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Harvesting palm, Mali © Denise MortimerAfrican Wildlife Foundation - an NPO focused on sub-Saharan Africa. They identify long-term strategies in their mission and a core program, AWF Heartlands, centers on conserving large landscapes with great natural value. AWF also focuses on collaborative and adaptive management of resources. They recognize that socio-economic issues are critical for conservation as well.

 

Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Initiative - A program to restore, enhance, and maintain ecological connectivity in the distinctive region of Ontario and New York State that lies between Algonquin and Adirondack Parks.

 

BirdLife International - a major nonprofit devoted to conservation of birds around the world. EM elements identified are collaboration and stakeholder approach as well as sustainability of natural resource use through integrated conservation and development projects.

 

Biodiversity Support Program - a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute, BSP promotes conservation of biodiversity by supporting projects that combine conservation with social and economic development, research and analysis of conservation approaches, and information exchange. BSP makes available free on its website useful publications that deal with EM topics such as transboundary management of resources, adaptive management, collaborative approaches, and lessons learned from conservation projects.

 

Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition - CSFCC is organized to promote the use of internationally recognized sustainable forest management certification systems in Canada in order for Canadian producers to continually move towards sustainable forest management, secure a sustainable supply of raw material, and to ensure marketplace acceptance of Canadian forest products.

 

Center for International Forestry Research - a research organization focused on enhancing the benefits of forests for people in the tropics. CIFOR focuses on collaboration and sustainable use for forest ecosystem management as well as socioeconomic factors at multiscale levels.

 

Center for the Study of Marine Policy - based out of the University of Delaware's Graduate College of Marine Studies, the center incorporates EM elements of sustainable use and collaboration in its research on integrated coastal management around the world, ecosystem management and GIS/Remote Sensing applications, and fishery conflicts in Ecuador.

 

Commission for Environmental Cooperation - An international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the United States to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental Gconflicts, and to promote the effective enforcement of environmental law.

 

Conservation International - a major NPO practicing collaboration, landscape level planning, long-term solutions and sustainability of natural resources, integration of socioeconomic needs while addressing biological processes, and adoption of adaptive management for their projects. With the exception of Europe, CI has projects throughout the world.

 

Convention on Biological Diversity - The signed parties to this convention adopted the ecosystem approach as the primary framework for action under the Convention.

 

Eco-Index - The Eco-Index includes scores of detailed biodiversity conservation project descriptions in its database, with more added every week.

 

European Forest Institute - a research organization focusing on forestry issues at a pan-European level. One of their programs looks at forest ecology and management within which are identified EM elements of integrated biological and socioeconomic factors toward management, sustainable forestry, and collaboration.

 

Fauna and Flora International - a major nonprofit conservation organization whose projects incorporate their EM philosophy of participatory approaches, collaboration, and long-term horizons. They also recognize the need to integrate biological assessments with socioeconomic factors in projects.

 

Forest Conservation Program (IUCN) - FCP's mission is to maintain and restore forest ecosystems through conservation and sustainable management of forest. They do this through identifying not only biological but also socioeconomic elements in sustainable management, use of collaboration through community involvement of forestry management as well as landscape approach to forest management.

 

Global Environment Facility - GEF is the financial mechanism for the Convention on Biological Diversity (which adopts an EM approach) and is a funding organization. However, their website is a useful informational tool with regard to projects that utilize EM approaches since they have description and contact information for funded projects all over the world.

 

International Coral Reef Action Network - a network of organizations dealing with the conservation and sustainable use of coral reefs around the world.

 

International Model Forest Network Program - IMFN is a Canadian program designed to illustrate the significant role that model forests play in demonstrating how the concepts, policies, and commitments of sustainable forest management can be translated into practices.

 

International Network of Forests and Communities - an organization focused on promoting long-term health of forest ecosystems and forest-dependent communities. They approach this mission through ecosystem-based community forestry that includes EM elements such as recognition of the interlocking needs for social, ecological, and economic when promoting sustainable use and collaboration.

 

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - a United Nations project, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is a four-year study of the state of the world's ecosystem. The project defines ecosystem not just in biological terms, but also as an integrated system where socioeconomic issues will also be considered.

 

National Park Srvice - International Projects : the United States NPS has adopted an EM approach. Unlike the USFWS Int'l division, there is not one page that describes their international projects. When searching the website, specific parks that are transboundary initiatives come up (e.g. Roosevelt Campobello International Park) describing partnerships and shared management.

 

The Nature Conservancy- International Programs - similar to its domestic initiatives, TNC also practices the EM features of collaboration, integration of biological and social processes, landscape level approach, and setting of priorities and objectives within their international programs and projects. TNC mostly focuses on Asia and Latin America.

 

Pronatura - a nonprofit Mexican organization that strives to conserve Mexico's ecosystems through collaboration with local communities and recognition of socioeconomic needs required for ecosystem management.

 

Rainforest Alliance - a nonprofit organization that focuses on tropical forest conservation through sustainable use and development initiatives such as tourism, non-forest timber production, and agriculture. Elements of EM that are cited are collaboration with various stakeholders, linking social and economic needs with biological issues, and sustainability.

 

Silva Forest Foundation - The Silva Forest Foundation (SFF), based in the West Kootenay of British Columbia, Canada, are scientists and activists with decades of experience in working with rural communities to develop diverse forest uses which protect, maintain and restore forests.

 

Trilateral Committee - a committee made up of the wildlife conservation agencies of the US, Mexico, and Canada that focuses on wildlife and ecosystem conservation and management.

 

Tropical Savannas CRC: Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Development of Tropical Savannas, Australia - A detailed look an one EM project in Australia's tropical savannas.

 

UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme - Overview of MAB Program which develops the basis for the sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity, and for the improvement of the relationship between people and their environment globally.

 

USAID - funds several international conservation programs (e.g. CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe that is a community based management program) that feature issues of collaboration, identification of biological and social needs as interlocking, and long-term sustainability.

 

USDA Forest Service - Int'l Programs - an advisory program to other countries, USDA provides information on ecosystem management and renewable resource use. They also focus research in areas of watershed management, ecosystem management, forest rehabilitation and landscape ecology.

 

US Fish and Wildlife-Int'l Division - USFWS has already adopted an EM approach and this is reflected in the type of international programs they fund, all of which described in detail on their website.

 

Wildlife Conservation Society: a major nonprofit organization, WCS uses the EM approach through its landscape ecology program. WCS has recognized that projects should be approached by looking at holistic patterns of the land and human uses, all of which affect wildlife populations.

 

World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN) - a network of protected areas specialists, the WCPA works to establish and develop effective management of protected areas through assisting governments with planning, provide capacity and funding, and implementing protected areas management. WCPA incorporates landscape level planning (corridors and connectivity), transboundary initiatives, long-term sustainability of initiatives, and community involvement in protected areas planning.

 

World Resources Institute - an applied environmental think tank featuring EM approaches of collaboration and linking of biological/social components at a landscape scale in projects.

 

World Wildlife Fund (US and Int'l) - a major nonprofit with conservation projects around the world, WWF features collaboration, landscape level planning, targets specific goals and prioritizes, and identifies the human component of biological systems.

 

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative - A joint Canadian - US network of over 270 organizations, institutions, foundations, and conservation-minded individuals who are working together to restore and maintain the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region and the quality of life it offers.

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