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February 2012

Below is a list of all of the projects that have been added to the Eco-Index^® database during the past 30 days.

The listing is organized by project category.

Agriculture and farming

La Gran Vista Agroecological Farm conducts environmentally sustainable projects and provides training at on-site facilities.

Responsible organization(s): Privately managed

Principal funder(s): Self-sufficient

Capacity building

This project engages park officials and landowners in and around Ecuador’s Sangay National Park to reduce human-wildlife conflict resulting from wildlife incursions onto private lands that can result in livestock losses.

Responsible organization(s): Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT), Ecuador; University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Principal funder(s): Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, United States

Root Capital grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by providing capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses.

Responsible organization(s): Root Capital, Regional

Principal funder(s): Calvert Social Investment Foundation, United States; Rockefeller Foundation, United States; Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United States; World We Want Foundation, United States; Zennström Philanthropies, United Kingdom; Packard Foundation, David and Lucile, United States; Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, United States; Skoll Foundation, United States; Starbucks, United States

Carbon offsets

This Alliance aims to increase economic opportunities for poor, marginalized forest-based communities and forest management enterprises and to combat threats to tropical forest biodiversity by adding payment for environmental services as part of an integrated approach that includes sustainable harvesting, processing, and marketing value-added timber and non-timber forest products.

Responsible organization(s): Rainforest Alliance, Regional

Principal funder(s): United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Community-based conservation (ICDPs)

The Iracambi Research Center works with local communities to make forest conservation more attractive than its destruction.

Responsible organization(s): Iracambi Research Center, Brasil

Principal funder(s): International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza, Brasil; Global Giving, United States; Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, Brasil; Partners of the Americas

Habitat conservation and management

This project expanded protection of habitat critical to declining grassland bird species of the shortgrass and shinnery oak habitats in New Mexico.

Responsible organization(s): Nature Conservancy, The (TNC), Regional

Principal funder(s): New Mexico Game and Fish, United States; Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PLJV), United States; United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA)

Migratory species

The EcoTeach Foundation supports turtle nesting conservation projects on the beaches of Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

Responsible organization(s): EcoTeach Foundation, United States

Principal funder(s): Self-sufficient

The Stewards of Saskatchewan programs engage landowners in habitat conservation for Neotropical migratory bird species and plant species at risk.

Responsible organization(s): Nature Saskatchewan (NS), Canada

Principal funder(s): Canada, gobierno/government; Saskatchewan Fish and Wildlife Development Fund (FWDF), Canada; EJLB Foundation, Canada; United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA)

Parks and protected areas

The Biological Inventories of the World’s Protected Areas represents the largest repository of documented, taxonomically harmonized species inventory data in the world.

Responsible organization(s): University of California-Davis, United States

Principal funder(s): Self-sufficient

Water conservation

This project's goal is to make Agua Buena a healthy and safe eco-district, with educated citizens that are trained to reuse their resources, thereby reducing the pollution and destruction of natural areas.

Responsible organization(s): Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de la Reserva Indígena Cabécar de Tayni (ADIRI Tayni), Costa Rica

Principal funder(s): Grupo ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad); Banco de Costa Rica

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