• $350,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global organization with a long history of science-based biodiversity conservation work in the Andes, where it directs significant attention to the role of indigenous peoples in management and sustainable use of watersheds and forests. The grant will strengthen the capacity of Tacana and Lecos Apolo Indigenous Peoples to address pressing threats associated with development policies and projects, and to craft and widely disseminate a strong narrative that expands appreciation by a broader society of the benefits that accrue from Indigenous land management.

• $320,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — Wildlife Conservation Society is a global organization with a long history of science-based work in the Andes targeting the conservation and sustainable use of waters, wetlands, and basins, especially in terms of impacts presented by infrastructure development. This project will develop and support implementation of a policy framework for managing valuable fisheries in the Peruvian Amazon by analyzing all fisheries data in Loreto Department and quantifying catches by location. It will also establish a wetlands classification scheme, and develop models of impacts of infrastructure on aquatic ecosystems at the large basin scale.

• $665,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — The Wildlife Conservation Society's Global Marine Program works to safeguard eleven globally significant seascapes containing the world's most threatened marine biodiversity. The grant will support activities to address key issues that currently limit adoption of locally appropriate strategies for sustaining coral reefs in the presence of climate change. WCS will refine the scale and predictive power of its current global climate stress model, broadening the applicability of the model beyond the Western Indian Ocean. The model will inform better adaptation decisions to avoid worsening environmental conditions and exacerbating poverty. The results of these models will be incorporated into national and local marine spatial planning processes.

• $850,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — The Wildlife Conservation Society will develop knowledge and tools to strengthen environmental governance in Cambodia and Laos and encourage government and private sector actors involved in agro-industrial development to shift policies and practices in ways that reduce pressures on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agro-industrial plantations are expanding rapidly in Cambodia and Laos. Much of this development has degraded natural resources and ecosystems upon which local people have depended, and caused local people to be denied access to, or displaced from, areas over which they historically have exercised rights. The rapid growth of agro-industrial concessions threatens to undo many past conservation successes and is becoming a defining issue for conservation in the region. WCS will investigate the patterns of investment in this sector, including documenting the companies developing the agro-industry sector (from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and China), and their joint venture partners in Cambodia and Laos.

• $25,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To update the 2005 report, Myanmar: Investment Opportunities in Biodiversity Conservation.

• $550,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To enhance conservation of three key landscapes in the Albertine Rift countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda (over three years).

• $600,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To support community-based natural resource management and sustainable livelihood initiatives in Madagascar's MaMaBay ecosystems (over three years).

• $268,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To support REBIOMA, a global network of biodiversity data for reef to ridge conservation planning, monitoring and management (over three years).

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To conserve wetlands and strengthening biodiversity conservation capacity in Cuba (over three years).

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  BRONX, NEW YORK — To build consensus on key recommendations for addressing climate change adaptation for conservation in the Albertine Rift region.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Wildlife Conservation Society $3,928,000 between 2010 and 2013.