AFRICA
Congo Basin
Training for Women in Conservation
Support women working in conservation to attend training courses and workshops.
World Wildlife Fund: $75,000
Republic of Congo
Ecosystem Management of the Periphery of Nouabale-Ndoki National Park
Protection of elephant and large mammal populations from poaching and illegal trade through increased patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of an informer network, and outreach to local communities.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $148,870
East Africa
Climate Change Assessment
Assessment of impacts of climate change on regional biodiversity, landscape ecology, and human livelihoods.
African Conservation Centre: $129,518
Missouri Botanical Garden: $76,750
Kenya & Tanzania
Amboseli Research and Conservation Program
Ecological research and conservation programs within the larger Amboseli National Park ecosystem with an emphasis on the effects of drought on wildlife and livestock.
African Conservation Centre: $140,000
Transborder Elephant Conservation
Identification and protection of elephant migration corridors connecting protected areas and community reserves in the transborder region, and mitigation of human conflict associated with elephant movement between protected habitat sites.
African Conservation Centre: $60,000
Madagascar
New Protected Area Program
Community-based program to protect and restore forest fragments supporting endangered endemic plant species, including designation as new protected areas and development of local management capacity.
Missouri Botanical Garden: $47,250
Madagascar Fish Eagle Conservation Project
Technical support for community-based management of fisheries and wetland resources, and for protection and monitoring of the breeding populations of Madagascar fish eagles in Western Madagascar.
The Peregrine Fund: $37,500
Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve
Interdisciplinary ecological, socioeconomic, and agricultural research in collaboration with local community associations to facilitate protection of the reserve and improve the welfare of adjacent communities.
Tany Meva Foundation/University of Antananarivo School of Agronomy: $38,100
ASIA - Saving the Tiger
Cambodia
Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area
Increased law enforcement and related training and outreach, negotiation of community resource-use agreements, and political advocacy to secure permanent protection of the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area and restoration of its tiger population.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $50,880
China
Amur Tiger Program
Increased law enforcement and related training, community outreach, tiger and prey species surveys and monitoring, and cross-border GPS-based tracking in collaboration with the WCS Russian Far East tiger program.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $89,850
Conservation of India's Tigers
Core support for tiger program staff, field research and monitoring activities in the Malenad-Mysore Lanscape in Karnataka State.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $51,000
Protection of India's Tigers
Control of poaching and illegal trade in tigers and tiger prey in Karnataka, Maharrashtra and Tamil Nadu States through increased law enforcement and patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of a network of informants, and monitoring of tiger and prey populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $475,000
Protection of India's Tigers
Control of poaching and illegal trade in tigers and tiger prey in Uttar Pradesh, Asom and Arunachal States through increased law enforcement and patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of a network of informants, and monitoring of tiger and prey populations.
Wildlife Wildllife Fund: $350,000
Indonesia
Protection of Sumatra's tigers
Control of poaching and illegal trade in tigers and tiger prey species in the Leuser landscape in northern Sumatra through increased law enforcement and patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of a network of field investigators and informants, and monitoring of tiger and prey populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $272,000
Malaysia
Protection of Malaysia's Tigers
Control of poaching and illegal trade in tigers and tiger prey species in the Endau Rompin landscape in penninsular Malaysia through increased law enforcement and patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of a network of field investigators and informants, and monitoring of tiger and prey populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $257,000
Russia
Hunting Leases in the Russian Far East
Development of economically and ecologically sustainable management strategies for privately leased hunting concessions in order to facilitate conservation of the Amur tiger and its prey species.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $97,060
Thailand
Protection of Thailand's Tigers
Control of poaching and illegal trade in tigers and tiger prey species in the Western Forest Complex and Kaeng Krachan National Park through increased law enforcement and patrolling, training for enforcement personnel, development of a network of field investigators and informants, and monitoring of tiger and prey populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $472,320
ASIA - Other
India
Graduate Program in wildlife Biology
Core support for the graduate program at the Center for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $25,000
Wildlife Trade Program
Public education and awareness campaign, monitoring of wildlife markets and sales, and training and technical support for law enforcement agencies.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $97,800
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina
Patagonia Coastal Zone Management Plan
Implementation of the comprehensive coastal zone resource management plan for Patagonia, and continuation of associated ecological research and public education programs.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $150,000
Patagonia Sea and Sky Program
Development of a management regime for the Patagonian large marine ecosystem, including a legal and policy framework and corresponding monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $60,000
Monitoring Breeding Success of Burrowing Parrots
Continued focal research on the ecology and reproductive biology of the species, development of a management plan, and advocacy for designation of the colony as a National Reserve.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $25,000
Patagonia Wild Rangelands Project
Landscape-scale management planning and habitat restoration to create an integrated system of protected areas and contiguous private ranchlands necessary for long-term restoration and conservation of key wildlife populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $75,000
Brazil
Jaguars as Landscape Detectives
Ecological research and population modeling focusing on the jaguar and its prey species to facilitate landscape-scale conservation planning linking fragmented Atlantic Forest habitat.
Wildlife Trust/Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas: $82,810
Jaguar Conservation Program
Assessment of the distribution, status, and structure of jaguar populations in Columbia, Suriname and French Guiana, and a small grants program to support jaguar research..
Panthera Corporation: $75,000
Jaguar Conservation Program
Assessment of the distribution, status, and conservation needs of extant jaguar populations in the Selva Maya and the Corazón del Corredor regions of Mesoamerica, and development of conservations strategies to ensure connectivity between populations.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $156.000
Other
General Support
Support for reproductive health programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
International Planned Parenthood Federation: $25,000
George Schaller Fellowship
Graduate fellowships for international students in the Resilience and Adaptation Graduate Program at the University of Alaska Institute of Arctic Biology.
University of Alaska - Fairbanks: $37,500
UNITED STATES — INTERIOR WEST
Wildlife Conservation
Northern Rockies Carnivore Conservation Program — Montana
Mitigation of conflict between grizzly bears, wolves, and people, reintroduction of the swift fox on the Blackfeet and Northern Cheyenne Reservations, and assessment of the wolverine population in Glacier National Park.
Defenders of Wildlife: $50,000
Community-based Ecological Monitoring — Montana
Implementation of long-term, community-based monitoring of carnivore populations in the Swan Valley and identification of wildlife corridors connecting the Mission and Bob Marshall Wilderness ecosystems.
Northwest Connections: $15,000
Golden Eagle Project — Montana
Monitoring of the fall migration, including banding, telemetry, and analysis of blood pathogens, ectoparasite and heavy metal levels.
Raptor View Research Institute: $10,000
Transboundary Grizzly Bear Project — Montana & Alberta, Canada
Assessment of grizzly habitat-use and ranging patterns to identify habitat corridors between the South Purcell, South Selkirk and Cabinet/Yaak Ecosystems.
University of Montana/US Fish & Wildlife Service: $22,000
Conserving Migratory Wildlife — Arctic Alaska
Field surveys and focal research to identify ecologically critical areas for shorebirds and assess potential impacts of oil development and climate change.
Wildlife Conservation Society: $75,000
Yaak Headwaters Restoration Project — Yaak Valley, Montana
Road and culvert removal and restoration of aquatic habitat to facilitate conservation of native redband rainbow and the westslope cutthroat trout in the upper Yaak River drainage.
Yaak Valley Forest Council: $17,600
Land and Resource Management
General Support — Montana
Production of Home Ground Radio, a weekly radio interview program addressing social, cultural, economic, and land-use issues in the West, and on-the-ground support for community-based conservation and land-management efforts in selected agricultural watersheds.
Artemis Common Ground: $39,000
General Support — Montana
Protection of private land conservation values in western Montana through conservation easements and public acquisitions.
Five Valleys Land Trust: $25,000
UNITED STATES — INTERIOR WEST (continued)
General Support — Montana
Building private and public sector support for private land conservation and securing supporting legislation and policies.
Montana Association of Land Trusts: $10,000
General Support — Montana
Protection of private land conservation values in critical watersheds and wildlife corridors through conservation easements.
Montana Land Reliance: $25,000
General Support — Interior West
Support for collaborative community-based efforts to conserve and restore important natural landscapes in order to ensure economic vitality and ecological health.
Sonoran Institute: $25,000
General Support — Swan Valley, Montana
Community outreach to engage local residents in land and resource management planning and decision-making.
Swan Ecosystem Center: $22,000
Blackfoot Community Project — Blackfoot River Watershed, Montana
Completion of disposition and protection of Plum Creek Timber lands and creation of the Blackfoot Community Restoration Area.
The Nature Conservancy of Montana: $50,000
Advocacy
General Support — Clark Fork/Pend Oreille Basin, Montana
Oversight of Superfund programs to ensure restoration and protection of water quality and fisheries, and create a model for interdependent ecological restoration, economic redevelopment and cultural revitalization in the upper Clark Fork River watershed.
Clark Fork Coalition: $20,000
General Support — Lolo and Clearwater National Forests, Montana
Statewide advocacy and coalition building addressing protection of wilderness areas in the northern Bitterroot Mountains.
Great Burn Study Group: $28,500
Roadless Area Conservation — Region-wide
Support for Dale Harris' continuing role as co-chair of the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee.
Great Burn Study Group: $19,500
Forest and Travel Plan Campaign — Montana
Statewide advocacy and coalition building to ensure protection for Wilderness Study Areas and roadless lands is included in National Forest plan revisions and travel plans, and in resource management plan revisions for BLM lands.
Montana Wilderness Association: $65,000
General Support — Montana
Statewide advocacy and grassroots organizing focusing on protection of water quality and the regulation of mining and oil and gas development.
Northern Plains Resource Council: $15,000
Collaboration Models — Interior West
Policy analysis, technical support, advocacy, and public outreach in support of four model collaborative resource management initiatives.
The Wilderness Society: $50,000
General Support — Yaak Valley, Montana
Management planning, advocacy, and public education to secure permanent protection for remaining roadless areas in the Yaak Valley and to encourage economic development based on ecological restoration and production of value-added forest products.
Yaak Valley Forest Council: $25,000
Education
Headwaters News — Interior West
Collation and web-based dissemination of news reports and editorial commentary concerning issues and events affecting the Interior West.
Center for the Rocky Mountain West: $5,000
Red Lodge Clearinghouse — Interior West
Maintenance and development of the Red Lodge Clearinghouse website.
University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center: $172,800
Curriculum Enrichment — Swan Valley, Montana
Development of model rural primary school curricula including preschool, gifted & talented, music, and drama programs.
Seeley Lake Elementary School: $32,351
Curriculum Enrichment — Swan Valley, Montana
Core support for music and Spanish programs.
Swan Valley Elementary School: $16,984
General Support — Montana
Statewide radio programming.
Yellowstone Public Radio KEMC/KBMC: $15,000