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 | Organization for Tropical Studies
Educating US Policymakers on International Forest Carbon | $109,638 | May 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $109,638 | May 2009 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the Organization for Tropical Studies and the Nicholas Institute to organize a series of courses, briefings, and events to inform US decision makers about the potential for including international forest carbon as part of US and international efforts to address global climate change. The specific goals of this educational series will be to: (1) provide US policymakers with a comprehensive background on the science and economics that underlie reducing emissions through deforestation and degradation and (2) help US policymakers explore the national and international impacts of alternative policy options. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,813,081 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) will support the formation and self governance structure of a network of at least 10 existing institutions in the Andean region, providing training for protected area managers and decision makers. When fully implemented, the Network will provide training opportunities across the Andean region using the human and technical resources of the participating institutions from Venezuela to Bolivia. Capacity building is crucial for the long-term sustainability of conservation projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $528,000 | Aug. 2004 |
Purpose
The Organization for Tropical Studies is using this grant to build local NGO and institutional capacity to protect and manage biodiversity. Outcomes include conservation training materials (in Spanish and Portuguese), the training of decision-makers (30 from Peru and Brazil) and protected area managers (30 from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru), and certification of five trainers from Bolivia and Peru. | | The Eikosphere Foundation
Eye of the Future II | $198,730 | May 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $198,730 | May 2009 |
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Purpose
This grant supports Eikosphere to communicate, produce and disseminate Eye of the Future II, a documentary that will feature global climate policy scenarios in the context of a multi-media production. The project will culminate with a screening at the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, December 2009. | | Government of the Gabonese Republic, Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development
Forest Carbon Mapping in Gabon | $326,360 | Mar. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $326,360 | Mar. 2009 |
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Purpose
This grant will support scientists working with the government of Gabon to generate key baseline information on carbon stocks and dynamics in the country’s rain forests and to assess the potential of remote sensing data combined with ground measurements for forest carbon monitoring. At least one reference site will be established in each Congo Basin country, to facilitate comparisons and testing of the relevance of methodologies developed in Gabon for basin-wide application. The project will help show the extent to which carbon stocks and flux information can be obtained for Gabon and other Congo Basin countries, while enabling Gabon’s United National Framework Convention on Climate Change focal point to develop an informed position prior to the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) at Copenhagen in December 2009. | | Tides Canada Foundation
British Columbia Wild Salmon Conservation – Small Grants Fund | $395,910 | Mar. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $395,910 | Mar. 2009 |
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Purpose
This grant to Tides Canada Foundation will provide an agile mechanism for timely small scale investments in grassroots activities aimed at protecting wild salmon in British Columbia. The intention is to capitalize on time-limited opportunities to advance identified strategic outcomes of the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative. Areas of focus include habitat protection in the Taku and Skeena watersheds, as well as harvest and aquaculture reform. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $1,241,635 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Tides Canada Foundation to elevate and secure the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management process. Tides Canada will also facilitate marine conservation Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) coordination by partnering with the BC Marine Planning Network, a consortium of five ENGOs, to implement their joint strategic plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $655,000 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
Tides Canada will use this grant to make a strategic acquisition of a guide outfitter business operating in the Taku Watershed in order to advance overall ecosystem conservation and sustainable development goals in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $529,629 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The Tides Canada Foundation will use this grant to complete and implement a conservation financing deal for the protection of Great Bear Rainforest, and to launch two new organizations (known collectively as the Coast Opportunities Funds) that will manage conservation investments in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,212,150 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to establish a Donor Advised Fund devoted to increasing and sustaining Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (ENGO) capacity, strategic planning, and coordination for British Columbia’s Area-Based Management processes. The key outcome of this grant includes marine conservation ENGO capacity to effectively advance a science-based, stakeholder-driven Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $469,227 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
TWA will work with the Taku River Tlingit First Nation to build community support for ratifying a long-term conservation vision that will help secure the watershed’s valuable salmon resources. Additionally, TWA will conduct education and outreach to government officials and other important stakeholders in order to build support for protecting the Taku watershed from threats posed by the Tulsequah Chief mine and the associated road project. There are two primary outcomes for this project: 1) the Tulsequah Chief mine and associated road are mitigated to maintain salmon ecosystem integrity; and 2) a comprehensive Land Use plan for the Taku River Watershed is ratified. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
Based on the geographic and strategic priorities identified by the Foundation, Tides Canada will reach into key communities, and identify smaller organizations and individuals that are critical to the success of executing these priorities. This will increase local community support and conservation capacity to generate and sustain effective salmon protection in priority watersheds - Skeena, Stikine, and Taku. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $500,000 | Mar. 2006 |
Purpose
Tides Canada Foundation is using this grant to support organizational development, facilitation, and strategic coordination for ENGOs, First Nations, anglers, and commercial fisherman concerned with threats to wild salmon ecosystems in Skeena and Stikine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include expansion of Stikine Conservation Network, development of Tahltan land use vision, and increased capacity of Tahltan and Iskut First Nations to assert a land use vision. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $400,481 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Tides Canada used this grant to complete the formation of the Rainforest Solutions Project and finalize land use planning processes in the Great Bear Rainforest, which encompasses critical habitat for conserving wild salmon in the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $277,525 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Through this grant, the Tides Canada Foundation supports the Transboundary Watershed Alliance's efforts to preserve wild salmon and wild salmon ecosystems in British Columbia's Taku River watershed. Outcomes for this grant include increased Tlingit First Nation conservation profile and capacity to negotiate with other governments and the immobilization of the Tulsequah Chief mine and road development proposal. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $600,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose
This grant marks the Foundation's continued and increased support for Tides Canada's Donor Advised Fund. Outcomes for this grant include execution of 12 to 15 additional grants per year, supporting small-scale NGOs focused on salmon habitat protection. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $350,000 | May 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, Tides Canada facilitates grantmaking to local NGOs working to conserve wild salmon and protect pristine watersheds in British Columbia. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of a donor advised fund to support wild salmon conservation work. | | W. M. Corporation, Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly Special Feature on Tropical Forests and Carbon in July/August issue | $200,000 | Mar. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $200,000 | Mar. 2009 |
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Purpose
This grant to W.M. Corporation supports the publication and distribution of a feature section focused on tropical forests and carbon in the July/August 2009 issue of Washington Monthly. This effort will inform relevant domestic stakeholders (including policymakers and politically-engaged civil society members) and unite national policy endeavors, such as United States cap-and-trade legislation, to significantly increase the likelihood of the inclusion of an effective REDD framework (Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) at the December 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen. | | World Wildlife Fund
Kamchatka Salmon Fisheries Reform | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 |
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To support WWF’s efforts to improve the sustainability of Kamchatka’s salmon fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $225,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant responds to an important opportunity to build an exemption into the Brazilian income tax system for contributions by individuals and corporations to qualifying environmental projects being implemented by the national environmental funds, state environmental funds and non-governmental organizations. This grant would greatly increase the likelihood of this legislation coming to fruition by supporting non-lobbying activities, including research, analysis, and other civil society activities, related to this legislative opportunity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to WWF’s Education for Nature program will establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for PA management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of study related to PA management at preselected universities | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
Purpose
World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law
Implementing REDD between California and Brazilian and Indonesian States | $221,043 | Mar. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $221,043 | Mar. 2009 |
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This grant to the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School (Colorado Law) will enable the planning and coordination by participating states to develop a clear plan for the implementation of MOUs between nine states and provinces from the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia on Forest and Climate Change related activities. A report on the final plans will be delivered at the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. | | Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Ocean Acidification/Marine Microbes Workshop | $50,469 | Jan. 2009 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $50,469 | Jan. 2009 |
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The Plymouth Marine Laboratory will use these funds to convene a workshop of preeminent scientific experts to discuss the effect of ocean acidification on the global services provided by marine microbes. The primary objective of the workshop is to develop a white paper that identifies research priorities aimed to advance the scientific understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on marine microbes. |
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