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AFRICA Congo Basin Training for Women in Conservation Support women working in conservation to attend short training courses and workshops. World Wildlife Fund: $68,180 Republic of Congo Ecosystem Management of the Periphery of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park Design, implementation, and monitoring of integrated forest and wildlife management programs for timber concession and contiguous community lands surrounding the National Park. Wildlife Conservation Society: $150,000 Gabon Ivindo National Park Support for development of newly established Ivindo National Park including training of park system staff, demarcation of park boundaries, wildlife surveys, and development of basic infrastructure and tourism facilities. Wildlife Conservation Society: $90,821 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: $136,000 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: $130,000 Climate Change Assessment Assessment of impacts of climate change on regional biodiversity, landscape ecology, and human livelihoods. African Conservation Centre: $129,518 Madagascar Mahabo Forest Program Community-based program to conserve and restore the littoral forest fragment at Mahabo on the southeast coast and development of local management capacity. Missouri Botanical Garden: $56,100 Madagascar Fish Eagle Conservation Project Technical support for community-based management of fisheries and wetland resources, and for protection and monitoring of the resident population of Madagascar fish eagles at the Manambolomaty Ramsar site in Western Madagascar. The Peregrine Fund: $56,100 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: $48,500 Madagascar Country Program Focal ecological research and conservation planning and development of community-based resource management regimes targeting key threatened and endangered species in important wetland and dry forest habitats. Wildlife Trust & Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust: $85,031 ASIA Central Asia Pamir International Peace Park Workshops to establish an MOU for transboundary cooperation in management of a system of reserves dedicated to conservation of the greater Pamirs. Wildlife Conservation Society: $61,102 Cambodia Tiger Conservation Program 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 its tiger population. Wildlife Conservation Society: $57,275 India Conservation of India's Tigers Core support for tiger program staff, field research activities, and the graduate program at the Center for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore. Wildlife Conservation Society: $60,000 Myanmar Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve Development of basic management infrastructure, wildlife surveys and monitoring, and negotiation of residual land tenure and resource use rights of local communities. Wildlife Conservation Society: $52,600 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 base. Wildlife Conservation Society: $75,000 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: $85,000 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: $21,900 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: $75,600 Belize & Panama Harpy Eagle Restoration Project Captive breeding, release, research and monitoring program to reestablish the Central American population. The Peregrine Fund: $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: $94,920 Cuba Manatee Conservation Focal ecological research, technical training, management planning, and public education programs. Wildlife Trust: $25,850 Region-wide Student Education Program Training and support of young raptor biologist in conjunction with ongoing research and conservation projects. The Peregrine Fund: $50,000 Jaguar Conservation Program Assessment of the distribution, status, and conservation needs of extant jaguar populations, and development of conservations strategies to ensure connectivity between populations. Wildlife Conservation Society: $131,250 >> Next: United States — Interior West |
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