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| Grantee |
Amount |
Date |
 | Conservation Law Foundation
Healthy Oceans Coalition | $324,356 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $324,356 | May 2013 |
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Purpose
To support the work of the Healthy Oceans Coalition, a network of local and regional groups who support ecosystem-based management for America's coasts and oceans. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $614,595 | Feb. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will support stakeholder engagement in regional marine spatial planning in New England and the development of a comprehensive, ecosystem-based regional plan, while also ensuring effective implementation, strengthening, and integration of state plans. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 19 mo. | $428,946 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To facilitate the dissemination of the best available data and knowledge to inform active contributors to Marine Spatial Planning implementation and engagement at the state, regional, and federal scales, as they relate to New England. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $156,095 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
This Grant is in support of Conservation Law Foundation and partners' efforts to maintain a targeted constituency in Massachusetts that is supportive of comprehensive Area-Based Management (ABM) for state waters during the planning process. In addition, the coalition will work to connect Massachusetts lessons and best practices to projects considering ABM for regional and federal waters. | | Nanwakolas Council
First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation | $1,866,556 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,866,556 | May 2013 |
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To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 |
Purpose
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $1,162,974 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the organization's leadership participation within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative, and the development and integration of smaller-scale community and regional-level Marine Spatial Plans, which will in turn help achieve a good PNCIMA Marine Spatial Plan. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation | $7,113,700 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,113,700 | May 2013 |
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To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
Purpose
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | Natural Resources Defense Council
Coordinated ocean planning in the United States | $910,655 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $910,655 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
In support of local, regional, and national efforts to integrate ecosystem-based management principles into ocean planning and development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $385,760 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the evaluation and application of methodologies for managing data-poor fisheries in the United States. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $314,900 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will use this grant to encourage a new generation of bycatch minimization measures within the Pacific groundfish fishery. NRDC will provide information and technical analyses to facilitate Pacific Fishery Management Council decision-making to ensure the trawl groundfish DAP contains key conservation design elements. NRDC will also advocate for sound rebuilding plans for overfished species and strong bycatch mitigation measures. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Natural Resources Defense Council's efforts to persuade major buyers to adopt timber products purchasing standards which will reinforce efforts to protect critical habitat in the Tongass. | | Ecotrust
Building West Coast Tribal Capacity for Marine Spatial Planning | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in California, Oregon, and Washington to develop capacity to gather information, coordinate, and engage in marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $71,186 | May 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in compiling spatial data on coastal natural resources and uses | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $599,420 | Jun. 2008 |
Purpose
To work in partnership with salmon management agencies to develop and improve data storage and access systems. Outputs from this project include publicly-accessible databases and visualization tools for salmon management and conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $927,136 | May 2007 |
Purpose
This grant provides continuing support for State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust. With this grant, State of the Salmon aims to advance salmon management by developing a set of Principles of Wild Salmon Conservation and introducing innovative techniques for managers to track biodiversity and abundance for long-term sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,592,777 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Ecotrust and its partners to work toward institutionalizing an integrated, watershed-scale approach to managing the Copper River watershed in Alaska and its valuable salmon resources. The outcome of this Grant will be to empower key local stakeholders with critical information about the Copper and its resources, and enable them to engage in better management of the region through the creation of a formalized watershed council. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $386,162 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This renewal grant to Ecotrust provides support to the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon, a joint effort of Ecotrust and the Wild Salmon Center, is organized around four major components: Knowledge Systems, Status & Trends, Standards & Best Practices, and Consortium Development. Outcomes for this grant include web versions of the metadata inventory, 2006 Status & Trends, and Best Practices polyglot (in English, Russian & Japanese). Additional outcomes include the development and restructuring of the State of the Salmon consortium. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $620,319 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this renewal grant to expand the State of the Salmon program. With this additional investment, Ecotrust is improving access to existing information on stock status from agencies and tribal entities, expanding resources for the development of a management index/report card, and dedicating additional support to its program team. Outcomes for this grant include completion of the salmon baseline status atlas and State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $660,000 | Jul. 2003 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this grant to lay the groundwork for an integrated, watershed-scale management solution that will significantly enhance the protection of the Copper's critical slamon resources. Key outputs of this grant include: development of a GIS-based management strategy for habitat protection and watershed, completion of two strategically important private land acquistions, identification of key information gaps, and collaboration with stakeholders to pilot management reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,030,000 | Feb. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to Ecotrust helped launch of the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon consists of the following seven components: (1) Baseline State of the Salmon atlas; (2) Red List Reviews by species and stock around the North Pacific; (3) Annual Pacific Salmon Report on key selected topics; (4) Annual "Report Cards" on selected agency management and policy; (5) Triennial State of the Salmon Conference and Report; (6) Creation of international standards for population monitoring protocols and metrics; and (7) a State of the Salmon website. Outcomes for this grant include delivery of the baseline status atlas for North Pacific salmon, completion of the State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $25,000 | Apr. 2001 |
Purpose
Ecotrust used this grant to produce a watershed conservation strategy for Alaska's Copper River ecosystem. | | IDEO
Design approach to integrated data systems for West Coast groundfish (Phase 1) | $260,971 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $260,971 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
Engage in stakeholder interviews and prototyping to develop design options for data management infrastructure for the West Coast groundfish fishery Grantee Websites IDEO  | | New Venture Fund
Financing needs assessment for New England finfish fisheries | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
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To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Sportfishing conservation and stewardship | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's efforts to improve the conservation and management of saltwater sportfisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is using this grant to apply the influence of key hunting and fishing conservation organizations to improve the protection of fish and wildlife and their habitats. Outcomes for this grant include specific and measurable changes in energy development rules and procedures as outlined in a report to the National Commission on Energy Policy. | | Green Fire Productions
Distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers" | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $229,625 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Fisheries Innovation Fund | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
In support of the Fisheries Innovation Fund's grants for new tools and technologies that will improve fisheries science and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $1,145,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the transition of U.S. fisheries to catch share programs by encouraging fishermen to pursue innovative management strategies through a competitive grant award process. | | Nanwakolas Council
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,866,556 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $1,162,974 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the organization's leadership participation within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative, and the development and integration of smaller-scale community and regional-level Marine Spatial Plans, which will in turn help achieve a good PNCIMA Marine Spatial Plan. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,113,700 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | David Suzuki Foundation
Technical analysis and strategic communications for marine spatial planning and implementation | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 |
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To develop technical analyses and strategic communications in support of marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $496,850 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To increase the regional market incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $315,430 | May 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to David Suzuki Foundation supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $339,287 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To increase the incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve salmon aquaculture and fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $132,249 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
To maintain a targeted constituency in British Columbia that is supportive of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area that includes a spatial management plan and network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $471,972 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The David Suzuki Foundation is using this grant to address the need for elevated awareness and better management of British Columbia’s marine ecosystems through reframing marine conservation issues. The outcomes of this grant include increased understanding of key stakeholders’ views on marine conservation, the state of marine ecosystems, and preferred management solutions in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Dec. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the David Suzuki Foundation supports an integrated approach to protecting wild salmon populations along the British Columbia coast. Outcomes for this grant include conversion of the Wild Salmon Policy to an ecosystem-based management regime, establishment of the Salmon Stewardship Network as an effective self-sustaining entity, as well as modeling and a report of sea lice dispersal. | | Environmental Defense
Refining the Pacific groundfish catch share program to achieve durability | $2,485,201 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,485,201 | Jan. 2013 |
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Purpose
In support of improving effectiveness and durability in the groundfish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, by improving financial benefits, solidifying and advancing conservation gains, and securing community stability and buy-in. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $243,750 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant to the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum supports their ongoing educational programs and professional training for fisheries managers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,091,793 | Dec. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a durable and efficient Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to refine and improve fishing regulations to increase flexibility and reduce costs, and to work with fishermen directly to improve their performance under the catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $602,001 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the Greater Xing? Complex Conservation Program, which will provide the conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil while improving indigenous and community associations, maintaining the integrity of park borders, and establishing markets for non-timber forest products. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $2,200,000 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of implementation of good catch shares in New England as an effective fishery management tool to restore fisheries, and, marine ecosystems and create a sustainable fishing industry. The project will include refining and strengthening the groundfish sector-based catch share program to address resource conservation and socioeconomic goals, implementing good catch shares for monkfish through an exemplary and inclusive design process, gaining the support of key regional constituencies, and ensuring the leadership, technical expertise, resources, and scientific foundation needed for durability are held by local institutions and stakeholders. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $802,552 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
To create conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil. A consortium led by the Environmental Defense Fund, and including the Instituto Socioambiental and the Protected Forest Association, will improve indigenous and community associations, maintain the integrity of park borders, and establish markets for non-timber forest products, including carbon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,891,251 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) builds on previous work to establish an individual fishing quota (IFQ) management system in the trawl sector of the Pacific groundfish fishery. In the renewal grant, EDF will work to ensure that the rules and implementing measures of the trawl sector are finalized as a model of sustainable fisheries management and will work to initiate a formal Pacific Fishery Management Council process to extend quota share management to other sectors in the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,980,192 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports implementation of Dedicated Access Privileges (DAPs, also known as "catch shares") in the entire groundfish fishery and in the offshore sea scallop fishery, and evaluates feasibility of implementation in a nearshore locally-managed bay scallop fishery. Through implementation in the carefully chosen portfolio of fisheries, targeted political advocacy work, and scientific knowledge around DAP performance and biological assessments, Environmental Defense will help to make DAPs the default management mechanism for New England fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,280,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense, in partnership with Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Fundação Viver, Produzir e Proteger (FVPP), Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP), and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) aims to improve effective management of the new protected areas within the Terra do Meio Mosaic, as well as the surrounding indigenous territories of the larger Xingu Corridor. This is the continuation of a previous grant that helped create many of the protected areas targeted within this grant. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $264,754 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
In support of creating the California Fisheries Fund. The Fund will provide fishers with sustainable access to capital for the research, business planning, and implementation of new fisheries management programs to improve the conservation and financial performance of California fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $904,661 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports Environmental Defense to work with the Pacific Fishery Management Council and other stakeholders to transition the management of the Pacific Groundfish trawl fishery to an Individual Quota system. A key outcome is that the Pacific Groundfish Trawl Individual Quota program serves as a model dedicated access privilege (DAP) program meeting ecological, economic, and social standards.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $156,110 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will disseminate the results of a DAP analysis that examined successes and shortcomings of DAP programs in North America and made recommendations to address ecological, economic, and social objectives in implementation. A key outcome of the grant is that stakeholders in New England and on the West Coast have a heightened sophistication and understanding of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,080,249 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to assess dedicated access privilege (DAP) programs to create a credible view of the strengths, weaknesses, and practical applicability of these approaches. DAPs give individual fishermen, communities, or cooperatives a secure share of a scientifically determined sustainable level of catch, with a goal of achieving economic and ecosystem benefits. Outcomes for this grant include assessment of results of existing DAP programs in North America, analysis of business aspects from other public trust resource usage situations, and evaluation of criteria for the application of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,078,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon by strengthening conservation in the Greater Xingu Complex and creating new protected areas in the adjacent region. Key outcomes include creation of the 7.9-million-hectare Terra do Meio protected area and stabilization of deforestation in three indigenous reserves covering 10 million hectares. | | World Wildlife Fund Canada
Tools and solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning Implementation | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,045,066 | Aug. 2012 |
Purpose
To advance conditions and relationships that facilitates healthy oceans and the use of Marine Spatial Planning in Canada. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $378,130 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada supports efforts to improve protection of ecological flows to address the cumulative effects of water diversion on British Columbia’s wild salmon watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $729,613 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of science and management tools and business and economic solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning in support of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,105,625 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada enhances the effectiveness of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations, industry representatives, and other influential Canadians to promote Area-Based Management (ABM) in areas like British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. Through direct engagement, the grant also facilitates government commitment to policy, approaches (including ABM), and platforms that secure resilient and productive marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,656,083 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is using this grant to foster relationships with key stakeholders in the northern region of British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. WWF-Canada is also working to build the capacity for an objective marine science organization that provides a hub of marine ecosystem knowledge in British Columbia, the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA). Outcomes for this grant include regional stakeholder support and participation in the PNCIMA process, with PacMARA elevated to an independent, accessible, and multi-stakeholder science organization. | | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, British Columbia Chapter
Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | $700,037 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $700,037 | Nov. 2012 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $429,482 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of developing technical analyses for Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $112,421 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
In support of the Province's Oceans Strategy that advances marine spatial planning in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area and West Coast Vancouver Island. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $210,853 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society of British Columbia (CPAWS-BC) is using this grant to identify First Nations’ issues and other key impediments that could affect Marine Protected Area (MPA) implementation in British Columbia and the rest of Canada, which committed to a national MPA system by 2012. Key outputs for this grant include an analysis of First Nations concerns influencing an MPA network in British Columbia and an analysis of the challenges to achieving Canada’s 2012 commitment to establishing a national MPA network. | | World Ocean Council
Engaging Ocean Industries In Ocean Policy And Planning In The U.S. | $623,625 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $623,625 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to help ensure there is informed, constructive engagement of the business community in U.S. ocean policy and planning. | | Environmental Defense
Improving fisheries management practices | $243,750 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $243,750 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant to the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum supports their ongoing educational programs and professional training for fisheries managers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,485,201 | Jan. 2013 |
Purpose
In support of improving effectiveness and durability in the groundfish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, by improving financial benefits, solidifying and advancing conservation gains, and securing community stability and buy-in. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,091,793 | Dec. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a durable and efficient Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to refine and improve fishing regulations to increase flexibility and reduce costs, and to work with fishermen directly to improve their performance under the catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $602,001 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the Greater Xing? Complex Conservation Program, which will provide the conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil while improving indigenous and community associations, maintaining the integrity of park borders, and establishing markets for non-timber forest products. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $2,200,000 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of implementation of good catch shares in New England as an effective fishery management tool to restore fisheries, and, marine ecosystems and create a sustainable fishing industry. The project will include refining and strengthening the groundfish sector-based catch share program to address resource conservation and socioeconomic goals, implementing good catch shares for monkfish through an exemplary and inclusive design process, gaining the support of key regional constituencies, and ensuring the leadership, technical expertise, resources, and scientific foundation needed for durability are held by local institutions and stakeholders. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $802,552 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
To create conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil. A consortium led by the Environmental Defense Fund, and including the Instituto Socioambiental and the Protected Forest Association, will improve indigenous and community associations, maintain the integrity of park borders, and establish markets for non-timber forest products, including carbon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,891,251 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) builds on previous work to establish an individual fishing quota (IFQ) management system in the trawl sector of the Pacific groundfish fishery. In the renewal grant, EDF will work to ensure that the rules and implementing measures of the trawl sector are finalized as a model of sustainable fisheries management and will work to initiate a formal Pacific Fishery Management Council process to extend quota share management to other sectors in the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,980,192 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports implementation of Dedicated Access Privileges (DAPs, also known as "catch shares") in the entire groundfish fishery and in the offshore sea scallop fishery, and evaluates feasibility of implementation in a nearshore locally-managed bay scallop fishery. Through implementation in the carefully chosen portfolio of fisheries, targeted political advocacy work, and scientific knowledge around DAP performance and biological assessments, Environmental Defense will help to make DAPs the default management mechanism for New England fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,280,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense, in partnership with Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Fundação Viver, Produzir e Proteger (FVPP), Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP), and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) aims to improve effective management of the new protected areas within the Terra do Meio Mosaic, as well as the surrounding indigenous territories of the larger Xingu Corridor. This is the continuation of a previous grant that helped create many of the protected areas targeted within this grant. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $264,754 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
In support of creating the California Fisheries Fund. The Fund will provide fishers with sustainable access to capital for the research, business planning, and implementation of new fisheries management programs to improve the conservation and financial performance of California fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $904,661 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports Environmental Defense to work with the Pacific Fishery Management Council and other stakeholders to transition the management of the Pacific Groundfish trawl fishery to an Individual Quota system. A key outcome is that the Pacific Groundfish Trawl Individual Quota program serves as a model dedicated access privilege (DAP) program meeting ecological, economic, and social standards.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $156,110 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will disseminate the results of a DAP analysis that examined successes and shortcomings of DAP programs in North America and made recommendations to address ecological, economic, and social objectives in implementation. A key outcome of the grant is that stakeholders in New England and on the West Coast have a heightened sophistication and understanding of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,080,249 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to assess dedicated access privilege (DAP) programs to create a credible view of the strengths, weaknesses, and practical applicability of these approaches. DAPs give individual fishermen, communities, or cooperatives a secure share of a scientifically determined sustainable level of catch, with a goal of achieving economic and ecosystem benefits. Outcomes for this grant include assessment of results of existing DAP programs in North America, analysis of business aspects from other public trust resource usage situations, and evaluation of criteria for the application of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,078,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon by strengthening conservation in the Greater Xingu Complex and creating new protected areas in the adjacent region. Key outcomes include creation of the 7.9-million-hectare Terra do Meio protected area and stabilization of deforestation in three indigenous reserves covering 10 million hectares. | | Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Efforts that Support Public Understanding of and Engagement with Marine Environmental Science and Decision-Making | $900,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $900,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant is in support of the development of models of productive public engagement in science, sustainability and decision making. This will be accomplished through design, implementation, and evaluation of educational material and pilots that engage communities around local marine environmental issues with the goal of better understanding the underlying science and consequences of decision-making on marine resources and ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,567,880 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of work to improve the sector management system for New England's groundfish industry, provide convening and technical assistance to the monkfish fishery as it develops a new catch share system, assist groundfish sectors to adopt cleaner fishing technology, and provide region-wide outreach and education to the region's fishing industry, fisheries management agencies, and policy makers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,065,058 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
To support a Sector Extension Program at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, to provide technical and scientific expertise to fishing sectors in the New England region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $467,000 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
Through this grant, Gulf of Marine Research Institute will build communication within the New England commercial fishing community and build support for new forms of management, including DAPs. As a result of this grant, collaboration is strengthened and a common understanding of alternative management approaches is shared among members of the commercial fishing community who participate in FishTank, and sustainable and viable groundfish management options are brought before the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC). | | MRAG Americas, Inc.
The Role of Catch Shares in Performance of MSC Certification of Sustainable Fisheries | $273,300 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $273,300 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant explores the linkages between catch share systems and scoring within the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $2,746,666 | Dec. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support an evaluation of the performance of New England and Pacific groundfish catch share management systems during their first five years of implementation. | | Living Oceans Society
Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | $740,746 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $740,746 | Nov. 2012 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $287,777 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
For developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $880,500 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments to mitigate negative impacts of open net cage salmon farming and adopt alternative technologies that eliminate the risk to wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $239,835 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Living Oceans Society to partner with a team of scientists to conduct a series of research dives to further describe the functional role of British Columbia’s deep sea corals within the coastal-marine ecosystem. The grant will facilitate science-based interim protection efforts for deep sea corals and unite fisheries management and Area-Based Management (ABM) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,843,531 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments from the British Columbia Government and the BC aquaculture industry to halt expansion of open net cage salmon farming, mitigate negative impacts and make the transition to closed containment systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Living Oceans Society, as part of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, will fund research on the impacts of sea lice on wild salmon and the economic viability of closed containment production technology. This research will be carried out jointly with industry leader Marine Harvest Canada, consistent with the terms of their Framework for Dialogue. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $578,098 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Through this grant, Living Oceans Society is addressing the need for a formal, effective mechanism for stakeholder awareness and engagement in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. Living Oceans Society and partners are also working to understand the impacts of oil and gas exploration and development on British Columbia’s marine ecosystems. The outcomes of this Grant include a stakeholder engagement mechanism formalized in the PNCIMA process and regional stakeholder support and participation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the work of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR). CAAR seeks to reform salmon aquaculture production practices in order to protect wild salmon ecosystems. In January 2006, CAAR entered into a formal "Framework for Dialogue" with farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest This grant will provide CAAR with resources to implement the Framework agreement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,125,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform’s efforts to drive the adoption of more sustainable aquaculture practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $453,400 | Oct. 2003 |
Purpose
The Living Oceans Society used this grant to educate major buyers and key local stakeholders in British Columbia about issues related to salmon farming and the need to transition the industry to ecologically acceptable technology and practices. | | The Nature Conservancy
Co-Management as tool to improve performance of Pacific groundfish catch share program | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 |
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In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, necessary policies, and practical demonstrations through co-management to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $295,639 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant aims to incorporate the Chiribiquete National Park and its proposed expanded territory into regional land use plans by building the management and land use planning capacity of local governments and indigenous authorities in Colombia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,344,294 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) in the Northeast United States, and the timely evolution of ecosystem-based natural resource management as it relates to CMSP. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $318,150 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To improve catch share fishery management and to accelerate the advancement of community fishing associations and other collective fishery management institutions on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. through business models, tool kits, applications, and the sharing of lessons learned that will eventually lead to the creation of a national technical platform for catch share fisheries and fleets ("Fish Hub"). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $71,502 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant enables The Nature Conservancy to fulfill key legal and oversight obligations for the Forever Costa Rica project, as well as provide associated technical marine support. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $317,607 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
To expand the scope and effectiveness of existing permit banks in New England to help mitigate unintended socioeconomic impacts of sector management, ensure a favorable regulatory environment, and develop a set of conservation and economic metrics to evaluate their impact and improve their performance over time. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $500,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, including collective fishing arrangements and electronic monitoring, to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to support necessary policies and advance practical, on-the-water demonstrations that align community objectives with conservation goals within the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $698,996 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To support positioning the New England region as a federal Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) pilot, and the development of a "good" MSP framework and process for New England by directly supporting the regional planning body and process, bringing a range of tools and data to managers and planners, and connecting state MSP processes to the regional scale to ensure compatibility and learning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To make global-scale conservation datasets publicly available in a cloud computing platform and geospatial database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine, and will also foster long-term open data sharing mechanisms and commitments by the owner community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $600,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their role in a) continued preparation of the Forever Costa Rica conservation financing deal through the end of 2009 - the anticipated closing date, and b) one year of follow-up monitoring and support to Costa Rica's protected area agency (SINAC), and the newly established trust (Forever Costa Rica Association). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $5,000,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the innovative conservation finance initiative called Forever Costa Rica. Through this public-private partnership effort Costa Rica will establish an ecologically representative and effectively managed system of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine protected areas, with a stable source of funding, making Costa Rica the first developing country in the world to meet its goals under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity’s Program of Work on Protected Areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $249,705 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This preparation grant for the Forever Costa Rica Initiative, to the Nature Conservancy (TNC), will ensure that all conditions and requirements necessary to allow for a simultaneous close of the partners are met and that a successful conservation financing deal is launched in 2009, thus positioning Costa Rica to be the first developing country to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity goals for protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $334,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to support its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. GIS are used to produce maps, conduct spatial analysis of landscapes, and manage conservation data. Outcomes include training biodiversity conservation managers in the use of GIS. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,994,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the Osa region, which harbors Costa Rica's remaining significant populations of jaguars, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, and harpy eagles. Outcomes for this grant include stabilization and protection of 360,000 acres in Costa Rica (Piedras Blancas and Corcovado National Parks and the Osa Biological Corridor) and increased conservation capacity among local groups, NGOs, and governmental agencies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $268,714 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to develop a fundraising campaign for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,350,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the infrastructure build-out for a scientific research station in the South Pacific. Outcomes for this grant include the establishment of a station on Palmyra Atoll to facilitate research of local, regional, and global importance. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,499,084 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant will help The Nature Conservancy and its partners facilitate the creation and management of Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. The new park will border the existing Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazil, forming a large bi-national park that protects a contiguous landscape with some of the highest levels of biodiversity found in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include creation of the national park in Peru (3.2 million hectares) and reduction of biodiversity threats, establishment of a minimum of five indigenous reserves in the neighboring Brazilian state of Acre, and solid conservation management for the territories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $10,000,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports a Program Related Investment. Outcomes include the acquisition of Palmyra Atoll. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to support management and organizational changes behind its Conservation by Design initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $35,000 | Jun. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to initiate plans for establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. | | Island Institute
Advancing New England fisheries management and ocean planning through fishermen engagement | $713,713 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $713,713 | Nov. 2012 |
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To advance New England fisheries management and regional ocean planning through supporting engagement both within local fishing communities and between fishermen and ocean planning stakeholders | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $519,867 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
To support the Midcoast Fishermen's Association and Port Clyde Community Sector in the successful and sustainable implementation of sector-based catch share management. This will serve as a model for community-based groundfish sectors in New England, comprised primarily of small boats and mid-sized trawlers, and will also foster thought leadership on policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $396,328 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to support a change in fisheries regulations in New England that enables area and community-based management that rebuilds and sustains fish stocks. This grant will focus on gaining approval by the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) of an alternative to amend the Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. | | Manta Consulting
Fish 2.0 Competition | $111,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $111,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant is to support emerging entrepreneurs in the sustainable seafood sector through a competition called Fish 2.0. The competition will also allow all participants (including sponsors) to gain an understanding of the pipeline of innovations related to sustainable seafood. | | The Nature Conservancy
Supporting Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) and Ecosystem-Based Management in the Northeast United States | $1,344,294 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,344,294 | Oct. 2012 |
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To support Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) in the Northeast United States, and the timely evolution of ecosystem-based natural resource management as it relates to CMSP. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $295,639 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant aims to incorporate the Chiribiquete National Park and its proposed expanded territory into regional land use plans by building the management and land use planning capacity of local governments and indigenous authorities in Colombia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, necessary policies, and practical demonstrations through co-management to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $318,150 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To improve catch share fishery management and to accelerate the advancement of community fishing associations and other collective fishery management institutions on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. through business models, tool kits, applications, and the sharing of lessons learned that will eventually lead to the creation of a national technical platform for catch share fisheries and fleets ("Fish Hub"). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $71,502 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant enables The Nature Conservancy to fulfill key legal and oversight obligations for the Forever Costa Rica project, as well as provide associated technical marine support. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $317,607 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
To expand the scope and effectiveness of existing permit banks in New England to help mitigate unintended socioeconomic impacts of sector management, ensure a favorable regulatory environment, and develop a set of conservation and economic metrics to evaluate their impact and improve their performance over time. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $500,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, including collective fishing arrangements and electronic monitoring, to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to support necessary policies and advance practical, on-the-water demonstrations that align community objectives with conservation goals within the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $698,996 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To support positioning the New England region as a federal Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) pilot, and the development of a "good" MSP framework and process for New England by directly supporting the regional planning body and process, bringing a range of tools and data to managers and planners, and connecting state MSP processes to the regional scale to ensure compatibility and learning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To make global-scale conservation datasets publicly available in a cloud computing platform and geospatial database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine, and will also foster long-term open data sharing mechanisms and commitments by the owner community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $600,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their role in a) continued preparation of the Forever Costa Rica conservation financing deal through the end of 2009 - the anticipated closing date, and b) one year of follow-up monitoring and support to Costa Rica's protected area agency (SINAC), and the newly established trust (Forever Costa Rica Association). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $5,000,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the innovative conservation finance initiative called Forever Costa Rica. Through this public-private partnership effort Costa Rica will establish an ecologically representative and effectively managed system of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine protected areas, with a stable source of funding, making Costa Rica the first developing country in the world to meet its goals under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity’s Program of Work on Protected Areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $249,705 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This preparation grant for the Forever Costa Rica Initiative, to the Nature Conservancy (TNC), will ensure that all conditions and requirements necessary to allow for a simultaneous close of the partners are met and that a successful conservation financing deal is launched in 2009, thus positioning Costa Rica to be the first developing country to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity goals for protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $334,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to support its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. GIS are used to produce maps, conduct spatial analysis of landscapes, and manage conservation data. Outcomes include training biodiversity conservation managers in the use of GIS. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,994,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the Osa region, which harbors Costa Rica's remaining significant populations of jaguars, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, and harpy eagles. Outcomes for this grant include stabilization and protection of 360,000 acres in Costa Rica (Piedras Blancas and Corcovado National Parks and the Osa Biological Corridor) and increased conservation capacity among local groups, NGOs, and governmental agencies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $268,714 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to develop a fundraising campaign for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,350,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the infrastructure build-out for a scientific research station in the South Pacific. Outcomes for this grant include the establishment of a station on Palmyra Atoll to facilitate research of local, regional, and global importance. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,499,084 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant will help The Nature Conservancy and its partners facilitate the creation and management of Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. The new park will border the existing Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazil, forming a large bi-national park that protects a contiguous landscape with some of the highest levels of biodiversity found in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include creation of the national park in Peru (3.2 million hectares) and reduction of biodiversity threats, establishment of a minimum of five indigenous reserves in the neighboring Brazilian state of Acre, and solid conservation management for the territories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $10,000,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports a Program Related Investment. Outcomes include the acquisition of Palmyra Atoll. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to support management and organizational changes behind its Conservation by Design initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $35,000 | Jun. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to initiate plans for establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. | | Center for New American Security
Ocean policy and National Security | $75,000 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $75,000 | Oct. 2012 |
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In support of ocean policy dialogues with the National Security community. | | Surfrider Foundation
Public engagement in ocean planning | $782,512 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $782,512 | Oct. 2012 |
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To support Surfrider's efforts to educate and engage coastal residents in ocean planning. | | The Ocean Conservancy Inc
Increasing the impact of ocean ideas | $64,800 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $64,800 | Aug. 2012 |
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This grant supports a landscape assessment of opportunities to increase impact in the coming year and a systematic analysis of the spread of ocean ideas through social media. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $2,506,673 | Feb. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will advance the use of coastal and marine spatial planning in the United States. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $406,348 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will train trusted messengers to communicate ocean acidification science and solutions effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $252,096 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will support an independent evaluation of The Ocean Conservancy’s Overfishing Scorecard and a research project to assess the current state of understanding of Area-Based Management by key stakeholders and decision-makers in the US. Key outputs of the grant include recommendations for improvement of the Overfishing Scorecard and market research and analysis to guide education, outreach, and communication strategies in support of Area-Based Management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $517,756 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to survey public understanding of ocean threats, and to engage, educate, and broaden a constituency in Massachusetts that is supportive of comprehensive Area-Based Management. A key outcome is that targeted constituencies in the state of Massachusetts are supportive of comprehensive area-based management for state waters. | | World Wildlife Fund Canada
Marine Spatial Planning in Canada | $2,045,066 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,045,066 | Aug. 2012 |
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To advance conditions and relationships that facilitates healthy oceans and the use of Marine Spatial Planning in Canada. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 |
Purpose
Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $378,130 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada supports efforts to improve protection of ecological flows to address the cumulative effects of water diversion on British Columbia’s wild salmon watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $729,613 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of science and management tools and business and economic solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning in support of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,105,625 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada enhances the effectiveness of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations, industry representatives, and other influential Canadians to promote Area-Based Management (ABM) in areas like British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. Through direct engagement, the grant also facilitates government commitment to policy, approaches (including ABM), and platforms that secure resilient and productive marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,656,083 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is using this grant to foster relationships with key stakeholders in the northern region of British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. WWF-Canada is also working to build the capacity for an objective marine science organization that provides a hub of marine ecosystem knowledge in British Columbia, the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA). Outcomes for this grant include regional stakeholder support and participation in the PNCIMA process, with PacMARA elevated to an independent, accessible, and multi-stakeholder science organization. | | University of California, Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute
Performance Standards for Marine Spatial Planning | $3,073,140 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $3,073,140 | Aug. 2012 |
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In support of foundational science for determining thresholds for marine ecosystems and practical tools to develop performance standards for Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $100,901 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support an assessment of the current status of the world’s unassessed fisheries and analysis of potential increases that could be gained through effective management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $40,535 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports development of a plan to create performance standards for Marine Spatial Planning. | | Hartley Bay Village Council
Implementing First Nations’ marine spatial plans | $324,413 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $324,413 | Jul. 2012 |
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In support of scientific and technical analysis to test implementation of the Gitga’at First Nation marine spatial plan. | | Ag Innovations Network
A Plan for Sustainable Global Fisheries | $150,000 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $150,000 | Jul. 2012 |
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To support the development of a plan to achieve sustainable management of half the world’s overfished fisheries in 10 years. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
First Nations Coastal Stewardship | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
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To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,113,700 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support First Nations leadership and community marine spatial plan development and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
Purpose
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | Kitasoo-Xaixais Band Council
Implementing First Nations’ marine spatial plans | $266,184 | Jun. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $266,184 | Jun. 2012 |
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In support of technical analysis and youth engagement to implement the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation marine spatial plan. | | Research Foundation of State University of New York
Migratory dynamics of Pacific bluefin tuna mapped using cesium released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant | $514,268 | Jun. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $514,268 | Jun. 2012 |
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In support of developing a deeper understanding of bluefin tuna migratory patterns and improving fishery science and management approaches by measuring cesium levels in bluefin tuna caught in the California Current and other Pacific Ocean locations following the massive release of radioactivity from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in March, 2011. This project capitalizes on a rare opportunity to use an accidental release of radioactive elements to gain insight into the direction and timing of migrations for this ecologically and economically important fish species, which could help improve management options. | | The Nature Conservancy
Fisheries Management Hub ("Fish Hub") | $318,150 | Jun. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $318,150 | Jun. 2012 |
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To improve catch share fishery management and to accelerate the advancement of community fishing associations and other collective fishery management institutions on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. through business models, tool kits, applications, and the sharing of lessons learned that will eventually lead to the creation of a national technical platform for catch share fisheries and fleets ("Fish Hub"). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $295,639 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant aims to incorporate the Chiribiquete National Park and its proposed expanded territory into regional land use plans by building the management and land use planning capacity of local governments and indigenous authorities in Colombia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, necessary policies, and practical demonstrations through co-management to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,344,294 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) in the Northeast United States, and the timely evolution of ecosystem-based natural resource management as it relates to CMSP. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $71,502 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant enables The Nature Conservancy to fulfill key legal and oversight obligations for the Forever Costa Rica project, as well as provide associated technical marine support. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $317,607 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
To expand the scope and effectiveness of existing permit banks in New England to help mitigate unintended socioeconomic impacts of sector management, ensure a favorable regulatory environment, and develop a set of conservation and economic metrics to evaluate their impact and improve their performance over time. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $500,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, including collective fishing arrangements and electronic monitoring, to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to support necessary policies and advance practical, on-the-water demonstrations that align community objectives with conservation goals within the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $698,996 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To support positioning the New England region as a federal Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) pilot, and the development of a "good" MSP framework and process for New England by directly supporting the regional planning body and process, bringing a range of tools and data to managers and planners, and connecting state MSP processes to the regional scale to ensure compatibility and learning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To make global-scale conservation datasets publicly available in a cloud computing platform and geospatial database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine, and will also foster long-term open data sharing mechanisms and commitments by the owner community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $600,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their role in a) continued preparation of the Forever Costa Rica conservation financing deal through the end of 2009 - the anticipated closing date, and b) one year of follow-up monitoring and support to Costa Rica's protected area agency (SINAC), and the newly established trust (Forever Costa Rica Association). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $5,000,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the innovative conservation finance initiative called Forever Costa Rica. Through this public-private partnership effort Costa Rica will establish an ecologically representative and effectively managed system of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine protected areas, with a stable source of funding, making Costa Rica the first developing country in the world to meet its goals under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity’s Program of Work on Protected Areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $249,705 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This preparation grant for the Forever Costa Rica Initiative, to the Nature Conservancy (TNC), will ensure that all conditions and requirements necessary to allow for a simultaneous close of the partners are met and that a successful conservation financing deal is launched in 2009, thus positioning Costa Rica to be the first developing country to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity goals for protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $334,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to support its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. GIS are used to produce maps, conduct spatial analysis of landscapes, and manage conservation data. Outcomes include training biodiversity conservation managers in the use of GIS. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,994,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the Osa region, which harbors Costa Rica's remaining significant populations of jaguars, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, and harpy eagles. Outcomes for this grant include stabilization and protection of 360,000 acres in Costa Rica (Piedras Blancas and Corcovado National Parks and the Osa Biological Corridor) and increased conservation capacity among local groups, NGOs, and governmental agencies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $268,714 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to develop a fundraising campaign for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,350,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the infrastructure build-out for a scientific research station in the South Pacific. Outcomes for this grant include the establishment of a station on Palmyra Atoll to facilitate research of local, regional, and global importance. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,499,084 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant will help The Nature Conservancy and its partners facilitate the creation and management of Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. The new park will border the existing Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazil, forming a large bi-national park that protects a contiguous landscape with some of the highest levels of biodiversity found in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include creation of the national park in Peru (3.2 million hectares) and reduction of biodiversity threats, establishment of a minimum of five indigenous reserves in the neighboring Brazilian state of Acre, and solid conservation management for the territories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $10,000,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports a Program Related Investment. Outcomes include the acquisition of Palmyra Atoll. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to support management and organizational changes behind its Conservation by Design initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $35,000 | Jun. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to initiate plans for establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. | | Conservation International
Global methods for estimating the exploitation status and maximum productivity of fish stocks. | $198,323 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
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To develop a technically sound, broadly acceptable approach to estimating exploitation rates for fisheries in each country around the world, as well as an approach to estimating maximum fisheries production for each ocean area, which can serve as the global standard for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other groups. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Conservation International to create a metrics framework focused on the conservation of natural capital to sustain human well-being, implement this framework within the organization, and disseminate products and results to the broader community of practice in conservation, development, and other sectors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To support the implementation of approaches that incorporate natural capital into policy and decision making at various scales and address linkages between ecosystems and the economy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM)’s core and partner institutions to collect and incorporate data into modeling efforts and translate them into policy and conservation interventions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $210,000 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports detailed business planning and demand assessment for significantly scaling up the Verde Ventures Fund as a legally-separate investment fund for financing environmentally sustainable small- and medium-sized businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To enable the processing of the United States Geological Service Landsat archive to make it publicly available in a cloud computing platform and database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $12,613,000 | Jul. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support Conservation International’s efforts in the Guiana Shield region to continue implementing a large-scale comprehensive approach to place under effective protection the largest continuous network of protected areas of Amazonia (~54 million hectares), extending across four countries (Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela) and including diverse and pristine ecosystems as well as the most endangered species of the northern Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $7,180,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Conservation International will use this grant to implement a large-scale comprehensive approach to protect remaining intact ecosystems and endangered biodiversity in the Cerrado-Pantanal biomes including zero extinction of target species and designated protected areas within and outside of the biodiversity corridors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $23,200,000 | Jan. 2006 |
Purpose This grant is in support of activities of CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science involving multidisciplinary data gathering and analysis as well as development of new analytical, monitoring and simulation tools for conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 54 mo. | $12,540,000 | Jan. 2005 |
Purpose This grant will enable CI to answer some fundamental and critical questions regarding Marine Management Areas (MMA) internationally. This funding will help CI to create a MMA Science Program within its Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and in partnership with its Marine Programs Division to research key issues and to seek solutions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $100,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) was established to finance the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world's biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, and coral reef hotspots. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $121,200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant is designed to expand CI's biodiversity conservation investments in four key regions: The Andes, Brazil/Guianas, Melanesia, and Madagascar. Through the Centers for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) investment, CI will increase its ability at the corridor level, within the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, to forge strategic partnerships—alliances with communities, NGOs, governments, businesses and other stakeholders—for conservation action. Through the CBCs, CI will deliver technical assistance, provide training, coordinate strategy development, and facilitate access to resources. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $40,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant will support the operations of the first 10—of an anticipated 50—scientific field stations of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) initiative, as well as the initiative's central data management processes. These field stations, to be established in the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, will provide the first standardized set of data on biodiversity collected on the ground in key sites across tropical forest ecosystems globally. | | Grist Magazine
Communicating Ocean Issues Online | $94,000 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $94,000 | May 2012 |
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This grant supports raising awareness of and interest in ocean issues among millennials, Gen Xers, and key influencers, and building social media capacity in the marine conservation NGO community. | | Ecotrust
Supporting West Coast tribes in coastal planning | $71,186 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $71,186 | May 2012 |
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This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in compiling spatial data on coastal natural resources and uses | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in California, Oregon, and Washington to develop capacity to gather information, coordinate, and engage in marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $599,420 | Jun. 2008 |
Purpose
To work in partnership with salmon management agencies to develop and improve data storage and access systems. Outputs from this project include publicly-accessible databases and visualization tools for salmon management and conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $927,136 | May 2007 |
Purpose
This grant provides continuing support for State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust. With this grant, State of the Salmon aims to advance salmon management by developing a set of Principles of Wild Salmon Conservation and introducing innovative techniques for managers to track biodiversity and abundance for long-term sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,592,777 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Ecotrust and its partners to work toward institutionalizing an integrated, watershed-scale approach to managing the Copper River watershed in Alaska and its valuable salmon resources. The outcome of this Grant will be to empower key local stakeholders with critical information about the Copper and its resources, and enable them to engage in better management of the region through the creation of a formalized watershed council. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $386,162 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This renewal grant to Ecotrust provides support to the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon, a joint effort of Ecotrust and the Wild Salmon Center, is organized around four major components: Knowledge Systems, Status & Trends, Standards & Best Practices, and Consortium Development. Outcomes for this grant include web versions of the metadata inventory, 2006 Status & Trends, and Best Practices polyglot (in English, Russian & Japanese). Additional outcomes include the development and restructuring of the State of the Salmon consortium. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $620,319 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this renewal grant to expand the State of the Salmon program. With this additional investment, Ecotrust is improving access to existing information on stock status from agencies and tribal entities, expanding resources for the development of a management index/report card, and dedicating additional support to its program team. Outcomes for this grant include completion of the salmon baseline status atlas and State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $660,000 | Jul. 2003 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this grant to lay the groundwork for an integrated, watershed-scale management solution that will significantly enhance the protection of the Copper's critical slamon resources. Key outputs of this grant include: development of a GIS-based management strategy for habitat protection and watershed, completion of two strategically important private land acquistions, identification of key information gaps, and collaboration with stakeholders to pilot management reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,030,000 | Feb. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to Ecotrust helped launch of the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon consists of the following seven components: (1) Baseline State of the Salmon atlas; (2) Red List Reviews by species and stock around the North Pacific; (3) Annual Pacific Salmon Report on key selected topics; (4) Annual "Report Cards" on selected agency management and policy; (5) Triennial State of the Salmon Conference and Report; (6) Creation of international standards for population monitoring protocols and metrics; and (7) a State of the Salmon website. Outcomes for this grant include delivery of the baseline status atlas for North Pacific salmon, completion of the State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $25,000 | Apr. 2001 |
Purpose
Ecotrust used this grant to produce a watershed conservation strategy for Alaska's Copper River ecosystem. | | New Venture Fund
The Value of Improved Ocean Management in the U.S. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
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This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | | Conservation Law Foundation
CLF’s New England Marine Spatial Planning Initiative | $614,595 | Feb. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $614,595 | Feb. 2012 |
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This grant will support stakeholder engagement in regional marine spatial planning in New England and the development of a comprehensive, ecosystem-based regional plan, while also ensuring effective implementation, strengthening, and integration of state plans. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $324,356 | May 2013 |
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To support the work of the Healthy Oceans Coalition, a network of local and regional groups who support ecosystem-based management for America's coasts and oceans. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 19 mo. | $428,946 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To facilitate the dissemination of the best available data and knowledge to inform active contributors to Marine Spatial Planning implementation and engagement at the state, regional, and federal scales, as they relate to New England. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $156,095 | Jul. 2009 |
Purpose
This Grant is in support of Conservation Law Foundation and partners' efforts to maintain a targeted constituency in Massachusetts that is supportive of comprehensive Area-Based Management (ABM) for state waters during the planning process. In addition, the coalition will work to connect Massachusetts lessons and best practices to projects considering ABM for regional and federal waters. | | Resources Legacy Fund Foundation
California Marine Life Protection Act Phase 4 | $5,000,000 | Feb. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $5,000,000 | Feb. 2012 |
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This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation supports the continued implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act in California, including the MPA Monitoring Enterprise. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $7,066,142 | Jul. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation supports the continued implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in the North-Central, South, and North Coast regions of California. The grant also supports the work of non-governmental organizations, including the MPA Monitoring Enterprise, to strengthen the management, design and implementation of the emerging network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,800,000 | May 2007 |
Purpose
This grant is to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation to support the continuation of a successful public-private partnership with the State of California to implement the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) in the North-Central Coast region of the state. The grant also supports the work of non-governmental organizations in three regions along California’s coast in order to strengthen the design, management, and implementation of this emerging network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 96 mo. | $3,220,574 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Resources Legacy Fund is working to implement California's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA). The statewide network, as authorized in the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, is designed to protect key segments of California's coastal ocean ecosystem through an expanded system of Marine Protected Areas. This grant provides an opportunity to implement the MLPA (as part of a newly designed, public-private partnership) and safeguard key hotspots off the California coast. Outcomes for this grant include creation and implementation of a master plan for Marine Protected Areas in California. | | The Ocean Conservancy Inc
Securing a U.S. framework for Marine Spatial Planning | $2,506,673 | Feb. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $2,506,673 | Feb. 2012 |
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This grant will advance the use of coastal and marine spatial planning in the United States. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $64,800 | Aug. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports a landscape assessment of opportunities to increase impact in the coming year and a systematic analysis of the spread of ocean ideas through social media. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $406,348 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will train trusted messengers to communicate ocean acidification science and solutions effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $252,096 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will support an independent evaluation of The Ocean Conservancy’s Overfishing Scorecard and a research project to assess the current state of understanding of Area-Based Management by key stakeholders and decision-makers in the US. Key outputs of the grant include recommendations for improvement of the Overfishing Scorecard and market research and analysis to guide education, outreach, and communication strategies in support of Area-Based Management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $517,756 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to survey public understanding of ocean threats, and to engage, educate, and broaden a constituency in Massachusetts that is supportive of comprehensive Area-Based Management. A key outcome is that targeted constituencies in the state of Massachusetts are supportive of comprehensive area-based management for state waters. | | Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association
Ensuring New England’s Successful Transition to Sustainable Fisheries | $677,786 | Jan. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $677,786 | Jan. 2012 |
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To support implementation of sectors for groundfish, including monitoring, improved use of science in management, and regulations and design elements that address sustainable fishing communities; to protect critical federal conservation standards; and to support industry engagement in Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 23 mo. | $538,821 | Mar. 2010 |
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