ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PATIENT CARE SCIENCE SAN FRANCISCO
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| Grantee |
Amount |
Date |
 | New Venture Fund
A Plan for Sustainable Global Fisheries | $650,000 | May 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
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Purpose
To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
Purpose
To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | | Ecotrust
Building West Coast Tribal Capacity for Marine Spatial Planning | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $309,347 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in California, Oregon, and Washington to develop capacity to gather information, coordinate, and engage in marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $71,186 | May 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports Ecotrust to partner with tribes in compiling spatial data on coastal natural resources and uses | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $599,420 | Jun. 2008 |
Purpose
To work in partnership with salmon management agencies to develop and improve data storage and access systems. Outputs from this project include publicly-accessible databases and visualization tools for salmon management and conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 30 mo. | $927,136 | May 2007 |
Purpose
This grant provides continuing support for State of the Salmon, a joint effort of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust. With this grant, State of the Salmon aims to advance salmon management by developing a set of Principles of Wild Salmon Conservation and introducing innovative techniques for managers to track biodiversity and abundance for long-term sustainability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 38 mo. | $1,592,777 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Ecotrust and its partners to work toward institutionalizing an integrated, watershed-scale approach to managing the Copper River watershed in Alaska and its valuable salmon resources. The outcome of this Grant will be to empower key local stakeholders with critical information about the Copper and its resources, and enable them to engage in better management of the region through the creation of a formalized watershed council. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $386,162 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
This renewal grant to Ecotrust provides support to the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon, a joint effort of Ecotrust and the Wild Salmon Center, is organized around four major components: Knowledge Systems, Status & Trends, Standards & Best Practices, and Consortium Development. Outcomes for this grant include web versions of the metadata inventory, 2006 Status & Trends, and Best Practices polyglot (in English, Russian & Japanese). Additional outcomes include the development and restructuring of the State of the Salmon consortium. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $620,319 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this renewal grant to expand the State of the Salmon program. With this additional investment, Ecotrust is improving access to existing information on stock status from agencies and tribal entities, expanding resources for the development of a management index/report card, and dedicating additional support to its program team. Outcomes for this grant include completion of the salmon baseline status atlas and State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $660,000 | Jul. 2003 |
Purpose
Ecotrust is using this grant to lay the groundwork for an integrated, watershed-scale management solution that will significantly enhance the protection of the Copper's critical slamon resources. Key outputs of this grant include: development of a GIS-based management strategy for habitat protection and watershed, completion of two strategically important private land acquistions, identification of key information gaps, and collaboration with stakeholders to pilot management reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,030,000 | Feb. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to Ecotrust helped launch of the State of the Salmon program. State of the Salmon consists of the following seven components: (1) Baseline State of the Salmon atlas; (2) Red List Reviews by species and stock around the North Pacific; (3) Annual Pacific Salmon Report on key selected topics; (4) Annual "Report Cards" on selected agency management and policy; (5) Triennial State of the Salmon Conference and Report; (6) Creation of international standards for population monitoring protocols and metrics; and (7) a State of the Salmon website. Outcomes for this grant include delivery of the baseline status atlas for North Pacific salmon, completion of the State of Salmon information system and website, conferences, annual reports, and salmon management report cards. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $25,000 | Apr. 2001 |
Purpose
Ecotrust used this grant to produce a watershed conservation strategy for Alaska's Copper River ecosystem. | | New Venture Fund
Financing needs assessment for New England finfish fisheries | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $250,705 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
To inform funders and interested stakeholders on needs and opportunities for New England groundfish and monkfish fisheries financing to enhance durability of sustainable management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $650,000 | May 2013 |
Purpose
To support the development of a plan and up to three prototype projects to achieve sustainable management of half the overfished fisheries, in countries where multi-lateral development banks lend, in 10 years. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $400,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
This grant supports a fund to increase field-level capacity for analysis of the economic value of well managed ocean activities. | | Henry M Paulson Jr Institute
Sustainability in China: Cities and Natural Resource Use | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $999,660 | Apr. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant will support efforts to develop and deploy a suite of sustainability measures focused on natural resource use in key Chinese cities in order to raise awareness and ultimately inform the development of national sustainability standards. | | Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment
Leopold Leadership Program | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 42 mo. | $360,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To support the Leopold Leadership Program to provide leading scientists with the tools and skills training to engage on real-world sustainability challenges. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $499,558 | Aug. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Natural Capital Project to develop, test and support the implementation of new metrics, tools, and approaches for quantifying both natural capital and human well-being, interrelating them under present conditions and alternative future scenarios. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,749,582 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the rapid advance in uptake of ecosystem service science to inform policy by creating innovative models for tradeoff analysis, setting standards, and advancing tools for major sector permitting and mitigation, water fund design, industrial agriculture, and monitoring. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $209,170 | Aug. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum’s work with Regional Fishery Management Council members and staff on the integration of fisheries and Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,596,964 | May 2011 |
Purpose
To support the completion and application of a suite of ecosystem service models to inform Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) decisions. These models are being developed as part of the Natural Capital Project using the InVest modeling framework. This grant will also complete pilot testing in British Columbia’s West Coast Vancouver Island, complete a suite of core ecosystem services models, and scope work for potential application in New England or other regional MSP process in 2012. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,364,763 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To advance the science of ecosystem services through basic research and modeling of their provision, development of tools for assessing tradeoffs, and application of those tools in land use planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,967,175 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
For the development and application of a suite of ecosystem service models, using the InVest modeling framework being developed as part of the Natural Capital project, to inform Area-Based Management decision-making in temperate marine ecosystems. The models will be developed and tested in one of the Marine Conservation Initiative's focal geographies. | | Watershed Watch
BC Salmon Habitat Protection | $640,489 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $640,489 | Mar. 2013 |
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To advance the protection of freshwater habitat, species diversity and abundance for British Columbia wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $598,815 | May 2010 |
Purpose
In support of advancing the implementation of the Pacific Wild Salmon Policy in British Columbia, as well as in applying rigorous science and monitoring to the mitigation of fish farm impacts on wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Mar. 2007 |
Purpose
The grant will build upon Sierra Club BC's previous success of developing the Wild Salmon Policy (WSP) in B.C. Watershed Watch will work to fully implement WSP within the time-frame of this grant. | | World Wildlife Fund
China Sustainable Growth Fund - Planning Phase II | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 4 mo. | $122,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
This grant will enable the newly established China Sustainable Growth Fund to deliver a sustainable growth strategy that leverages and accelerates global best practices and key partners in the effort to protect worldwide biodiversity and ecosystem services. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $1,172,069 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program and provide technical support to Brazilian protected area agencies in the refinement of management effectiveness indicators. Grant outputs include analyses of management effectiveness and contribution of protected areas to national and regional economies, communication and fundraising materials, design of fund structures, fund-raising, and coordination of a multi-stakeholder engagement process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 22 mo. | $4,272,740 | May 2012 |
Purpose
WWF and its regional partners will complete implementation of protected area management strategies, monitoring, and sustainable finance tools in eight protected areas covering approximately 10.5 million hectares in the Amazon Headwaters region of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,994,781 | May 2012 |
Purpose
In support of conservation of wild salmon and wild salmon habitat in Kamchatka, Russia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 7 mo. | $495,000 | Mar. 2012 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund-US and its partner World Wildlife Fund-Brazil will use grant funds to secure funder and government commitments in support of the financial sustainability of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Grant outputs include ecological analyses and dissemination materials. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,050,000 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the launch of the TEEB for Business effort to create a common platform that recognizes the full impact of business actions on ecosystems and biodiversity, including standardizing how to measure these impacts and engaging the public on related policy reforms. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $250,846 | Nov. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support World Wildlife Fund’s participation in the Consumer Goods Forum, an effort to achieve zero deforestation through the concerted action of a consortium of the world’s largest consumer goods companies committed to removing deforestation from their supply chains by 2020. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,523,939 | Mar. 2011 |
Purpose
For Phase III of the Amazon Headwaters Initiative aimed at protecting and effectively managing large blocks of protected areas in the southwestern headwaters of the Amazon Basin. Specifically, this grant will achieve the basic consolidation of 10 priority protected areas covering a total of 10.4 million hectares in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil; the creation of a new protected area in Brazil totaling 100,000 hectares, and the development of financial business plans for two sites in Bolivia totaling 182,000 hectares. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 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. | | Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Sportfishing conservation and stewardship | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $309,880 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's efforts to improve the conservation and management of saltwater sportfisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $600,000 | Dec. 2005 |
Purpose
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is using this grant to apply the influence of key hunting and fishing conservation organizations to improve the protection of fish and wildlife and their habitats. Outcomes for this grant include specific and measurable changes in energy development rules and procedures as outlined in a report to the National Commission on Energy Policy. | | Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
Strengthened collaboration of biodiversity conservation grantmakers | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $130,000 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To contribute to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity by enhancing effective collaboration among environmental foundations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2003 |
Purpose
The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $70,000 | Jul. 2001 |
Purpose
The Consultative Group on Biological Diversity used this grant to support general operations. | | Green Fire Productions
Distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers" | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $481,512 | Mar. 2013 |
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Purpose
To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $229,625 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
To increase the understanding of and support for coastal marine spatial planning through production and distribution of the film "Ocean Frontiers," which captures stories of successful ocean planning through the eyes of coastal communities, managers, scientists, and others. | | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Fisheries Innovation Fund | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,305,993 | Mar. 2013 |
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In support of the Fisheries Innovation Fund's grants for new tools and technologies that will improve fisheries science and management. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $1,145,000 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the transition of U.S. fisheries to catch share programs by encouraging fishermen to pursue innovative management strategies through a competitive grant award process. | | B.C. Wildlife Federation
Strengthening Protection for BC Aquatic Habitat | $524,382 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 34 mo. | $524,382 | Feb. 2013 |
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Strengthening Protection for BC Aquatic Habitat. | | Nanwakolas Council
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $113,603 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $1,162,974 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the organization's leadership participation within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative, and the development and integration of smaller-scale community and regional-level Marine Spatial Plans, which will in turn help achieve a good PNCIMA Marine Spatial Plan. | | Turning Point Initiative Society
Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 2 mo. | $192,234 | Feb. 2013 |
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Planning for Marine Spatial Plan implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $314,472 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal First Nations Stewardship Directors and the Network to achieve their resource management objectives in developing and implementing land and marine use plans and agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $576,614 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Great Bear Initiative to engage in communications and training activities in support of marine spatial planning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $216,338 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans to achieve a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability and their continued help in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $2,404,350 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
For enhancing and integrating community-level marine spatial plans in support of achieving a good Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area marine spatial plan. This grant also supports the grantee's transition to organizational and financial durability in implementing the Great Bear Rainforest agreements. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $247,727 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
The grant to the Turning Point Initiative enables Coastal First Nations to make measurable progress towards a sound marine spatial plan for the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) through an Innovative Oceans Partnership that reflects First Nations’ conservation and management vision. The grant also supports efforts to incorporate First Nations community-level marine spatial plans into the PNCIMA plan. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $3,562,658 | Sep. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to the Turning Point Initiative Society enables First Nations to define and advance the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Area-Based Management (ABM) process, building on the conservation success realized through the Great Bear Rainforest land use planning process. Over a three year period, First Nations will produce the necessary scientific and technical analyses to construct science-based individual ABM plans. First Nations will also convene communities and other stakeholders to advance ABM in the PNCIMA. | | David Suzuki Foundation
Technical analysis and strategic communications for marine spatial planning and implementation | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 |
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To develop technical analyses and strategic communications in support of marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $496,850 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To increase the regional market incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $315,430 | May 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to David Suzuki Foundation supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $339,287 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To increase the incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve salmon aquaculture and fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $132,249 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
To maintain a targeted constituency in British Columbia that is supportive of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area that includes a spatial management plan and network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $471,972 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The David Suzuki Foundation is using this grant to address the need for elevated awareness and better management of British Columbia’s marine ecosystems through reframing marine conservation issues. The outcomes of this grant include increased understanding of key stakeholders’ views on marine conservation, the state of marine ecosystems, and preferred management solutions in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Dec. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the David Suzuki Foundation supports an integrated approach to protecting wild salmon populations along the British Columbia coast. Outcomes for this grant include conversion of the Wild Salmon Policy to an ecosystem-based management regime, establishment of the Salmon Stewardship Network as an effective self-sustaining entity, as well as modeling and a report of sea lice dispersal. | | Conservation International
Metrics for Conservation and Human Well-Being | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 |
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This grant will enable Conservation International to create a metrics framework focused on the conservation of natural capital to sustain human well-being, implement this framework within the organization, and disseminate products and results to the broader community of practice in conservation, development, and other sectors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 |
Purpose
To support the implementation of approaches that incorporate natural capital into policy and decision making at various scales and address linkages between ecosystems and the economy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM)’s core and partner institutions to collect and incorporate data into modeling efforts and translate them into policy and conservation interventions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To develop a technically sound, broadly acceptable approach to estimating exploitation rates for fisheries in each country around the world, as well as an approach to estimating maximum fisheries production for each ocean area, which can serve as the global standard for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other groups. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $210,000 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports detailed business planning and demand assessment for significantly scaling up the Verde Ventures Fund as a legally-separate investment fund for financing environmentally sustainable small- and medium-sized businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To enable the processing of the United States Geological Service Landsat archive to make it publicly available in a cloud computing platform and database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $12,613,000 | Jul. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support Conservation International’s efforts in the Guiana Shield region to continue implementing a large-scale comprehensive approach to place under effective protection the largest continuous network of protected areas of Amazonia (~54 million hectares), extending across four countries (Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela) and including diverse and pristine ecosystems as well as the most endangered species of the northern Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $7,180,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Conservation International will use this grant to implement a large-scale comprehensive approach to protect remaining intact ecosystems and endangered biodiversity in the Cerrado-Pantanal biomes including zero extinction of target species and designated protected areas within and outside of the biodiversity corridors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $23,200,000 | Jan. 2006 |
Purpose This grant is in support of activities of CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science involving multidisciplinary data gathering and analysis as well as development of new analytical, monitoring and simulation tools for conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 54 mo. | $12,540,000 | Jan. 2005 |
Purpose This grant will enable CI to answer some fundamental and critical questions regarding Marine Management Areas (MMA) internationally. This funding will help CI to create a MMA Science Program within its Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and in partnership with its Marine Programs Division to research key issues and to seek solutions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $100,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) was established to finance the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world's biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, and coral reef hotspots. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $40,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant will support the operations of the first 10—of an anticipated 50—scientific field stations of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) initiative, as well as the initiative's central data management processes. These field stations, to be established in the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, will provide the first standardized set of data on biodiversity collected on the ground in key sites across tropical forest ecosystems globally. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $121,200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant is designed to expand CI's biodiversity conservation investments in four key regions: The Andes, Brazil/Guianas, Melanesia, and Madagascar. Through the Centers for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) investment, CI will increase its ability at the corridor level, within the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, to forge strategic partnerships—alliances with communities, NGOs, governments, businesses and other stakeholders—for conservation action. Through the CBCs, CI will deliver technical assistance, provide training, coordinate strategy development, and facilitate access to resources. | | World Wildlife Fund Canada
Tools and solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning Implementation | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,150,475 | Jan. 2013 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,045,066 | Aug. 2012 |
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To advance conditions and relationships that facilitates healthy oceans and the use of Marine Spatial Planning in Canada. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $378,130 | Jun. 2011 |
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This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada supports efforts to improve protection of ecological flows to address the cumulative effects of water diversion on British Columbia’s wild salmon watersheds. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $729,613 | Oct. 2010 |
Purpose
For the development of science and management tools and business and economic solutions to advance Marine Spatial Planning in support of the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,105,625 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to World Wildlife Fund Canada enhances the effectiveness of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations, industry representatives, and other influential Canadians to promote Area-Based Management (ABM) in areas like British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area. Through direct engagement, the grant also facilitates government commitment to policy, approaches (including ABM), and platforms that secure resilient and productive marine ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,656,083 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is using this grant to foster relationships with key stakeholders in the northern region of British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. WWF-Canada is also working to build the capacity for an objective marine science organization that provides a hub of marine ecosystem knowledge in British Columbia, the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA). Outcomes for this grant include regional stakeholder support and participation in the PNCIMA process, with PacMARA elevated to an independent, accessible, and multi-stakeholder science organization. | | University of Washington, Conservation Magazine
The Conservation Media Project | $200,000 | Dec. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $200,000 | Dec. 2012 |
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In support of the Conservation Media Project which aims to change the tone in science journalism from a defensive posture to one that is inspiring and solution oriented. | | University of Colorado at Boulder, School of Law
The Governors' Climate and Forest Task Force - Supporting sub-national climate and forest initiatives | $650,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $650,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant will support the Governors' Climate & Forest Task Force in the continued effort to implement sub-national forest emission reduction frameworks with a focus on state-national alignment efforts, cross-jurisdictional learning, and innovation-diffusion in the GCF member states and provinces. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $875,000 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support the Governors' Climate & Forest Task Force states and provinces to develop and implement sub-national forest emission reduction frameworks with strong linkages to emerging national and international REDD+ frameworks and explore access to multiple market and non-market funding pathways for their activities. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $476,099 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the Governor's Climate & Forest Task Force (GCF) to produce a common sub-national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) efforts Framework/Platform and assist GCF member states and provinces in implementing sub-national REDD+ efforts programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $442,933 | Apr. 2010 |
Purpose
To enabling legal experts to continue working with the Governor's Climate & Forest Task Force (GCF) to jointly develop a set of standards, criteria, and architectures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation implementation by the GCF member states and provinces. The work of the GCF will also inform and be aligned with California state and United States federal rules governing international forest carbon offsets. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $221,043 | Mar. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School (Colorado Law) will enable the planning and coordination by participating states to develop a clear plan for the implementation of MOUs between nine states and provinces from the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia on Forest and Climate Change related activities. A report on the final plans will be delivered at the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. | | Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, British Columbia Chapter
Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | $700,037 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $700,037 | Nov. 2012 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $429,482 | Nov. 2010 |
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In support of developing technical analyses for Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $112,421 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
In support of the Province's Oceans Strategy that advances marine spatial planning in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area and West Coast Vancouver Island. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $210,853 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society of British Columbia (CPAWS-BC) is using this grant to identify First Nations’ issues and other key impediments that could affect Marine Protected Area (MPA) implementation in British Columbia and the rest of Canada, which committed to a national MPA system by 2012. Key outputs for this grant include an analysis of First Nations concerns influencing an MPA network in British Columbia and an analysis of the challenges to achieving Canada’s 2012 commitment to establishing a national MPA network. | | Climate Focus
Catalyzing new subnational partnerships to reduce emissions from deforestation | $244,500 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $244,500 | Nov. 2012 |
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To develop new subnational partnerships with demand side jurisdictions in support of reducing deforestation and increasing investment in low carbon sustainable development. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $184,900 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to Climate Focus will enable additional demand for forest carbon emission reductions by creating new partnerships among sub-national entities and building on the leadership of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) while enhancing the sustainability of the overall effort. | | World Ocean Council
Engaging Ocean Industries In Ocean Policy And Planning In The U.S. | $623,625 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $623,625 | Nov. 2012 |
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The purpose of this grant is to help ensure there is informed, constructive engagement of the business community in U.S. ocean policy and planning. | | Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Integrating Ecosystem Services Assessment into Federal Natural Resources Planning and Management | $486,010 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $486,010 | Nov. 2012 |
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Support the development of a robust ecosystem services assessment and evaluation framework within US federal agency planning and management processes to improve natural resource decision making and optimize social, environmental and economic outcomes. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $3,066,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
Duke University is using this grant to develop a global perspective on the incidental catch of seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals. In collaboration with in-country scientists, national fisheries management authorities, and regional fisheries management organizations, Duke researchers will synthesize and analyze bycatch data for US and international fisheries. Outcomes for this grant include improvement of fishing and bycatch databases and analysis of world bycatch rates. | | Environmental Defense
Improving fisheries management practices | $243,750 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $243,750 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant to the Fisheries Leadership and Sustainability Forum supports their ongoing educational programs and professional training for fisheries managers. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,091,793 | Dec. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of creating a durable and efficient Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to refine and improve fishing regulations to increase flexibility and reduce costs, and to work with fishermen directly to improve their performance under the catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $602,001 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the Greater Xing? Complex Conservation Program, which will provide the conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil while improving indigenous and community associations, maintaining the integrity of park borders, and establishing markets for non-timber forest products. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 37 mo. | $2,200,000 | Nov. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of implementation of good catch shares in New England as an effective fishery management tool to restore fisheries, and, marine ecosystems and create a sustainable fishing industry. The project will include refining and strengthening the groundfish sector-based catch share program to address resource conservation and socioeconomic goals, implementing good catch shares for monkfish through an exemplary and inclusive design process, gaining the support of key regional constituencies, and ensuring the leadership, technical expertise, resources, and scientific foundation needed for durability are held by local institutions and stakeholders. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $802,552 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
To create conditions for the effective management of protected areas in the reserve mosaic of the Terra do Meio, Par?, Brazil. A consortium led by the Environmental Defense Fund, and including the Instituto Socioambiental and the Protected Forest Association, will improve indigenous and community associations, maintain the integrity of park borders, and establish markets for non-timber forest products, including carbon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $1,891,251 | Aug. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) builds on previous work to establish an individual fishing quota (IFQ) management system in the trawl sector of the Pacific groundfish fishery. In the renewal grant, EDF will work to ensure that the rules and implementing measures of the trawl sector are finalized as a model of sustainable fisheries management and will work to initiate a formal Pacific Fishery Management Council process to extend quota share management to other sectors in the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,980,192 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant supports implementation of Dedicated Access Privileges (DAPs, also known as "catch shares") in the entire groundfish fishery and in the offshore sea scallop fishery, and evaluates feasibility of implementation in a nearshore locally-managed bay scallop fishery. Through implementation in the carefully chosen portfolio of fisheries, targeted political advocacy work, and scientific knowledge around DAP performance and biological assessments, Environmental Defense will help to make DAPs the default management mechanism for New England fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $1,280,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
This grant to Environmental Defense, in partnership with Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Fundação Viver, Produzir e Proteger (FVPP), Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP), and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) aims to improve effective management of the new protected areas within the Terra do Meio Mosaic, as well as the surrounding indigenous territories of the larger Xingu Corridor. This is the continuation of a previous grant that helped create many of the protected areas targeted within this grant. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $264,754 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
In support of creating the California Fisheries Fund. The Fund will provide fishers with sustainable access to capital for the research, business planning, and implementation of new fisheries management programs to improve the conservation and financial performance of California fisheries. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $904,661 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant supports Environmental Defense to work with the Pacific Fishery Management Council and other stakeholders to transition the management of the Pacific Groundfish trawl fishery to an Individual Quota system. A key outcome is that the Pacific Groundfish Trawl Individual Quota program serves as a model dedicated access privilege (DAP) program meeting ecological, economic, and social standards.
| Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $156,110 | Oct. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant will disseminate the results of a DAP analysis that examined successes and shortcomings of DAP programs in North America and made recommendations to address ecological, economic, and social objectives in implementation. A key outcome of the grant is that stakeholders in New England and on the West Coast have a heightened sophistication and understanding of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $1,080,249 | Nov. 2005 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to assess dedicated access privilege (DAP) programs to create a credible view of the strengths, weaknesses, and practical applicability of these approaches. DAPs give individual fishermen, communities, or cooperatives a secure share of a scientifically determined sustainable level of catch, with a goal of achieving economic and ecosystem benefits. Outcomes for this grant include assessment of results of existing DAP programs in North America, analysis of business aspects from other public trust resource usage situations, and evaluation of criteria for the application of DAP programs. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,078,000 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
Environmental Defense is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon by strengthening conservation in the Greater Xingu Complex and creating new protected areas in the adjacent region. Key outcomes include creation of the 7.9-million-hectare Terra do Meio protected area and stabilization of deforestation in three indigenous reserves covering 10 million hectares. | | MRAG Americas, Inc.
The Role of Catch Shares in Performance of MSC Certification of Sustainable Fisheries | $273,300 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 14 mo. | $273,300 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant explores the linkages between catch share systems and scoring within the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 60 mo. | $2,746,666 | Dec. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant will support an evaluation of the performance of New England and Pacific groundfish catch share management systems during their first five years of implementation. | | 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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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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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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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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This grant will enable key institutions and projects in Pará state, Brazil to use cloud-free radar images to assess and monitor forest cover. | | Living Oceans Society
Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | $740,746 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 29 mo. | $740,746 | Nov. 2012 |
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Technical support for marine spatial planning and implementation | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $287,777 | Nov. 2010 |
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For developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $880,500 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments to mitigate negative impacts of open net cage salmon farming and adopt alternative technologies that eliminate the risk to wild salmon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $239,835 | Oct. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant supports the Living Oceans Society to partner with a team of scientists to conduct a series of research dives to further describe the functional role of British Columbia’s deep sea corals within the coastal-marine ecosystem. The grant will facilitate science-based interim protection efforts for deep sea corals and unite fisheries management and Area-Based Management (ABM) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $1,843,531 | May 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support efforts of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform to achieve formal commitments from the British Columbia Government and the BC aquaculture industry to halt expansion of open net cage salmon farming, mitigate negative impacts and make the transition to closed containment systems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Living Oceans Society, as part of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, will fund research on the impacts of sea lice on wild salmon and the economic viability of closed containment production technology. This research will be carried out jointly with industry leader Marine Harvest Canada, consistent with the terms of their Framework for Dialogue. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $578,098 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
Through this grant, Living Oceans Society is addressing the need for a formal, effective mechanism for stakeholder awareness and engagement in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) process. Living Oceans Society and partners are also working to understand the impacts of oil and gas exploration and development on British Columbia’s marine ecosystems. The outcomes of this Grant include a stakeholder engagement mechanism formalized in the PNCIMA process and regional stakeholder support and participation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $500,000 | Sep. 2006 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the work of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR). CAAR seeks to reform salmon aquaculture production practices in order to protect wild salmon ecosystems. In January 2006, CAAR entered into a formal "Framework for Dialogue" with farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest This grant will provide CAAR with resources to implement the Framework agreement. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,125,000 | Apr. 2005 |
Purpose
This grant to the Living Oceans Society supports the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform’s efforts to drive the adoption of more sustainable aquaculture practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $453,400 | Oct. 2003 |
Purpose
The Living Oceans Society used this grant to educate major buyers and key local stakeholders in British Columbia about issues related to salmon farming and the need to transition the industry to ecologically acceptable technology and practices. | | The Nature Conservancy
Co-Management as tool to improve performance of Pacific groundfish catch share program | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $787,500 | Nov. 2012 |
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In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, necessary policies, and practical demonstrations through co-management to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $1,344,294 | Oct. 2012 |
Purpose
To support Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) in the Northeast United States, and the timely evolution of ecosystem-based natural resource management as it relates to CMSP. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 8 mo. | $318,150 | Jun. 2012 |
Purpose
To improve catch share fishery management and to accelerate the advancement of community fishing associations and other collective fishery management institutions on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. through business models, tool kits, applications, and the sharing of lessons learned that will eventually lead to the creation of a national technical platform for catch share fisheries and fleets ("Fish Hub"). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $71,502 | Sep. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant enables The Nature Conservancy to fulfill key legal and oversight obligations for the Forever Costa Rica project, as well as provide associated technical marine support. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $317,607 | Jun. 2011 |
Purpose
To expand the scope and effectiveness of existing permit banks in New England to help mitigate unintended socioeconomic impacts of sector management, ensure a favorable regulatory environment, and develop a set of conservation and economic metrics to evaluate their impact and improve their performance over time. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $500,000 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
In support of the design and implementation of transferable tools, including collective fishing arrangements and electronic monitoring, to ensure the durability of the Pacific groundfish trawl catch share program. Funding will be used to support necessary policies and advance practical, on-the-water demonstrations that align community objectives with conservation goals within the Pacific groundfish fishery. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $698,996 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To support positioning the New England region as a federal Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) pilot, and the development of a "good" MSP framework and process for New England by directly supporting the regional planning body and process, bringing a range of tools and data to managers and planners, and connecting state MSP processes to the regional scale to ensure compatibility and learning. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $299,550 | Jun. 2010 |
Purpose
To make global-scale conservation datasets publicly available in a cloud computing platform and geospatial database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine, and will also foster long-term open data sharing mechanisms and commitments by the owner community. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 16 mo. | $600,000 | Oct. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their role in a) continued preparation of the Forever Costa Rica conservation financing deal through the end of 2009 - the anticipated closing date, and b) one year of follow-up monitoring and support to Costa Rica's protected area agency (SINAC), and the newly established trust (Forever Costa Rica Association). | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 25 mo. | $5,000,000 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the innovative conservation finance initiative called Forever Costa Rica. Through this public-private partnership effort Costa Rica will establish an ecologically representative and effectively managed system of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine protected areas, with a stable source of funding, making Costa Rica the first developing country in the world to meet its goals under the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity’s Program of Work on Protected Areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 13 mo. | $249,705 | Sep. 2009 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy will support a partnership with New England fisheries sectors to pilot permit banks, providing a model for achieving conservation goals that align with community objectives for maximum durability. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 10 mo. | $600,000 | Nov. 2008 |
Purpose
This preparation grant for the Forever Costa Rica Initiative, to the Nature Conservancy (TNC), will ensure that all conditions and requirements necessary to allow for a simultaneous close of the partners are met and that a successful conservation financing deal is launched in 2009, thus positioning Costa Rica to be the first developing country to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity goals for protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $334,000 | Mar. 2005 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to support its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. GIS are used to produce maps, conduct spatial analysis of landscapes, and manage conservation data. Outcomes include training biodiversity conservation managers in the use of GIS. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $7,994,000 | Nov. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy is using this grant to protect biodiversity in the Osa region, which harbors Costa Rica's remaining significant populations of jaguars, tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, and harpy eagles. Outcomes for this grant include stabilization and protection of 360,000 acres in Costa Rica (Piedras Blancas and Corcovado National Parks and the Osa Biological Corridor) and increased conservation capacity among local groups, NGOs, and governmental agencies. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 6 mo. | $268,714 | Sep. 2004 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to develop a fundraising campaign for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,350,000 | Feb. 2004 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports the infrastructure build-out for a scientific research station in the South Pacific. Outcomes for this grant include the establishment of a station on Palmyra Atoll to facilitate research of local, regional, and global importance. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $2,499,084 | Nov. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant will help The Nature Conservancy and its partners facilitate the creation and management of Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru. The new park will border the existing Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazil, forming a large bi-national park that protects a contiguous landscape with some of the highest levels of biodiversity found in the Amazon Basin. Outcomes include creation of the national park in Peru (3.2 million hectares) and reduction of biodiversity threats, establishment of a minimum of five indigenous reserves in the neighboring Brazilian state of Acre, and solid conservation management for the territories. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $10,000,000 | Apr. 2002 |
Purpose
This grant to The Nature Conservancy supports a Program Related Investment. Outcomes include the acquisition of Palmyra Atoll. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to support management and organizational changes behind its Conservation by Design initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $35,000 | Jun. 2001 |
Purpose
The Nature Conservancy used this grant to initiate plans for establishing a research station on Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific. | | 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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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. | | Conservation International
Incorporating natural capital into decision making: Implementing the TEEB approach and informing natural capital accounting (WAVES) | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 26 mo. | $2,000,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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To support the implementation of approaches that incorporate natural capital into policy and decision making at various scales and address linkages between ecosystems and the economy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $2,000,000 | Feb. 2013 |
Purpose
This grant will enable Conservation International to create a metrics framework focused on the conservation of natural capital to sustain human well-being, implement this framework within the organization, and disseminate products and results to the broader community of practice in conservation, development, and other sectors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $2,479,879 | Jul. 2012 |
Purpose
In support of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM)’s core and partner institutions to collect and incorporate data into modeling efforts and translate them into policy and conservation interventions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 15 mo. | $198,323 | May 2012 |
Purpose
To develop a technically sound, broadly acceptable approach to estimating exploitation rates for fisheries in each country around the world, as well as an approach to estimating maximum fisheries production for each ocean area, which can serve as the global standard for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other groups. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 9 mo. | $210,000 | Oct. 2011 |
Purpose
This grant supports detailed business planning and demand assessment for significantly scaling up the Verde Ventures Fund as a legally-separate investment fund for financing environmentally sustainable small- and medium-sized businesses that benefit healthy ecosystems. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 5 mo. | $332,785 | Jul. 2010 |
Purpose
To enable the processing of the United States Geological Service Landsat archive to make it publicly available in a cloud computing platform and database facility provided by Google's Earth Engine. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $12,613,000 | Jul. 2008 |
Purpose
This grant will support Conservation International’s efforts in the Guiana Shield region to continue implementing a large-scale comprehensive approach to place under effective protection the largest continuous network of protected areas of Amazonia (~54 million hectares), extending across four countries (Brazil, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela) and including diverse and pristine ecosystems as well as the most endangered species of the northern Amazon. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $7,180,000 | Nov. 2007 |
Purpose
Conservation International will use this grant to implement a large-scale comprehensive approach to protect remaining intact ecosystems and endangered biodiversity in the Cerrado-Pantanal biomes including zero extinction of target species and designated protected areas within and outside of the biodiversity corridors. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 48 mo. | $23,200,000 | Jan. 2006 |
Purpose This grant is in support of activities of CI's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science involving multidisciplinary data gathering and analysis as well as development of new analytical, monitoring and simulation tools for conservation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 54 mo. | $12,540,000 | Jan. 2005 |
Purpose This grant will enable CI to answer some fundamental and critical questions regarding Marine Management Areas (MMA) internationally. This funding will help CI to create a MMA Science Program within its Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and in partnership with its Marine Programs Division to research key issues and to seek solutions. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 84 mo. | $121,200,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant is designed to expand CI's biodiversity conservation investments in four key regions: The Andes, Brazil/Guianas, Melanesia, and Madagascar. Through the Centers for Biodiversity Conservation (CBC) investment, CI will increase its ability at the corridor level, within the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, to forge strategic partnerships—alliances with communities, NGOs, governments, businesses and other stakeholders—for conservation action. Through the CBCs, CI will deliver technical assistance, provide training, coordinate strategy development, and facilitate access to resources. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $40,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose This grant will support the operations of the first 10—of an anticipated 50—scientific field stations of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) initiative, as well as the initiative's central data management processes. These field stations, to be established in the hotspots and tropical wilderness areas, will provide the first standardized set of data on biodiversity collected on the ground in key sites across tropical forest ecosystems globally. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 120 mo. | $100,000,000 | Oct. 2001 |
Purpose The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) was established to finance the creation, expansion, and long-term management of protected areas in the world's biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, and coral reef hotspots. | | 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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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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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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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. | | David Suzuki Foundation
Salmon Market Standards 2 | $496,850 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $496,850 | Nov. 2012 |
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To increase the regional market incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 27 mo. | $501,102 | Feb. 2013 |
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To develop technical analyses and strategic communications in support of marine spatial planning and implementation. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 21 mo. | $315,430 | May 2011 |
Purpose
This grant to David Suzuki Foundation supports developing technical analyses in support of Marine Spatial Planning and the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) Initiative. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $339,287 | Aug. 2010 |
Purpose
To increase the incentives for industry leaders and governments to improve salmon aquaculture and fisheries management practices in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 12 mo. | $132,249 | Aug. 2009 |
Purpose
To maintain a targeted constituency in British Columbia that is supportive of a marine spatial planning process in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area that includes a spatial management plan and network of marine protected areas. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $471,972 | Nov. 2006 |
Purpose
The David Suzuki Foundation is using this grant to address the need for elevated awareness and better management of British Columbia’s marine ecosystems through reframing marine conservation issues. The outcomes of this grant include increased understanding of key stakeholders’ views on marine conservation, the state of marine ecosystems, and preferred management solutions in British Columbia. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 36 mo. | $450,000 | Dec. 2003 |
Purpose
This grant to the David Suzuki Foundation supports an integrated approach to protecting wild salmon populations along the British Columbia coast. Outcomes for this grant include conversion of the Wild Salmon Policy to an ecosystem-based management regime, establishment of the Salmon Stewardship Network as an effective self-sustaining entity, as well as modeling and a report of sea lice dispersal. | | Island Institute
Advancing New England fisheries management and ocean planning through fishermen engagement | $713,713 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $713,713 | Nov. 2012 |
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To advance New England fisheries management and regional ocean planning through supporting engagement both within local fishing communities and between fishermen and ocean planning stakeholders | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 18 mo. | $519,867 | Oct. 2010 |
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To support the Midcoast Fishermen's Association and Port Clyde Community Sector in the successful and sustainable implementation of sector-based catch share management. This will serve as a model for community-based groundfish sectors in New England, comprised primarily of small boats and mid-sized trawlers, and will also foster thought leadership on policy. | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 24 mo. | $396,328 | Apr. 2007 |
Purpose
The purpose of this grant is to support a change in fisheries regulations in New England that enables area and community-based management that rebuilds and sustains fish stocks. This grant will focus on gaining approval by the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) of an alternative to amend the Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. | | Manta Consulting
Fish 2.0 Competition | $111,000 | Nov. 2012 | | | | Term | Amount | Date Approved | | 17 mo. | $111,000 | Nov. 2012 |
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This grant is to support emerging entrepreneurs in the sustainable seafood sector through a competition called Fish 2.0. The competition will also allow all participants (including sponsors) to gain an understanding of the pipeline of innovations related to sustainable seafood. | | 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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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 |
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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 | | 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 |
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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 |
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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 consolidatio | |