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Environmental Monitoring
To support evaluation of the Russian space program's environmental impact on the Zmeinogorsk region, and to teach school children simple environmental monitoring techniques. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-700
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Children Ecological Aesthetical Center
To support a campaign to protect a natural monument in the Isilkul region known as Relic Forest Steppe, including clean-up, reforestation and roundtable discussions on environmental protection. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-701
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecopolis Ecological Group
To fund ecological awareness programs in the Krasnochekov region, including Cleanest Village and Cleanest Street contests, roundtables and an exhibition. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-699
Amount: $1,850
Russia Advisory Board
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Center Of Public Monitoring
To support monitoring of three highly geodiverse lakes (Ik, Tenis and Saltaim) in Tomsk Oblast, and to hold seminars on improving the lakes' condition. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-702
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Village School Teachers
To fund a series of trainings in Barnaul for teachers in the Altai region to help them better understand environmental issues and learn about activities that can engage students in protection efforts. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-429
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Ecological Agency
To fund efforts to raise public awareness of the potential hazards of a planned uranium-plutonium fuel plant in the Tomsk region and to promote a public referendum on this issue. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-430
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Ecological Student Inspection
To support efforts to gain further protections for the Tomsk-Kalarovo natural area by ensuring compliance with regulations, organizing citizen reforestation programs and raising awareness. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-432
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Union Globe
To support this group's efforts to help people in Tretjavovskyi District gain government attention and compensation for the environmental and health consequences of space launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-433
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk)
To support creation of a network of groups working to protect the Irtysh River from industrial pollution and unsustainable use and to fund a website to improve coordination. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-434
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Green Page
To fund a youth program to clean up trash, monitor lake pollution, create interpretive displays and organize volunteer ranger patrols to protect local populations of wild lotus from collectors. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-436
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Public Organization Center of Ecological Policy and Information
To support a project to preserve the Pine Grove area north of Tomsk City, which is one of the only untouched areas in the region and a target for housing development. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-703
Amount: $1,980
Russia Advisory Board
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Teachers Initiative Group
To support local reforestation efforts and clean up a source of drinking water for the village of Fedosiha through a community-led volunteer program. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-469
Amount: $399
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Cultural Layer
To support a cleanup program for a lake that is a popular tourist destination and to fund efforts to raise public awareness about threats to the lake. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-425
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To support this consortium of local organizations in its efforts to promote ecotourism and preservation of indigenous cultures in the Lake Baikal region through leadership training and education. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-372
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Cooperation
To support independent ecological monitoring of mining operations in the Omskuchanskyi, Loskyi and Severo-Evenkiiskyi districts of Magadan Oblast. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-686
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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State Nature Preserve Hankaiskyi
To organize broad efforts to restore the disappearing populations of amphibians in the Far Eastern region of Russia. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-692
Amount: $1,891
Russia Advisory Board
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Expert Lawyers Union
To fund seminars in Omsk on protecting citizens' environmental rights, publication and distribution of a brochure spelling out those rights, and a series of public meetings with local government officials. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-691
Amount: $645
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
To fund public education and a media campaign on spent nuclear fuel processing in Krasnoyarski Krai and creation of systems to improve public oversight. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-690
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To support formation of a coalition of environmental organizations and activists opposing the recently-approved Altai Hydroelectric Power Station. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-689
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Albaga Indigenous Community
To support efforts to protect and monitor lands sacred to the indigenous Shor peoples in and around the village of Ust' Azas and protect them from the destructive impact of poaching and tourism. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-427
Amount: $1,935
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk
To support the work of three indigenous Siberian communities to collect and share information on corporate encroachment on native lands, and to sponsor seminars on how those communities can protect their rights. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-598
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiatve Group Mirror
To support development of an ecology school in the village of Konstantinovka that will hold trainings and seminars and engage students in activities to protect sensitive ecosystems in the area. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-428
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Inititative Group Cedar
To fund clean up and reforestation efforts along the Chick River and a public awareness campaign about this and other environmental problems in the region. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-413
Amount: $1,145
Russia Advisory Board
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Tyumen Oblast Public Children's Movement Chir
To fund an evaluation of the health of the Pyshma River, to publicize the results, to organize clean-up actions, and to hold seminars for fishermen who use the river. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-693
Amount: $1,918
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zoosphere
To support an environmentally-themed art exhibition featuring works by local Siberian artists, and to produce an exhibition catalog for use by environmental organizations. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-687
Amount: $1,681
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Youth Organization Nature Conservation Guard Taiga
To support reforestation activities in the Novosibirskyi District, including a series of educational seminars on reforestation and a networking event for local and regional environmental organizations. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-688
Amount: $1,926
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center
To support creation of a regional network of groups working to protect rivers in the Tomsk region through education and collaborative action. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-412
Amount: $1,600
Russia Advisory Board
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Karelian Republican Council of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection
To fund a teacher workshop on the natural and cultural heritage of Karelia to improve local environmental education programs and provide tools and resources for teachers. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-378
Amount: $1,400
Earth Island Institute
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Initiatiative Group Of Bolotninsky Region Citizens
To fund research to assess deforestation near the village of Novobibeevo and to support a citizen-led effort to reforest and monitor the forest's health. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-403
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Kamchatka Youth Ecological Movement Oikumena
To fund an informational campaign on the proposed construction of a nuclear power station in the area of Avachiskaja Guba and to ensure public participation in decision making processes. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-404
Amount: $700
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiatiative Group Planet
To fund a youth group's efforts to restore riparian areas and banks of the Inja and Bolshaja rivers where erosion threatens water quality and habitat. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-405
Amount: $1,100
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Tunguska
To support the creation of a school club called Friends of the Native Forest that will bring together high school students, youth and local citizens to work to improve the condition of local forests. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-407
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Obereg
To fund citizen efforts to restore deforested hillsides near the village of Ust-Koksa that have created dangerous erosion problems and to raise local and governmental awareness of the hazards. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-411
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Teachers
To fund scientific study of the causes of water contamination in five villages where high levels of disease suggest contamination from sewage but where authorities have been slow to act. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-408
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Explorers
To fund citizen clean up and monitoring of the Konstantinovka River and activities to raise environmental awareness, including a festival, a student expedition, and a conference. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-410
Amount: $1,617
Russia Advisory Board
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Karelian Republican Council of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection
To support sustainable development and alternative energy in northwestern Russia, and to fund a seminar on environmental protection for high school biology teachers from Karelia, Leningrad and Murmansk. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-602
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Forget Me Not
To fund a campaign to protect the ecology of areas that support the growth of the pink lotus flower through biological assessment, monitoring and public awareness building. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-420
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Rostok
To fund a reforestation, monitoring and education program to protect a birch forest near the village of Lozovoe where illegal logging is rampant. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-409
Amount: $1,228
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group for Forest Protection
To fund an ambitious student volunteer reforestation program to restore 45 acres of forest and raise awareness of forest protection issues in the Pervomaisky region. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-424
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Amur Oblast' Nature Protection Organization Hraniteli Hingana
To fund a public awareness campaign about deforestation in the Arharinskaya region and threats to the habitat of the far eastern crane and to work with government and citizen groups to develop solutions. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-422
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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National Collective Farm
To support an inventory of wildlife on lands of the indigenous Orochi people and to fund roundtable discussions on sustainable development plans for the region. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-698
Amount: $1,950
Russia Advisory Board
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Region
To support a public information campaign on the construction of the Katun dam, and to initiate dialogue among regional governmental officials, grassroots groups and the media. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-697
Amount: $1,999
Russia Advisory Board
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Our Home
To fund restoration of a five-kilometer path and pond area that were created by a locally-renowned World War II veteran and serves as an important environmental education site. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-696
Amount: $728
Russia Advisory Board
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Tourist Club
To fund studies of seven sensitive natural areas to support efforts to gain protected status from the government. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-695
Amount: $1,573
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Governmental Organization Ledum
To fund a volunteer citizen ranger program near the city of Birobidzhan to protect against illegal logging and educate people about forest ecology. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-421
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Rodnik
To fund ecosystem restoration near the village of Meinikovo where development threatens a forest with rare and endangered plant communities and to fund efforts to gain protected status for the area. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-419
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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All-Russia Society of Nature Protection- Novosibirsk Branch
To fund a youth program that organizes students to clean up and monitor local protected areas and learn about forest protection. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-416
Amount: $1,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Lights
To support volunteers working to protect forests near Sakhalin Island's major ports where illegal logging threatens forest ecosystems and sturgeon spawning areas. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-414
Amount: $1,950
Russia Advisory Board
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Wind Rose
To fund an information campaign in the Tomsk region on the growing air pollution problem caused by industry and cars and to encourage development of clean air policies. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-418
Amount: $1,875
Russia Advisory Board
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Save the Manul
To fund a study of the threats to the Manul (an endangered species of wildcat) and to bring public attention to the urbanization and poaching that have brought the Manul to the brink of extinction. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-694
Amount: $1,899
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Regional Organization Russian Nature Protection Society
To fund mapping and ecological assessment of a sensitive forest area in order to gain protected area status from the regional government. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-417
Amount: $1,983
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Vodnik
To support a volunteer citizen monitoring program for Lake Arei, a biologically unique area that has gained protected area status but is not sufficiently protected by government officials. |
Year: 2004
ID: 50-415
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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