-Mataje Biological Corridor in Northern Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin (Washington, D.C.)
$145,000 in support of building indigenous capacity to conserve territories, protected areas, and livelihoods threatened by extractive industries in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (over three years). (2007)
Amazon Conservation Team (Arlington, Virginia)
$255,000 to manage and consolidate a bio-cultural corridor in the Colombian Amazon (over three years). (2009)
Amazon Watch (San Francisco, California)
$260,000 to support cross-border networking and leadership training for protection of indigenous territories in the Northern Andes (over three years). (2009)
Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (Oakland, California)
$225,000 to strengthen and enforce the application of environmental law in Ecuador and Colombia (over three years). (2009)
Corporacion de Gestion y Derecho Ambiental (Quito, Ecuador)
$235,000 to strengthen community involvement in environmental protection of Northwest Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
Corporacion Grupo Randi Randi (Quito, Ecuador)
$350,000 to consolidate a conservation corridor in Northwestern Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
E-Tech International (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
$50,000 to provide technical assistance and capacity building for communities affected by mining development projects in the Northern Andes. (2009)
Fondo para la Accion Ambiental y la Ninez (Bogata, Colombia)
$180,000 to build local capacities for climate change adaptation and biodiversity and water conservation in the Colombian Andes (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecologicos EcoCiencia (Quito, Ecuador)
$250,000 in support of consolidation of capacity building in climate change and local governance in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont of Northern, Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecologicos, EcoCiencia (Quito, Ecuador)
$55,000 in support of a workshop on decentralization of natural resource management governance in Latin America. (2007)
Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano (Quito, Ecuador)
$250,000 to strengthen environmental governance in Ecuador by building capacity to prevent and manage social and environmental conflict (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion Maquipucuna (Quito, Ecuador)
$250,000 to consolidate altitudinal connectivity between protected areas in the Choco Andean Corridor of Northwest Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion Natura Colombia (Bogota, Colombia)
$300,000 in support of management of oak forests in the face of climate change in Colombia (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion para la Sobrevivencia del Pueblo Cofan (Quito, Ecuador)
$240,000 in support of the Cofán Park Guard Program, Cofán leadership development, and the creation of a sustainable financing mechanism (over three years). (2009)
Fundacion Pro-Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Santa Marta, Colombia)
$300,000 to strengthen processes for recuperation of natural and cultural resources in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia (over three years). (2009)
NatureServe (Arlington, Virginia)
$150,000 to assess ecological integrity and to build resilience to climate change into Andean conservation planning (over two years). (2009)
Pinchot Institute for Conservation (Washington, D.C.)
$275,000 to apply market-based strategies for protecting high conservation value forests in Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$350,000 to adapt conservation planning to climate change and to build management and research capacity in a regional system of protected areas in the Central-Western Colombian Andes (over three years). (2009)
World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of maintenance resilience to address climate change in priority landscapes of the Colombian Andes-Amazon Piedmont (over three years). (2009)
Number of Grants:
19
Amazon Conservation Association (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to build conservation capacity within the Tacana indigenous community to protect the Pampas de Heath wilderness in Northern Bolivia (over two years). (2008)
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$270,000 to expand implementation of region-specific curricula for graduate programs in environmental science in Peruvian and Bolivian universities (over three years). (2008)
Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales, Cordillera Azul (Lima, Peru)
$250,000 to strengthen the management and protection of Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru (over three years). (2008)
Centro para el Desarrollo del Indigena Amazonico (La Perla, Peru)
$275,000 to consolidate local participation in the management of Machiguenga and Megantoni protected areas in Central Peru (over three years). (2008)
Conservation Strategy Fund (Sebastopol, California)
$400,000 in support of building natural resource economics skills to sustain biodiversity conservation in the Southern Tropical Andes (over three years). (2008)
Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Lima, Peru)
$240,000 to build the legal capacity of native peoples of the Ucayali Basin to protect vulnerable biodiverse homelands (over three years). (2008)
E-Tech International (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
$150,000 to provide technical assistance and capacity building for communities effected by oil and gas development projects in the Southern Andes (over three years). (2008)
Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$231,000 to strengthen indigenous organizations in the Andean foothills and Amazon lowlands of Peru (over three years). (2008)
Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
$245,000 to design a conservation plan for the Llanos de Moxos Plains in Eastern Bolivia (over two years). (2008)
Fundacion Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru)
$325,000 in support of the Cayetano Heredia University's multidisciplinary graduate program in conservation and sustainable development (over three years). (2008)
Fundacion Natura Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
$170,000 to improve forest management of Amboró National Park and the Cruceño Valley's Natural Area in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, through development of payment for ecosystem services incentives (over three years). (2008)
Fundacion Yangareko (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
$225,000 to strengthen community-based conservation of Manuripi Wildlife Reserve and buffer zone in Western Pando, Bolivia (over two years). (2008)
Global Greengrants Fund (Boulder, Colorado)
$185,000 to use small grants to strengthen organizational capacity of indigenous communities to conserve biodiversity in Peru and Bolivia (over three years) (2008)
Instituto del Bien Comun (Lima, Peru)
$325,000 to integrate management of the Pachitea watershed (over three years). (2008)
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Washington, D.C.)
$225,000 to understand the impact of rapid infrastructure development on the environment in the Southern Tropical Andes (over three years). (2008)
Organization for Tropical Studies (Durham, North Carolina)
$275,000 to link training and research to conservation practices in the Southern Andes (over three years). (2008)
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (Lima, Peru)
$300,000 to develop institutional and legal frameworks for effective management of biodiversity in a decentralized context (over three years). (2008)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$300,000 to consolidate indigenous participation for conservation in the Greater Madidi landscape of Bolivia and Peru (over three years). (2008)
World Wildlife Fund (Washington, D.C.)
$235,000 to implement sustainable mechanisms for indigenous communities to protect resources in the Abanico de Pastaza wetland from hydrocarbon exploration (over three years). (2008)
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