2001 Grants
Conservation
Associacão Pró-Carnívoros
São Paulo, Brazil
$8385 to study the status and distribution of carnivores in Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India
$25,000 to support conservation education and research projects in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas, India.
Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales
Quito, Ecuador
$20,000 to train and support southern Ecuadorian Amazon communities seeking to stop
oil development in indigenous lands.
Counterpart International
Washington, DC
$12,200 to support the training courses of the Sierra Gorda Forest Garden Program in ten communities within the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Mexico.
Duke University Department of Biology
Chapel Hill, NC
$20,832 for a macaw conservation and management project in Southeastern Peru.
Earth Island Institute f/b/o the Borneo Project
Berkeley, CA
$15,000 to protect native land claims and develop local forest conservation and management programs with indigenous tribal peoples living in the rain forest of Sarawak, Malaysia.
Earthrights International
Washington D.C.
$20,000 to provide technical assistance to non governmental organizations in Thailand and Burma seeking alternatives to the projects of international financial institutions such as the Yadana Pipeline and the Tasang Dam.
EcoLogic Development Fund
Cambridge, MA
$11,211 to develop of community-led watershed management councils in eight communities of the Pico Bonito National Park in Honduras.
El Porvenir
Sacramento, CA
$15,997 to support reforestation programs in the municipalities of Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua and El Sauce, and Camoapa, El Salvador.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Eugene, OR
$15,000 for the Latin American Technology Circuit Rider Program designed to build the technological capacity of twenty environmental law organizations in seven countries.
Fiscalia del Medio Ambiente
Santiago, Chile
$20,000 to support education and advocacy efforts to preserve Chilean rain forests.
Friends of the Earth
Washington, DC
$10,000 to support the International Monetary Fund Reform Campaign.
Fundación Jatun Sacha
Quito, Ecuador
$4,000 for experimental reforestation programs with indigenous communities in the Jatun Sacha rain forest reserve.
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda
Queretaro, Mexico
$20,000 to test reforestation projects with small commercial plantation owners of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve.
Imazon
Ananindeua, Para Brazil
$20,000 to support the "State of the Brazilian Amazon: Indicators of Sustainability" project to develop and use sustainability indicators to redirect regional development.
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
Sao Paulo, Brazil
$20,000 for research to identify the ecological and epidemiological consequences of fragmentation on white-lipped and collared peccary populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
International Center for Tropical Ecology
St. Louis, MO
$10,000 to support students from developing countries enrolled in the Tropical Biology and Conservation Internship Program.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$30,000 to support the development of a network to address the impacts of proposed Amazon dams and industrial waterways in Brazil.
Iwokrama International Center for Rainforest Conservation and Development
Georgetown, Guyana
$15,000 for community based field surveys of Arapaima in the Esequibo and Rupununi Rivers of central Guyana.
Mineral Policy Institute
Bondi Junction, Australia
$23,575 to support Indonesian communities opposing expansion of mining through research, training, and technical assistance.
Population Biology Foundation
$20,430 to support the Ecuador Amphibian Monitoring, Research, and Training Project. This project monitors the conservation status of Equador's declining amphibians and trains Ecuadorian biologists in field methods and data collection.
PROCAFE
Nueva San Salvador, El Salvador
$15,000 to research shade grown coffee on small farms and cooperatives in El Salvador.
Rainforest Foundation f/b/o Amerindian Legal Services Center
Georgetown, Guyana
$25,000 to support legal training, planning, and litigation to protect the land rights of indigenous communities.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Balboa, Panama
$10,500 to support the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Brazil.
Trees, Water & People
Fort Collins, CO
$20,000 to support a fuel-efficient cook stove training program in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
$15,000 for a study of seedling ecology and physiology of mahogany trees in the Mayan community forests in the Yucatan region of Mexico.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
$23,000 for a study of nomadic Bornean bearded pig population ecology and subsistence hunting practices of the Dayaks in Indonesia.
Utah State University -
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Logan, UT
$12,000 to study livestock predation by jaguars and pumas in the Southern Pantanal, Brazil and identify alternative management and protection measures.
State University of New York
Syracuse, NY
$5,600 for follow-up support of a geographic information systems training workshop for Bolivian agronomists.
Woods Hole Research Center
Falmouth, MA
$20,000 to support the study investigating the relationship between land use and population dynamics in the Brazil-Bolivia-Peru triangle.
Food
Cornell University - Department of Animal Science
Ithaca, NY
$23,000 to develop a simple test for toxins found in legume trees and train Ethiopian and Kenyan farmers how to identify trees suitable for livestock feed.
Ecology Action f/b/o ECOPOL
Mexico City
$15,000 to promote biointensive mini-farming in Mexico through training, technical assistance, and the establishment of demonstration and research sites.
Grassroots International
Boston, MA
$15,000 to support the Urban Agriculture in the Gaza Strip program in collaboration with the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees.
Institute of Applied Entomology
Hanzghou, China
$22,000 to identify rice strains with genetic resistance to stem borers.
International Potato Center
Lima, Peru
$16,500 to test wild and domestic potatoes for genetic resistance to bacterial wilt disease.
Lambi Fund
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
$22,164 to support sustainable agriculture training projects with cooperative farming groups in Haiti.
Instituto de Permacultura da Brasil
Laura de Freita, Bahia, Brasil
$15,000 to test a polyculture farming model in the Bahian drylands.
University of Vermont, Entomology Research Laboratory
Burlington, VT
$29,400 to conduct pilot field tests to evaluate the efficacy of insect-killing fungi against the Sunn Pest.
Health
Amazon Conservation Team
Arlington, VA
$4,000 to promote the preservation and advancement of traditional medicine in the interior of Suriname.
Ashoka
Arlington, VA
$3,700 to help villages in the Nalconda district in Andrha Pradesh, India develop prevention and treatment strategies to prevent fluorosis.
Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente
San Francisco, CA
$20,000 to provide technical and legal assistance to reduce the health and environmental impacts of a lead smelter in La Oroya, Peru.
Border Ecology Project
Bisbee, Arizona
$14,900 for the research, outreach, and training components of the Northeast Sonora Water Project along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Boston, MA
$20,000 to provide technical assistance to grassroots women's groups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America seeking to translate and adapt the book - Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century.
Concern America
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000 to train health workers and midwives in health promotion, family planning, and community development activities in Peten, Guatemala.
GAPA-BAHIA
Salvador - Bahia, Brazil
$20,000 for a health worker training program targeting women at risk of HIV in the Rail Suburbs of Salvador, Brazil.
Health and Development International
Fagerstrand, Norway
$25,000 to support the start-up phase of a campaign to eliminate lymphatic filariasis from Togo.
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$25,000 to support the development of A Community Guide to Environmental Health.
IPAS
Chapel Hill, NC
$15,000 to increase access and quality of abortion services in Mexico.
Medical Training Worldwide
Novato, CA
$14,399 to conduct training courses in laparoscopic gallbladder surgery or gynecological laporoscopy in Latin American countries.
Midwives for Midwives
Antigua, Guatemala
$15,000 to training midwives and women's health care providers in Antigua, Guatemala.
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000 to develop a nutrition education program for people living with AIDS in Ssembabule, Uganda.
Permacultura America Latina
Santa Fe, NM
$19,000 to train 200 community technicians in the construction of Ferro cement water tanks and composting toilets in central and southern Brazil.
Population Communications International
New York, NY
$15,000 to support a weekly one-hour broadcast magazine-format radio show targeting young people in Mexico City with information on reproductive health.
Project Concern International
San Diego, CA
$25,000 to equip volunteer health promoters and health care professionals of two Guatemalan NGO's with the tools and training necessary to offer family planning
and counseling and services in twenty rural Mayan communities.
Sustainable Sciences Institute
San Francisco, CA
$12,000 to train Paraguayan scientists in the diagnosis and epidemiology of dengue fever, tuberculosis, and leishmaniasis.
University of Leeds, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Leeds, UK
$7,900 to support the research project titled: "Effect of habitat alteration on populations of Sabethes
mosquitoes and its impact on public health in the Pontal do Paranapanema, western Sao Paulo State, Brazil".
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