2002 Grants
Conservation
Associacão Pró-Carnívoros
São Paulo, Brazil
$8385 to study the status and distribution of carnivores in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India
$15,000 to support conservation education and research projects in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas, India.
Maria Munoz Mendoza
Boston, MA
$14,751 via ATREE to support a study titled "Effect of Fragmentation of Deciduous Tropical Forests on Mating Patterns and Population Structure of Cordia (Boraginacaeae) Species in Guanacaste, Costa Rica and Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico".
Blacksmith Institute
New York, NY
$10,000 to support neighborhood pollution prevention initiatives led by grassroots environmental organizations in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales
Quito, Ecuador
$25,000 to train and support southern Ecuadorian Amazon communities seeking to
stop oil development on indigenous lands.
Duke University
Durham, NC
$25,500 to support a study of the top carnivores in Manu National Park, Peru titled: "Rare and Endangered Carnivores of Amazonia: Research and Conservation of the Giant Otter and the Short-eared Dog."
Earth Island Institute f/b/o the Borneo Project
Berkeley, CA
$7,500 to protect native land claims, and develop local forest conservation programs with tribal peoples
in Sarawak, Malaysia.
El Porvenir
Sacramento, CA
$15,000 to support reforestation programs in the municipalities of Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua.
Environmental Law Institute
Washington, D.C.
$19,000 to train Tanzanian judges in environmental law.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$11,280 to support community outreach, training, and education programs related to the protection of orangutans in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
International Rivers Network
Berkeley, CA
$20,000 to support the development of a network to address the impacts of proposed Amazon dams and industrial waterways in Brazil.
Mangrove Action Project
Port Angeles, WA
$11,000 for a training project to improve fish smokehouse design in West African coastal villages.
Mineral Policy Institute
Bondi Junction, Australia
$20,050 to support Indonesian communities opposing expansion of mining through research, training, and technical assistance.
Population Biology Foundation
Missoula, MT
20,930 to assess the conservation status of
Ecuador's declining amphibians.
Rhode Island Zoological Society
Providence, RI
$16,330 to train local conservation biologists and work with landowners,
government officials, and organizations to establish a conservation area in the
rain forest on the Huon Peninsula in Papua, New Guinea.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
$1,277 for a study comparing the nutritional content of the fruit of cucurbitaceae from Yunnan, China, Laos and Nepal. (1999 Replacement Grant)
Food
ECOPOL
Mexico City, Mexico
$15,000 via Ecology Action to expand biointensive mini-farming workshops in Mexico and Latin America.
Grassroots International
Boston, MA
$15,000 for the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee's urban
agriculture program in refugee camps in the Gaza strip.
SEED Community Development Loan Fund
Port Au Prince, Haiti
$24,000 to train solar powered irrigation pump technicians in Haiti.
University of Vermont, Entomology Research Laboratory
Burlington, VT
$15,911 to conduct pilot field tests to evaluate the efficacy of insect-killing fungi against the Sunn Pest and develop a comprehensive pest management program for farmers in West Africa and North Africa.
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.
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.
Family Care International
New York, NY
$7,200 for a pilot initiative to reduce the toll of unsafe abortion in Niger.
Hesperian Foundation
Berkeley, CA
$10,000 to revise A Book for Midwives and Un Libro para parteras.
Minnesota International Health Volunteers
Minneapolis, MN
$18,906 to develop a nutrition education program for people living with AIDS in Ssembabule, Uganda.
Population Communications International
New York, NY
$15,000 to a weekly one-hour broadcast magazine-format radio show targeting young people in Mexico City with information on reproductive health.
Sustainable Sciences Institute
San Francisco, CA
$12,000 to train Latin American public health researchers in the diagnosis and epidemiology of dengue fever,
tuberculosis, and leishmaniasis.
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