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During 2007 - 8 The Bromley
Trust grants included:
A Rocha Lebanon
www.arocha.org
Works with the local community, government bodies and
landowners to conserve the Aammiq wetland, West Bekaa,
Lebanon, an important migratory stop for Wildfowl.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000
Ashden Awards
www.ashdenawards.org
Reward and promote excellent local sustainable energy solutions in the UK and the developing world. At the heart of the Ashden Awards is an annual competition to identify and reward organisations which have carried out truly excellent, practical, yet innovative schemes, demonstrating sustainable energy in action at a local level. We also run seminars to raise awareness of these technologies and to encourage others to follow. Bromley Trust grant £25,000 restricted to UK awards
BioRegional Development Group - Sustainable Forestry
Programme
www.bioregional.com
Aims to reduce the long term pressure on unsustainable
international forestry. Work includes the production
of domestic regional and local alternatives to imported
wood products. For example Charcoal and Woodchip. BioRegional
also provides incentives for sustainable woodland management
in UK and works with Butterfly Conservation to establish
long term biodiversity monitoring to support the importance
of coppice restoration.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Birdlife International
www.birdlife.net
Aims to preserve the diversity of all life through
the conservation of birds and their habitats.
The Bromley Trust grant - £3,200
Birdlife International in collaboration
with the World Pheasant Association. Implementation
of the Conservation Action Plan for the Red-billed
Curassow in Mata Atlantica.
The Bromley Trust grant- £10,000 restricted for
a Red-billed Curassow Action Plan Officer.
Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
www.buglife.org.uk
Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and they are passionately committed to saving Britain's rarest little animals, everything from bees to beetles, and spiders to snails.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Butterfly Conservation
www.butterfly-conservation.org
Dedicated to the conservation of wild butterflies and
moths and their habitats. Butterfly Conservation is
a membership organization and seeks to educate through
membership the importance of sustainability and conservation.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Cape Farewell
www.capefarewell.com
Increases community awareness of the devastating affect
of climatic change on the world by bringing together
artists, teachers, scientists and the media in a journey
to the arctic- resulting in exhibitions, films, articles,
research and study tools.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)
www.cat.org.uk
Cat promotes the adoption of sustainable practices and lifestyles to peope of all ages and from all sectors of society across the UK. Staff and residents at CAT have been experimenting with these principles for the past thirty years- living and working exclusively with sustainbable technologies. The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 Unrestricted.
The Eden Project with HMP Dartmoor
www.edenproject.com
To work with prisoners to redesign 3 surplus exercise yards
into fruit and vegetable gardens and to sell the produce locally in a box scheme.
The plan also includes the development of two further gardens, one with sensory
planting and one as a healing garden.
The Bromley Trust grant £15,000
Environmental Justice Foundation Charitable Trust
www.ejfoundation.org
Provides training in essential advocacy skills, empowering
human rights and environmental defenders to document,
expose and resolve abuses through the development of
effective and compelling campaigns. Works to
highlight the damage Shrimp Farming is doing to the
coastal communities of Mata Atlantica.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Fauna
and Flora International
www.fauna-flora.org
Restricted to their work in Mata Atlantica
Conservation of Atlantic forest in and around Carlos
Botelo State Park, ensuring that external fragments
maintain connectivity to the Protected Area through
a combination of sustainable usage and making sure
the park itself is under effective management.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
www.durrellwildlife.org
An international conservation organisation working
to save some of the world's most endangered species,
working in close consultation with communities in wildlife
areas and providing direct support for projects, to
implement conservation actions. Durrell Wildlife's
International Training Centre provides further education
to conservation practitioners from throughout the world
in courses such as the Diploma in Endangered Species
Management.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000 restricted
for diploma scholarships.
Marine Conservation Society
www.mcsuk.org
Dedicated to the protection of the marine environment
and its wildlife for future generations. MCS runs projects
and campaigns to protect marine species, prevent pollution
and promote sustainable fisheries and sensitive use
of marine resources.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000
REGUA
www.regua.co.uk
REGUA aims to preserve the pristine Atlantic Rainforest in the Upper Guapiacu valley in the Serra do Mar, and restore degraded areas and preserve the area for future generations through encouraging sustainable development and environmental education. Bromley Trust grant £15,000 Unrestricted
Rio Atlantic Forest Trust (RAFT)
Owns, in order to preserve, two areas of the Serra
do Mar in Nova Friburgo municipality of Mata Atlantica
(The Atlantic Coastal Rain Forest) Brazil.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
www.rbge.org.uk
Restricted to the International Conifer Conservation
Programme for the development of a Conservation Monitoring
Centre in Chile. The centre will monitor threatened
plants of the endangered temperate conifer forests
and act as an early warning centre for species at risk.
The centre will work closely with the indigenous population
to find sustainable and financially beneficial strategies
for managing the forests. For example developing methods
of firewood production, selective felling and the production
of non-timber forest products as well as providing
skill training in plant identification and forest management.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
SAVE Brasil - Sociedade para a Conservação das Aves do Brasil
www.savebrasil.org.br
SAVE Brasil strives to conserve birds and their habitats implementing conservation strategies and actions in conjunction with local and national partners aiming to strengthen their capacity as a way to secure the continuation of the initiatives in the long term.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Survival International
www.survival-international.org
We help tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their
lands and determine their own futures. The Bromley Trust is supporting the work of Survival in South America.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000
Wildscreen/ARKive
www.arkive.org
ARKive is the world's centralised library of films and photographs
of endangered species, freely accessible to all via the Internet. It is an
educational resource to help raise awareness about threatened and protected
species. It has
the vitally important objective of raising public awareness of the need for
biodiversity conservation by using wildlife
The Bromley Trust grant £5,000
World Pheasant Association
www.pheasant.org.uk
WPA works to ensure the long-term survival of the 300
or so species of gamebird (scientifically termed the
Galliformes) that occur throughout all habitats in
the world. The group is highly threatened because its
species are widely hunted for a variety of reasons.
As the loss of these species would have serious repercussions
for the livelihoods and traditions of many rural communities,
WPA seeks to develop solutions with local communities
that balance conservation benefits with their own long-term
needs.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
The World
Pheasant Association in collaboration with Birdlife
International. Implementation of the Conservation Action
Plan for the Red-billed Curassow in Mata Atlantica.
The Bromley Trust grant- £10,000 restricted for
a Red-billed Curassow Action Plan Officer.
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