(In alphabetical order)
Youth Opportunities Program ($140,000)
Youth Research and Conservation Education ($150,000 over three years)
Promoting the use of payments for ecosystem services to provide economic incentives for conservation in Latin America ($250,000 over four years)
To learn more about ecosystem markets, please visit
www.ecosystemmarketplace.com
Indigenous Women's Conference on Climate Change in Colombia ($26,000)
Building sustainable cultivation and production practices for small and medium-sized cocoa producers in Colombia to achieve Rainforest Alliance certification ($25,000)
Supporting innovative, grass-roots community-based environmental education in a Mexican biosphere reserve ($300,000 over three years)
Environmental Education in Latin America ($100,000)
The National Environmental Education Foundation:
Online Environmental Education Portal ($85,000)
Building Effective Mechanisms for Strengthening Site-based Conservation Coalitions
($365,000 over four years for five locations in Latin America)
In 2005, the Nature Conservancy published the manual for coalition building for protected area conservation.
Guide in Chinese (PDF:558KB)
Guide in English (PDF:758KB)
Guía en Español (PDF:277KB)
Guia no Portugus (PDF:443KB)
O Boticario Foundation for Nature Protection:
Supporting the Oasis Project, an innovative project that offers incentives to landowners to protect a major watershed of Sao Paulo, Brazil ($400,000 over five years)
Read More (PDF:40KB)
Funding the continuation and expansion of the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training Program, which links environmental clean-up and restoration in the community to the career development and economic needs of local people ($150,000 over three years)
Working to create a comprehensive green economic development strategy for the city of Richmond, California ($100,000 over two years)
Wildlife Conservation Society:
Restoration and conservation of a portion of the Bronx River and creation of the Mitsubishi Riverwalk ($500,000 over four years)
