ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATIENT CARE SCIENCE SAN FRANCISCO
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| Grantee |
Amount |
Date |
 | Carnegie Institution of Washington
Forest Monitoring Techniques for Conservation Planning in the Andean Amazon | $748,914 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $748,914 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
To ensure intensive scientific support to advance the Peruvian and Colombian government’s national forest monitoring systems, and to expand CLASlite training and dissemination for conservation planning in the Andes-Amazon Region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,336,250 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Carnegie –together with Grant #3000 to Leeds– enables a large-scale ecological study to improve our understanding of the large-area effects of dry season and drought on the structure, composition and function of forests in the Western Amazon Basin. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $591,750 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To demonstrate field methods for forest and carbon monitoring in Colombia, by providing advanced guidelines and training for the integration of the various field, airborne, and space-based approaches to forest monitoring in accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Tier 3 level. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $5,250,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To develop and integrate a next generation spectrometer into the Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System, a remote sensing system designed to accurately identify the chemical, structural and taxonomic makeup of tropic forests at an unprecedented scale and level of detail. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,590,718 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
To increase the technical capacity to implement transparent, standardized monthly and annual satellite-based monitoring of forest disturbance and deforestation across the Andes-Amazon region, by providing training and basic equipment for the CLASLite system to government agencies and NGOs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institute of Washington will use this grant to determine baseline forest conditions, selective logging as well as outright deforestation in Peru and enable Moore grantees and other organizations to monitor, map and report on these variables annually. The outcome is to ensure that forest monitoring by even the smallest NGO or government office in Peru can be done in a transparent and replicable way. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $4,263,239 | Nov. 2002 |
Purpose
The Carnegie Institution is using this grant to establish the Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. | | Instituto Centro de Vida
Incentives for clean beef and soy value chains in Mato Grosso, Brazil | $1,907,319 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,907,319 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
This project proposes an integrated approach to promote deforestation-free beef and soy value chains in Mato Grosso State. This approach consists of implementing a demonstration project of an integrated clean beef supply chain based on improved ranching practices and a collaborative agreement with the industry; an innovative compensatory mechanism that links zero-deforestation commitments of the soya sector to cattle ranching improvement that will scale up improved ranching practices; a set of measures that will strengthen state-level beef sourcing agreements banning deforestation; and the preparation of the field for the implementation of statewide public policy incentives for deforestation-free ranching. | | Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Monitoring the Impact of Policies to Reduce Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon | $2,314,034 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,314,034 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
This grant will support analyses of the impact of state policies to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the establishment of a stakeholder supported platform for continuous monitoring of validated, ground-truthed indicators of policy impact, and the operationalization of strategies to reduce deforestation in land reform settlements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $821,798 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
For a community forestry project in the settlement communities of Moju I and II in the State of Par?, Brazil, which will serve as a demonstration for forest-based co-management among communities, government, and the timber industry. | | Wageningen University, Department of Environmental Sciences
Enhanced radar-based forest cover monitoring | $450,016 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $450,016 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
This grant will enable key institutions and projects in Pará state, Brazil to use cloud-free radar images to assess and monitor forest cover. | | Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia
Public policy instruments and barriers for sustainable sourcing of beef in Pará, Brazil | $424,511 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $424,511 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of Imazon to (i) assess, monitor and enhance the effectiveness, impact and durability of current policy instruments (Termos de Ajustamento de Conduta - TACs) related to sustainable sourcing of beef, and to (ii) design and promote ways of streamlining environmental licensing in the Pará state in order to reduce environmental compliance costs to ranchers and the state government. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,159,305 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
Through this grant Imazon will monitor, analyze, and disseminate information regarding deforestation and forest degradation in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon, improve protected area management in the Calha Norte conservation corridor, and support the development of sustainable finance and monitoring mechanisms for Pará state protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $1,193,098 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To establish deforestation-free cattle production in Para and Mato Grosso, monitor the impacts of cattle sector policies to enable adaptive management of state and federal level processes, enhance monitoring and enforcement of deforestation in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, and secure gains in the Calha Norte Protected areas mosaic. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,373,492 | May 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to contribute to the consolidation of 7.4 million hectares of state forests in the state of Para, Brazil, which were created in December 2006 with support from AAI. And to monitor deforestation within 212 million hectares of protected areas, including indigenous lands, in the Brazilian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,190,000 | Jun. 2004 |
Purpose
Bolstered by the National Forest Program and with support from this grant, Imazon is working to create and manage sustainable forestry areas in Brazil. Outcomes include increased financial and administrative capacity, implementation of a forest sector monitoring system, increased transparency and capacity for enforcement, and a map of priority areas for national forest creation (four million hectares) and dissemination of information to decision-makers and stakeholders. | | Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental
Institutional framework for environmental licensing of large-scale infrastructure projects in Peru | $251,248 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $251,248 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
To establish the institutional conditions to implement a national level environmental licensing framework for large-scale development projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $1,521,858 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will consolidate and secure the gains obtained to date on private lands conservation, while expanding the creation of sub-national protected areas using their already proven conservation tools for regional protected areas systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $471,949 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of adapting conservation strategies in the Peruvian Amazon to the emerging issues of governance, decentralization, and climate change adaptation. Results will include decentralized schemes for public management and regulatory frameworks for regional conservation, consolidated at various levels of governance in Peru (including the regional governments of Loreto, Madre de Dios and San Mart?n); a completed process of protected area creation (80,000 ha) in the Peruvian Amazon; and the development and implementation of effective management tools for regional and private conservation areas and for non-timber concessions in the Peruvian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,117,098 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA) will use this second phase grant to disseminate, refine, and help implement in the Peruvian Amazon the legal framework for private biodiversity conservation areas and concessions it successfully developed during a first phase of funding (Grant #436). By providing direct legal technical assistance to federal (INRENA) and regional (PROCREL) protected area management agencies and to private landowners, SPDA will ensure that regulatory frameworks are applied at all government levels, that at least 250,000 ha of new protected areas under legal private conservation instruments and concessions are established in the Peruvian Amazon, and that management of new and existing private conservation areas is appropriately monitored and implemented. At the end of this grant, public and private actors will be effectively applying legal and economic instruments for private and public conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, and SPDA will have the capacity to analyze and improve the legal situation of private conservation mechanism elsewhere in the Andes-Amazon region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $798,000 | Apr. 2004 |
Purpose
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental is using this grant to increase the implementation of private conservation areas in the Peruvian Andes. Private conservation can protect key areas and complement the national protected area system. Outcomes include establishment and consolidation of a regulatory framework for private conservation mechanisms, declaration of (under contract) 300,000 to 500,000 hectares of Amazonian conservation areas, and increased public and private sector conservation capacity. | | University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Nelson Institute
Public policy and voluntary instruments for sustainable sourcing of beef and soy in Pará and Mato Grosso | $752,002 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $752,002 | Nov. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to assess, monitor and facilitate the enhancement of the effectiveness, impact and durability of policy and voluntary instruments related to sustainable sourcing of beef and soy in Pará and Mato Grosso, Brazil. | | World Wildlife Fund
Completing ARPA Phase II | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
Protected area monitoring and effective management in Amazonian conservation landscapes (Amazon Landscapes Phase IV) | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $4,793,230 | Nov. 2012 |
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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 | | 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. | | Amazon Conservation Association
Consolidate Manu-Tambopata Conservation Corridor to mitigate forest conversion in Madre de Dios, Peru | $999,997 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $999,997 | Oct. 2012 |
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To consolidate the mosaic of sustainable livelihoods and conservation lands within the 266,439 hectare Manu-Tambopata Conservation Corridor. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,256,244 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
In support of the design and consolidation of a 210,000-hectare conservation corridor to mitigate the environmental impact of the Inter-Oceanic Highway. This conservation corridor will protect the largest area of continuous forest in the southwestern Amazon from exploitative deforestation, cattle ranching, artisanal gold-mining, and slash-and-burn farming. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,487,510 | May 2005 |
Purpose
Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) is using this grant to protect 200,000 acres of cloud forest in the Peruvian Andes. Conservation concessions provide a unique opportunity in Peru to safeguard large tracts of state-owned land with high biodiversity value, complementing national protected area systems. ACA was awarded the world's first conservation concession in the Los Amigos watershed. This second concession, the first in the tropical Andes, covers lower and upper montane rain forests outside Manu National Park. Outcomes include creation and establishment of management for the cloud forest concession, enhancement of conservation capacity in the Madre de Dios Basin through four sites covering approximately 1.5 million hectares, and increased grantee capacity.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,800,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Amazon Conservation Association’s efforts to create the world's first conservation concession and a research center in the Los Amigos watershed of southeastern Perú. Outcomes include implementation of the 1.6 million-hectare conservation concession, protecting of 340,000 acres of old-growth Amazonian forest; creation of a world-class center for tropical ecosystems and resource management; construction of a wilderness ecological research station; creation of an integrated Amazon conservation science program; training of Amazonian conservationists and biologists; publication of materials for training, education, science, and decision-making; and development of a model 25,000-acre Brazil nut concession based on modern management techniques. | | Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil
Implementation Capacity for Brazil’s Policy on Territorial Environmental Management | $1,907,199 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,907,199 | Oct. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of the design, development and implementation of a permanent training program for government agency staff and indigenous leaders in the skills and approaches necessary to implement Brazil’s Policy on Environmental and Territorial Management on Indigenous Lands. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $278,406 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the convening and facilitation of a Pan-Amazonian seminar that will bring together civil society organizations, indigenous mapping technicians, and government policy-makers to present, discuss, and systematize their methodologies of participatory mapping and zoning of indigenous territories in the Amazon Basin. This seminar will develop a methodological synthesis of these varied experiences, disseminate the results in printed and electronic form and contribute to policy formulation regarding forest management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 51 mo. | $2,423,070 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To enable effective co-management of protected areas in the BR-319 Frontier Zone by creating local associations and management councils and training their members, and by restructuring two local environmental non-governmental organizations. Instituto Internacional de Educa??o do Brasil will also secure its own financial stability through the development and implementation of a fund-raising strategy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $170,259 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant provides supplemental funding to complete the activities of current Grant #532 to the Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB), addressing the discrepancy between the original budget in local currency and the amount received in US Dollars due to exchange rate fluctuations. Funding will cover the costs of committed undergraduate and technical school small grants for research and study, and three professionalizing courses in the areas of Environmental Law, Economic Tools for Conservation, and Communication and the Environment. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $3,496,000 | Dec. 2004 |
Purpose
Instituto Internacional de Educacao do Brasil is using this grant to improve planning, implementation, and management of on-the-ground conservation throughout Amazonia. Outcomes include publication of 54 theses and three books on the Andes-Amazon, 54 scholarships to Brazilian students (39 MS, 15 PhD) for domestic and international programs, 125 grants to undergraduates for fieldwork and technical training toward their BS degrees, and 60 professional development grants enabling 425 professionals to participate in courses on Environmental Law, Communications and Environment, and Economic Tools for Conservation. | | Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia
Improved system-level management of Colombia’s protected areas | $901,125 | Oct. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $901,125 | Oct. 2012 |
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In support of an integrated information system for improving system-level management of Colombia’s protected areas, particularly in the Amazon region. | | Trust for Conservation Innovation
Consolidation of Alto Purus landscape in Peru | $600,000 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $600,000 | Sep. 2012 |
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Purpose
To ensure the long-term conservation of Peru’s Alto Purús landscape composed of a 4 million hectare network of core protected areas and indigenous territories. | | Instituto Socioambiental
Socioenvironmental resilience of Brazilian protected areas | $2,110,122 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,110,122 | Sep. 2012 |
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In support of the improvement and continued maintenance of a protected area and indigenous land monitoring system, the refinement of a protected area effectiveness assessment system, and consolidation of resource management plans on upper and middle Rio Negro indigenous lands. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $698,193 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of introducing user-friendly, interactive features into the web-based monitoring system for protected areas to enable customized reporting to address specific demands that arise regarding protected areas. Resource management techniques will be codified through the development of curricular materials to be used in training a new generation of indigenous land managers for application across 8.5 million hectares of Indigenous Lands in the Upper Negro River Basin. A redesigned planning process for the territorial ordering and land management of the Middle Negro River Basin will be completed, with supporting documents and maps published. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $96,874 | Dec. 2009 |
Purpose
To produce an updated and broad-based socioenvironmental assessment that will serve as the baseline for rational land use planning and the development of public policies related to sustainable development in Roraima State, Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $4,390,438 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
In support of the further development and implementation of Integrated Resource Management and Productive Activity plans for 8.5 million hectares of Indigenous Lands in the Upper Negro River, and the creation and placement under effective management an additional two million hectare mosaic of Protected Areas and Indigenous Lands in the Middle Negro River. Instituto Socioambiental will also coordinate the design and promote the implementation of science- and consensus-based monitoring standards to effectively manage and mitigate threats to Protected Areas and Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $207,960 | Aug. 2005 |
Purpose
Instituto Socioambiental is using this grant to strengthen stewardship of the biodiversity and natural resources in the Amazon’s Rio Negro Basin. The Rio Negro is the largest drainage system on the planet, contributing 40% of the water in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include maintenance of an up-to-date database (with internet-accessible maps) of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $2,852,000 | May 2004 |
Purpose This grant helps Instituto Socioambiental strengthen stewardship of the biodiversity and natural resources in the Amazon’s Rio Negro Basin—the largest drainage system on the planet, contributing 40% of the water in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include undertaking studies that support Brazilian government agencies in expanding the protected areas system, improvement of management in indigenous territories (10.6 million hectares) in the Upper Rio Negro Basin, and design of a 23-million-hectare northern Amazon ecological corridor. | | Instituto del Bien Comun
Consolidation of Putumayo-Amazonas Indigenous Landscape in Loreto, Peru | $1,795,000 | Sep. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,795,000 | Sep. 2012 |
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To consolidate the protected areas and indigenous lands within the 3.28 million hectare Putumayo-Amazonas Indigenous Landscape by working with local communities and government authorities on natural resource, forestry, and fisheries management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $707,260 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
To secure gains achieved through grants for the Ampiyacu-Algod?n Conservation Program in the Department of Loreto and the Pachitea Watershed Conservation Program in the Departments of Pasco and Hu?nuco, including the implementation of the Oxapampa Biosphere Reserve, and updating and upgrading the Geo-referenced Mapping System of Indigenous Communities and the Peruvian Amazonian Electronic Library, to enable more widespread dissemination. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,490,621 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
For continued assistance to indigenous peoples to play a more active role in conservation efforts, the expansion and sustainable use of their territories, and the creation of new protected and sustainable use areas in Peru. In addition, Instituto del Bien Com?n will work with highland communities to protect headwater cloud forest ecosystems, create a water quality monitoring and modeling system, and develop the Biosphere Reserve as a framework for conservation and management at the landscape level, and develop greater managerial and fund-raising capacity for financial sustainability in all of these efforts. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,615,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
With this grant, Instituto del Bien Comun is using science-based research and geographic information system (GIS) mapping software to create improved management tools for the large natural landscapes of Peru. Outcomes include increased organizational capacity, a geo-referenced GIS-based cadastral map of Peru’s indigenous communities, assessment and management for the Pachitea River Basin (2.9 million hectares), and management for protection of 3.96 million acres of Amazonian rain forest in Loreto Department, Peru. | | Nature and Culture International
Conservation and Sustainable Management of Biodiversity in Loreto, Peru | $2,477,594 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $2,477,594 | Aug. 2012 |
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To consolidate the regional protected areas system in Loreto, Peru (PROCREL) by integrating landscape-level management of natural resources and sustainable economic activities for local communities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $714,770 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of strengthening the regional (state) government of Loreto's Program for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of the Regional Biodiversity of Loreto's ability to conserve the extraordinary biodiversity of the lowland Amazon forests of Loreto, Peru. Conservation will be achieved through consolidating the management of 1.9 million hectares of new Regional Conservation Areas, promoting the protection of key ecological processes essential for the resilience of the Amazon ecosystems, developing community-based resource management and conservation practices, and strengthening the technical capacities of the regional government for sustainable landscape management practices.? | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,922 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to NCI aims to conserve the biodiversity of the lowland Amazon forests of Loreto, Peru's largest region, through a regional conservation program and the designation of several Regional Conservation Areas (RCAs). Beyond creating and managing RCAs, NCI will identify and manage key ecological processes essential for the health of Amazon ecosystems, and the development of related community-based resource management and conservation practices. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $342,600 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant supports the initial design phase of a project intended to create conservation areas in Loreto, Peru. This largely intact, forested region of northern Peru spans 36 million hectares. Nature and Culture International will collaborate with a consortium of organizations to assist the regional government in designing a robust and efficient system for zoning. Outcomes include a comprehensive regional system of conservation areas and identification of at least one pilot area with a minimum of 40,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,784,907 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
Nature and Culture International and its local partners are using this grant to strengthen park management and enforce park boundaries in three strategic Andean sites: Abiseo River National Park, Cordillera Colan Reserve Zone, and Alto Mayo Protected Forest. Together, these areas bolster the larger Condor-Kutuku corridor—nearly five million hectares—that runs the extent of Peru's northern Andes and Ecuador's Amazonian lowlands. Outcomes include placement of 462,000 hectares under solid conservation management. | | Field Museum
Zoning for Conservation in Loreto, Peru | $1,636,588 | Aug. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $1,636,588 | Aug. 2012 |
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To implement a rapid inventory in the Cordillera Escalera Manseriche region of Loreto, Peru, and train Amazonian scientists in the use of rapid inventories for conservation planning and zoning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 40 mo. | $1,842,210 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To secure critical conservation landscapes while engaging local residents in stewardship, and to bolster local expertise in effective rapid biological-social inventories. Funding will be used to promote the creation of new regional conservation areas and the effective management of key protected area's buffer zones in Peru (Loreto); and to host a bi-national inventory-science training course for Loreto and Pando focused on conducting biological and social inventories and integrating results into compelling recommendations for decision-makers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $10,785,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
The Field Museum is using this grant to create additional critical refuges for biodiversity in the Andes and Amazon regions, while building a base for lasting conservation throughout South America. Outcomes include the survey and evaluation of lands for potential creation of five new protected areas, implementation of management for a minimum of 1.5 million hectares, increased local conservation capacity, and deployment of science-based practical tools. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 31 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2001 |
Purpose
This grant is being used by the Field Museum to provide technical support to CIMA, a Peruvian conservation organization that is developing a comprehensive management plan for the Cordillera Azul national park in central Peru. Outcomes include implementation of park infrastructure and management, and engagement of local communication for the creation of the park and its buffer zone. | | Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
Mainstreaming innovative approaches to protected area management in Brazil | $132,500 | Jul. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $132,500 | Jul. 2012 |
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The Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas and the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservacao da Biodiversidade will identify and analyze existing experiences in innovative and non-traditional approaches to protected area funding and co-management in Brazil, and jointly propose mechanisms to refine, scale up and mainstream these experiences. | | World Wildlife Fund
Amazon Headwaters Initiative (Phase IV) | $4,272,740 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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. | | Instituto de Hidrologia, Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales
Consolidation of the National Forest and Carbon Monitoring System to Support Environmental Policy and Management in Colombia (Phase II) | $2,090,650 | May 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 20 mo. | $2,090,650 | May 2012 |
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To support consolidation of the National Forest and Carbon Monitoring System to generate timely and reliable information for policy decisions at the national and sub-national level. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,041,854 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To enable the deployment of technical and operational ability to design, baseline, monitor and support projects for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation at the national and sub-national level in Colombia. | | Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade
Completing ARPA | $306,404 | Mar. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $306,404 | Mar. 2012 |
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Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade will design the governance structure of proposed Protected Area Compensation Funds for the states of Amazonas and Rondonia, Brazil, and will estimate the potential contribution of federal and state environmental compensation monies to the cost of implementing and managing in perpetuity all protected areas in the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $951,413 | Sep. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of a highly leveraged initiative of the Latin American and Caribbean network of conservation trust funds in their development of innovative, market-based, financial solutions for conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $109,753 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
To support the Conservation Finance Alliance Secretariat and a targeted study in partnership with PriceWaterhouseCoopers - London on the current and potential role of civil society organizations in the evolving forest carbon supply chain and market development. Specific attention will be placed on the role that conservation trust funds can play as fiduciary managers of carbon financing by effectively, efficiently, and transparently managing financial flows to appropriate beneficiary groups. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $618,534 | Feb. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (FUNBIO) will enable Red de Fondos Ambientales de LatinoAmerica y el Caribe (RedLAC) to develop, test and implement a monitoring system to track information about public and private conservation investments in the Andes Amazon region. This open database will enable the National Environmental Funds, donors, implementing agencies, governments, NGOs, and the environment community, to identify the gaps and quantify the needs to work towards a better allocation of conservation investments into the region. | | Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo
Analysis of Peru's Energy and Transportation Policies for Amazonia | $101,700 | Mar. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $101,700 | Mar. 2012 |
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For a study of the evolution of Peru’s transportation and energy policies for its Amazon region over the past 50 years, the current situation in light of the recent Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement, and the construction of new infrastructure projects by the Peruvian administration. | | World Wildlife Fund
Completing ARPA | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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. | | Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Amazonas
Forest Governance in Amazonas State, Brazil—Enabling Conditions | $206,851 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $206,851 | Nov. 2011 |
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To support a forest transparency program in partnership with the government of the state of Amazonas, and to increase civil society participation in the definition and protection of forest-based environmental services. | | Equipe de Conservação da Amazônia
Biodiversity Monitoring and Management on Indigenous Lands—Northern Pará | $2,366,755 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,366,755 | Nov. 2011 |
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In partnership with state and federal government agencies, Equipe da Conservação da Amazônia and its collaborators will develop participatory, science-based biodiversity management and monitoring plans for 4.4 million hectares of indigenous lands in the Calha Norte conservation corridor. | | Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia
Reduced vulnerability of Brazilian Protected Areas | $2,159,305 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,159,305 | Nov. 2011 |
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Through this grant Imazon will monitor, analyze, and disseminate information regarding deforestation and forest degradation in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon, improve protected area management in the Calha Norte conservation corridor, and support the development of sustainable finance and monitoring mechanisms for Pará state protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $424,511 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of Imazon to (i) assess, monitor and enhance the effectiveness, impact and durability of current policy instruments (Termos de Ajustamento de Conduta - TACs) related to sustainable sourcing of beef, and to (ii) design and promote ways of streamlining environmental licensing in the Pará state in order to reduce environmental compliance costs to ranchers and the state government. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $1,193,098 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To establish deforestation-free cattle production in Para and Mato Grosso, monitor the impacts of cattle sector policies to enable adaptive management of state and federal level processes, enhance monitoring and enforcement of deforestation in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, and secure gains in the Calha Norte Protected areas mosaic. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,373,492 | May 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to contribute to the consolidation of 7.4 million hectares of state forests in the state of Para, Brazil, which were created in December 2006 with support from AAI. And to monitor deforestation within 212 million hectares of protected areas, including indigenous lands, in the Brazilian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,190,000 | Jun. 2004 |
Purpose
Bolstered by the National Forest Program and with support from this grant, Imazon is working to create and manage sustainable forestry areas in Brazil. Outcomes include increased financial and administrative capacity, implementation of a forest sector monitoring system, increased transparency and capacity for enforcement, and a map of priority areas for national forest creation (four million hectares) and dissemination of information to decision-makers and stakeholders. | | Fundacion Fondo de Apoyo a la Biodiversidad y las Areas Protegidas de Colombia
Securing the Protected Areas System in the Colombian Amazon | $2,113,125 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,113,125 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will contribute to consolidating the National Park System and creating innovative management models in four national parks and their buffer zones in the Colombian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $764,601 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the expansion of the Serran?a de Chiribiquete National Natural Park and ecological/economic zoning of its buffer zones in the Colombian Amazon. This grant will also develop the conceptual framework and implementation model for an emerging strategy for governance, conservation, and sustainable use for the Colombian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,309,000 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to La Fundacion Fondo de Apoyo a la Biodiversidad y las Areas Protegidas de Colombia (FUNBAP) supports the creation of three new strict protected areas in the tropical montane rain forests of the Eastern Andes of Colombia, totaling 220,000 hectares, and the consolidation of 1,842,951 hectares of existing strict protected areas. | | H. John Heinz III Center for Science Economics and the Environment
Securing Conservation Gains: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project of Manaus | $499,657 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $499,657 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will provide core support for the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Manaus for two years while developing a sustainable finance framework. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $304,578 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For a comprehensive terrestrial carbon accounting solution being negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and related fora. The work aims to build consensus around an approach to terrestrial carbon and will explore how best to include agriculture, forestry and other land uses in an international climate solution. The project seeks to garner broad support and consensus around the design of a comprehensive terrestrial carbon approach to ensure international negotiations advance in a coordinated manner and prepare countries to achieve meaningful and robust global emissions reductions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,505,684 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
To create a viable and broadly-agreed-upon approach to forest accounting that could be used for the inclusion of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The design of a comprehensive terrestrial carbon approach will help to ensure that nations with very different amounts of remaining forest and deforestation rates could all receive compensation for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation, and forest degradation as well as other land-use changes. | | Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental
Consolidating regional protected areas systems in the Peruvian Amazon to contribute to local conservation governance, land-use planning, and conservation regulatory frameworks. | $1,521,858 | Nov. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $1,521,858 | Nov. 2011 |
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This grant will consolidate and secure the gains obtained to date on private lands conservation, while expanding the creation of sub-national protected areas using their already proven conservation tools for regional protected areas systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $251,248 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To establish the institutional conditions to implement a national level environmental licensing framework for large-scale development projects. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $471,949 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of adapting conservation strategies in the Peruvian Amazon to the emerging issues of governance, decentralization, and climate change adaptation. Results will include decentralized schemes for public management and regulatory frameworks for regional conservation, consolidated at various levels of governance in Peru (including the regional governments of Loreto, Madre de Dios and San Mart?n); a completed process of protected area creation (80,000 ha) in the Peruvian Amazon; and the development and implementation of effective management tools for regional and private conservation areas and for non-timber concessions in the Peruvian Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,117,098 | Aug. 2007 |
Purpose
The Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA) will use this second phase grant to disseminate, refine, and help implement in the Peruvian Amazon the legal framework for private biodiversity conservation areas and concessions it successfully developed during a first phase of funding (Grant #436). By providing direct legal technical assistance to federal (INRENA) and regional (PROCREL) protected area management agencies and to private landowners, SPDA will ensure that regulatory frameworks are applied at all government levels, that at least 250,000 ha of new protected areas under legal private conservation instruments and concessions are established in the Peruvian Amazon, and that management of new and existing private conservation areas is appropriately monitored and implemented. At the end of this grant, public and private actors will be effectively applying legal and economic instruments for private and public conservation in the Peruvian Amazon, and SPDA will have the capacity to analyze and improve the legal situation of private conservation mechanism elsewhere in the Andes-Amazon region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $798,000 | Apr. 2004 |
Purpose
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental is using this grant to increase the implementation of private conservation areas in the Peruvian Andes. Private conservation can protect key areas and complement the national protected area system. Outcomes include establishment and consolidation of a regulatory framework for private conservation mechanisms, declaration of (under contract) 300,000 to 500,000 hectares of Amazonian conservation areas, and increased public and private sector conservation capacity. | | Centro de Conservacion, Investigacion y Manejo de Areas Naturales
Securing conservation gains and long-term sustainability for Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul in Peru | $870,000 | Oct. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $870,000 | Oct. 2011 |
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This one-year extension grant will allow CIMA to implement critical management actions to maintain zero deforestation inside Cordillera Azul National Park and stabilize land use in the park’s buffer zone, while completing its strategy—and implementing an innovative Reduced Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation pilot project—to secure financial sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $567,175 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To maintain the zero deforestation zone in Cordillera Azul and the stabilization of land use in the park's buffer zone, while securing financial sustainability for the national park. The grant also supports the development of a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) Project and its integration within the national and regional REDD contexts and ensures a systematic dissemination of lessons. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,800,000 | Jul. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant will enable CIMA (Centro de Conservación, Investigación, y Manejo de Áreas Naturales, Lima, Peru) to secure the consolidation of Cordillera Azul National Park over a three year period, guarantee its effective management and protection over a 20 year period, and establish its financial sustainability in perpetuity, thus ensuring the permanent effective conservation of 1.345 million hectares of montane and lowland closed canopy forest and of the headwaters of the Ucayali and Huallaga Rivers. | | Conservation Strategy Fund
Improving conservation economics tools to address Amazonian infrastructure projects | $1,118,849 | Oct. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,118,849 | Oct. 2011 |
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This grant will support the refinement of conservation economics tools, the training of policy-formulators regarding their use, and their subsequent deployment in the analysis of major infrastructure projects in the Amazon Headwaters region in an effort to promote an effective conservation agenda for the region. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $671,662 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For activities to develop a rational approach to conservation and socioeconomic development in strategic geographies of the Amazon Basin. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,518,850 | Jun. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) will contribute to an integrated consortia effort to develop a rational approach to conservation and socioeconomic development in two strategic geographies with in the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this includes the corridor of the BR-319 federal highway paving project that extends from Porto Velho to Manaus, and the Transoceanic Highway, or MAP region, where Brazil, Bolivia and Peru all share borders. The project will focus on land-use policy and the mitigation of infrastructure projects proposed in these regions, and is strategically integrated into the five-year, $65 million USAID-funded Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $80,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
In continued support to complete outputs for economic and policy analysis of protected areas and infrastructure development in sensitive areas of the Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $730,000 | Jan. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant is being used to complete economic and policy analyses and provide conservation economics training to organizations working within the Amazon Basin. Outcomes for this grant include reduction of the impacts of major energy and transportation projects and improvement of management in the Mamiraua sustainable development reserve. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $120,000 | Sep. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the Conservation Strategy Fund supported the Economic Tools for Ecosystem Conservation course, which teaches First Nation and ENGO participants to use economics strategies in their conservation efforts. | | Gaia Amazonas Foundation
Co-management of the Yaigoje Apaporis National Park and Indigenous Reserve | $325,360 | Oct. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $325,360 | Oct. 2011 |
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This grant will increase the effectiveness of the management of the Yaigoje Apaporis National Park and Indigenous Reserve through the creation of a community-based research program and the establishment of community and regional-level land-use agreements. These, in turn, will serve as the basis for negotiating a new and innovative type of co-management regime recently established by the Colombian Parks Service. | | Amazon Conservation Team
Suriname Indigenous Land Management | $396,885 | Oct. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $396,885 | Oct. 2011 |
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Purpose
To provide technical support to the Surinamese Government’s ongoing process of land use zoning and demarcation, and to support the establishment of a park guard force in Amapá and Pará States, Brazil | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 39 mo. | $2,278,865 | Jun. 2008 |
Purpose
To support the Surinamese Government to implement land rights and demarcate indigenous lands, enabling conditions for Protected Area and Indigenous Territory creation over 4.49 million hectares. The project will also implement components of effective management for 9 million hectares in Suriname and Brazil by training indigenous and non-indigenous park guards, establishing a permanent park guard training center in Amap?, and developing management and sustainable finance plans for the 4.2 million ha Tumucumaque Indigenous Reserve. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,538,000 | Oct. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant helps the Amazon Conservation Team address the most pressing threats to Trio lands in both Suriname and Brazil, as well as building the Tirio's capacity to patrol and manage their cross-border territory. Outcomes include establishment of a 1.5 million-hectare officially recognized Tirio indigenous reserve in Suriname, mitigation of the threat of Alcoa Dam for Tirio lands in Suriname, training of Tirio to map and patrol 4.94 million hectares of indigenous lands in Suriname and 4.26 million hectares in Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $837,000 | Aug. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the Amazon Conservation Team supports the completion of parallel conservation and management plans for the Tumucumaque region on both sides of the Brazil-Suriname border. Outcomes include planning and implementation of Tirio lands conservation, formulation of indigenous lands tenure security plan/threat analysis, creation and implementation of conservation management and establishment of guard posts to protect the Brazil–Tirio Lands interface, creation of a regional conservation database for coordinating Tumucumaque indigenous park managers, and increased conservation capacity among indigenous organizations.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $407,100 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Amazon Conservation Team used this grant to map the Tumucumaque region of Brazil and Suriname. This mapping project is designed to conserve biodiversity as well as indigenous cultures. | | Center for International Environmental Law
Building a strategic impact assessment information baseline and policy framework for Loreto, Peru | $1,500,000 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $1,500,000 | Sep. 2011 |
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This grant will provide support for a new Forum for Sustainable Development for the Department of Loreto, Peru, a participatory clearinghouse for baseline data on social and environmental impacts of economic development projects, and a venue for increasing capacity of regional government agencies, civil society organizations, and local communities as prior and necessary inputs for the adoption and implementation of a policy framework for Strategic Social and Environmental Impact Assessments for Loreto. | | Wildlife Conservation Society
An integrated river basin management approach for the proposed Inambari Dam in Peru | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,745,495 | Sep. 2011 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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. | | Fundação Djalma Batista
Consolidation of Amazonas State Protected Area System | $1,331,534 | Aug. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $1,331,534 | Aug. 2011 |
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This grant will support the implementation and sustainable finance of state-level protected areas in Amazonas, Brazil, and the independent evaluation and validation of the ProBuc Community Based Protected Area and Biodiversity Monitoring System | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 32 mo. | $3,126,632 | May 2008 |
Purpose
For a partnership with the State of Amazonas Environment and Sustainable Development Agency, to increase and improve the State's existing protected area system, and increase the capacity to carry out such a program. This grant will: support creation of at least 10 new protected areas, totaling no less than 1.2 million hectares (five of them within a frontier zone); effective management of 10 new and 5 existing protected areas amounting to 10.6 million hectares; and develop sustainable policies and test their effectiveness in order to support the Amazonas State protected area system. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,060,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Fundacao Djalma Batista, in partnership with the State of Amazonas' Environment and Sustainable Development Agency, is using this grant to increase and improve the protected-area system in Amazonas, Brazil. Amazonas, in northwestern Brazil, is comparable in size to Western Europe and presents a significant opportunity to design and implement large-scale conservation networks in the Brazilian Amazon. Outcomes include increased technical and administrative capacity, creation of six new protected areas (up to six million hectares), and implementation and effective management of new and existing Amazonas protected areas (12 areas totaling 1.2 million hectares).
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Protected area monitoring and effective management in Amazon Landscapes | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,275,395 | Jul. 2011 |
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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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 |
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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. | | Virginia Tech, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Economic incentives for sustainable cattle and timber production | $591,863 | Jul. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $591,863 | Jul. 2011 |
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This grant to Virginia Tech will support efficiency and transparency in timber production by communities in Tapajos National Forest, Pará, Brazil, and the establishment of an agricultural cooperative that will provide incentives for best practices in cattle and agricultural production in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon. | | American Bird Conservancy
Sustaining Biodiversity in Key Protected Areas in the Andes | $209,872 | Jun. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $209,872 | Jun. 2011 |
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To support a third and final phase work initiated in 2004 to establish conservation mosaics by improving protection of six key existing protected areas in the endangered Andes-Amazon slope forests, establishing a new reserve at Misque River in Bolivia, and ensuring long-term funding for conservation of these areas through birding tourism and an innovative model of mosaic-level economic benefits for both local communities and conservation areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,589,046 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
To establish conservation mosaics by improving protection of six key existing protected areas in the endangered Andes-Amazon slope forests, establishing a new reserve at Misque River in Bolivia, and ensuring long-term funding for conservation of these areas through birding tourism and an innovative model of mosaic-level economic benefits for both local communities and conservation areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,371,800 | Jul. 2004 |
Purpose
With this grant, the American Bird Conservancy is creating a conservation corridor by changing a series of "paper parks" (legally designated parks with little to no infrastructure) to a carefully managed region devoted to sustaining biodiversity. Outcomes include the addition of 1,100 hectares to and improvement of management for the Tapichalaca reserve in southern Ecuador, creation of a 300,000-hectare conservation corridor from the Alto Mayo protected area to the Maranon River Valley in northern Peru, and identification and implementation of polylepsis sites—a critical Andean cloud forest habitat. | | Fundacao Vitoria Amazonica
Protected Area Governance in the Lower Rio Negro | $1,664,385 | Jun. 2011 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,664,385 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to Fundacao Vitoria Amazonica consolidates the basic effective management of 4 protected areas in the lower Rio Negro Basin and pilots mechanisms for adaptive management of both state and federal protected areas in a protected areas mosaic. It refreames management plans as effective governance instruments that link communities to protected area agencies through empowered protected area councils and managers. The grant transitions a high capacity socioenvironmental grantee from work on the consoliation of individual protected areas to work on the analysis and elimination of significant barriers to the integration of activities in individual PAs with system-wide adaptive management and decision making. | |