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:
1
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)
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)
Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 to broaden and deepen understanding of the risks posed by the construction of hydropower dams on the Mekong River's mainstream. (2010)
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)
Number of Grants:
12
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$315,000 to consolidate and sustain community based conservation in the western Solomon Islands (over three years). (2010)
Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
$500,000 to develop an information infrastructure and modeling tools that advance biodiversity conservation in Melanesia in the face of climate change (over three years). (2010)
Conservation International (Arlington, Virginia)
$250,000 to foster the sustainable development and financing of Fiji's Locally Managed Marine Areas network through targeted research, monitoring, and outreach (over three years). (2010)
Environmental Defender's Office Limited (Sydney, Australia)
$210,000 to use the law to promote environmental protection and conservation in Melanesia (over three years). (2010)
Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific International (Suva, Fiji)
$300,000 to consolidate and expand the Locally Managed Marine Area Network in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands (over three years). (2010)
Indonesia Locally Managed Marine Areas Foundation (Biak, PapuaIndonesia)
$150,000 to strengthen a network of Locally Managed Marine Areas in Papua Province, Indonesia (over three years). (2010)
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Virginia)
$350,000 to support integrated conservation of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in the Solomon Islands (over three years). (2010)
PNG Centre for Locally Managed Areas (Boroko, Papua New Guinea)
$150,000 to strengthen a network of Locally Managed Marine Areas in Papua New Guinea (over three years). (2010)
SeaWeb (Silver Spring, Maryland)
$300,000 to support communications training to enhance ocean conservation in Fiji and Papua Province, Indonesia through the Locally Managed Marine Area Network (over three years). (2010)
University of Queensland School of Engineering (Brisbane, Australia)
$275,000 to implement community management systems to protect the coral reefs and marine ecosystems of Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands (over three years). (2010)
University of the South Pacific Institute of Applied Sciences South Pacific Regional Herbarium (Suva, Fiji)
$600,000 to develop and implement successful community-based marine management in Melanesia by acting as the focal point for the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network (over three years). (2010)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$250,000 to support an ecosystem-based management approach to Fiji's Vatu-i-Ra Seascape (over two years). (2010)
Number of Grants:
20
American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)
$500,000 to strengthen the long-term capacity for biodiversity conservation through the expansion and enhancement of training opportunities for university and conservation professional target audiences (over three years). (2010)
Asity Madagascar (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$250,000 to improve conservation, sustain natural resource use, and increase resilience to climate change in Mangoky-Ihotry Wetland Complex (over three years). (2010)
Association Fanamby (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$200,000 to enhance participation of local communities in the design and management of Loky-Manambato protected area in Madagascar. (2010)
Blue Ventures Conservation (London, United Kingdom)
$40,800 to improve girls' education in Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area in southwest Madagascar (over two years). (2010)
Blue Ventures Conservation (London, United Kingdom)
$670,000 to build the foundation of a national locally-managed marine area network to safeguard Madagascar's coastal fisheries and biodiversity (over three years). (2010)
Blue Ventures Conservation (London, United Kingdom)
$300,000 to develop an integrated population, health, and environment project in Madagascar (over 42 months). (2010)
Development and Environmental Law Center (Fianarantsoa, Madagascar)
$200,000 to build capacity to apply public interest law to environmental law and to improve community governance and management of natural resources in Madagascar (over two years). (2010)
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (Jersey, United Kingdom)
$240,000 to manage sustainable resources through integration of community-based monitoring within protected area management in Madagascar (over three years). (2010)
Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$350,000 to involve local communities in conserving critical habitats that lack official protection and to build Malagasy capacity for conservation biology (over three years). (2010)
Fondation Pour les Aires Protegees et la Biodiversite de Madagascar (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$150,000 to strengthen fundraising capacity and to diversify sources of funding (over two years). (2010)
Groupe D' Etudes Et De Recherche Sur Les Primates De Madagascar (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$140,000 to demonstrate contribution of lemur conservation to human well-being for communities living next to Makira protected area (over three years). (2010)
Peregrine Fund (Boise, Idaho)
$160,000 to create a wetland and forest protected area in western Madagascar that is sustainably managed by local communities to maintain their livelihoods and conserve biodiversity (over three years). (2010)
Tany Meva Foundation (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$320,000 to reduce the vulnerability of communities living in and around Mikea forest through improved management of natural resources (over three years). (2010)
University of California, Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (Berkeley, California)
$132,000 to support REBIOMA, a global network of biodiversity data for reef to ridge conservation planning, monitoring and management (over three years). (2010)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$600,000 to support community-based natural resource management and sustainable livelihood initiatives in Madagascar's MaMaBay ecosystems (over three years). (2010)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$268,000 to support REBIOMA, a global network of biodiversity data for reef to ridge conservation planning, monitoring and management (over three years). (2010)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$17,000 to test the ability of new remote sensing tools to map and monitor disturbances caused by illegal logging within protected areas in Northeast Madagascar. (2010)
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)
World Wide Fund for Nature Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$210,000 to develop and implement climate change adaptation strategies in two vulnerable hotspots in the mangrove ecosystems of Tsiribihina and Manambolo along the west coast of Madagascar (over two years). (2010)
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)
Number of Grants:
12
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (Kampala, Uganda)
$300,000 to secure the legal and ecological integrity of protected areas and to promote rural livelihood security within the context of oil and gas exploitation in the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2011)
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)
Albertine Rift Conservation Society (Kampala, Uganda)
$400,000 to enhance the resilience of ecosystem services and their benefits to local communities and to build capacity of local NGOs in the Albertine Rift region (over three years). (2011)
Conservation International (Arlington, Virginia)
$600,000 to monitor biodiversity and ecosystem services in the context of climate change and agricultural intensification (over three years). (2011)
Fauna & Flora International (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 to integrate cultural and spiritual values into conservation policy and practice in Uganda (over three years). (2011)
International Crane Foundation World Center for the Study and Preservation of Cranes (Baraboo, Wisconsin)
$200,000 to support catchment-level conservation planning and management for Rugezi marsh in order to secure long-term biodiversity conservation and human livelihoods (over three years). (2011)
National University of Rwanda (Butare, Rwanda)
$250,000 to enhance the capacity of universities and conservation practitioners to contribute to biodiversity conservation in the Albertine Rift through strengthening a regional network of conservation educators (over three years). (2011)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York)
$350,000 to support multi-disciplinary surveys of the Lake Kivu system that inform strategic plans of regional governments aimed at conserving biodiversity and improving livelihoods, as the region undergoes natural and human-induced change (over two years). (2011)
Rwanda Development Board, Tourism and Conservation (Kigali, Rwanda)
$300,000 to enhance sustainability of Kitabi College of Conservation and Environmental Management by extending its regional reach and diversifying its curriculum to target the private wildlife tourism sector (over three years). (2011)
SaferRwanda (Kigali, Rwanda)
$180,000 to support conservation of Volcanoes National Park through the provision of biogas and solar energy faculties to neighboring households (over three years). (2011)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$550,000 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). (2011)
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)
Number of Grants:
19
BirdLife International (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
$235,000 to develop a public/private alliance among Caribbean and international agencies and organizations to conserve Caribbean mangrove forests (over three years). (2010)
BirdLife International (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
$250,000 to support the organizational and technical development of Société Audubon Haiti (over three years). (2010)
Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)
$475,000 to strengthen civil society organizations as effective advocates for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development (over three years). (2010)
Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology (Ithaca, New York)
$300,000 to support training and monitoring for conservation and management of natural resources in Cuban protected areas (over three years). (2010)
Counterpart International (Arlington, Virginia)
$340,000 to improve agriculture and fishery practices in the buffer zone of Monte Cristi National Park, Dominican Republic (over three years). (2010)
Environmental Defense Fund (New York, New York)
$220,000 to improve cooperation between the United States and Cuba on natural resource management and environmental protection (over two years). (2010)
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (Eugene, Oregon)
$300,000 to strengthen public interest law to sustain conservation in the Caribbean (over three years). (2010)
Environmental Law Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$180,000 to build the capacity of judges to protect biodiversity in Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic (over three years). (2010)
Fairchild Tropical Garden (Miami, Florida)
$250,000 to apply conservation science to protect the Greater Cockpit Country ecosystem in Western Jamaica (over three years). (2010)
Grupo Jaragua (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
$350,000 to conserve the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve in the Dominican Republic (over three years). (2010)
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Virginia)
$200,000 to establish a sustainable conservation funding mechanism for protected areas in the Caribbean region (over two years). (2010)
Nature Conservancy (Arlington, Virginia)
$75,000 to developing a tri-national, Haiti-Dominican Republic-Cuba marine action plan for the Caribbean Biological Corridor. (2010)
New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)
$250,000 to identify the most vulnerable plant species in Cuba (over three years). (2010)
Panos Caribbean (Kingston, Jamaica)
$365,000 to support the participation of environmentally vulnerable communities in Haiti's national earthquake recovery debate (over two years). (2010)
Reef Check Foundation (Pacific Palisades, California)
$150,000 to support post-earthquake strategies for marine resource management in Haiti (over three years). (2010)
Sea to Shore Alliance (Sarasota, Florida)
$150,000 to support coastal wildlife conservation in Cuba (over three years). (2010)
University of the West Indies, Mona Department of Life Sciences (Mona, Jamaica)
$340,000 to support natural resource conservation in the Cockpit Country and Black River Lower Morass, Jamaica (over three years). (2010)
Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx, New York)
$150,000 to conserve wetlands and strengthening biodiversity conservation capacity in Cuba (over three years). (2010)
Windsor Research Centre, Ltd. (Trelawny, Jamaica)
$250,000 to support of improving environmental impact assessment processes in Jamaica (over three years). (2010)
Number of Grants:
18
Altropico (Quito, Ecuador)
$265,000 in support of advancing the Chiles-Mataje Biological Corridor in Northern Ecuador (over three years). (2009)
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 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)
$147,500 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:
0
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