World Wildlife Fund

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an international nongovernmental organization that works to address large global threats to species and their habitat. This award supports WWF to provide technical guidance on the management of Lake Niassa Partial Reserve. WWF works with a variety of partners to carry out this work in Mozambique, including Ministry of Land, Environment, and Rural Development and the Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Pesqueira. WWF’s community-based approach to reducing pressures on the Reserve and watershed support the health of its forests, aquatic ecosystems, and the communities that depend on them. 

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a leading international global network that undertakes multi-disciplinary policy research and action in six key areas: food, climate, forests, marine, freshwater and wildlife. With people and communities at the center of interventions, WWF works at global, national and sub-national levels with diverse group of actors to define and implement innovative solutions that conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. On the theme of climate, WWF works to create a climate resilient and zero carbon world, powered by renewable energy. Consistent with this mission, this project helps to establish a platform to support small and medium enterprises which have developed and piloted innovative low-carbon technologies to scale up operations to radically reduce carbon dioxide emissions and provide access to sustainable energy sources for all.

World Wildlife Fund is an international NGO that works to address large global threats to species and their habitat. In Madagascar, WWF’s marine program works with traditional fishers in Ambaro Bay and government authorities to manage marine and coastal resources for livelihood and biodiversity benefits. WWF is developing a fisher network in Ambaro Bay through which it is working regionally to align management interventions, facilitate collaboration and shared learning, and enable interaction between local fishermen in national fisheries management processes.

WWF will conduct research on the links between demand for commodities and agricultural expansion with tropical deforestation, overfishing, and climate change mitigation and pilot interventions to shift commodities productions towards sustainability.

WWF-US is a conservation organization affiliated with a global network of independent national groups. It has had a permanent presence in Colombia and executes work in field-based practice and policy in biodiversity conservation and human well-being in the context of climate change. The purpose of the grant is to upgrade planning instruments for freshwater, terrestrial and coastal marine portions of the Mira bi-national watershed, establish community conserved areas, incorporate environmental considerations to oil palm and cattle production, and promote ecosystem service compensation schemes.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an international conservation organization whose mission is to stop the degradation of our planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Project staff will work with community fisheries organisations and community savings programs in the Lake Niassa Reserve to provide training in governance and financial management; initiate revenue sharing from fishing licences; improve post-harvest practices for fishers; increase access to appropriate fishing gear; and expand sustainable income-generating activities. WWF will also establish a rigorous monitoring program that tracks the ecological status of the reserve and the fisheries over time.

World Wildlife Fund’s Global Arctic Programme works with partners across the Arctic to combat region-wide threats and to preserve its biodiversity in a sustainable way. This grant will support WWF’s strategy to build a case for bilateral ecosystem-based management in the Bering Strait. WWF will model oil spills on the main shipping routes in the Bering Strait in order to demonstrate the need for integrated science-based management approaches. Based on these studies, WWF will recommend locations for regional Emergency Response Centers and distribute findings in order to raise awareness about the potential impacts and need for EBM in the Bering Sea.

This grant aims to increase access to information on oil production and to ensure the application of sustainable development principles within the oil production sector. Project staff will establish Citizen Advisory Councils in the oil production regions; train community members and local government officials to monitor impacts of oil production and compliance of environmental and social safeguards; and establish a multi-stakeholder expert team to provide regular, independent review of environmental management tools.

WWF will apply economics to improve the effectiveness of WWF’s existing programs, including its freshwater and forest site based work, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and engagement with the hydropower sector. This will strengthen their ability to work effectively with government and the private sector to advance conservation goals in the Lower Mekong and secure the natural resource base for more sustainable economies. Deepening the understanding of the benefits provided to the economies and people of the region by the biodiversity and natural habitats of the Mekong River basin and expanding incentives to conserve them is central to MacArthur’s approach.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will work in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) to strengthen the capacity of the Arctic Council to take meaningful action to conserve natural resources and mitigate threats to traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples across the circumpolar north, by working through three on-going processes for developing recommendations and policies for consideration at the Council’s 2013 Ministerial meeting. These commitments will shape the policy framework for natural resource management in the Arctic. This work contributes towards MacArthur’s exploratory initiative on Arctic governance and the environment, which looks at the circumpolar Arctic with a particular emphasis on Russia.

WWF is the world’s largest conservation organization with 5,600 staff working in over 100 countries worldwide, including Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, and China and all the key commodity consuming and producing countries of the world. For nearly 20 years, WWF has worked to advance more sustainable sourcing practices and policies among specific companies and throughout global commodity markets. The proposed grant seeks to change the policies and practices of 100 companies that buy and sell 25 percent of the 15 commodities with the most significant impact on high biodiversity landscapes -- and, in so doing, tip markets to support global conservation priorities.

To improve school infrastructure and secondary school education for girls in coastal villages of Southwest Madagascar (over two years).

To design a management strategy to maintain ecological integrity and ecosystem services of high priority watersheds of the Chocó-Darien Ecoregion.

To design a multi-donor fund to reduce the adverse environmental and social impacts of China's overseas investments and trade (over eighteen months).

To improve the lives of communities within the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.

To improve the lives of communities within the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.

To build capacity in the Wider Caribbean to climate change threats on coastal biodiversity and marine turtle habitat (over three years).

To support a collaborative program that designs, tests, and monitors the effectiveness of site-based ecosystem based approaches to climate change adaptation in Cambodia (over two years).

To build capacity in the Wider Caribbean to climate change threats on coastal biodiversity and marine turtle habitat (over three years).

To support a collaborative program that designs, tests, and monitors the effectiveness of site-based ecosystem based approaches to climate change adaptation in Cambodia (over two years).

To implement stronger environmental practices in Chinese investment and business operations overseas and in China, while simultaneously promoting sustainable development (over two years).

To implement stronger environmental practices in Chinese investment and business operations overseas and in China, while simultaneously promoting sustainable development (over two years).

In support of maintenance resilience to address climate change in priority landscapes of the Colombian Andes-Amazon Piedmont (over three years).

In support of maintenance resilience to address climate change in priority landscapes of the Colombian Andes-Amazon Piedmont (over three years).

To establish the Environmental and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (over eighteen months).

To implement sustainable mechanisms for indigenous communities to protect resources in the Abanico de Pastaza wetland from hydrocarbon exploration (over three years).

To strengthen biological corridors for biodiversity conservation in Bhutan (over three years).

To prepare the KCA Management Council for the sustainable management of the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (over three years).

In support of an assessment of climate change vulnerability and impact of the freshwater and forest ecosystems in the Lower Mekong focal area (over two years).

In support of a climate change vulnerability assessment for coastal and marine conservation in Madagascar (over two years).

In support of enhanced governance and technical capacity to manage public and private conservation areas in the Upper Putumayo watershed in Colombia (over three years).

To improve the forest allocation and management process in southern Lao PDR and to build long-term capacity in forest management and planning in the Lower Mekong focal area (over three years).

In support of improved fisheries management and protection of Abanico del Pastaza wetlands in Northern Peru (over three years).

To explore measures of the effectiveness of the conservation community in addressing the social dimensions of conservation (over three years).

In support to facilitate the formal establishment of the first-ever community-managed protected area in Nepal (over three years).

To assist the Royal Government of Bhutan in strengthening the corridor system that connects the protected areas of Bhutan into a single continuous landscape (over three years).

For activities to build the institutional capacity of the primary international conservation organizations working in Africa (over two years).

In support of a trust fund for sustainable financing of Madagascar's protected areas system (over two years).

In support of conservation and natural resource management in Peru’s Abanico del Río Pastaza wetlands complex.

In support of a trust fund for sustainable financing of Madagascar’s protected areas system (over two years).

In support of the design and implementation of a regional protected area system in the Upper Putumayo River watershed in Colombia (over three years).

For efforts to strengthen management capacity at two newly established protected areas in the Central Annamite region of Vietnam and Lao (over three years).

To assist the government of Nepal in establishing and managing the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (over three years).

To assist the Royal Government of Bhutan in setting up a management system for the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary (over three years).

To support biodiversity conservation in central Africa (over three years).

To support biodiversity in the flooded forest ecoregion and to implement conservation measures in the Abanico del Pastaza watershed in northeastern Peru (over two years).

To support research on coral reef ecosystems and species in aquarium organism collection areas in Indonesia and the South Pacific (over three years).

To support research on coastal tourism development in the MesoAmerican Caribbean Reef ecoregion (over two years).

To provide fellowships and fund training insitutions in priority countries, and for a regional conservation science training program in Francophone Central Africa (over four years).

To support an alliance with the World Bank to broker public policy and private sector practice in tropical countries.

To support a study on consumption patterns in the Gamba Complex of protected areas in Gabon (over three years).

To develop case studies of management best practices in shrimp aquaculture (over three years).

To support a conservation education and training program, management of transborder protected areas in Bhutan, and capacity building in Nepal (over three years).

To establish a conservation and sustainable development fellowship program in Papua New Guinea (over two years).

To support a capacity-building program for conservation organizations in Peru and Colombia (over four years).

To publish a report on the need for biodiversity preservation in Central Asia.

To support a small-grants program in the Indochina region (over four years).

To support a small-grants program on migration and reproductive health.

To build international cooperation on Atlantic Forest conservation in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina (over three years).

To educate the public about growth management issues in the Florida Keys (over two years).

To support conservation programs in central Africa (over four years).

To support a training and technical assistance program to build capacity among conservation NGOs in southeastern Mexico (over four years).

To support a symposium to establish an environmental business council in Vietnam.

To develop a regional strategy for biodiversity conservation in Central Asia.

To support community-based management of Taka Bone Rate Marine National Park in South Sulawesi (over three years).

To brief the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on national environmental funds.

To publish "Conserving Russia's Biological Diversity."

To strengthen the Nepali Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and for a small-grants program in Nepal (over three years).

To support a field office in Bhutan and the Forestry Services Division, Bhutan Forestry Institute, Sherubtse College (over three years).

To plan a transboundary protected area in the Turtle Islands off the coast of Borneo between the Philippines and Malaysia.

For legal and notary fees to establish the Eastern Carpathian Biodiversity Trust Fund, which supports biodiversity conservation for a trinational area in the Eastern Carpathians.

To support a small-grants program for conservation action and training in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar (over two years).

To support conservation training and education programs for NGOs in the Philippines, and for a feasibility study for the establishment of a permanent international NGO training center at Subic Bay (over three years).

To support participation in the Awa Region Planning and Conservation Consortium for a coordinated program of environmental education, sustainable agriculture, resource management, and community development operating in the Choco region on both sides of the Colombia-Ecuador border (over five years).

To support training programs in organizational development and technical issues for conservation organizations and government agencies in the tropical Andean countries (over three years).

To support policy research regarding international trade issues relevant to biodiversity conservation, emphasizing the North American Free Trade Agreement (over three years).

To provide legal, financial, and technical advice for the Eastern Carpathians Biodiversity Conservation Trust Fund.

To support a rapid assessment and planning initiative for the protection of the extensive state park system in Russia.

To support the creation of a conservation trust fund for Mexico.

To support the Oaxaca conservation program, focusing on community initiatives for conservation and diversified use of natural resources in areas of high biological and cultural diversity (over three years).

To coordinate a transborder conservation program in the Misiones Forest of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay (over three years).

To provide technical and institutional support to a community-based development initiative among the Miskito Indians along the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua (over three years).

To support a program of conservation biology and community forestry in East Kalimantan, to design community-based resource management systems, and to develop a national marine conservation education program throughout Indonesia (over three years).

To develop and disseminate a technical analysis of the impact of a proposed manual modifying the definition of wetlands in the United States.

To support a regional program of conservation action for the Eastern Himalayas (over three years).

To support a debt-for-nature program.

To support an integrated conservation program in the Philippines (over three years).

For a program of institutional support for conservation organizations in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa (over three years).

To support a conservation program in Madagascar to protect the biodiversity of the country's threatened resources (over three years).

To support the tropical Andes program to develop a comprehensive set of conservation and sustainable development activities (over three years).

To support the conservation program in Oaxaca (over three years).

To support a combined program for conservation, education, and sustainable development in the island nations of the Carribean, in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy (over three years).

To oversee and report on progress of a small-grants program to support conservation efforts in developing nations (over three years).