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February 2012

Below is a list of the projects added to the Eco-Index^® database in the past 30 days, organized by country.

Regional | Brazil | Canada | Costa Rica | Ecuador | Honduras | United States

Regional

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): Zennström Philanthropies, United Kingdom; Ashoka, Global; Kendeda Fund, United States; Pershing Square Foundation, United States

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): Not currently funded. Funding pending from private foundations and NGO collaborators

Brazil

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): Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, Brasil; Private donations

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Canada

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): EJLB Foundation, Canada; TD Friends of the Environment, Canada; SaskPower, Canada; SaskCulture, Canada; Saskatchewan Lotteries, Canada

Costa Rica

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): EcoTeach student expeditions; Private donations

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; Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de Agua Buena (ADI Agua Buena), Costa Rica

Principal funder(s): Banco de Costa Rica; Liceo bilingüe de Agua Buena (LEBAB), Costa Rica; Finca Montezora, Costa Rica; Municipality of Coto Brus, Costa Rica; Local businesses

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

Ecuador

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

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

Honduras

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)

United States

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): Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PLJV), United States

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