Overview of Funding Agencies that Fund
Forest and Forest Related Projects
2005 UPDATE
Abercrombie & Kent Global Foundation
(A&KGF)
Abercrombie & Kent is renowned as the world leader in luxury
travel. The A&KGF promotes wildlife research and conservation as well as
community education and historical monument preservation. Through active
involvement in ongoing conservation projects, the Foundation helps to protect
the delicate ecosystems in areas that are visited by A&K's guests. The goal
of the A&KGF is to provide long-term support for existing natural ecosystems
to ensure that human populations, flora and fauna continue to survive and
coexist successfully.
Contact information:
Address: 1520 Kensington Road, IL 60523 Oak Brook - United States
Phone: +1-630-472.1110
Fax: +1-630-471.1112
E-mail: info@akglobalfoundation.org
Internet: www.akglobalfoundation.org
Action for Greening Sahel (AGS)
Action for Greening Sahel is a Japanese NGO concentrating on the
Sahel region. AGS, together with the people of the Sahel, is working to stop
desertification, the loss of any more green, and then to restore the natural
ecology, allowing the people of the region to again be self-sufficient in their
production of food. AGS concentrates on afforestation projects in Burkina Faso
and Chad.
Contact information:
Address: Nihon Sozo-Kyoiku-Kenkyujo Bldg. 3F, 2-2-7, Minami-Suna, Koto-ku,
136-0076, Tokyo - Japan
Phone: +81-3-5632-3029
Fax: +81-3-5632-3070
E-mail: sahel@jca.apc.org
Internet: www.jca.apc.org/~sahel (Japanese
only)
Action for Mangrove Reforestation (ACTMANG)
ACTMANG was founded with the goal of promoting the preservation
and reforestation of the mangrove ecosystems. ACTMANG offers technical and
financial support for the preservation and reforestation by local residents of
mangrove areas, and the research, study and promotion of those activities. Model
projects for mangrove reforestation have been underway in Vietnam, Ecuador and
Myanmar.
Contact information:
Contact person: Motohiko Koga
Address: MM Mansion 1104, 3-29-15-1104, Honcho, Nakano-ku, 164-0012, Tokyo -
Japan
Phone: +81-3-3373-9772
Fax: +81-3-3373-9772
E-mail: actmang@big.or.jp
Internet: (Japanese only)
http://www3.big.or.jp/~actmang/index.html
AEON Environmental Foundation
(AEON)
The Foundation supports environmental conservation activities in
the Far East and South-East Asia. Seven categories of environmental conservation
activities are supported: Tree planting, greening, and anti-desertification;
wildlife protection and ecology preservation; purification of mountains, rivers,
oceans and lakes, and preservation of natural environments; environmental
education activities; collecting and disseminating environmental information;
international environmental conferences; and other global environmental
conservation activities.
Contact information:
Address: 5-1, 1-chome, Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, 261-8515, Chiba - Japan
Phone: +81-43-212.6022
Fax: +81-43-212.6815
E-mail: ef@aeon.info or aeon-ef@mailgw.jusco.co.jp
Internet: www.aeon.info/ef
Alliance for International Reforestation
(AIR)
AIR's objective is to assist local communities in Central America
to conserve their environment through reforestation, sustainable farming, and
education. The establishment of permanent tree nurseries is the keystone of
AIR's work. The aim of the tree nursery projects is to train community groups to
initiate a process of reforestation and conservation of their land.
Contact information:
Address: Stetson University, 421 North Woodland Boulevard, Unit 8301, FL 32723,
DeLand - United States
Phone: +1-386-822.7575
E-mail: ahallum@stetson.edu
Internet: www.stetson.edu/org/forest
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
ACT's activities are based on the concept that by helping the
rainforest peoples manage and protect their cultures the forest ecosystems that
surround and sustain them also can be managed and protected. ACT believes that
the fates of indigenous peoples and of the rainforests on which they depend are
profoundly intertwined. The projects of ACT are designed to address some of the
major threats faced by indigenous cultures: the loss of medicinal and botanical
wisdom, lack of health care, lack of economic opportunity, the lack of
territorial rights that would protect the rainforest from exploitation, and the
lack of legal representation.
Contact information:
Contact person: Ester Sztein
Address: 4211 N. Fairfax Drive, VA 22203, Arlington - United States
Phone: +1-703-522.46.84
Fax: +1-703-522.44.64
E-mail: info@amazonteam.org
Internet: www.ethnobotany.org/index.html
American India Foundation
(AIF)
The AIF provides grants to NGOs that are working towards
accelerating social and economic development in India. The Foundation focuses on
the areas of education and livelihood. Regarding the Livelihood Program AIF is
focusing on the access to natural resources. In forested areas enhancing the
rights of communities to access forests and getting involved in value-added
production are emphasized.
Contact information:
India Operations Office:
Contact person: Alay Barah, director Livelihood Programs
Address: N 183 Panchshila Park Second Floor, New Delhi 110 017 - India
Phone: +91-11-2649.5042/43
E-mail: info@aifoundation.org
Internet: www.aifoundation.org
Ancient Forests International (AFI)
AFI is dedicated to the protection of primary forests around the
world by developing long-term, viable projects to protect some of the world's
last wild places. Its main activity is to acquire and protect strategic and
invaluable forestlands. AFI has helped to coordinate the purchase of nearly a
million acres of ecologically critical forested land, primarily along the
Pacific coast of North and South America (especially Chile and Ecuador). AFI is
also helping to support the neighboring communities in stewarding those areas
for generations to come.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 1850, CA 95560, Redway - United States
Phone: +1-7070-923.3015
E-mail: afi@ancientforests.org
Internet: www.ancientforests.org
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regenwald und Artenschutz
(ARA)(Working Community On Rainforests And Species Conservation)
ARA is involved in projects in the fields of environmental
protection and sustainable development especially regarding tropical forests and
species as well as protection of indigenous (indian) peoples. ARA has a special
project fund 'People and Forests'. The main partners are indigenous communities
and local initiatives, which are supported by ARA in their struggle for
protection of their habitats and traditional land rights. In several countries
(Ghana, Cambodia, Vietnam and Brazil) small scale and promising initiatives are
supported.
Contact information:
Address: August Bebel Strasse 16-18, 33602 Bieleveld - Germany
Phone: +49-521-65943
Fax: +49-521-64975
E-mail: araoffice@aol.com
Internet: www.araonline.de
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the
Environment (ATREE)
ATREE seeks to advance the protection of the environment,
conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable use of resources. ATREE
administers a small grants programme in Eastern Himalayan region (and to a
limited extent also for the Western Ghats region) to contribute in biodiversity
conservation needs of the region. ATREE will support activities in the areas of
sustainable natural resources use; capacity building of local institutions;
strengthening of the policy framework, environmental education, emergent action/activism,
conservation based enterprises and survey, and information collection to
strengthen biodiversity conservation.
Contact information:
Contact person: Ms. Ruchi Pant
Address: Bungalow No. 2, Bhujiapani Near Airforce Officers' Enclave, 734422
Bagdogra (West Bengal) - India
Phone: +91-353-550093 or 551110
E-mail: atree@dte.vsnl.net.in
Internet: www.atree.org/ehoffice.htm
Association
of Support for People in West Africa (SUPA)
The aim of SUPA is to alleviate poverty in the farming
communities of Western Africa. Fields of activity are rural development,
sustainable agriculture, food sovereignty, appropiate technology, afforestation,
education and water supply. SUPA is active in Guinea and Mali.
Contact
information:
Contact person: Mr. Shinji Nozawa Address: 3F Nishikawa Bldg., 2-7-3 Koji-machi,
Chiyoda-ku, 102-0083, Tokyo - Japan
Phone: +81-3-3237.7022
Fax: +81-3-3237-5520
E-mail: supa@jade.dti.ne.jp
Internet: http://supa.web.infoseek.co.jp
(mainly Japanese)
Bäume für Menschen
(BfM)
Bäume für Menschen, which means Trees for the People, is a
young and small foundation Its purpose is the reforestation of endangered or
totally deforested areas by means of small, local nurseries. The long-term aim
is to ensure the survival of the dry savanna forests. Its activities concentrate
on the creation of forest plantations; prevention of further uncontrolled forest
exploitation; improvement of agro-forestry systems as well as fruit cultivation
within the plantations; education of foresters and rangers; and teaching the
local population about the sense and purpose of reafforestation. BfM is active
in Lesotho and Namibia as well as in Bolivia.
Contact information:
Contact person: Gottfried Brenner
Address: Angerkapellenstr. 5 (am Landratsamt Nordseite), 82363 Weilheim in OB -
Germany
Phone: +49-881-8001
Fax: +49-881-8111
E-mail: trees@t-online.de
Internet: www.baeume.de (in German)
Blue Moon Fund
(BMF)
The Fund emerged in 2002 from the restructuring of the W. Alton
Jones Foundation. It is a funder of funders that supports activities in Asia and
South America regarding rethinking consumption and energy (developing
environmentally-friendly, efficient and economically competitive transport and
energy options worldwide) and balancing human and natural ecosystems (exploring
economic and cultural approaches to reducing resource pressure and preserving
biodiversity). Supported projects aim at the preservation and protection of
forest areas reducing deforestation (a.o. through the implementation of
appropiate technologies) and creating new opportunities for indigenous peoples.
Contact information:
Address: 433 Park Street, VA 22902 Charlottesville - United States
Phone: +1-434-295.5160
Internet: www.bluemoonfund.org
Bruno Manser Fonds
(BMF)
The Bruno Manser Fund, association for the peoples of the
rainforest, is an environmental and human rights organization. Its aim is to
support the Penan people in Sarawak (East Malaysia) as well as other indigenous
peoples in their struggle to protect tropical rainforests from destruction.
Special emphasis is put on informing consumers in the west about tropical timber
and illegal logging practices.
Contact information:
Contact person: Rudolf Dietrich
Address: Heuberg 25, 4051 Basel - Switzerland
Phone: +41-61-261.94.74
Fax: +41-61-261.94.73
E-mail: info@bmf.ch
Internet: www.bmf.ch
Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
CLWR is the service delivery arm for development programming and
overseas relief for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and Lutheran
Church-Canada. One of the five areas of work is long-term development assistance.
Within this area special attention is paid to the integration of development
projects with a sensitive (critical) concern for the environment. Essential
elements are afforestation and the use of appropriate technology.
Contact information:
Address: 1080 Kingsbury Avenue, R2P 1W5 Winnipeg - Canada
Phone: +1-204-694.5602
Fax: +1-204-694.5460
E-mail: clwr@clwr.mb.ca
Internet: www.clwr.org
Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO)
CUSO is working with groups and individuals seeking to foster
equality and their freedom, safeguard their cultures and communities and protect
the environment. CUSO's environmental goal is to contribute to sustainable
development by supporting communities in the development and management of
environmentally safe, economically viable and equitable natural resource
management practices, and the protection of their environment. Projects
concentrate on agro-forestry and non-timber forest products.
Contact information:
Address: 2255 Carling Avenue, K2B 1A6, Ottawa - Canada
Phone: +1-613-829-7445
Fax: +1-613-829-7996
E-mail: info@cuso.ca
Internet: www.cuso.ca
Christian Aid for Under-Assisted Societies
Everywhere (CAUSE)
CAUSE has made long-term commitments in rural areas of the
developing world as a means of redressing the urban migration problem. It places
a priority upon working at the village level with small-scale initiatives, which
clearly demonstrate a high degree of local ownership. Environmental impact
assessments are an integral part of every supported project since CAUSE
considers environmental protection to be a cornerstone for the building of just
and sustainable societies. One of the supported activities is afforestation.
Contact information:
Contact person: Roland Vanderburg, program director, rolandvanderburg@cause.ca
Address: Box 8100, T1W 2T8 Canmore, Alberta - Canada
Phone: +1-403-678.3332
Fax: +1-403-678.8869
E-mail: causecan@telusplanet.net
Internet: www.cause.ca/about.html
Climate Alliance
(Klima Bündnis)
The Climate Alliance is an association of European cities and
municipalities. The aim of the Climate Alliance is to preserve the global
climate, this involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level
in the industrialized countries of the north, and conserving the rainforests in
the south of the planet. The partnership with the indigenous peoples means that
the Alliance supports their goals. These goals are to attain their basic rights
as peoples and to be able to live and work in their natural environment
according to their own development concepts.
Contact information:
Address: Galvanistr. 28, 60486 Frankfurt am Main - Germany
Phone: +49-69-717139-0
Fax: +49-69-717139-93
E-mail: europe@klimabuendnis.org
Internet: www.klimabuendnis.org
Compton Foundation
The Foundation was established to address community, national and
international concerns in the fields of peace, world order, population, and the
environment. The priorities in the environmental field include: land, river, and
watershed protection and management for purposes of long-term habitat and
ecosystem preservation, and restoration; changing the relationship between
people and the natural environment in order to promote a sustainable and just
balance between meeting present human needs and conserving natural systems for
the future.
Contact information:
Contact person: Ms. Edith Eddy,
Address: 545 Middlefield Rd. Suite 178, CA 94025 Menlo Park - United States
Phone: +1-650-328-0101
Fax: +1-650-328-0171
E-mail: info@comptonfoundation.org
Internet: www.comptonfoundation.org
Concern America (CA)
Concern America recruits and sends professionals who serve as
nonsalaried volunteers for two or more years. Medical doctors, public health
specialists, educators, agriculturalists, engineers, and other experts are sent
to share their skills and knowledge with community leaders. After eight to ten
years in an area, the Concern America team leaves in place trained local people
who are "capacitated" to continue the work and to bring it to
neighboring communities. Concern America is amongst others active in development
projects in the fields of agro-forestry, organic farming and fuel-efficient
stoves.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 1790, CA 92702 Santa Ana - United States
Phone: +1-714-953.8575
Fax: +1-714-953.1242
E-mail: concamerinc@earthlink.net
Internet: www.concernamerica.org
Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
(CFHF)
The purpose of the Foundation is to assist in the conservation of
natural resources, the production and distribution of food, and the improvement
and promotion of health in the developing world. Conservation grants will help
improve ecological and environmental conditions in the developing world. The
Foundation supports field research and related research activities, training,
and technical assistance efforts that: help conserve viable ecosystems and
protect biological diversity in developing countries; train Third World
personnel in conservation and protection of resources, with an emphasis on
technical and scientific training. The Foundation for instance funds local
forest conservation and reforestation programs.
Contact information:
Address: c/o Grants Management Associates: 77 Summer Street, Suite 800, MA 02110
Boston - United States
Phone: +1-617-426.71.72
Fax: +1-617-426.54.41
E-mail: cfhf@grantsmanagement.com
Internet: www.grantsmanagement.com/cfhguide.html
Conservation International (CI)
CI is a large conservation organisation that focuses its work on
trying to preserve and promote awareness about the world's most endangered
biodiversity through scientific programs, local awareness campaigns, and
economic initiatives. CI prioritises the protection of biodiversity in tropical
forest areas and has on-going programs in 25 countries throughout the world. It
assists in the design and implementation of conservation policies and funding
programs with multilateral institutions and national governments.
CI administers several funds to directly finance conservation efforts by its
field programs and partners.
Verde Ventures, or Green Ventures, invests in small businesses with a primary
goal- conserving our planet's global biodiversity.
Verde Ventures uses debt and equity financing to support conservation-oriented
businesses in CI priority areas. Through Verde Ventures, CI recognizes the
important role of small business in the conservation of biodiversity and
employment of local people in jobs, which preserve local natural resources for
future generations. Contact: verdeventures@conservation.org
The Global Conservation Fund (GCF) is the first major fund designed to quickly
mobilize financial resources to finance the creation, expansion and long-term
management of protected areas in the world's biodiversity hotspots, high
biodiversity wilderness areas and important marine regions. Contact: Christopher
Stone gcfgrants@conservation.org
(See also the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund).
Contact information:
Contact person: Peter A. Seligmann,
Address: 2501 M Street, NW Suite 200, DC 20037 Washington DC - United States
Phone: +1-202-429.56.60
Fax: +1-202-887.01.93
Internet: www.conservation.org
Conservation through Poverty Alleviation
International (CPALI)
CPALI works to identify, develop and implement new means of
income generation for poor farmers living in areas of high conservation value.
CPALI identifies new products, implements technology to develop their
sustainable use and builds the infrastructure needed to carry products to market.
The goal is to provide additional income streams that augment current farming
practices and income generating programs. CPALI is active in Kenya, Madagascar
and Tanzania.
Contact information:
Address: 221 Lincoln Road, MA 01773 Lincoln - United States
Phone: +1-781-259-9184
Fax: +1-617-749-8726
E-mail: ccraig@cpali.org
Internet: www.cpali.org
Conserve Africa Fund (CAF)
Conserve Africa Foundation is involved in issues pertaining to
sustainable development and conservation in Africa. The EcoFund supports a wide
range of community-based initiatives that protect the environment in the most
undeserved and threatened regions in Africa. Grants are given to grassroots
groups with well-organised local campaigns where a small amount can make a
significant difference. Programmes are a.o. the Programme for Development of
agro-forestry systems and the Forestry Development Programme.
Contact information:
Address: 24 Carterhatch Road, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 5LS, London - United
Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-8443.4852
E-mail: info@conserveafrica.org or caf@conserveafrica.org
Internet: www.conserveafrica.org
Coral Cay Conservation (CCC)
CCC provides resources to help sustain livelihoods and alleviate
poverty through the protection, restoration and management of coral reefs and
tropical forests. The organisation provides the technical and financial support
that developing countries need in order to produce conservation management plans
for threatened reefs and forests. CCC actively promotes and provides education
in tropical ecology and conservation. It works with host-country governments and
other organisations to encourage education and sustainable livelihood
opportunities in local communities. It should be stressed that CCC is not a
funding agency and does not simply provide resources or facilitate the
acquisition of equipment since the mode of operation is through partnership,
collaboration and participation. Though there is the CCC Charitable Trust
through which a.o. alternative livelihood schemes and other local community
projects are supported.
Contact information:
Address: The Tower, 13th Floor, 125 High Street, Colliers Wood, SW19 2JG London
- United Kingdom
Phone: +44-870-750 0668
Fax: +44-870-750 0667
E-mail: info@coralcay.org
Website: www.coralcay.org
Cordaid
The Dutch Catholic development organisation joins the forces of
Bilance, Memisa, Mensen in Nood (Caritas Netherlands) and Vastenaktie (Dutch
Bishops' Lenten Campaign). In this way, it is involved in all aspects of
development co-operation: emergency aid, structural poverty alleviation and
health care. Cordaid supports projects and programmes from NGOs that involve the
active participation of the local population and pursue tangible results for the
individual beneficiaries, their self-organisation and its influence on other
local actors. In this development approach, special attention is given to
environment, gender and geographical and sectoral coherence.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 16440, 2500 BK Den Haag - Netherlands
Phone: +31-70-3136300
Fax: +31-70-3136301
E-mail: cordaid@cordaid.nl
Internet: www.cordaid.nl
Cottonwood Foundation (CF)
The foundation is dedicated to promoting empowerment of people,
protection of the environment, and respect for cultural diversity. The
foundation focuses its funding on committed, grass roots organizations that rely
strongly on volunteer efforts and where foundation support will make a
significant difference. It has a very limited amount of funding available, and
will only award grants to organizations that meet all four of the following
criteria: protect the environment; promote cultural diversity; empower people to
meet their basic needs; rely on volunteer efforts. Grants range between US$ 500
and US $1,000.
Contact
information:
Contact person: Paul Moss
Address: Box 10803, MN 55110 White Bear Lake - United States
Phone: +1-651-426.87.97
Fax: +1-651-426.03.20
E-mail: info@cottonwoodfdn.org
Internet: www.cottonwoodfdn.org
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
(CEPF)
The CEPF is a joint initiative of Conservation International, the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Bank. CEPF aims to invest at
least US$ 150 million over the next five years to advance biodiversity
conservation projects in critical ecosystems that harbor the richest variety of
life. Average grant sizes will range from US$10,000 - US$ 80,000. The Fund is a
major source of international funding directed primarily to non-governmental,
community, and grassroots organisations. The Fund is also designed to expedite
assistance where it is needed most and when it can do the most good, before a
biodiversity threat escalates into permanent devastation. It offers
organisations a streamlined procedure to apply for and receive funds, via the
Internet. It identifies hot spots on a yearly basis. In the first year of
operations, the Fund is focusing efforts on ecosystems in the hotspots of
Madagascar, West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote Ivoire, Ghana, Togo) and
the Vilcabamba-Amboró Corridor located in Peru and Bolivia in South America.
Contact information:
Address: c/o Conservation International, 2501 M Street NW, Suite 200, DC 20009,
Washington DC - United States
Phone: +1-800-429.5660
Fax: +1-202-887.0193
Internet: www.cepf.net
Cultural Survival (CS)
CS provides empowerment tools that support indigenous efforts to
effectively resist cultural degradation and threats to their habitat and
sovereignty. CS is currently sponsoring projects initiated by indigenous peoples
who seek to obtain land rights, protect and manage their natural resources,
market sustainable products, preserve their language and art forms, etc..
Furthermore Cultural Survival provides organizational support, administrative
support, and acts as a fiscal sponsor to small, independent initiatives that
contribute to Cultural Survival's mission.
Contact information:
Address: 215 Prospect Street, MA 02138 Cambridge - United States
Phone: +1-617-441-5400
Fax: +1-617-441.5417
E-mail: csinc@cs.org
Internet: www.culturalsurvival.org
Damien Foundation
(DF)
This is a relatively small family foundation. Its aim is to create healthy
grassroots environmental organisations and a high degree of co-operation and
partnership among them. The Damien Foundation has a Small Grants Program to
provide capacity building support and organisational assistance to small
environmental organisations. It gives priority to organisations from Brazil.
Contact information:
Contact person: Robin Cushman
Address: P.O. Box 29903, CA 94129, San Francisco - United States
Phone: +1-415-561.6400
Fax: +1-415-561.6401
Department for International
Development (DIFD)
The DFID (formerly ODA, Overseas Development Administration) is the British
department for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. Environmental
assistance is provided on a national basis in accordance with relevant DFID
country strategies with projects handled by individual country desks. Particular
emphasis has been given in the past year to work on the following issues:
analysing the links between environment and poverty in different countries;
assisting countries develop policy guidelines on the principles of sustainable
development; providing support to help strengthen the capacity of national and
local institutions with environmental responsibilities; analysing the links
between environmental stress and conflict; assisting countries to benefit from
global environmental conventions. Countries in which DFID is expected in the
future to target assistance on promoting the principles of sustainable
development are Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia,
Ghana, Nepal, India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bolivia, and the
Russian Federation.
Contact information:
Address: 1 Palace Street, SW1E 5HE London - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7023.0000
Fax: +44-20-7023.0016
E-mail: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk
Internet: www.dfid.gov.uk
Dharma Gaia Trust
(DGT)
The mission of the Dharma Gaia Trust is to nurture awareness of the
complementarity of Buddhism and ecology. DGT promotes engagement between
Buddhism and ecology by providing funds for Buddhist environmental initiatives,
raising awareness about on-going eco-Buddhist projects, and mobilizes Buddhist
communities to address pressing ecological concerns. DGT supports in several
Asian countries forest-related projects.
Contact information:
Contact person: John Seed (RIC), Ruth Rosenhek (for applications)
Address: Box 368, NSW 2480, Lismore - Australia
E-mail: jseed@igc.org or johnseed1@ozemail.com.au
Internet: www.teknozen.com/dgt/direct.html
EarthLink
EarthLink, the People & Nature Network, is a small German NGO which,
together with its partners, is involved in concrete projects to protect forests,
oceans and coastal areas. Through environmental education for children and youth
as well as adults and current decision makers from the political and business
sector, EarthLink lays the foundation for ecologically sustainable development.
Through forest-camps, joint reforestation programmes, seminars and workshops
practically orientated ways for a future that is worth living in are shown.
Contact information:
Address: Frohschammerstr.14, 80807 München - Germany
Phone: +49-89-3565.2102
Fax: +49-89-3565.2106
E-mail: info@earthlink.de
Internet: www.earthlink.de
EarthWays Foundation (EWF)
EarthWays initiates small-scale projects that are cutting edge models for
environmental preservation, human potential and sustainable development. The
projects and educational programs seek solutions that protect our planet's
environment, contribute to social justice, and cultivate a deep respect for the
interconnectedness of all life. Environmental Projects are working to prevent
ecological destruction, protect wildlife in its natural habitat, and promote the
importance of a sacred connection with nature.
Contact information:
Address: 20178 Rockport Way, CA 90265, Malibu - United States
Phone: +1-310-456.83.00
E-mail: info@earthways.org
Website: www.earthways.org
Earth Love Fund (ELF)
ELF was founded in 1989.The emphasis of this fund is on community-based
conservation projects in rainforest regions and endangered forests worldwide.
Funding is small to medium. Projects which promote and conserve the protection
of endangered forests, biological diversity, and cultural and community
integrity will be given priority.
Contact
information:
Contact persons: Helen Newing, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
Address: 9 Standingford House Cave Street, OX4 1BA Oxford - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1865-200208
Fax: +44-1865-209091
E-mail: earthlove@gn.apc.org
Internet: www.unisong.com/elf/index.html
Earth
Preservation Fund (EPF)
EPF was founded by the travel company JOURNEYS International Inc., as a
non-profit organisation to provide support to nature and cultural conservation
projects worldwide. The EPF was the first wholly traveller funded conservation
organisation in the United States. Generally, the EPF supports projects through:
1) direct financial grants of $500.00 or less, 2) advertising projects via
JOURNEYS and EPF publications, and 3) through the visits by JOURNEYS travellers
to EPF sponsored projects.
Contact
information:
Address: P.O. Box 7545, MI 48107 Ann Arbor - United States
Phone: +1-734-665.4407
Fax: +1-734-665.2945
E-mail: info@earthpreservation.org
Internet: www.earthpreservation.org
EcoLogic Development Fund (EDF)
The fund was established in 1992 with the objective to conserve endangered
wildlife and wild lands by advancing community-based development and resource
management. It funds projects that ensure the sound stewardship of biologically
rich tropical forests, train farmers in sustainable agriculture, and strengthen
community groups so that they can better protect their threatened natural
resources.
EcoLogic's assistance ranges from helping communities to declare areas protected
in order to thwart cattle ranchers and developers, strategic planning to finance
reserves and protected areas, providing training in park management, and
sponsoring workshops for community leaders on forest co-management. In 1999,
EcoLogic Development Fund launched a "green" loan fund that offers
fair credit to support environmental enterprise development. Their geographical
areas of funding are Mexico and Central America.
Contact information:
Contact person: Shaun Paul
Address: P.O. Box 383405, MA 02238-3405 Cambridge - United States
Phone: +1-617-441.63.00
Fax: +1-617-441.63.07
E-mail: enews@ecologic.org
Internet: www.ecologic.org
EcoVitality
This is a non-profit conservation planning and eco-marketing NGO set up to
design, fund, and operate Integrated Conservation And Development (ICAD)
programs protecting ecosystems and wildlife of developing countries. They do not
have the financial resources to fund projects at this time. Instead, they will
raise funds to create conservation-compatible businesses in ecologically
vulnerable areas, market the goods or services in wealthy developed states, and
send the profits back to the producing communities in return for better
conservation outcomes. This approach links new economic opportunities directly
to stronger environmental commitments. EcoVitality is also involved in improving
the competitive position of marine and forest products produced in an
environmentally sustainable manner.
Contact information:
Address: 224 Centre Street, 2d Floor, NY 10013, New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-966.8803
Fax: +1-212-966.8803
Email: ecovitality@ecovitality.org
Internet: www.ecovitality.org
ELI/Center for Native Lands
Native Lands works to protect biological and cultural diversity in Latin America,
with a focus on Central America and southern Mexico. The Center assists
indigenous peoples to develop and carry out their agendas for the preservation
of the region's natural and cultural heritage through a combined program of
applied research, training, and the facilitation of conferences, workshops, and
technical exchanges. Native Lands seeks to: strengthen the capacity of
indigenous peoples to organize themselves to protect their lands, sustainably
manage and conserve their natural resources, and strengthen their cultures;
conserve systems of natural resource management that are invaluable for the
conservation of the region's natural ecosystems; and secure territorial rights (mapping),
strong organizations, and vigorous cultures to effectively protect the natural
and cultural heritage.
Contact information:
Contact person: Bill Threlkeld
Address: 1616 P Street, NW, Suite 200, DC 20036, Washington - United States
Phone: +1-202-939.3800
Fax: +1-202-939.3868
E-mail: threlkeld@eli.org
Internet: www.nativelands.org or www.eli.org
Entwicklungswerkstatt Austria (EWA)(Development
Workshop Austria)
The overall objective of EWA's commitment is the support of self-help activities
through the provision and transfer of know-how and methods for personal and
vocational development and the support of project partners and the local
population in order to develop financial instruments and management capacities.
EWA has specialised in regional development programs in the Sahel in West Africa.
The main focus of EWA's work is on sustainable use of natural resources,
conservation of the ecological equilibrium, diversification of income generation
and the promotion of "rural artisans". EWA is currently involved in
the implementation of projects in Burkina Faso and in Senegal. EWA carries out
i.a. the following programmes: support, development and promotion of
ecologically sound land-use systems with focus on agro-forestry, designed and
implemented in cooperation with the affected population.
Contact information:
Address: Thunstrasse 16, 5400 Hallein - Austria
Phone: +43-662-627.112
Fax: +43-662-624.812
E-mail: EWA@magnet.at
Internet: www.ewa.or.at
EU Programme: Promotion of the
conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests and other forests in
developing countries (Budget Line: 21 02 05)
The general aim is to promote the conservation and sustainable management of
tropical forests and other forests in developing countries, so as to meet the
economic, social and environmental demands placed on forests at local, national
and global levels. The total budget for the period 2000-2006 is € 48.5 million.
The deadline for applications is usually in November.
Activities under this programme aim at: · raising the status of forests in
national policies and integrating forest policies based on sustainable forest
management in development planning; · promoting the production and use of wood
and non-wood forest products from sustainably managed resources; · contributing
to the adequate valuation of forest resources and services;
· ensuring active participation of forest-dependent people and local
communities in the development of national forest policies and in development
planning; · improving coordination and the flow of information between
Commission and Member State projects so as to put in place coherent actions in
that area.
Contact information:
EuropeAid Co-operation Office
Contact person: Louis du Breil de Pontbriand
Address: Unit F4, Office: J-54 6/41, 1049 Brussels - Belgium
E-mail: louis.du-breil-de-pontbriand@cec.eu.int
Internet: http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/forests/index_en.htm
Face Foundation
The Face Foundation was set up to help abate the enhanced greenhouse effect by
planting and protecting forest. Its slogan is: More Forest, Less CO2. Face works
with partners who are genuinely interested in forests and are able to manage
these forests sustainably. An independent organisation certifies the forests and
verifies the amounts of CO2 they store. Projects are underway in the Czech
Republic, Ecuador, Malaysia and Uganda.
Contact information:
Address: Postbus 646, 6800 AP Arnhem - Netherlands
Phone: +31-26-357.0770
Fax: +31-26-357.0777
E-mail: face@facefoundation.nl
Internet: www.facefoundation.nl
Fauna & Flora International
(FFI)
FFI provides large financial support to conservation initiatives throughout the
world, in the form of partnerships, technical assistance, direct funding and
consultancy. Funding priority is for protected areas management to support new
or existing national parks and reserves, land purchase in areas of high
biodiversity in imminent danger of destruction, and for small-scale conservation
projects. Additionally, they support ex situ conservation by captive breeding
and plant propagation initiatives and ecological restoration through species
re-introduction and invasive species.
Contact information:
Address: Great Eastern House, Tenison Road, CB1 2TT, Cambridge - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1223-571.000
Fax: +44-1223-461.481
E-mail: info@fauna-flora.org
Internet: www.fauna-flora.org
FIOH Education and Development Fund
& Plant A Tree In Africa (PATIA)
The Future In Our Hands was founded as a movement in search of a new lifestyle
and a more humane society based on solidarity with the world's poor, on
ecological balance and a reassessment of personal values. The FIOH Fund has
helped to empower people in peace, conflict and natural disaster situations to
establish activities, which are both economically and environmentally
sustainable in the long term. The Fund, and its affiliate Plant A Tree In Africa
supports a wide variety of projects in the field of reforestation.
Contact information:
Address: 48 Churchward Avenue, Wiltshire SN2 1NH, Swindon - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1793-532353
Fax: +44-1793-532353
E-mail: mikethomas.fioh@btopenworld.com
Internet: www.fiohnetwork.org/fiohfund
Floresta Inc.
This Christian non-profit organisation, works to reverse deforestation and
poverty in the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. Floresta's
mission of transformational development occurs through planting, teaching,
learning, and creating enterprise. It offers technically appropriate,
business-based programs that lead to self-sufficiency and sustainability. The
program uses sound business-based economic principles to motivate farmers to
change their practices. It provides medium and short-term loans through its
agroforestry revolving loan fund. When products are ready, it also offers
assistance in taking advantage of the local and global marketplace.
Contact information:
Address: 4903 Morena Boulevard, Suite 1215, CA 92117 San Diego - United States
Phone: +1-800-633.5319
Fax: +1-619-274-3728
E-mail: floresta@xc.org
Internet: www.floresta.org
Food for All (FFA)
Food for All is a program of the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger, which is
a voluntary effort of the food industry to alleviate hunger and malnutrition by
fostering long-term, self-help solutions in the USA and around the world.
Projects funded by Food for All will contribute to long-term solutions to hunger
and malnutrition by increasing the capacity of hungry, malnourished people to
better feed themselves and their families. Projects include reforestation,
agro-forestry and soil-conservation efforts. Grants range from US$ 15,000 to US$
50,000.
Contact information:
Address: 201 Park Washington Court, VA 22046, Falls Church - United States
Phone: +1-800-896.5101
Fax: +1-703-237.4163
E-mail: FICAH@ix.netcom.com
Internet: www.foodforall.org
Food for the Hungry International
(FHI)
FHI focuses on poverty needs that relate to food and nutrition. The primary
emphasis is on long-term development among the extremely poor, recognizing their
dignity, creativity, and ability to solve their own problems. FHI focuses
amongst others on: sustainable food production, including agricultural training
and assistance, agro-forestry, reforestation, and land conservation; and water
resource development. In addition, FHI assists in the area empowering indigenous
organizations.
Contact information:
FHI Headquarters:
Address: 243 Route des Fayards, Case postale 6081290, Versoix/Geneva -
Switzerland
Phone: +41-22-755.14.44
Fax: +41-22-755.16.86
International Office:
Address: 7807 E. Greenway Rd., suite 3, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 - United States
Phone : +1-480-951.50.90
Fax: +1-480-951.90.35
E-mail: general@fhi.net
Internet: http://www.fhi.net
FHI UK Office:
Contact person: Doug Wakeling
Address: 44 Copperfield Road, Bassett, Southampton, SO16 3NX - United Kingdom
Phone/Fax: +44-23-8090.2327
E-mail: uk@fhi.net
Website: www.uk.fhi.net
Ford Foundation
This large foundation worldwide supports efforts to ensure sustainable
decentralised management of natural resources, aiming at reducing environmental
risks and to reverse patterns of poverty and inequity that have prevented
generations of poor families and indigenous communities from acquiring land
tenure rights, managing their resources effectively, and gaining access to
improved livelihood and social services. Current emphasis is on a multiple use
of management of forest resources. To this end, the Ford Foundation supports
participatory models of education related to forestry, agroforestry, natural
forest regeneration, and non-timber forest products. Funds can range from medium
to large.
Contact information:
Address: 320 East 43 Street, NY 10017 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-573.5000
E-mail: office-secretary@fordfound.org
Internet: www.fordfound.org
Forest Management Foundation
(FMF)
The FMF was set up as a development organisation to promote community-based
forestry. FMF believes that, for forestry projects to become viable and
sustainable in the broadest sense, the environmental, social, and economic
aspects of these projects must be properly integrated. To assist in this process,
FMF provides a range of services focused in particular on the economic and
commercial side. FMF works in partnership with people who plan and manage
community forestry projects in order to help them to run projects in an
efficient, economic and effective way. Adequate long-term finance is essential
to get projects off the ground and to help them through the first years of
operating. FMF can assists in drawing up project proposals and finding possible
sources of funding for well-conceived community forestry projects. The FMF is
active in Africa, the Pacific and Ecuador.
Contact information:
Contact person: Hubert Kwisthout
Address: 6 Salisbury Avenue, Penarth, CF64 3JA Cardiff - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1222-70.74.44
Fax: +44-1222-71.11.33
E-mail: fmf@fmf.u-net.com
Internet: www.btinternet.com/~miombo.forum/forest.html
Forest Management Trust (FMT)
The FMT is dedicated to maintaining forest cover and biological diversity
through ecologically, and socially sustainable management of timber and
non-timber forest products and services. FMT's vision of sustainability includes:
maintenance of ecological functions and biological diversity of the forest
ecosystem; assurance that peoples who inhabit or work in the forest participate
in the long term benefits of forest management; and financial returns from
forest management and value-added activities that are profitable and competitive
with conversion to alternative uses. The Trust is active in Latin America.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 110760, FL 32611, Gainesville - United States
Phone: +1-352-846.22.40
Fax: +1-352-846.13.32
E-mail: info@foresttrust.org
Forest Peoples Project (FPP)
The Project is the charitable arm of the Forest Peoples Programme to provide
support for forest peoples, particularly in sustainable development, education
and capacity building. Its aims are to support indigenous and tribal forest
peoples to:
promote their collective and individual rights; secure their lands and manage
their natural resources; carry out sustainable community development. FPP works
to achieve its aims by means of: technical support, capacity building and policy
advice for forest peoples; networking with NGOs, indigenous support
organisations and agencies; researching and analysing the situation of forest
peoples; and providing information on forest peoples. Its funds are limited.
Contact information:
Address: 1c Fosseway Centre, Stratford Road, GL56 9NQ, Moreton-in-Marsh - United
Kingdom
Phone: +44-1608-652893
Fax: +44-1608-652878
E-mail: fpproject@gn.apc.org
Internet: www.forestpeoples.gn.apc.org/FPProj/FPProj_base.htm
Foundation for Deep Ecology
(FDE)
The foundation funds activities that focus on 1) Forests and habitats including
campaigns that deal with the root causes of this problems; 2) Grassroots
activism in areas as diverse as agriculture, economics, bioregionalism; 3)
Providing aid to traditional native societies to maintain their economic,
political, and cultural sovereignty; and 4) Campaigns to educate the public
about and to resist the growth of new economic trends (e.g. international free
trade agreements, etc.). Grants vary from small to medium.
Contact information:
Address: Building 1062 Fort Cronkhite, CA 94965, Sausalito - United States
Phone: +1-415-229.9339
Fax: +1-415.229.9340
E-mail: info@deepecology.org
Internet: www.deepecology.org
Frontier - Society for
Environmental Exploration (Frontier SEE)
Frontier's SEE was established in 1989 as a non-profit conservation NGO. Since
its inception, SEE has hosted a myriad of global conservation projects under the
banner name of Frontier. Frontier is dedicated to safeguarding biodiversity and
ecosystem integrity. Its mission is to promote and advance tropical field
research and to implement practical projects contributing to the conservation of
natural resources and the development of sustainable livelihoods.
Contact information:
Contact persons: Paul Rubio, Patricia Davis, Natasha Calderwood
Address: 50-52 Rivington Street, EC2A 3QP London - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7613.2422
Fax: +44-20-7613.2992
E-mail: info@frontier.ac.uk
Internet: www.frontierprojects.ac.uk
Fundeso
Fundeso's primary attention is directed towards socio-economic programmes
centered on reinforcement of the economical position of small producers and the
professional education of young people and adults. Fundeso promotes
socio-economical development programmes in developing countries, with special
attention for Latin America. Themes are a.o. forest issues like afforestation
and non-timber forest products.
Contact information:
Contact person: Mr. Javier Gila
Address: Gran Vía, 16-4º izq, 28013 Madrid - Spain
Phone: +34-91-7014700
Fax: +34-91-7014701
E-mail: fundeso@fundeso.org
Internet: www.fundeso.org
GEO schützt den Regenwald
(GEO)
"Trees for Life" was established in 1990 by the magazine GEO. The aim
is to protect tropical (rain)forests and to improve the economic situation of
its inhabitants and neighbours. Funding preference is for agroforestry projects
so as to develop sustainable ways of using the rainforest. They fund
infrastructural measures which serve to protect selected areas; technical
support, health care, and educational aid for indigenous peoples; information
dissemination of the environmental situation in Southern countries.
Contact information:
Address: c/o Redaktion GEO: Am Baumwall 11, 20444 Hamburg - Germany
Phone: +49-40-3703-0
Fax: +49-40-3703-5648
E-mail: briefe@geo.de
Internet: www.geo.de/projekte/regenwald
(in German)
Global Finland
Global Finland is the new name for the Department for International Development
Co-operation, formerly known under the name FINNIDA. The International
Environment Policy Unit is responsible for International NGOs, which concentrate
their work on international and regional environmental issues such as climate
policy, water and sanitation, sustainable forest management, watershed
management and land degradation (e.g. desertification), biodiversity as well as
implementation of sustainable development initiatives.
Contact information:
Contact person: Ms. Anu Pärnänen-Landtman
Address: PO Box 176, 00161 Helsinki -Finland
Phone: +358-9-1605.6417
E-mail: anu.parnanen-landtman@formin.fi
Global Greengrants Fund (GGF)
The mission of the GGF is to help protect the global environment by
strengthening the grassroots environmental movement in developing countries with
small grants in the range between US$ 500 and US$ 5000. The Fund supports a wide
range of community-based initiatives that protect the environment in the most
underserved and threatened regions on Earth.
Small grants are made on the basis of recommendations from an informal network
of activist advisors familiar with grassroots environmental organizations in
developing regions around the globe as well as special advisory boards. Funding
is especially provided for strengthening of organizational infrastructure and
networking capability and in particular for those essential expenses that allow
organizations to do their work.
Contact information:
Contact person: Chet Tchozewski,
Address: 2840 Wilderness Place Suite E, CO 80301 Boulder - United States
Phone: +1-303-939.9866
Fax: +1-303-939.9867
E-mail: info@greengrants.org
Internet: www.greengrants.org
GORTA
Gorta is now concentrating its development activities in Africa, although
several long-term partners in other countries are still being supported. Gorta's
emphasis is on the utilisation of local resources, with projects designed,
implemented and controlled by the local people to the greatest extent possible.
Gorta prefers to support agricultural projects within the structure of fully
integrated programmes. Themes: agricultural development, herbal &
traditional medicine production, animal husbandry, bee-keeping, fish farming,
agro-forestry, afforestation, soil conservation, etc.
Contact information:
Address: 12 Herbert Street, 2 Dublin - Ireland
Phone: +353-1-661.5522
Fax: +353-1-661.2627
E-mail: admin@gorta.ie
Internet: www.gorta.ie
Grass Roots International (GRI)
GRI provides cash grants and material aid to partner organisations in the South
that are working for social and economic justice. GRI concentrates on capacity
building and community development with, amongst others, special attention for
human rights (also for indigenous people and refugees) and environmental themes
like deforestation and ecological restoration.
Contact information:
Contact person: Jennifer Lemire, programme coordinator
Address: 179 Boylston St. 4th Floor, MA 02130, Boston - United States
Phone: +1-617-524.1400
Fax: +1-617-524.5525
E-mail: info@grassrootsonline.org
Internet: www.grassrootsonline.org
Groen Hart/VFTB
Groen Hart ("Green Heart") is responsible for the Tropical Forest
Program of the Flemish Ministry of Environment, which was created in 2002 for
the duration of five years. The objectives of the Tropical Forest Program are 'to
support small and medium-scale activities that can contribute to the
conservation and sustainable management of the tropical forests'. Activities in
following domains can be financed: sustainable forest management and
certification; (primary) forest reserves (support could be given through
research projects, training, inventories, GIS/Mapping, control and management of
forest reserves, development of bufferzone activities with local people,
ecotourism, etc.); afforestation and restoration of degraded lands (including
carbon registration). Beneficiary countries for the coming years are: Bolivia,
Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Surinam (applications from Brazil are temporarily not
accepted). Project proposals in other countries than the ones mentioned above
are not eligible.
Contact information:
Contact persons: Dominiek Plouvier, Dominiek.Plouvier@groenhart.be
& Bert Desomviele, Bert.Desomviele@groenhart.be
Address: Geraardsbergse Steenweg 267, 9090 Gontrode-Melle - Belgium
Phone: +32-9-2649056
Fax: +32-9-2649092
Internet: www.groenhart.be
Helvetas
This organisation works with partner NGOs in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia
and Latin America promoting self-reliant and sustainable development with an
ecological awareness and the interests of future generations. In the area of
ecology and forest conservation, Helvetas concentrates its work, amongst others,
in the following fields: land use planning, soil conservation, afforestation,
bio-diversity, and marketing of forest and agricultural products.
Contact information:
Address: St. Moritzstr. 15, 8042 Zürich - Switzerland
Phone: +41-1-368.65.00
Fax: +41-1-368.65.80
E-mail: info@helvetas.ch
Internet: www.helvetas.ch
HIVOS (Humanist Institute
for Co-operation with Developing Countries)
HIVOS seeks to help improve the opportunities and scope for development of
people in the South. Respect for human rights, pluralism and democratisation are
essential elements here. HIVOS has an integrated approach towards environment
and development issues. With respect to environment issues, the focus is on
sustainable production/consumption and related management of land and (agro)
biodiversity. Hivos supports environmental organisations and action groups that
are in the vanguard of their own society at the interface between the
environment and development. Funding can vary from small to large but the
maximum is € 10.000 per project.
Contact information:
Address: Raamweg 16, 2596 HL Den Haag - Netherlands
Phone: +31-70-376.55.00
Fax: +31-70-362.46.00
E-mail: hivos@hivos.nl
Internet: www.hivos.nl
ICCO (Interchurch
Organisation for Development Co-operation)
ICCO's mission lies in financing activities, which stimulate and enable people,
in their own way, to organise dignified housing and living conditions. As part
of its Fair Economic Development policy theme much attention is paid to
sustainable forest use.
In October 2002 ICCO and partner-organisations founded the international
Sustainable Forest Use Working group. From active cooperation with
partner-organisations remarkable results were achieved in during the last five
years in the field of sustainable forest use: use-rights, identification of
products, capacity building, commercialisation of products etc. However, for
real economically viable development initiatives, processing of these products
and thus adding value, is needed. Besides the use of timber and non-timber
forest products also the products resulting from agro-forestry might be
necessary to complete the demand for income and employment and to decrease the
pressure on remaining forests. Also sound and fair co-operation with both
governments and businesses is considered necessary to create better market
opportunities.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 8190, 3503 RD Utrecht - Netherlands
Phone: +31-30-692.78.11
Fax: +31-30-692.56.14
E-mail: info@icco.nl
Internet: www.icco.nl
Institute for Sustainable
Communities (ISC)
The ISC has helped hundreds of communities around the world improve the health
of their people and ecosystems. ISC have worked on a variety of environmental
projects (such as pollution abatement, recycling, and metal recovery,
reforestation, protection of biodiversity, and the creation of parks and
greenways), and environmental education. But ISC never focuses solely on the
environment; one of the reasons projects have been successful is that attention
is paid to economic and social concerns as well.
Contact information:
Address: 56 College Street, VT 05602 Montpelier - United States
Phone: +1-802-229.2900
Fax: +1-802-229.2919
E-mail: isc@iscvt.org
Internet: www.iscvt.org
International Development Research
Centre (IDRC)
Through support for research, IDRC assists developing countries in creating
their long-term solutions to pressing development problems. Support is given
directly to Third World institutions whose research focuses primarily on meeting
the basic needs of the population and overcoming the problems of poverty. It
tries to improve the quality of life in areas of human health, economic and
social well-being food and nutrition the environment and natural resources and
information and communications.
Environment themes are: afforestation, sustainable agriculture, soil erosion
control, forest protection and management, land regeneration, and water
management. Types of activities supported are: conferences, seminars, workshops,
publications, research. Other items like study and travel grants can also be
supported as long as they form an integral part of a research-type project.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 8500, K1G 3H9, Ottawa - Canada
Phone: +1-613-236-6163
Fax: +1-613-238-7230
E-mail: info@idrc.ca
Internet: www.idrc.ca
International Tree Foundation
(ITF)
The ITF was founded in 1924 (!) by Dr. Richard St Barbe Baker, one of the
pioneers of tree planting in Britain and the world. ITF works towards a world
richer in trees, by planting, preserving and educating people on the value of
trees worldwide. Since 2002 ITF has focused its grants on specific areas of
Africa and India to ensure that projects get sufficient funding and are followed
through properly. ITF is involved in the establishment and maintenance of tree
nurseries, tree planting and agro-forestry projects.
Contact information:
Address: Sandy Lane, RH10 4HS Crawley Down, West Sussex - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1342-712.536
Fax: +44-1342-718.282
E-mail: nfo@internationaltreefoundation.org
Internet: www.internationaltreefoundation.org
International Tree Fund (ITF)
The ITF is a Dutch volunteer organisation, which aims at the conservation,
sustainable management and restoration of tropical forests in combination with
efforts directed at the well-being of the indigenous people that live in the
forests. The Fund supports small-scale forestry projects in Central America.
Contact information:
Address: Laurens Reaalstraat 16, 3531 GN Utrecht - Netherlands
Phone: +31-30-297.09.37
E-mail: itf@tiscali.nl
Internet: http://www.itf.nl
ITTO
ITTO is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the conservation and
sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its 59
members represent about 80% of the world's tropical forests and 90% of the
global tropical timber trade. ITTO is focusing on the world tropical timber
economy and the sustainable management of the resource base, simultaneously
encouraging the timber trade and the improved management of the forests. ITTO
collects, analyses and disseminates data on the production and trade of tropical
timber and funds a range of projects and other action aimed at developing
industries at both community and industrial scales. The action program covers a
broad range of issues related to tropical forest management, the marketing and
trade of tropical timber and other forest products, and the development of
forest-based industries. For example, projects are under way in eight countries
to establish transboundary conservation areas, while others aim to generate
employment and improve livelihoods in struggling communities by assisting
value-added timber processing; others are designed to increase the transparency
of the tropical timber trade.
Contact information:
Address: International Organizations Center, 5th Floor, Pacifico-Yokohama 1-1-1,
Minato-Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-0012 - Japan
Phone: +81-45-223.1110
Fax: +81-45-223.1111
E-mail: itto@itto.or.jp
Internet: http://www.itto.or.jp
IUCN Forest Conservation Programme
(IUCN-FCP)
The Programme actively engages with governments, local communities, NGOs and the
private sector around the world to improve forest conservation and management on
the ground. Through its field research, project implementation, policy
development and advocacy work at the national, regional and inter-governmental
levels the Programme promotes innovative approaches to create opportunities for
positive change.
The mission of the Programme is to influence, encourage and assist societies
throughout the world to conserve biological diversity in forests and
tree-dominated landscapes and ensure that the use of forest resources is
equitable and ecologically sustainable. The goal of the FCP is to maintain and,
where necessary, restore forest ecosystems to promote conservation, sustainable
management and an equitable distribution of the full range of forest goods and
services.
Contact information:
Contact persons: Stephen Kelleher, senior programme officer, stephen.kelleher@iucn.org
Address: Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland - Switzerland
Phone: +41-22-999.0261/3
Fax: +41-22-999.0025
E-mail: forests@iucn.org
Internet: www.iucn.org/themes/fcp
Japan International Volunteer
Center (JVC)
Based on the concept of 'Resident-Lead Village Development', JVC is engaged in
various activities including natural farming, mutual aid and environmental
protection. JVC emphasizes the importance of 'life in harmony with nature and
respect for local culture'. By promoting the restoration and preservation of the
natural environment, mutual aid and people' s existence in accordance with
nature, it wants to enable the people to lead permanently stable lives in their
villages and rural areas.
Contact information:
Address: Marukou-Building 6F, 1-20-6, Higashiueno, Taitou, 110-8605 Tokyo -
Japan
Phone: +81-3-3834.2388
Fax: +81-3-3835.0519
E-mail: jvc@jca.apc.org
Internet: www.jca.apc.org/jvc
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation - Conservation and Sustainable Development Program
The Program is a part of the Program on Global Security and Sustainability. The
area's exclusive focus is on dealing with the problems of endangered tropical
ecosystems, regions with the greatest degree of species diversity, but plagued
by acute human poverty and often experiencing rapid population growth. The
purpose is to conserve biodiversity and promote the sustainable use of natural
resources.
The Foundation focuses its conservation and sustainable development work to a
small number of tropical biogeographic zones: Southern Tropical Andes (the
eastern slopes of the mountains in Peru and Bolivia); Northern Tropical Andes
(the eastern slopes of the mountains in Ecuador and Colombia); Insular Caribbean:
(terrestrial and coastal ecosystems in the Greater Antilles and in selected
islands of the Lesser Antilles); the Eastern Himalaya (the mountain ecosystems
of eastern Nepal, Bhutan, Northeast India and Yunnan); Lower Mekong (forest
regions of the Mekong basin in Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam); Indo-Melanesia (coastal
and marine areas of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and eastern
Indonesia); Madagascar; Lower Guinean Forest (the coastal forest of Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria - particularly the Niger Delta); Albertine
Rift (the highlands area of western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo).
Contact information:
Address: 140 S. Dearborn Street, IL 60603 Chicago - United States
Phone: +1-312-726.800
Fax: +1-312-920.6285
E-mail: 4answers@macfound.org - apply@macfound.org
Internet: www.macfound.org/programs/gss/csd/index.htm
Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund
(KNCF)
The KNCF supports field projects, which are in accordance with the aims of the
KNCF, which, in principle, provides assistance for nature conservation efforts
in developing countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, including
Siberia (but also in Africa and South America). The KNCF gives priority to
projects that will serve to enrich biodiversity.
Contact information:
Address: Kotani-Bldg. 8F, 1-2-7, Uchikanda, Chiyoda-Ku, 100-0047, Tokyo - Japan
Phone: +81-3-5282-5701
Fax: +81-3-5282-5703
E-mail: kncf@keidanren.or.jp
Internet: www.keidanren.or.jp/kncf
Living Earth
(LE)
Living Earth involves a wide range of stakeholders in its work - people in
corporations, communities, schools, and government institutions. The
organisation specialises in environmental learning and in developing tri-sector
partnerships among corporations, government agencies, and civil society. Living
Earth has active programmes in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Macedonia, Nigeria,
Uganda, and Venezuela. As well as practical programs, Living Earth offers
training and consultancy services to a broad range of corporate, academic, and
institutional clients.
Contact information:
Address: 4 Great James Street, WC1N3DA, London - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7440.9750
Fax: +44-20-7242.3817
E-mail: info@livingearth.org.uk
Internet: www.livingearth.org.uk
Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg
Foundation (LCAOF)
This is a private foundation dedicated to environmental conservation,
particularly the survival of wildlife and wild lands and to the vitality of
human communities, which they are inextricably linked. There are two primary
program interests. The first is the mitigation of conflict between the land
resource needs of local communities and conservation of biological diversity in
rural landscapes outside of parks and reserves. The second is the implementation
of relevant, field-based scientific, technical, and practical training programs
for local people. Grants vary between US$ 15,000 and US$ 170,000.
Contact information:
Contact person: James Murtaugh
Address: 650 5th Avenue, NY 10019 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-333-2536
Fax: +1-212-956-3531
E-mail: lcaof@fcc.net
Internet: www.lcaof.org/home.html
Margot Marsh Biodiversity
Foundation (MMBF)
The aim of the Foundation is to contribute to global biodiversity conservation
by providing strategically targeted, catalytic support for the conservation of
endangered non-human primates and their natural habitats. The efforts of the
Foundation are dedicated exclusively to primate conservation and their natural
habitats. The Foundation is active in Brazil, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar and
Vietnam. Funding is also provided for meetings, workshops etc. on the
above-mentioned issues.
Contact information:
Address: 432 Walker Road, PO Box 923, VA 22066 Great Falls - United States
Fax: +1-703-759.68.79
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The NFWF is a private organisation established by the US Congress. The
Foundation fosters co-operative partnerships to conserve fish, wildlife, plants,
and the habitats on which they depend. Its Challenge Grant Program awards
funding to projects that address priority actions promoting fish and wildlife
conservation and the habitats on which they depend; work proactively to involve
other conservation and communities; leverage available funding; and evaluate
project outcomes. Projects in Canada, Mexico, and other international areas that
host migratory wildlife and other US trust resources (marine mammals, threatened
and endangered species, anadromous and marine fish) are considered.
Contact information:
Address: 1120 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 900, DC 20036, Washington - United
States
Phone: +1-202-857.01.66
Fax: +1-202-857.01.62
E-mail: info@nfwf.org
Internet: www.nfwf.org
Nature Conservancy (NC)
The Nature Conservancy is the world's largest private international conservation
group (with approximately 1 million members). Its mission is to preserve the
plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on
Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy
plays the role of project facilitator, helping to plan the project, attract
funding, ensure the project's integrity, and bring expertise and experience to
on-the-ground activities. The Conservancy works in close partnership with
locally based NGOs that have responsibility for the execution of the project.
Contact information:
Address: 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, VA 22203 Arlington - United States
Phone: +1-703-841.5300
E-mail: comment@tnc.org
Internet: www.nature.org
Nepenthes
Nepenthes was set up as a non-profit organization by a group of biologists,
anthropologists and others who wanted to work for preserving the tropical rain
forests of the world and help its indigenous people.
Its purpose is threefold: 1) to propagate the knowledge of tropical rainforests
and other natural forests and the problems associated with their destruction; 2)
to work for a long-term sustainable development that will contribute to a
rational utilisation of forests and conservation of natural forests; 3) to
support indigenous peoples in regions with natural forests in conserving their
forests and in strengthen their cultural identity and right of
self-determination.
Contact information:
Contact person: Vibeke Tuxen
Address: PO Box 5102, 8100 Aarhus - Denmark
Phone: +45-86-135232
Fax: +45-86-125149
E-mail: info@nepenthes.dk
Internet: www.nepenthes.dk
Netherlands Committee for IUCN (NC-IUCN-NL)
The Netherlands Committee for IUCN is an independent foundation, which unites
Dutch NGO-members of IUCN. The Committee coordinates several funding programmes:
The Tropical Rainforest Programme (TRP) is especially aimed at supporting
projects regarding conservation and sustainable management of tropical
rainforests, set up and implemented by NGOs (preferably from rainforest
countries). The central objective is to encourage the conservation of the
tropical rainforest through balanced and sustainable land and forest use, with a
view to halting the current rapid process of deforestation, along with other
environmental damage and degradation. A number of criteria has been drafted for
the allocation of funds, as well as a format for project proposals. Furthermore
the programme will look for an equilibrated division of funds between regions
and priority themes. (Mind: unfortunately, there will be no deadline in 2005.
The next deadline will probably be spring 2006). More information: trp@iucn.nl
Small Grants for the Purchase of Nature (SPN). The objective is to
support local NGOs in the purchase of vulnerable nature, with the aim to
conserve biodiversity for the long term. More information: spn@nciucn.nl
The Dry and Sub-Humid Areas Small Grants Programme (DAS) links poverty,
desertification and biodiversity. The objectives are: poverty alleviation
through the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of dry and
sub-humid ecosystems; capacity building of local NGOs; and improved policy
influencing by NGOs on all levels. Funded are a.o. initiatives in the fields of
support for ecosystem restoration (forest landscape restoration, natural
regeneration) and agroforestry. More information: das@nciucn.nl
Contact information:
Contact persons: Rietje Grit, Marc Hoogeslag, Puck Heikens
Address: PO Box 18184, 1001 ZB Amsterdam - Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-626.17.32
Fax: +31-20-627.93.49
Internet: www.nciucn.nl/nederlands/fondsen
New Forests Project (NFP)
This is a people-to-people, direct-action program aiming at reforestation and
reduce deforestation in developing countries. NFP is a project of the
International Center. Since its inception the NFP has worked with more than
4,400 communities, in over 120 countries. Its purpose is to protect, conserve,
and enhance the health of the Earth's ecosystems by supporting integrated
grassroots efforts to maintain and rebuild the world's forests through the
promotion of agro-forestry, reforestation, the protection of watersheds, and the
initiation of renewable energy projects. NFP hopes to offer farmers realistic
alternatives to harvesting existing tropical forests so that these threatened or
already degraded forests may have the chance to regenerate and flourish.
Contact information:
Address: 731 Eighth Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 - United States
Phone: +1-202-547.3800
Fax: +1-202-546.4784
E-mail: icnfp@erols.com
Internet: www.newforestsproject.com
NORAD (Norwegian Agency for
Development Co-Operation)
NORAD administrates long-term government-to-government development co-operation
with close to 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Central America. It works through
Norwegian embassies and is thus in an excellent position to conduct dialogue
with partner countries concerning priorities and framework conditions for
development co-operation. In the area of the environment, they promote
responsible management and utilisation of the global environment and biological
diversity.
Contact information:
Address: Postboks 8034 Dep., 0030 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47-22-242.030
Fax: +47-22-242.031
E-mail: informasjonssenteret@norad.no
Internet: www.norad.no
Nouvelle Planète (NP)
The organisation works with local organizations and grassroots groups to design
and implement community development projects. Regarding agriculture NP provides
courses on ecological agriculture; supports projects aimed at the creation of
tree nurseries and orchards, of reforested areas, the sustainable exploitation
of natural resources (e.g. medicinal plant gardens). With respect to indigenous
people and tropical forests NP supports the Amazonian Indians' struggle to save
the rainforest, and to acquire land titles for their territories; and also
support for the struggle of Vietnam's "Montagnard" people to reforest
their lands and to survive.
Contact information:
Address: Chemin de la Forêt, 1042 Assens - Switzerland
Phone: +41-21-881.23.80
Fax: +41-21-882.10.54
E-mail: nouvelle-planete@freesurf.ch
Internet: www.nouvelle-planete.ch
NOVIB (Netherlands Organisation
for International Development Co-operation)
NOVIB has over forty years of experience with thousands of projects in the Third
World covering a wide range of areas and subjects. It has evolved a way of
working called the 'Novib Method'. The Novib Method involves working to realise
the structural, sustainable eradication of poverty in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and Eastern Europe. Novib supports projects that focus on such areas as
health care, rural development, education, and setting up small businesses.
Other priority issues include environment, gender, and human rights. Novib has
core programmes in 55 countries and several regional and sectoral programmes on
the priority themes in several continents.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 30919, 2500 GX Den Haag - the Netherlands
Phone: +31-70-3421621
Fax: +31-70-3614461
E-mail: admin@novib.org
Internet: www.novib.org
Organization for Industrial, Spiritual
and Cultural Advancement (OISCA-International)
OISCA-International operates on a conviction that sound development is rooted
foremost on agriculture and rural-based primary industries. While promoting no
specific religion, OISCA-International stresses a spiritual component along with
material development. One of its main activities is the Tree Planting Programme:
OISCA has been engaged in creating community forests in several Asian countries.
By mobilizing volunteers, mainly from Japan, it cooperates with partner agencies
and organizations in Asian.
Contact information:
Address: 6-12, Izumi 3-chome, Suginami-ku, 168-0063 Tokyo - Japan
Phone: +81-3-3322-5161
Fax: +81-3-3324-7111
E-mail: overseas@oisca.org
Internet: isca.org/e/index.htm
Overbrook Foundation (OF)
The Foundation's Environment Program supports organisations working to develop
better consumption and production habits in the United States and in Latin
America (currently Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador only). In Latin America the
primary objective is to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity with much
attention for forest-related issues. Issues are; cloud forest conservation,
conservation of timber species threatened by logging in the Amazon, protecting
forests and forest communities in Latin America, conserving critically
endangered dry forests and other biodiversity conservation activities. Grants
range between US$ 5.000 and US$ 100.000.
Contact information:
Address: 122 East 42nd Street, Suite 2500 - NY 10168 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-6618710
Fax: +1-212-6618664
E-mail: info@overbrookfoundation.org
Internet: www.overbrookfoundation.org
Pacific Environment (PE)
Founded as the Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC) this organisation
started by working on international energy and resources issues. PE presently
supports over 100 different NGOs throughout the Pacific Rim by providing them
with small grants, equipment, information, advice and other capacity-building
tools. Pacific Environment organizes meetings and conferences to get them all in
the same room to discuss regional issues and work on regional strategies.
Supporting Local Environmental Struggles: PE dedicates over one-third of its
budget each year to funding grassroots organizations that address critical
environmental threats like illegal logging and over-fishing. In China PE focuses
on the timber trade; PE is developing a trans-boundary strategy to counter the
rapid growth in deforestation.
Contact information:
Address: 1440 Broadway, suite 306, CA 94612 Oakland - United States
Phone: +1-510-251.8800
Fax: +1-510-251.8838
E-mail: info@pacificenvironment.org
Internet: www.pacificenvironment.org
Packard Foundation, David and Lucile
The Foundation provides grants to non-profit organisations in the following
broad program areas: conservation, population, science, children, families,
communities, arts, and organisational effectiveness and philanthropy. In its
international conservation program, the Foundation supports programs which
protect globally outstanding habitats in areas of natural significance and
biological diversity; address important factors of environmental degradation
found in inappropriate and unsustainable land, water, energy, and marine
resources; elevate the role of natural and social science in the management of
key resources and in the arena of conservation policy. Outside of the United
States, their focus is Mexico, the Western Pacific, and China.
Contact information:
Address: 300 Second Street, Suite 200, CA 94022, Los Altos - United States
Phone: +1-650-948.7658
Internet: www.packfound.org
Patagonia Inc.
Patagonia is an outdoor clothing company that gives grants for environmental
work. Patagonia funds only environmental work. They are most interested in
making grants to organizations that identify and work on the root causes of
problems and that approach issues with a commitment to long-term change.
Patagonia looks for programs with a clear agenda for change and a strategic plan
for achieving the organization's goals.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 150, CA 93002, Ventura - United States
E-mail: info@patagonia.com
Internet: www.patagonia.com/enviro/main_enviro_action.shtml
Plant-It 2000
Plant-It 2000 is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to properly planting,
maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as possible worldwide. In
addition to replenishing cities and forests. Founded by the late singer John
Denver in 1992, the reforestation projects in many countries directly help
humanity by increasing crop production, fresh water availability and food.
Contact information:
Address: PMB 310, 9457 S. University Boulevard, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 -
United States
Phone: +1-303-221.00.77
Fax: +1-303-221.0090
E-mail: trees@plantit2000.com
Internet: www.plantit2000.com/contact.html
Presbytarian Hunger Program (PHB)
The PHP provides grants to programs addressing hunger and its causes. One of the
five program areas is development assistance for socio-economic activities. PHP
supports projects that encourage and support land ownership by the poor,
appropriate agricultural technology, rural community development, effective soil
conservation, water resource development, and community forestry. Grants range
between US$ 500 and US$ 20,000.
Contact information:
Address: 100 Witherspoon Street, KY 40202-1396 Louisville - United States
Phone: +1-502-569.8963
E-mail: php@pcusa.org
Internet: www.pcusa.org
PRIMAKLIMA
PRIMAKLIMA is financing and promoting afforestation and forest conservation
projects all over the world as an important contribution to prevent global
climate change. PRIMAKLIMA supports tree planting and forest management projects
in cooperation with nationally and internationally approved organisations.
PRIMAKLIMA ensures qualified and verifiable project realisation. The
organisation has successfully reforested and implemented CO2-related ecological
measures on more than 2,500 hectares of land all over the world
Contact
information:
Address: Ikenstraße 1 b, 40625 Düsseldorf - Germany
Phone: +49-211-295.419
Fax: +49-211-291.3682
E-mail: prima-klima@user.ecore.net
Internet:
www.prima-klima-weltweit.de/english/intro.php3?top=english
Pro
Regenwald
Pro Regenwald seeks to protect forests, especially tropical forests, and the
indigenous peoples who inhabit them. It provides small to medium funds for
projects that seek to reverse tendencies, which destroy forests and to develop
protection measures through education, lobbying, research, and other initiatives.
Grants range between € 2500 and €15.000 for regular projects and regarding
the small grants facility the average grant is € 500. Pro Regenwald has also a
special fund for travel costs of people from the South who want to attend
seminars or conferences in Europe.
Contact information:
Address: Frohschammerstr. 14, 80807 Munich - Germany
Phone: +49-89-359.86.50
Fax: +49-89-359.66.22
E-mail: info@pro-regenwald.de
Internet: www.pro-regenwald.de
Public Welfare Foundation (PWF)
This is a non-government grantmaking organisation dedicated to support
organisations that provide services to disadvantaged populations. The Foundation
focuses its work on addressing the human health impact of environmental
degradation and pollution, particularly on disadvantaged communities or those
with the least resources to address this impact. Emphasis is given to such
issues as air, water, and land contamination. Other themes supported are
sustainable development, advocacy, and policy development. Most grants range
between US$ 25,000 and US$ 50,000.
Contact information:
Contact person: Midge Taylor, program officer environment
Address: 99 Park Avenue, Suite 2220, NY 10016, New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-370.1165
Fax: +1-212-599.6282
E-mail: reviewcommittee@publicwelfare.org
Internet: www.publicwelfare.org
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
RAN works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their
inhabitants through education, grassroots organising, and non-violent direct
action. RAN works in alliance with environmental and human rights groups around
the world, including indigenous forest communities and NGOs in rainforest
countries. RAN plays a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest
conservation movement by supporting activists in tropical countries, as well as
by organising and mobilising consumers and community action groups throughout
the United States.
RAN's Protect-An-Acre Program provides grants directly to organisations and
communities in rainforest regions. PAA prioritises projects that help forest
peoples gain control of their traditional territories through land demarcation,
the development of locally based alternative economic initiatives, community
organisation, and resistance to destructive practices such as logging and fossil
fuel development. Grants usually range between US$ 1,000 and US$ 5,000.
Contact information:
Address: 221 Pine St., Suite 500, CA 94104, San Francisco - United States
Phone: +1-415-398.44.04
Fax: +1-415-398.27.32
E-mail: rainforest@ran.org
Internet: www.ran.org
Rainforest Alliance (RA)
The mission of the Rainforest Alliance is to protect ecosystems and the people
and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business
practices and consumer behavior.
Sustainable Forestry: Central to RA's efforts is SmartWood certification,
a seal of approval that assures consumers that the wood products they purchase
come from forests managed to conserve biodiversity and support local communities.
To improve certification's effectiveness as a tool for biodiversity conservation
and economic support for local communities, the Rainforest Alliance established
the Training, Research, Extension, Education and Systems (TREES) program.
Part of this are projects to promote sustainable NTFP resource management and
boost the income of local forest communities in Central America and Nepal.
Sustainable Agriculture: the mission of this program is to integrate
productive agriculture, biodiversity conservation and human development.
Sustainable Tourism: a number of initiatives aimed at making tourism a
more environmentally friendly industry.
Community Conservation Enterprises: provides grants to communities to
improve the quality of life by supporting business opportunities that protect
their resources and help to stimulate a sustainable economy. CCE eco-business
grants range from US$ 500 to US$ 2,000.
Contact information:
Address: 665 Broadway, NY 10012, New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-677.1900
Fax: +1-212-677-2187
E-mail: canopy@ra.org
Internet: www.rainforest-alliance.org
Rainforest Concern (RC)
Rainforest Concern was established to protect threatened natural habitats,
particularly rainforests and the biodiversity they contain, together with the
indigenous people who still depend on them for their survival. RC purchases,
leases and manages, for protection, threatened native forest with exceptional
biodiversity. If land is purchased this is usually done in the name of partner
organisations or local communities. Much of the work concerns the creation of
protected corridors of forest between existing reserves. Furthermore RC develops
programmes for health, education and alternative income generation with local
people. These are designed to reduce the human impact on native forests. A
significant part of alternative income is derived from responsible ecotourism.
Also research in biodiversity is promoted through research facilities at several
of the projects.
Contact information:
Address: 27 Lansdowne Crescent, W11 2NS, London - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-171-229.20.93
Fax: +44-171-221.40.94
E-mail: info@rainforestconcern.org
Internet: www.rainforestconcern.org
Rainforest Conservation Fund (RCF)
This is a small all-volunteer non-profit organisation that is dedicated to
preserve the world's tropical rain forests. RCF aims to increase public
awareness of the dangers of rainforest destruction, raise money to protect
endangered rainforests, and suggest practical steps toward conservation of these
precious natural resources. The main project of the RCF is the Reserva Comunal
Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo in Peru RCF's goals and strategies for the RCTT are:
Biodiversity: fauna management, community management of lakes, habitat
protection and recuperation, alternatives to hunting. Support of research
projects. Land use: agroforestry systems, reforestation, successful species,
enriched fallows, land rights, use of secondary forest and degraded areas, avoid
cutting primary forest.
Contact information:
Address: 2038 North Clark Street, Suite 233, IL 60614-4713, Chicago - United
States
Phone: +1-773-975.75.17
E-mail: rcf@interaccess.com
Internet: www.rainforestconservation.org
Rainforest Foundation (RF)
The RF is an international network of organisations that have projects in
eighteen rainforest countries throughout Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Central and
South America. The mission of the Rainforest Foundation is to support indigenous
people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts
to protect their environment and fulfil their rights.
Project work: The RF provides financial support for practical projects run by
local organisations and indigenous peoples' associations. These projects aim to
secure forest peoples' rights and livelihoods, and to protect and sustainbly
manage tropical rainforests. The Foundation also provides help in identifying,
developing and fundraising for projects, and helping local organisations to
manage their work once they get started. All the projects supported by the RF
aim to help local organisations in tropical countries become more indepedent and
self-sustaining. Project themes are: Capacity Strengthening; Community Forests;
Income Generation; Law and Policy; Tackling Deforestation; and Territorial
Mapping and Security. Also the Foundation conducts advocacy programmes to
address some of the underlying causes of abuse of forest peoples' rights and
destruction of the forests.
Contact information:
Address: Suite A5, City Cloisters, 188-196 Old Street, London EC1V 9FR - United
Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7251.6345
Fax: +44-20-7251.4969
E-mail: rainforestuk@gn.apc.org
Internet: www.rainforestfoundationuk.org
Rainforest
Foundation Norway (Regnskogfondet)
This affiliate of RF supports projects in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, Cameroon and Dem. Rep. Congo.
Contact information:
Address: Grensen 9B, 0159 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47-23-109.500
Fax: +47-23-109.501
E-mail: rainforest@rainforest.no
Internet: www.rainforest.no
Rainforest Foundation Japan (RFJ)(Nettai
Shinrin Hogo Dantai)
An affiliate of the Rainforest Foundation, which conducts projects in Brazil.
Contact information:
Address: 2-4-5 Hamadayama, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0065 - Japan
Phone: +81-3-3290.2482
Fax: +81-3-3290.2483
E-Mail: xingu@rainforestjp.com
Internet: www.rainforestjp.com
Rainforest Foundation Austria
Contact information:
Address: Weyrgasse 5/2, 1030 Vienna - Austria
Phone/Fax: +43-1-712.46.90
E-mail: rffa@magnet.at
Rainforest Foundation Fund (RF-US)
The RF-US is the American affiliate of the Rainforest Foundation, which
concentrates its activities on South America. The organisation supports advocacy
initiatives and precedent setting legal cases that enable indigenous peoples to
demand that their governments uphold the laws that exist, but are often ignored,
that support indigenous rights to their lands. This means long-term commitments
to support grassroots initiatives. RF-US also provides small grants are for
meetings, training sessions, specific campaigns and emergencies. Finally it
funds special projects. For instance an educational program designed to build
strong leadership skills among U'wa leaders in Colombia, legal support and
capacity building for indigenous peoples in Roraima (Brazil), and several
mapping projects in Suriname.
Contact information:
Address: 32 Broadway, Suite 1614, NY 10004 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-431.9098
Fax: +1-212-431.9197
E-mail: rffny@rffny.org
Internet: www.rainforestfoundation.org
Rainforest-Institute
(Regenwald Institut)
A small institute for applied rainforest conservation, which supports scientific
research and development projects that will ensure sustainable and holistic
protection of the rainforests. The interests of indigenous and other people who
settle in the rainforest will be preserved and supported as far as they promote
the protection of their habitat. Also the Institute conducts seminars and
educational work. Last but not least it is involved in projects concerning the
purchase of forestlands and sustainable management of these lands in the
Brazilian Amazone region. Limited funds available.
Contact
information:
Contact person: Dr. Rainer Putz
Address: PO Box 1742, 79017 Freiburg - Germany
Phone: +49-761-556.13.19
Fax: +49-761-556.13.20
E-mail: info@regenwald-institut.de
Internet: www.regenwald-institut.de
RARE Center for Tropical Conservation
(RARE Center)
RARE Center works to help conserve the biological diversity of the Earth. In
more than 30 countries around the world, RARE has promoted creative strategies
for protecting species and their natural habitats. RARE's mission is to protect
wildlands of globally significant biological diversity by empowering local
people to benefit from their preservation. This mission is pursued by working in
partnership with local communities, NGOs, and other stakeholders to develop and
replicate locally managed conservation strategies. RARE develops practical
methods and tools and then transfer them to dynamic local organizations and
communities, providing training and technical assistance along the way. RARE
promotes sustainable economic alternatives - primarily through ecotourism - to
link community development with conservation.
Contact information:
Address: 1840 Wilson Blvd., Suite 402, VA 22201 Arlington - United States
Phone: +1-703-522.5070
Fax: +1-703-522.5027
E-mail: rare@rarecenter.org
Internet: www.rarecenter.org
Rettet den Regenwald (RdR)(Rainforest
Rescue)
RdR fights for the rights of the rainforest populations and the protection of
their habitats. Support of grass-roots organisations which fight against forest
destruction, and for indigenous rights, social progress and sustainable
development. Campaigns against tropical timber from primary forests, against
fraud and deception within and around FSC, campaigns against forest destruction
by large development projects (dams), mining activities, plantations and other
commercial activities. RdR fights German timber companies operating illegally
and/or irresponsibly. Provision of funds for the purchase of rain forest lands.
Support of legal actions of indigenous groups.
Contact information:
Address: Friedhofsweg 28, 22337 Hamburg - Germany
Phone: +49-40-410.38.04
Fax: +49-40-450.01.44
E-mail: info@regenwald.org
Internet: www.regenwald.org
Right Sharing of World Resources
(RSWR)
SRWR is a Quaker-organisation, which primarily works with newly established and
small organizations in the developing world. SRWR's grants support innovative
income-generating projects and environmental regeneration (reforestation,
agro-forestry, alternative energy sources). Grants provide seed money which is
recycled within a community. RSWR supplies each project with no more than US$
5,000 per year; the idea being to provide just enough capital to "prime the
pump."
Contact information:
Address: 3960 Winding Way, OH 45229 Cincinnati - United States
Phone: +1-513-281.4401
Fax: +1-513-281.4340
E-mail: rswr@earthlink.net
Internet: www.rswr.org
Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)
In all regions where the RBF is engaged in sustainable development grantmaking,
it monitors the social and environmental effects of development programs and
fiscal policies that are associated with global economic integration and seeks
to integrate activities across geographic areas to promote maximum impact.
Regarding Sustainable Development the RBF conducts two programs: Combat Global
Warming Program (in the USA and globally, the Fund supports strategies to combat
global warming and seeks to contribute to international cooperation on this
issue); and Protecting Ecosystems and Conserving Biodiversity Program. The goal
of the last program is to conserve terrestrial and marine biodiversity by
protecting and restoring ecosystems and by fostering sustainable communities
that pursue locally appropriate development strategies through: supporting the
conservation and sustainable use of remaining intact blocks of coastal temperate
rainforest lands; promoting sustainable forest management practices that
maintain healthy forest ecosystems and protect communities that are culturally
and economically dependent on them; in North America, supporting the reform of
unsustainable fishery management practices; and in the Russian Far East,
supporting efforts to protect Pacific Salmon by encouraging terrestrial and
marine conservation programs that link the health of open ocean ecosystems to
that of forest watersheds.
Contact information:
Contact person: Michael Northrop (Global & U.S. grantmaking)
Address: 437 Madison Avenue, 37th floor, NY 10022 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-812.4200
Fax: +1-212-812.4299
E-mail: rock@rbf.org
Internet: www.rbf.org
SEEDTREE (yeS wE arE inDeed
Together Renewing Endangered Ecosystems)
This small non-profit organization assists self-reliant efforts to protect and
renew forests and ecosystems through human economy and ecology, particularly by
tree planting, water supply and biogas. The aim is to preserve and renew forest
ecosystems by developing a sustainable human ecology. Planting the seed of a
tree begins restoring lands, forests, their biodiversity and the quality of life
they provide. It works in partnership with donors and doers who share SEEDTREE's
faith in the transforming power of seeds and "seed deeds" to activate
the principles and procedures most promising for ecosystem preservation and
renewal.
Contact information:
Address: RR 2 Box 802 West Cape, ME 04981 Stockton Springs - United States
Phone : +1-207-567-3056
E-mail: info@seedtree.org
Internet: www.seedtree.org
Siemenpuu Foundation
The Foundation supports people in the South: to get their voices heard and at
the same time to support their work in advancing citizen's political and other
decision-making powers locally and globally; in protecting biological and
cultural diversity; in securing the safety of their environment and in
furthering ecologically sustainable production and consumption. Primarily, the
Foundation gives support directly to civil society organisations and networks of
organisations, NGOs, community groups and research institutes operating and
based in the South. The nature of the activities supported can be diverse.
Siemenpuu supports several initiatives in the fields of the environment,
biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, and sustainable
development (e.g. the Philippines Non-Timber Forest Products Task Force).
Contact
information:
Contact person: Heidi Leino, heidi.leino@siemenpuu.org
Address: Aleksanterinkatu 48 A, 00100 Helsinki - Finland
Phone: +358-9-272.23.36
Fax: +358-9-622.718.92
E-mail: info@siemenpuu.org
Internet: www.siemenpuu.org
Small
Grants Program for Operations to Promote Tropical Forests (SGP-PTF)
The "Small Grants Programme for Operations to Promote Tropical Forests"
is an European Commission funded initiative implemented by the UNDP and executed
by the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA).
The program is aimed at South-East Asia (and Sri Lanka). The SGP-PTF is a
community focused, country-led programme that works closely with and builds on
the existing mechanisms and procedures established by The GEF Small Grants
Programme. The main objective of this programme is to encourage and support
local communities, who often have little access to financial and technical
resources to undertake innovative approaches to sustainable forest management at
the local level.
Contact information:
Address: SEARCACollege, 4031 Laguna - Philippines
Phone: +63-49-536.22.90 395 or loc.418
Fax: +63-49-536.24.77
E-mail: mark.sandiford@undp.org or agnes.payson@undp.org
Internet: www.sgpptf.org/home.asp
Stichting School van Z.M. Koning Willem
III en H.M. Koningin Emma der Nederlanden
The Foundation provides financial support to projects that promote knowledge of
forestry, the training of employees, teachers or information officers, the
creation or restoration of training, information or educational centres, the
production of information or educational material, and research aimed at the
preservation, maintenance, or restoration of forests. The Foundation supports
the use, protection, or restoration of forests and forestry woody and herbaceous
vegetation occurring under more or less natural conditions in association with
fauna and abiotic factors. It also supports projects that look at the use of
forest for commercial, educational and recreational purposes, the maintenance of
forest for its value to nature and the environment, the use of products
originating from the forest, and the use of substitute products in the interest
of the forest.
Contact information:
Contact person: Ir. P.E. de Wit
Address: Koninklijk Park 1, 7315 JA Apeldoorn - Netherlands
Phone: +31-55-521.97.09
Fax: +31-55-5224462
E-mail: waltersingel114@hetnet.nl
Internet: www.koningsschool.nl
Sustainable Harvest International (SHI)
SHI's mission is to reverse environmental degradation by helping rural
inhabitants restore ecological stability and sustainable economic productivity
to overexploited lands. SHI facilitates farmers and communities in Central
America with long-term assistance implementing environmentally and economically
sustainable technologies and landuse practices that alleviate poverty by
restoring ecological stability. SHI has planted over 1,000,000 trees, converted
thousands of acres of degraded land to sustainable uses and saved over hundreds
of thousands of acres of tropical forest from slash-and-burn destruction through
introduction of agro-forestry techniques and afforestation - especially for
watershed protection.
Contact
information:
Address: 81 Newbury Neck Rd., ME 04684 Surry - United States
Phone: +1-207-664.0987
Fax: +1-207-664.0700
E-mail: info@sustainableharvest.org
Internet: www.sustainableharvest.org
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
(SSNC)
SSNC, works on international environmental issues that include disseminating and
exchanging information and expertise on the environmental and economic causes of
international environmental problems and developing long-term co-operation with
environmental movements in other countries. SSNC's provides assistance to and
co-operates with NGOs through a Small Projects Fund, information exchange, and
by engaging in joint campaigns. Current priority is for projects that support
the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities to control and manage
their natural resources, on the problems caused by industrial tree plantations
and the role of Nordic/Swedish forest industry, as well as on sustainable
agriculture, genetic resources and food security.
Contact information:
Address: Box 4625, 11691 Stockholm - Sweden
Phone: +46-8-702.65.00
Fax: +46-8-702.08.55
E-mail: info@snf.se
Internet: www.snf.se
Swiss Agency for Development and
Co-operation (SDC)
SDC is part of the Swiss department of foreign affairs that executes the
government's development and humanitarian aid. SDC concentrates its long-term
development co-operation efforts on a limited number of countries and areas of
activity. SDC concentrates its development efforts on poverty alleviation,
sustainable use of natural resources, supporting the empowerment of people,
gender equality, and providing access to information. They also support
initiatives to protect endangered areas. Swiss development co-operation aims
above all at improving the productive base, by fostering agriculture and food
security, together with industrial and crafts production and the development of
appropriate technologies. In particular, it will give financial support to
socially feasibly structural adjustment programs.
Contact information:
Address: Freiburgstrasse 130, 3003 Berne - Switzerland
Phone: +41-31-322.34.75
Fax: +41-31-324.13.48
E-mail: info@deza.admin.ch
Internet: www.sdc.admin.ch
SwissAid
Swiss Aid supports development initiatives of local partner organisations.
Projects are supported that promote the autonomy of local populations' and
encourages people to develop sustainable solutions to their problems on the
basis of their own knowledge, creativity, resources and traditions. SwissAid
supports all aspects of rural development including, agriculture, erosion
protection, irrigation and sanitation, transport, crafts, education, healthcare,
and organisational development. Special attention is given towards the role of
women within the frame of regular projects and by supporting special women's
projects, which are initiated, conducted and exclusively aimed at women.
Contact information:
Adress: Jubiläumsstrasse 60, 3000 Berne - Switzerland
Phone: +41-31-350.53.53
Fax: +41-31-350.27.83
E-mail: postmaster@swissaid.ch
Internet: www.swissaid.ch
TREE AID
TREE AID has a vision to see thriving, self-reliant communities in Africa's
drylands. It is working towards this by reversing poverty and environmental
degradation for some of the most threatened people on earth, through skills
transfer and community forest and income generation projects. TREE AID funds
local organisations that are already working with village communities they know.
It does provide training to strengthen the technical and management capacity of
partner organisations. The kind of activities funded include: establishing tree
seedling nurseries; growing trees on and around farms and homesteads; developing
income generation activities and improving farming methods and soil fertility so
people can grow more food.
TREE AID's Project Development Fund is designed to provide small amounts of
funds for organizations wishing to carry out participatory research, feasibility
studies, baseline assessments and small pilot projects to assist in the
development of a project proposal and prior to a project commencing. The
Individual Project Fund does fund community tree projects that involve people
and the benefits trees can bring to them. A typical project may include one of
more of the following: management of natural forests and shrublands and/or
rangelands; creation and management of tree nurseries etc.; and agroforestry
initiatives. TREE AID aims to fund projects, which demonstrate a long-term
commitment to a region and its people.
Contact information:
Address: Brunswick Court, Brunswick Square, BS2 8PE, Bristol - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-117-909.63.63
Fax: +44-117-909.66.17
E-mail: info@treeaid.freeserve.co.uk
Internet: www.treeaid.org.uk
Trees for Life (TFL)
Trees for Life's activities include three elements: education, health and
environment. Volunteers in the villages are trained by Trees for Life and
provided with essential support for programs that respond to the needs of their
communities.
Trees for Life empowers local people by demonstrating that in helping each other,
we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. This is for instance
done by enabling people around the world to help plant fruit trees. Each tree
protects the environment and provides a low-cost, self-renewing source of food
for a large number of people.
Contact information:
Address: 3006 W St Louis, KS 67203 Wichita - United States
Phone: +1-316-945.6929
Fax: +1-316-945.0909
E-mail: info@treesforlife.org
Internet: www.treesforlife.org
Trees for the Future (TFTF)
Trees for the Future helps people plant fast growing, beneficial, permanent
trees to protect the fragile uplands and ecosystems vital to participating
families in developing countries in the world. The projects not only restore
deforested areas, they help bring back the livilihood, health promotes and
supports reforestation and environmentally sustainable land use, in cooperation
with local groups and individuals in their own communities around the world.
Their aim is to reverse forest decline, improve the quality of life for those
who are dependent upon forests, and ensure healthy forests for future
generations. They work with subsistence farmers and promote projects that make
use of low technology.
Contact information:
Address: PO Box 7027, MD 20907 Silver Spring - United States
Phone: +1-301-565.06.30
Fax: +1-301-565.50.12
E-mail: info@treesftf.org
Internet: www.treesftf.org
Trees, Water and People (TWP)
TWP is convinced that natural resources are best protected when local people
play an active role in their care and management; and that the preservation of
local trees, wetlands, and watersheds is essential to establish the long-term
social, economic, and environmental viability of communities. TWP works
cooperatively with communities to establish and maintain sustainable forests,
watersheds and wetlands while improving people's lives. It coordinates all the
projects and provides financial support, technical assistance and training to
the organizations in Latin America that are striving to improve the livelihoods
of their people and the quality of their environment. TWP implements projects in
Latin America in the fields of community reforestation, fuel-efficient stoves,
micro-enterprise tree nurseries, and watershed protection, including encouraging
forest replacement associations!
Contact
information:
Address: 633 S. College Avenue, CO 80524, Fort Collins - United States
Phone: +1-970-484.3678
Fax: +1-970-224.1726
E-mail: info@treeswaterpeople.org
Internet: www.treeswaterpeople.org
Tropical
Ecology Support (TOEB)
TOEB is an organisation, which aims to contribute to the ecological
sustainability of development projects of the German government. In other words
projects must be linked to a project of German development cooperation. TOEB
finances ecological research projects that fall in line with the aims of the GTZ
(German Technical Co-operation). TOEB runs several programme-components, each
with different instruments, target groups, and areas of activity: The Tropical
forestry research (TWF) mainly focuses on the problems of forest-based
ecosystems. The Small-scale environmental projects are financed by a special
series of stamps carrying an environmental-protection surcharge; the focus is on
the protection of tropical habitats, the tropical rain forest and on species and
biotope conservation.
Contact information:
Address: Dag Hammarskjd Weg 1-5, 65760, Eschborn - Germany
Phone: +49-6196-79.0
Fax: +49-6196-79.1115
E-mail: claus.baetke@gtz.de
Internet: www.gtz.de/toeb
Tropical Rainforest Coalition
(TRC)
TRC supports several rainforest land and species conservation projects
throughout the world. TRC selects projects based on a number of factors: the
likelihood of maintaining the forests in a pristine state, the degree of
involvement of the local community, and the ability to preserve a continuous
rainforest ecosystem or species within it. Including developing low-impact
eco-tourism programs that involve indigenous cooperatives. Funds are small and
priority is given to the preservation and conservation of tropical rainforest
ecosystems and the indigenous peoples who live in those systems. Furthermore TRC
conducts a Save-an-Acre Program: funding and managing land purchase efforts. TRC
targets the Save-an-Acre Program to small rainforest preserves that are not
currently being funded by larger conservation organizations.
Contact information:
Address: 21730 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 102, CA 95014, Cupertino - United
States
E-mail: info@rainforest.org
Internet: www.rainforest.org
UNDP/Global Environment Facility Small
Grants Programme (UNDP/GEF-SGP)
The GEF Small Grants are awarded for activities, which support community-level
action in the biodiversity, climate change, and international waters focal areas.
Funding is provided up to US $50,000 to non-governmental organisations and
community-based organisations. The SGP is rooted in the belief that global
environmental problems can be best addressed if local people are involved. The
Programme now operates in over 50 developing countries that have ratified the
Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on Climate Change. SGP
supports forestry activities insofar as they refer to biodiversity conservation
and integrated ecosystems management.
Contact Information:
Contact person: Ms. Sarah L. Timpson, SGP Global Manager
Address: 304 East 45th Street, FF-1038, NY 10017, New York - United States
Fax: +1-212-906 6568
E-mail: sarah.timpson@undp.org
Internet: www.undp.org/sgp
USAID (United States Agency of
International Development)
USAID is the government's agency responsible for implementing the United States'
international development and foreign humanitarian assistance programs. There
are several mechanisms currently available for USAID to provide support to
forestry and other environmental activities, including an Interagency Agreement
between USAID and the US Forest Service (International Programs), several "Indefinite
Quantities Contracts" the most recent being the "BIOFORIQC" which
is with two major US international development consulting firms and their
partners. Additonally, local USAID mission offices fund specific projects.
Contact information:
Address: Ronald Reagan Building, DC 20523-1000, Washington DC - United States
Phone: +1-202-712-4810
Fax: +1-202-216-3524
E-mail: lduvall@usaid.gov
Internet: www.usaid.gov
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
(USFWS)
This is an agency of the United States government whose goal is to assist
countries to become self-sufficient in their capacity to manage their biological
resources. To achieve this, the Fish and Wildlife Service supports the Western
Hemisphere Program, Asian Elephant Conservation Fund, Small Grants to Russian
Federal Nature Reserves, and National Parks. It funds projects that seek to
conserve a particular species, education and training in the management of
biological resources, community-level environmental education and grass-root
activities for the sustained use and conservation of natural resources,
technology transfer, and information exchange.
Contact information:
Address: 4401 North Fairfax Drive ARLSQ 730, VA 22203-1622, Arlington - United
States
Phone: +1-703-358.1754
Fax: +1-703-358.2849
E-mail: contact@fws.gov
Internet: www.fws.gov
USDA Forest Service International
Programs
The USDA Forest Service International Programs promotes sustainable forest
management and biodiversity conservation internationally. Since international
cooperation is necessary to sustain the ecological and commercial viability of
global forest resources and to conserve biodiversity, most of USDA's work is
done in collaboration with other organisations.
Program topics are (a.o.): Migratory Species & Habitat Management: The
Agency applies its scientific and land-management expertise to habitat
management, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation, particularly
for migratory species. Activities include the restoration of degraded forest
systems, particularly riparian areas, development of conservation to maintain
biodiversity and other environmental benefits in managed forests, and
conservation education and training. Sustainable Forestry Practices: USDA
promotes forest conservation through the development and dissemination of
sustainable management policies and practices, with an emphasis on
reduced-impact harvesting. Forest Products: The USDA conducts research and
implements projects encompassing all aspects of sustainable forest products
development. In partnership with other governments, NGOs and universities, the
Agency works to develop more effective mechanisms for the sustainable
development of forest products. Focal areas include the training of
entrepreneurs working with NTFPs, reducing the environmental effects of pulp and
paper mills, recycling, increasing lumber yield per log and others.
Contact information:
USDA Forest Service International Programs Outreach & Partnerships Unit
Address: 1099 14th Street NW, Suite 5500W, DC 20005 Washington - United States
Phone: +1-202-273.4695
Fax: +1-202-273.4750
E-mail: lpaqueo@fs.fed.us
Internet: www.fs.fed.us/global/contactus.htm
ViSkogen/ViForest
The Foundation ViPlant Trees started in 1983. Its main activity is the
preservation of tree plantations in East Africa. Vi Forest plants millions of
trees every year, to prevent famine and help East Africans build themselves a
sustainable future. Agroforestry is a word that perfectly describes how ViForest
is using these resources to the very best advantage.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 45022, 10430 Stockholm - Sweden
Phone: +46-8-769.86.36
Fax: +46-8-769.86.39
E-mail: plantera@viskogen.org
Internet: www.vi-skogen.com/index.html
Wallace Global Fund
(WGF)
The Natural Resource Program of the WGF aims at an effective protection of the
environment and natural resources and their capacity to provide for human needs.
The Fund seeks initiatives which minimize the risks that current levels of
production and consumption pose to the health of people and ecosystems around
the world; integrate environmental objectives into public and private economic
and policy decisions; strengthen civil society participation in economic and
environmental governance; and improve or enforce protection of key environmental
resources and biodiversity. Grants range from US$ 2,000 to US$ 400,000.
Contact information:
Address: 1990 M Street, NW, Suite 250, DC 20036 Washington- United States
Phone: +1-202-452.15.30
Fax: +1-202-452.09.22
E-mail: tkroll@wgf.org
Internet: www.wgf.org
Weeden Foundation
The Foundation has prioritised the protection of biodiversity. Organisations
supported to date range from those that protect ecosystems and wildlife to those
that raise the status of women and increase awareness about family planning. The
Foundation tends to provide large funds to projects, which serve as catalysts
and focus on native forest conservation aimed at promoting greater efficiency in
the use of wood products and developing substitutes to wood fibre. Additionally,
the Foundation is interested in supporting effective consumer-based and
consumer-targeted education and empowerment programs, especially those that use
unique and effective delivery systems and outreach methods. The Foundation will
consider funding in any geographical location, but the Western US, Chile,
Bolivia, and Central Siberia are regarded as high priority. Applicants should
review the descriptions of past grantees posted on their website to better
clarify the types of programs and organisations the Foundation typically funds.
Funding outside of priority areas is rare.
Contact information:
Address: 747 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, NY 10017 New York - United States
Phone: +1-212-888-1672
Fax: +1-212-888-1354
E-mail: weedenfdn@weedenfdn.org
Internet: www.weedenfdn.org
Weltfriedensdienst
(WFD)(World Peace
Service)
For the WFD, peace is more than just the absence of war. In the projects the WFD
supports, securing the basis of existence is a main concern. In the
international field WDT concentrates on environmental protection, the
conservation of natural resources and sustainable development in combination
with the support of grass-roots groups and local initiatives in Southern and
West Africa. At present between 10 and 15 projects are being supported
financially and, if requested, through the sending of cooperants.
Contact information:
Address: Hedemannstr.14, 10969 Berlin - Germany
Phone: +49-30-253.990.0
Fax: +49-30-251.18.87
E-mail: info@wfd.de
Internet: www.wfd.de
WILD Foundation
The Foundation works internationally to: protect and sustain wilderness and
wildlife while integrating the needs of human communities; communicate the many
values of wilderness areas, as places of great social, spiritual, scientific and
economic significance, and as places that inspire the best of human potential;
and catalyze conservation leadership and build conservation capacity. WILD
promotes wild lands conservation and species protection throughout Sub-Saharan
Africa. WILD facilitates and implements a range of creative and pragmatic
projects that integrate conservation objectives with the needs of local peoples.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 1380, CA 93024 Ojai - United States
Phone: +1-805-640.0390
Fax: +1-805-640.0230
E-mail: info@wild.org
Website: www.wild.org
Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS)
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands. WCS does so
through careful science, international conservation, and education. WCS funds
research, training and applied conservation projects in 20 African countries and
supports more African-based field scientists than any other conservation
organization.
WCS has supported decades of conservation work throughout continental Asia,
India, Indochina, and the South Pacific. With research and training projects now
underway in 14 Asian countries, WCS continues to expand the body of knowledge on
Asian wildlife and conservation. The Latin America and Caribbean program
incorporates a landscape scale approach to our work from Mexico to Argentina. In
each location, one or more focal species have been identified to help us define
the landscape and set the research and conservation agenda.
The Hunting and Wildlife Trading Program: WCS is working with local communities
in developing ways to reduce hunting of all species to sustainable levels, e.g.,
through zoning of the habitat into hunting and no-hunting zones, long-term
education, and co-management programs. Influencing timber companies to reduce
logging-associated hunting and wildlife trade. Contact: dlabruna@wcs.org
The Living Landscapes Program: This is dedicated to developing and disseminating
wildlife-based strategies for conserving large, wild ecosystems that are
integrated in wider landscapes of human influence. Society is using this
approach in some 28 land-and-sea scapes across Africa, Asia, Latin America and
North America. Contact: LLP@wcs.org
Contact information:
Address: 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, New York - United States
Phone: +1-718-220.5100
Internet: www.wcs.org
World Land Trust
(WLT)
The World Land Trust seeks to conserve the World's tropical forests, as well as
other biologically important habitats, which are threatened by destruction. Its
aims are: 1) To protect and sustainably manage natural ecosystems of the world,
to conserve their biological diversity, with emphasis on threatened habitats and
endangered species; 2) to develop partnerships with local organisations and
organisations to engage support and commitment among the people who live in
project areas; and to raise awareness in the UK and elsewhere, of the need for
conservation, to improve understanding and generate support through education,
information and fundraising.
Contact information:
Address: P.O. Box 27, IP19 8AL Halesworth - United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1986-874422
Fax: +44-1986-874425
E-mail: info@worldlandtrust.org
Internet: www.worldlandtrust.org
World Neighbors
This is a non-profit, non-sectarian organisation that works to reduce poverty,
hunger and sickness by combining technical assistance in agriculture,
environmental conservation, health and small business with training aimed at
strengthening the ability of communities to work together to solve problems.
World Neighbors in collaboration with local governments and local communities
has developed community-based approaches to natural resource management, which
will ensure the well-being of the people while conserving the natural
environment.
Contact information:
Address: 4127 NW 122 Street, OK 73120, Oklahoma City - United States
Phone: +1-800-242.63.87
Fax: +1-405-752.93.93
E-mail: info@wn.org
Internet: www.wn.org
World Parks (WP)
World Parks (formerly World Parks Endowment) is an international conservation
organization that takes a unique approach to preserving the Earth's threatened
species and ecosystems. The organization purchases and protects lands that are
critical for preventing immediate species extinctions and are exceptionally rich
in biological diversity. World Parks works exclusively through local
conservation organizations that are most knowledgeable about their country's
biodiversity and have the greatest insight into its legal and political
environment. Landscape projects fall within globally defined conservation
priorities, such as the biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness
areas. World Parks is also working in smaller, discrete sites that have high
levels of diversity, endemism, and/or rare species. World Parks works in Latin
America. WP provides grant for small project that range between US$ 5.000 and US$
10.000. Regarding funding for large projects WPE acts as a go-between.
Contact information:
Address: 2000 L Street NW, Suite #620, DC 20036, Washington DC - United States
Phone: +1-202-939.3808
Fax: +1-202-939.3868
E-mail: worldparks@worldparks.org
Internet: www.worldparks.org
World Wildlife Fund - Forests for
Life Programme Unit (WWF)
The WWF is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation
organisation. Its mission is to protect nature. The Forests for Life Programme
Unit underpins WWF's forest conservation work, which provides support and
leadership in the development and implementation of policy positions and actions
at both the global and field level. Of particular concern to WWF are illegal
logging and forest crime, conversion of forests to plantation crops of palm oil
and soy, forest fires and climate change. WWF's Forests for Life programme is
attacking many of these problems with a three-pronged approach, working to
protect, manage and restore the world's forests.
This means both on the ground efforts and high-level policy work combining to
conserve what remains of the world's forests.
Together with WWF national offices around the world, Forests for Life is
involved in more than 300 projects in over 65 countries. These include projects,
which are established to create and manage protected areas, to promote improved
forest management, to develop participatory approaches, to conserve biodiversity
and to encourage the use of forest goods and service levels that do not damage
the environment.
Contact information:
Almost all WWF offices work on forest issues. You can find a complete list of
their contact details on the website:
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests
The main offcie co-ordinating forest work (both policy and on the ground) can be
contacted at the following postal address:
Forests for Life Programme, c/o WWF International, Avenue du Mont Blanc, 1196
Gland - Switzerland
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