ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATIENT CARE SCIENCE SAN FRANCISCO
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| Grantee |
Amount |
Date |
 | New Venture Fund
A Plan for Sustainable Global Fisheries | $650,000 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
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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. | 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. | | Henry M Paulson Jr Institute
Sustainability in China: Cities and Natural Resource Use | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant will support efforts to develop and deploy a suite of sustainability measures focused on natural resource use in key Chinese cities in order to raise awareness and ultimately inform the development of national sustainability standards. | | Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment
Leopold Leadership Program | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To support the Leopold Leadership Program to provide leading scientists with the tools and skills training to engage on real-world sustainability challenges. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $499,558 | Aug. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Natural Capital Project to develop, test and support the implementation of new metrics, tools, and approaches for quantifying both natural capital and human well-being, interrelating them under present conditions and alternative future scenarios. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,749,582 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the rapid advance in uptake of ecosystem service science to inform policy by creating innovative models for tradeoff analysis, setting standards, and advancing tools for major sector permitting and mitigation, water fund design, industrial agriculture, and monitoring. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $209,170 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum’s work with Regional Fishery Management Council members and staff on the integration of fisheries and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,596,964 | May 2011 |
Purpose
To support the completion and application of a suite of ecosystem service models to inform Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) decisions. These models are being developed as part of the Natural Capital Project using the InVest modeling framework. This grant will also complete pilot testing in British Columbia’s West Coast Vancouver Island, complete a suite of core ecosystem services models, and scope work for potential application in New England or other regional MSP process in 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,364,763 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To advance the science of ecosystem services through basic research and modeling of their provision, development of tools for assessing tradeoffs, and application of those tools in land use planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies. | | World Wildlife Fund
China Sustainable Growth Fund - Planning Phase II | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant will enable the newly established China Sustainable Growth Fund to deliver a sustainable growth strategy that leverages and accelerates global best practices and key partners in the effort to protect worldwide biodiversity and ecosystem services. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program and provide technical support to Brazilian protected area agencies in the refinement of management effectiveness indicators. Grant outputs include analyses of management effectiveness and contribution of protected areas to national and regional economies, communication and fundraising materials, design of fund structures, fund-raising, and coordination of a multi-stakeholder engagement process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
Purpose
WWF and its regional partners will complete implementation of protected area management strategies, monitoring, and sustainable finance tools in eight protected areas covering approximately 10.5 million hectares in the Amazon Headwaters region of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,994,781 | May 2012 |
Purpose
In support of conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will use grant funds to secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Grant outputs include ecological analyses and dissemination materials. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,523,939 | Mar. 2011 |
Purpose
For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $169,896 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
To finalize data collection and publish manuscripts on the spatial and habitat needs of keystone vertebrate species in the southern Peruvian Amazon. This research will advance the scientific basis for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $357,191 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of analyzing the extent, patterns, trends, and causes of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD), a widespread, but largely overlooked, trend in conservation. Exploring the conservation implications of PADDD will serve to better inform conservation practices and emerging conservation policies, ultimately resulting in more robust, resilient, and targeted strategies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
To promote sustainable fisheries practices in Kamchatka. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $225,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To build an exemption into the Brazilian income tax system for contributions by individuals and corporations to qualifying environmental projects being implemented by national environmental funds, state environmental funds and non-governmental organizations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
Purpose
For the Education for Nature (EFN) program to establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for protected area management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN? fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in fields of study related to protected area management at preselected universities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
Purpose
World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
Strengthened collaboration of biodiversity conservation grantmakers | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To contribute to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity by enhancing effective collaboration among environmental foundations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2003 |
Purpose
The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2001 |
Purpose
The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | | Conservation International
Metrics for Conservation and Human Well-Being | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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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 | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
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 | | 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 | | 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. | 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. | | University of Washington, Conservation Magazine
The Conservation Media Project | $200,000 | Dec. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $200,000 | Dec. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the Conservation Media Project which aims to change the tone in science journalism from a defensive posture to one that is inspiring and solution oriented. | | University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law
The Governors' Climate and Forest Task Force - Supporting sub-national climate and forest initiatives | $650,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $650,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the Governors' Climate & Forest Task Force in the continued effort to implement sub-national forest emission reduction frameworks with a focus on state-national alignment efforts, cross-jurisdictional learning, and innovation-diffusion in the GCF member states and provinces. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $875,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Governors' Climate & Forest Task Force states and provinces to develop and implement sub-national forest emission reduction frameworks with strong linkages to emerging national and international REDD+ frameworks and explore access to multiple market and non-market funding pathways for their activities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $476,099 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the Governor's Climate & Forest Task Force (GCF) to produce a common sub-national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) efforts Framework/Platform and assist GCF member states and provinces in implementing sub-national REDD+ efforts programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $442,933 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
To enabling legal experts to continue working with the Governor's Climate & Forest Task Force (GCF) to jointly develop a set of standards, criteria, and architectures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation implementation by the GCF member states and provinces. The work of the GCF will also inform and be aligned with California state and United States federal rules governing international forest carbon offsets. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $221,043 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School (Colorado Law) will enable the planning and coordination by participating states to develop a clear plan for the implementation of MOUs between nine states and provinces from the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia on Forest and Climate Change related activities. A report on the final plans will be delivered at the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. | | Climate Focus
Catalyzing new subnational partnerships to reduce emissions from deforestation | $244,500 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $244,500 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
To develop new subnational partnerships with demand side jurisdictions in support of reducing deforestation and increasing investment in low carbon sustainable development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $184,900 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Climate Focus will enable additional demand for forest carbon emission reductions by creating new partnerships among sub-national entities and building on the leadership of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) while enhancing the sustainability of the overall effort. | | Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Integrating Ecosystem Services Assessment into Federal Natural Resources Planning and Management | $486,010 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $486,010 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
Support the development of a robust ecosystem services assessment and evaluation framework within US federal agency planning and management processes to improve natural resource decision making and optimize social, environmental and economic outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,066,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Duke University is using this grant to develop a global perspective on the incidental catch of seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals. In collaboration with in-country scientists, national fisheries management authorities, and regional fisheries management organizations, Duke researchers will synthesize and analyze bycatch data for US and international fisheries. Outcomes for this grant include improvement of fishing and bycatch databases and analysis of world bycatch rates. | | Conservation International
Incorporating natural capital into decision making: Implementing the TEEB approach and informing natural capital accounting (WAVES) | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
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 | | 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 | | 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. | 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. | | Net Impact
Environmental Careers Initiative | $242,932 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $242,932 | Oct. 2012 |
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Purpose
This grant funds elements of the Net Impact Environmental Careers Initiative, inspiring and informing the next generation of business leaders to connect environmental conservation with their work. | | Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale e360 | $598,961 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $598,961 | Oct. 2012 |
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Purpose
Support for Yale e360 targeted communications about critical environmental conservation topics. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
Conservation Trust Fund Investment Survey | $511,020 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $511,020 | Oct. 2012 |
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Purpose
This grant will support the enhancement of the Conservation Trust Fund Investment Survey in order to improve the effectiveness and increase funding of conservation trust funds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To develop and consolidate national and regional protected area monitoring programs in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil; to continue implementing management and infrastructure mitigation practices in protected areas of the Madidi Landscape in Bolivia; and to integrate protected area management plans with municipal and state level development plans in Pastaza, Ecuador and Loreto, Peru. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,199,539 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support planning, monitoring, and adaptive management of site-based conservation efforts using an accessible and user-friendly tool. The SMART initiative is an official project of the Conservation Measures Partnership and a manifestation of their collaborative, results-based management approach to effective conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
Using the Inambari/Madre de Dios Basin in the Amazonian headwaters region as a pilot case, this grant to Wildlife Conservation Society is designed to enhance the socio-environmental policies and practices used in the planning and implementation of large-scale dams in the Peruvian Amazon through the application of an integrated river basin management approach. This approach encompasses the development of a watershed-level, scientific understanding of waters, wetlands, basins, and aquatic biodiversity dynamics and a robust strategic environmental impact assessment and mitigation framework for dams, as well as its subsequent dissemination as an exemplary case for use in other Andes-Amazon watersheds threatened by new dam construction. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 |
Purpose
In support of securing protected area effective management in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata landscape in Bolivia, the Samiria-Yavari Landscape in Peru, the Yasuni-Napo Landscape in Ecuador, the Caura Landscape in Venezuela, and the southern Colombian piedmont, and developing monitoring and adaptive management approaches for the Loreto Regional Protected Areas System, Peru and the Amazonas State Protected Area System, Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $1,414,150 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For effective participatory protected area management in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; development of protocols for assessing the effectiveness of management in protecting biodiversity and forest cover; and development of a new approach to environmental impact assessments focusing on the cumulative impacts of infrastructure development on ecological processes. Funding will be used to finalize management plans, build capacity for local communities to implement and monitor management plans, secure alternative sources of funding for protected area management, adapt conservation strategies to emerging threats from climate change and infrastructure, and develop web-based tools for the assessment of infrastructure impacts on basin-wide fish migration processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,824,482 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For completing essential steps for the effective management of protected areas embedded in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; developing business plans and sustainable financing plans for key Protected Areas in these landscapes; and designing science-based, watershed-scale strategies to jointly mitigate threats to the terrestrial and aquatic components of Amazonian landscapes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,007,534 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of the completion of the core components of the Miradi adaptive management software, thus allowing conservation practitioners to plan and implement projects more efficiently and effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,998,299 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Government of Southern Sudan, in its effort to create and consolidate a protected area system encompassing East Africa’s largest intact wild grassland. The outcomes of this grant include the creation and consolidation of 30,000 km2 of protected areas, the creation of an additional 28,000 km2 of new protected areas, the implementation of a surveillance program to protect the migration of mega-fauna across the 200,000 km2 Boma-Jonglei landscape, and the design of a sustainable finance strategy with a focus on ecotourism. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the creation of scientifically-based marine managed area networks in Kubulau and Macuata serving as models for ecosystem-based management in Fiji and the Western Pacific. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,681,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) supports work to strengthen 7 landscape sites, a total of 10.22 million hectares, in the Amazon Basin. Work includes the protection of biodiversity in Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves in Brazil; Yavarí-Miri landscape in Peru; Madidi and Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Parks in Bolivia; Yasuni National Park in Ecuador; establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed in Venezuela (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $379,190 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to further its work with the Gabon Parks Projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
With its partner organizations, the Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the data collection (biological and socioeconomic), analysis, and subsequent guidelines needed to implement and enforce effective management strategies. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of two marine managed areas (Vatu-i-Ra and Cakau Levu reefs) in Fiji, and increased knowledge of ecosystem-based management and conservation seascape design for coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Mar. 2004 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to develop common standards and software tools for managing and monitoring the effectiveness of conservation projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,735,965 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Wildlife Conservation Society's work to strengthen new and existing protected areas in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include protection of biodiversity in Mamiraua-Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves, Madidi, Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco, and Yasuni-Napo landscapes (conserving a total of 10.22 million hectares); establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,692,845 | Jan. 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Wildlife Conservation Society is leading a consortium designed to help protect biodiversity and conserve wilderness in Central African through the Gabon Parks Projects. Outcomes for this grant include the consolidation of key aspects of the new national park network in the of Republic of Gabon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $138,000 | Feb. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to prepare a plan and study previous efforts to define and calculate outcome measurements in the conservation field. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $250,000 | Jan. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this planning grant to further its Living Landscapes Program and develop long-term organizational strategies for wildlife conservation. | | Universidade Federal de Vicosa
Large-scale aspects of Sustainable agriculture in Amazonia. | $853,200 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $853,200 | Oct. 2012 |
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In support of the Federal University of Viçosa to investigate the feasibility of sustainable agriculture in Amazonia by identifying opportunities to increase agricultural production and the risks of further deforestation to agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services. | | Climate Advisers
Delivering U.S. Government Action to Support Sustainable Supply Chains | $185,850 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $185,850 | Sep. 2012 |
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To support a consortium of civil society stakeholders to effectively engage with the US Government and Consumer Goods Forum public private alliance that aims to reduce deforestation through sustainable supply chains. | | University of California, Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Creating a global center of excellence focused on knowledge generation to sustain nature and human well-being. | $2,440,941 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,440,941 | Sep. 2012 |
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In support of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in a joint effort with The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society to create and operate a global center of excellence focused on knowledge generation to sustain nature and human well-being. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $96,953 | Feb. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will provide support to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara to train a cohort of graduate students to evaluate the current status and trends of marine fisheries and ecosystems in an effort to bridge a growing intellectual divide among marine ecologists and fisheries biologists. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,036,961 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara is to ensure that a critical piece of statistical modeling software remains available to fisheries and other natural resource managers. As part of this project, NCEAS will oversee initial planning activities, the purchase of the software copyright, and the commercial software’s transition to a freely available and open source product. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $1,280,807 | Oct. 2007 |
Purpose
In support of work by the University of California Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis to advance the scientific understanding of how climate change may affect Pacific salmon. Activities will focus on synthesizing existing information and data to address a suite of questions that are relevant to salmon conservation and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $190,616 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Under this grant, NCEAS will produce a high resolution, interactive map of human impacts on marine ecosystems in the U.S. West Coast. The key output is a spatially-explicit human threat analysis within the U.S. West Coast. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $85,826 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
The project will develop research plans for answering some of the most important unanswered scientific questions about salmon and climate. Rather than designing new programs to collect new data, this project aims to synthesize existing datasets from many scientific disciplines. | | Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment
Linking Natural Capital and Human Well-Being: A Practical New Framework, Tools and Applications | $499,558 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $499,558 | Aug. 2012 |
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In support of the Natural Capital Project to develop, test and support the implementation of new metrics, tools, and approaches for quantifying both natural capital and human well-being, interrelating them under present conditions and alternative future scenarios. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 |
Purpose
To support the Leopold Leadership Program to provide leading scientists with the tools and skills training to engage on real-world sustainability challenges. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,749,582 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the rapid advance in uptake of ecosystem service science to inform policy by creating innovative models for tradeoff analysis, setting standards, and advancing tools for major sector permitting and mitigation, water fund design, industrial agriculture, and monitoring. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $209,170 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum’s work with Regional Fishery Management Council members and staff on the integration of fisheries and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,596,964 | May 2011 |
Purpose
To support the completion and application of a suite of ecosystem service models to inform Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) decisions. These models are being developed as part of the Natural Capital Project using the InVest modeling framework. This grant will also complete pilot testing in British Columbia’s West Coast Vancouver Island, complete a suite of core ecosystem services models, and scope work for potential application in New England or other regional MSP process in 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,364,763 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To advance the science of ecosystem services through basic research and modeling of their provision, development of tools for assessing tradeoffs, and application of those tools in land use planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies. | | Resources for the Future
Insights from the Social and Behavioral Sciences to Improve Conservation | $181,501 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $181,501 | Jul. 2012 |
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To develop a set of actionable principles about human behavior and decision-making that environmental grantmakers and practitioners can use to improve their work. | | George Mason University, Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Harnessing Social Science to Promote Conservation | $20,473 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $20,473 | Jul. 2012 |
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To develop a set of actionable principles about human behavior and decision-making that environmental grantmakers and practitioners can use to improve their work. | | Green Technology Leadership Group
Enhancing support for international forest conservation in California's climate legislation | $350,000 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $350,000 | Jul. 2012 |
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This grant will support the Green Technology Leadership Group in its effort to enhance support for international forest conservation as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions among key stakeholders in California, Chiapas and Acre by integrating international forest carbon offsets into California’s cap and trade program. | | University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment
Momentum 2.0 | $369,984 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $369,984 | Jul. 2012 |
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In support of developing Momentum 2.0 to empower thought leaders around the world to discover and apply solutions to grand challenges related to energy, land use, food, water, sustainable development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $2,200,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Global Landscapes Initiative to develop datasets, models and collaborations to examine on regional and global scales the changing face of agriculture and how these changes affect crucial ecosystem services in order to help us understand and manage the inevitable tradeoffs of agriculture and the global environment. | | Conservation International
Supporting the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 |
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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 | | 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 | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
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 | | 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 | | 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. | 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. | | Bank Information Center
Strengthening the Social and Environmental Safeguard policies of the World Bank | $430,283 | Mar. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $430,283 | Mar. 2012 |
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In support of strengthening the World Bank’s key environmental safeguard policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,200,847 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to the Bank Information Center (BIC) will support the dissemination of information about economic integration projects and policies being proposed by the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) for the Andes-Amazon region, and the promotion of dialogue necessary to facilitate policy reform and mitigate the negative impacts of IIRSA’s development projects. The project will (1) provide improved risk analysis for achieving good governance scenarios in associated ecosystems and watersheds; (2) strengthen national advocacy coalitions proposing sustainable local land management plans; (3) influence the design and implementation of International Financial Institutions’ (IFI) investments towards improved social-environmental policies; (4) and contribute to more transparent and accountable development policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $849,650 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports the development of an information infrastructure and the exchange of information about the Bank Information Center’s economic integration initiative in South America. The Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) initiative aims to increase regional competitiveness and productivity while promoting reform across various sectors. Outcomes include design and implementation of a user friendly technology platform for information storage and dissemination, five to seven case studies detailing the impact of international financial institutions in the Andes-Amazon region, creation of an information network to communicate about IIRSA, alignment of civil society actors, creation of a collective vision for conservation development, and proposed mitigations to policymakers.
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Simple Effective Resource for Valuing Ecosystem Services (SERVES) Development and Implementation | $382,705 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $382,705 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will better position ecosystem service valuation in order to inform decision making, correct economic incentives and improve public and private investment among conservation organizations, federal agencies and municipalities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $263,348 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of an economic analysis of green infrastructure and ecosystem services provided within the Matanuska-Susitna Basin. | | Ecoagriculture Partners
Solidifying the Knowledge Foundations for Scaling Up Ecoagriculture | $410,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $410,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative to address key challenges including food and nutrition, rural poverty, ecosystem degradation, species loss, and climate change via an integrated landscape approach. | | World Wildlife Fund
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) for Business: Enhancing the visibility of nature's benefits | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant will enable the newly established China Sustainable Growth Fund to deliver a sustainable growth strategy that leverages and accelerates global best practices and key partners in the effort to protect worldwide biodiversity and ecosystem services. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program and provide technical support to Brazilian protected area agencies in the refinement of management effectiveness indicators. Grant outputs include analyses of management effectiveness and contribution of protected areas to national and regional economies, communication and fundraising materials, design of fund structures, fund-raising, and coordination of a multi-stakeholder engagement process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
Purpose
WWF and its regional partners will complete implementation of protected area management strategies, monitoring, and sustainable finance tools in eight protected areas covering approximately 10.5 million hectares in the Amazon Headwaters region of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,994,781 | May 2012 |
Purpose
In support of conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will use grant funds to secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Grant outputs include ecological analyses and dissemination materials. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,523,939 | Mar. 2011 |
Purpose
For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $357,191 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of analyzing the extent, patterns, trends, and causes of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD), a widespread, but largely overlooked, trend in conservation. Exploring the conservation implications of PADDD will serve to better inform conservation practices and emerging conservation policies, ultimately resulting in more robust, resilient, and targeted strategies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $169,896 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
To finalize data collection and publish manuscripts on the spatial and habitat needs of keystone vertebrate species in the southern Peruvian Amazon. This research will advance the scientific basis for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
To promote sustainable fisheries practices in Kamchatka. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $225,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To build an exemption into the Brazilian income tax system for contributions by individuals and corporations to qualifying environmental projects being implemented by national environmental funds, state environmental funds and non-governmental organizations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
Purpose
For the Education for Nature (EFN) program to establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for protected area management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN? fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in fields of study related to protected area management at preselected universities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
Purpose
World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | World Wildlife Fund
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) for Business: Enhancing the visibility of nature's benefits | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant will enable the newly established China Sustainable Growth Fund to deliver a sustainable growth strategy that leverages and accelerates global best practices and key partners in the effort to protect worldwide biodiversity and ecosystem services. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program and provide technical support to Brazilian protected area agencies in the refinement of management effectiveness indicators. Grant outputs include analyses of management effectiveness and contribution of protected areas to national and regional economies, communication and fundraising materials, design of fund structures, fund-raising, and coordination of a multi-stakeholder engagement process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
Purpose
WWF and its regional partners will complete implementation of protected area management strategies, monitoring, and sustainable finance tools in eight protected areas covering approximately 10.5 million hectares in the Amazon Headwaters region of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,994,781 | May 2012 |
Purpose
In support of conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will use grant funds to secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Grant outputs include ecological analyses and dissemination materials. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,523,939 | Mar. 2011 |
Purpose
For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $169,896 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
To finalize data collection and publish manuscripts on the spatial and habitat needs of keystone vertebrate species in the southern Peruvian Amazon. This research will advance the scientific basis for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $357,191 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of analyzing the extent, patterns, trends, and causes of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD), a widespread, but largely overlooked, trend in conservation. Exploring the conservation implications of PADDD will serve to better inform conservation practices and emerging conservation policies, ultimately resulting in more robust, resilient, and targeted strategies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,665,166 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
To promote sustainable fisheries practices in Kamchatka. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $225,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To build an exemption into the Brazilian income tax system for contributions by individuals and corporations to qualifying environmental projects being implemented by national environmental funds, state environmental funds and non-governmental organizations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 62 mo. | $1,461,357 | May 2008 |
Purpose
For the Education for Nature (EFN) program to establish permanent training capacity for park guards in four Andean countries and improve the skills of the existing park guard force in three Andean countries. It will increase the institutional capacity for protected area management in these countries by providing job placement assistance to former EFN? fellowship recipients and graduate fellowships in fields of study related to protected area management at preselected universities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $404,336 | Mar. 2008 |
Purpose
This project with the World Wildlife Fund will continue the collection of data on a number of important indicator species with large or complex habitat needs to advance the scientific justification for the minimum area and habitat requirements necessary for establishing and maintaining functional protected areas and conservation landscapes in the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 3 mo. | $466,433 | Jan. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant serves to provide supplemental funding to complete the initial grant to World Wildlife Fund (to conserve the headwaters regions of the Southwest Amazon, while simultaneously investing in strategic scientific research and policy interventions), and to maintain the core project staff and local partners that are essential to a second-phase grant currently under development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $7,168,000 | Jan. 2007 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund will use this grant to support the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. Outcomes include 10-15 million hectares of new protected areas and strengthening the implementation of 6.3 million hectares of existing protected areas to the 50 million ha target of the ARPA program.. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,422,984 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's efforts to improve the framework for protecting Kamchatka's salmon in their marine environment by reforming salmon fishery policies, increasing local awareness of market-based sustainable salmon fisheries, creating the first Marine Fishery Protective Zone for critical salmon habitat, and strengthening antipoaching enforcement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $400,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports World Wildlife Fund's 2006 and 2007 International Smart Gear Competitions and post-competition activities to catalyze new fishing gear technologies to reduce bycatch. Outcomes for this grant include implementation of strategies for winning technologies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,457,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Through its Education for Nature program, World Wildlife Fund is using this grant to provide academic and applied training to graduate students and protected-area personnel throughout South America. Outcomes include protected area management training for 615 park guards and 54 two-year scholarships to individuals from the Andes-Amazon region for masters and doctoral degrees at universities in the region or abroad. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $15,407,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
This renewal grant supports Phase II of World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Headwaters Initiative. Outcomes include protection and management of 1.3 million hectares in the Itenez-Mamore Block (Bolivia) and 6.9 million hectares in the Southern Amazon Block (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil), evaluation of Amazonia policy interventions, and expansion of science capacity for conservation of Amazon headwaters. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $849,415 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to improve ecoregional conservation by raising management standards and practices for large-scale programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,351,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this grant to support the pilot phase of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative, a plan to maintain regional terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $15,581,000 | Aug. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant supports the collaborative endeavor known as the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. In response to World Wildlife Fund's Forest for Life Campaign, the Brazilian government pledged to place 10% of its of biologically rich forest under conservation protection. ARPA was developed to help implement that commitment. Outcomes include creation, establishment, and management of 14 sustainable-use reserves covering nine million hectares in two large forested blocks. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,400,000 | Jun. 2002 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund used this bridge grant to create new protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas programme. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $300,000 | Mar. 2002 |
Purpose
World wildlife Fund used this grant to design a marine conservation network and develop a project management plan for large-scale conservation in three specified ecoregions: the southwest Amazon, Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef, and the Terai Arc of India/Nepal. | | International Game Fish Association
Citizen Science for Sportfishing Management and Conservation | $1,456,810 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 28 mo. | $1,456,810 | Nov. 2011 |
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The grant supports the creation of a citizen science data platform that will be tested through a pilot project with recreational fishermen. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
SMART: A tool to improve the effectiveness of implementation and monitoring of global conservation investments | $1,199,539 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,199,539 | Nov. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant will support planning, monitoring, and adaptive management of site-based conservation efforts using an accessible and user-friendly tool. The SMART initiative is an official project of the Conservation Measures Partnership and a manifestation of their collaborative, results-based management approach to effective conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To develop and consolidate national and regional protected area monitoring programs in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil; to continue implementing management and infrastructure mitigation practices in protected areas of the Madidi Landscape in Bolivia; and to integrate protected area management plans with municipal and state level development plans in Pastaza, Ecuador and Loreto, Peru. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $511,020 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will support the enhancement of the Conservation Trust Fund Investment Survey in order to improve the effectiveness and increase funding of conservation trust funds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
Using the Inambari/Madre de Dios Basin in the Amazonian headwaters region as a pilot case, this grant to Wildlife Conservation Society is designed to enhance the socio-environmental policies and practices used in the planning and implementation of large-scale dams in the Peruvian Amazon through the application of an integrated river basin management approach. This approach encompasses the development of a watershed-level, scientific understanding of waters, wetlands, basins, and aquatic biodiversity dynamics and a robust strategic environmental impact assessment and mitigation framework for dams, as well as its subsequent dissemination as an exemplary case for use in other Andes-Amazon watersheds threatened by new dam construction. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 |
Purpose
In support of securing protected area effective management in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata landscape in Bolivia, the Samiria-Yavari Landscape in Peru, the Yasuni-Napo Landscape in Ecuador, the Caura Landscape in Venezuela, and the southern Colombian piedmont, and developing monitoring and adaptive management approaches for the Loreto Regional Protected Areas System, Peru and the Amazonas State Protected Area System, Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $1,414,150 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For effective participatory protected area management in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; development of protocols for assessing the effectiveness of management in protecting biodiversity and forest cover; and development of a new approach to environmental impact assessments focusing on the cumulative impacts of infrastructure development on ecological processes. Funding will be used to finalize management plans, build capacity for local communities to implement and monitor management plans, secure alternative sources of funding for protected area management, adapt conservation strategies to emerging threats from climate change and infrastructure, and develop web-based tools for the assessment of infrastructure impacts on basin-wide fish migration processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,824,482 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For completing essential steps for the effective management of protected areas embedded in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; developing business plans and sustainable financing plans for key Protected Areas in these landscapes; and designing science-based, watershed-scale strategies to jointly mitigate threats to the terrestrial and aquatic components of Amazonian landscapes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,007,534 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of the completion of the core components of the Miradi adaptive management software, thus allowing conservation practitioners to plan and implement projects more efficiently and effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,998,299 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Government of Southern Sudan, in its effort to create and consolidate a protected area system encompassing East Africa’s largest intact wild grassland. The outcomes of this grant include the creation and consolidation of 30,000 km2 of protected areas, the creation of an additional 28,000 km2 of new protected areas, the implementation of a surveillance program to protect the migration of mega-fauna across the 200,000 km2 Boma-Jonglei landscape, and the design of a sustainable finance strategy with a focus on ecotourism. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the creation of scientifically-based marine managed area networks in Kubulau and Macuata serving as models for ecosystem-based management in Fiji and the Western Pacific. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,681,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) supports work to strengthen 7 landscape sites, a total of 10.22 million hectares, in the Amazon Basin. Work includes the protection of biodiversity in Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves in Brazil; Yavarí-Miri landscape in Peru; Madidi and Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Parks in Bolivia; Yasuni National Park in Ecuador; establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed in Venezuela (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $379,190 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to further its work with the Gabon Parks Projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
With its partner organizations, the Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the data collection (biological and socioeconomic), analysis, and subsequent guidelines needed to implement and enforce effective management strategies. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of two marine managed areas (Vatu-i-Ra and Cakau Levu reefs) in Fiji, and increased knowledge of ecosystem-based management and conservation seascape design for coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Mar. 2004 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to develop common standards and software tools for managing and monitoring the effectiveness of conservation projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,735,965 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Wildlife Conservation Society's work to strengthen new and existing protected areas in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include protection of biodiversity in Mamiraua-Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves, Madidi, Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco, and Yasuni-Napo landscapes (conserving a total of 10.22 million hectares); establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,692,845 | Jan. 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Wildlife Conservation Society is leading a consortium designed to help protect biodiversity and conserve wilderness in Central African through the Gabon Parks Projects. Outcomes for this grant include the consolidation of key aspects of the new national park network in the of Republic of Gabon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $138,000 | Feb. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to prepare a plan and study previous efforts to define and calculate outcome measurements in the conservation field. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $250,000 | Jan. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this planning grant to further its Living Landscapes Program and develop long-term organizational strategies for wildlife conservation. | | University of Maryland, Department of Geography
Quantifying Global Forest Change | $1,699,151 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $1,699,151 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant supports the University of Maryland and the US Geological Service to create global 30- meter spatial resolution forest cover products and to develop prototype products covering other Earth surfaces. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
Health and Ecosystems: Analysis and Linkages (HEAL) | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To develop and consolidate national and regional protected area monitoring programs in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil; to continue implementing management and infrastructure mitigation practices in protected areas of the Madidi Landscape in Bolivia; and to integrate protected area management plans with municipal and state level development plans in Pastaza, Ecuador and Loreto, Peru. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $511,020 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will support the enhancement of the Conservation Trust Fund Investment Survey in order to improve the effectiveness and increase funding of conservation trust funds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,199,539 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support planning, monitoring, and adaptive management of site-based conservation efforts using an accessible and user-friendly tool. The SMART initiative is an official project of the Conservation Measures Partnership and a manifestation of their collaborative, results-based management approach to effective conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
Using the Inambari/Madre de Dios Basin in the Amazonian headwaters region as a pilot case, this grant to Wildlife Conservation Society is designed to enhance the socio-environmental policies and practices used in the planning and implementation of large-scale dams in the Peruvian Amazon through the application of an integrated river basin management approach. This approach encompasses the development of a watershed-level, scientific understanding of waters, wetlands, basins, and aquatic biodiversity dynamics and a robust strategic environmental impact assessment and mitigation framework for dams, as well as its subsequent dissemination as an exemplary case for use in other Andes-Amazon watersheds threatened by new dam construction. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 |
Purpose
In support of securing protected area effective management in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata landscape in Bolivia, the Samiria-Yavari Landscape in Peru, the Yasuni-Napo Landscape in Ecuador, the Caura Landscape in Venezuela, and the southern Colombian piedmont, and developing monitoring and adaptive management approaches for the Loreto Regional Protected Areas System, Peru and the Amazonas State Protected Area System, Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $1,414,150 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For effective participatory protected area management in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; development of protocols for assessing the effectiveness of management in protecting biodiversity and forest cover; and development of a new approach to environmental impact assessments focusing on the cumulative impacts of infrastructure development on ecological processes. Funding will be used to finalize management plans, build capacity for local communities to implement and monitor management plans, secure alternative sources of funding for protected area management, adapt conservation strategies to emerging threats from climate change and infrastructure, and develop web-based tools for the assessment of infrastructure impacts on basin-wide fish migration processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,824,482 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For completing essential steps for the effective management of protected areas embedded in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; developing business plans and sustainable financing plans for key Protected Areas in these landscapes; and designing science-based, watershed-scale strategies to jointly mitigate threats to the terrestrial and aquatic components of Amazonian landscapes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,007,534 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of the completion of the core components of the Miradi adaptive management software, thus allowing conservation practitioners to plan and implement projects more efficiently and effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,998,299 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Government of Southern Sudan, in its effort to create and consolidate a protected area system encompassing East Africa’s largest intact wild grassland. The outcomes of this grant include the creation and consolidation of 30,000 km2 of protected areas, the creation of an additional 28,000 km2 of new protected areas, the implementation of a surveillance program to protect the migration of mega-fauna across the 200,000 km2 Boma-Jonglei landscape, and the design of a sustainable finance strategy with a focus on ecotourism. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the creation of scientifically-based marine managed area networks in Kubulau and Macuata serving as models for ecosystem-based management in Fiji and the Western Pacific. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,681,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) supports work to strengthen 7 landscape sites, a total of 10.22 million hectares, in the Amazon Basin. Work includes the protection of biodiversity in Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves in Brazil; Yavarí-Miri landscape in Peru; Madidi and Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Parks in Bolivia; Yasuni National Park in Ecuador; establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed in Venezuela (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $379,190 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to further its work with the Gabon Parks Projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
With its partner organizations, the Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the data collection (biological and socioeconomic), analysis, and subsequent guidelines needed to implement and enforce effective management strategies. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of two marine managed areas (Vatu-i-Ra and Cakau Levu reefs) in Fiji, and increased knowledge of ecosystem-based management and conservation seascape design for coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Mar. 2004 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to develop common standards and software tools for managing and monitoring the effectiveness of conservation projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,735,965 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Wildlife Conservation Society's work to strengthen new and existing protected areas in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include protection of biodiversity in Mamiraua-Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves, Madidi, Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco, and Yasuni-Napo landscapes (conserving a total of 10.22 million hectares); establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,692,845 | Jan. 2003 |
Purpose
With this grant, the Wildlife Conservation Society is leading a consortium designed to help protect biodiversity and conserve wilderness in Central African through the Gabon Parks Projects. Outcomes for this grant include the consolidation of key aspects of the new national park network in the of Republic of Gabon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $138,000 | Feb. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to prepare a plan and study previous efforts to define and calculate outcome measurements in the conservation field. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $250,000 | Jan. 2002 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this planning grant to further its Living Landscapes Program and develop long-term organizational strategies for wildlife conservation. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
Health and Ecosystems: Analysis and Linkages (HEAL) | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
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Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To develop and consolidate national and regional protected area monitoring programs in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil; to continue implementing management and infrastructure mitigation practices in protected areas of the Madidi Landscape in Bolivia; and to integrate protected area management plans with municipal and state level development plans in Pastaza, Ecuador and Loreto, Peru. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $511,020 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant will support the enhancement of the Conservation Trust Fund Investment Survey in order to improve the effectiveness and increase funding of conservation trust funds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,199,539 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support planning, monitoring, and adaptive management of site-based conservation efforts using an accessible and user-friendly tool. The SMART initiative is an official project of the Conservation Measures Partnership and a manifestation of their collaborative, results-based management approach to effective conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,700,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant is in support of Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages, an applied research program that will explore the links between health and landscape-level ecosystem change, further characterize how ecosystem change affects human health, and assess the extent to which ‘health’ can be considered an ecosystem benefit. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
Using the Inambari/Madre de Dios Basin in the Amazonian headwaters region as a pilot case, this grant to Wildlife Conservation Society is designed to enhance the socio-environmental policies and practices used in the planning and implementation of large-scale dams in the Peruvian Amazon through the application of an integrated river basin management approach. This approach encompasses the development of a watershed-level, scientific understanding of waters, wetlands, basins, and aquatic biodiversity dynamics and a robust strategic environmental impact assessment and mitigation framework for dams, as well as its subsequent dissemination as an exemplary case for use in other Andes-Amazon watersheds threatened by new dam construction. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 |
Purpose
In support of securing protected area effective management in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata landscape in Bolivia, the Samiria-Yavari Landscape in Peru, the Yasuni-Napo Landscape in Ecuador, the Caura Landscape in Venezuela, and the southern Colombian piedmont, and developing monitoring and adaptive management approaches for the Loreto Regional Protected Areas System, Peru and the Amazonas State Protected Area System, Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $1,414,150 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For effective participatory protected area management in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; development of protocols for assessing the effectiveness of management in protecting biodiversity and forest cover; and development of a new approach to environmental impact assessments focusing on the cumulative impacts of infrastructure development on ecological processes. Funding will be used to finalize management plans, build capacity for local communities to implement and monitor management plans, secure alternative sources of funding for protected area management, adapt conservation strategies to emerging threats from climate change and infrastructure, and develop web-based tools for the assessment of infrastructure impacts on basin-wide fish migration processes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,824,482 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
For completing essential steps for the effective management of protected areas embedded in five conservation landscapes in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil; developing business plans and sustainable financing plans for key Protected Areas in these landscapes; and designing science-based, watershed-scale strategies to jointly mitigate threats to the terrestrial and aquatic components of Amazonian landscapes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,007,534 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of the completion of the core components of the Miradi adaptive management software, thus allowing conservation practitioners to plan and implement projects more efficiently and effectively. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,998,299 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Government of Southern Sudan, in its effort to create and consolidate a protected area system encompassing East Africa’s largest intact wild grassland. The outcomes of this grant include the creation and consolidation of 30,000 km2 of protected areas, the creation of an additional 28,000 km2 of new protected areas, the implementation of a surveillance program to protect the migration of mega-fauna across the 200,000 km2 Boma-Jonglei landscape, and the design of a sustainable finance strategy with a focus on ecotourism. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the creation of scientifically-based marine managed area networks in Kubulau and Macuata serving as models for ecosystem-based management in Fiji and the Western Pacific. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,681,000 | Jul. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) supports work to strengthen 7 landscape sites, a total of 10.22 million hectares, in the Amazon Basin. Work includes the protection of biodiversity in Amana and Piagacu-Purus sustainable development reserves in Brazil; Yavarí-Miri landscape in Peru; Madidi and Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Parks in Bolivia; Yasuni National Park in Ecuador; establishment of the Yavari Valley protected area (1.5 million hectares); and enhancement of community-based protection of the Caura watershed in Venezuela (4.5 million hectares). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $379,190 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
The Wildlife Conservation Society used this grant to further its work with the Gabon Parks Projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $750,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
With its partner organizations, the Wildlife Conservation Society is using this grant to protect coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds in Fiji. This grant supports the data collection (biological and socioeconomic), analysis, and subsequent guidelines needed to implement and enforce effective management strategies. Outcomes for this grant include establishment of two marine managed areas (Vatu-i-Ra and Cakau Levu reefs) in Fiji, and increased knowledge of ecosystem-based management and conservation seascape design for coral reef ecosystems and adjacent watersheds. | |