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Ecosphere
To address the issue of domestic waste pollution in Mikhailovskoe Village through a local awareness campaign, and also by planting bushes and trees on the perimeter of a local waste dumping site. This 'shield' is intended to stop soil erosion and the spread of waste beyond the borders of the dumping site. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-209
Amount: $1,000
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School Forestry "Formica"
To promote environmental awareness among local students in order to protect and preserve the taiga forests of northeastern Russia's Altai Krai region and Lake Svetloe. Activities include outreach programs, reforestation efforts, and monitoring activities in collaboration with local schools. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-957
Amount: $2,792
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Siberian Ecological Agency
To support the 5th International Conference, "Siberian Rivers," which will take place in Tomsk in March of 2010. The conference will bring together experts and nongovernmental organizations that work to protect and preserve the world’s rivers in order to share knowledge and practical experiences, and to develop common solutions to the current environmental degradation of Siberia’s freshwater sources. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-954
Amount: $5,000
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Center for Environmental Problems Solution Eco-Accord
To reduce the negative health and environmental impacts of toxics and to strengthen public participation in decision making processes related to chemical management and environmental justice. The organization will use the funds to support organizations involved in implementing the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management and three major international chemical management conventions in Stockholm, Rotterdam, and Basel. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-722
Amount: $30,000
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Biodiversity Center
To preserve the Russian Desman, who's population has been decreasing because of poaching and environmental degradation. The organization will conduct a series of educational campaigns, disseminate pamphlets, and perform anti-poaching spot checks. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-219
Amount: $1,667
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Tomsk Regional Youth Social Organization "Otchiy cray"
To support reforestation as well as clean-up efforts around the Sun Meadow eco-settlement, created by locals who wanted to demonstrate the successful implementation of environmentally-friendly and energy-saving methods of housing construction. The organization works to promote environmental education and awareness among local youth. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-218
Amount: $690
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To save home land
To increase public ecological control over a forest and lake near Baturino Village that both suffer from solid waste pollution, poaching, and uncontrolled use of non-forest products (berries, herbs, etc). The organization will also conduct awareness campaigns, clean ups, and will create a nature protection-oriented website, which will cover urgent environmental issues at local and regional levels. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-216
Amount: $1,194
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Initiative Group of citizens "Rainbow"
To clean up a one-hectare lake in Chilino Village, issue and distribute information booklets among local residents, and plants trees around the lake. Radugal (Rainbow) will also cover the project results in the local newspaper and create a video of the project results. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-215
Amount: $1,189
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World Around Us
To hold a contest of environmental oriented drawings involving all the schools of the Kamchatka region. Specifically, children will depict what they consider to be the most urgent environmental issues in their communities and the winning art will be used in a regional mass media campaign to attract government and public attention to the pressing oil and gas development issues in Kamchatka. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-971
Amount: $2,500
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Green Tomsk
To issue a booklet entitled "Rare and endangered types of plants in a Specially Protected Area of Akademgorodok Park." The funds will also be used to involve students of Tomsk schools in a series of restoration and cleanup activities, and to organize a roundtable discussion for activists, students and teachers of Tomsk city. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-214
Amount: $1,000
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Ecoton
To film two educational videos about Altai ecosystems, especially focusing on their rare and endangered species of flora and fauna. The project will be completed in collaboration with Committee of Education of Altai Krai and will be distributed among local schools and non-governmental organizations. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-213
Amount: $2,160
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To provide general support of the organization, which has recently been intimidated by local authorities through a controversial search and seizure of their computers. The funds will also be used to establish monitoring over the re-opening of Baikal Pulp and Paper Plant and to initiate public discussion over this issue. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-170
Amount: $4,000
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School Forestry "Lesovichok"
To organize a series of pine forest protection and restoration events for local students in collaboration with local forestry and state agencies. The group works with local students in conducting assessments, field trips, expeditions, clean ups, and reforestation activities. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-160
Amount: $1,840
Russia Advisory Board
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Tahoe Baikal Institute/Russia
To undertake 3 projects in the Baikalski Nature Reserve to promote environmental education, sustainable trail management, and preservation of cultural heritage. The group will produce maps, brochures, and other tangible educational materials for future use by the Reserve staff and local teachers. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-197
Amount: $2,300
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To set up a number of expositions and public seminars in the new interactive learning center in Irkutsk to inform the public about practices on the local level that can be used to combat climate change. The organization also encourages education, community dialogue, public awareness, and community participation in decision-making processes. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-198
Amount: $2,300
Earth Island Institute
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk
To enable a plan to reintroduce several herds of reindeer into the Tuturo Evenki native territory. Their team leader will also work with a geo-botanist and a reindeer specialist to research the historical placement of reindeer herds in areas near to the headwaters of the Lena River. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-199
Amount: $2,300
Earth Island Institute
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OO "Arkhar"
To involve local residents in the protection of snow leopards in the Argut region in the Altai Republic. The organization will hire an experienced biologist; support educational events; and purchase a tarpaulin yurt to house a spiritual center and museum about snow leopards. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-200
Amount: $3,550
Earth Island Institute
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Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai
To promote ecotourism as a source of income for five shepherd families living in Sailyugem National Park. Specifically, the shepherd families will serve as guides, develop trails, and produce local crafts as souvenirs for tourists to the local herder camps in Sailyugem and Ulandryk. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-201
Amount: $3,550
Earth Island Institute
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"Researches"
To stop deforestation and poor forest management in Altai Krai by printing and distributing informational leaflets; organizing public discussions with forest experts, government representatives, and the mass media; and organizing several field trips to forest reserves in Altai Krai. The organization works to raise public awareness of environmental and social issues through advocacy and outreach. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-211
Amount: $1,667
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Ecological Monitoring Network of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
To support four seminars in Southern Yakutia intended to educate indigenous populations about pressing regional issues, especially rapid industrial development. The seminars will also discuss how to protect their lands and human rights, and introduce the basics of public monitoring and control. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-086
Amount: $5,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Integral
To create a database on all the protected areas in Altai Krai, to include the most updated information on their status and condition, and then to create a compact disk based on this database and distribute it to local schools, nonprofits, government agencies, tourist agencies and the general public. The group will also organize series of presentations and public meetings to educate local communities about the protected areas. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-206
Amount: $1,550
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Altai Krai Public Movement "Start With Your Own Home"
To improve the organizational website and to support the distribution of the environmentally-oriented newspaper, "Altai Nature," which promotes environmental mentality and awareness in Altai Krai. Funds will also be used to expand the network both of paid and volunteer journalists. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-208
Amount: $1,667
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Altai Ecological Fund
To work in collaboration with the local government to carry out a soil recultivation and restoration project at an abandoned gold mining site in the Altai region. The fund protects environmental rights by providing environmental consulting services for local residents, grassroots groups, and other nongovernmental organizations. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-212
Amount: $1,667
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Ongudai Region Special Protected Nature Territories Association
To organize public hearings to address the construction of roads associated with an oil pipeline that is being built without the consent of local land users and land owners. The association works to protect and secure the land statues of the indigenous peoples of the Altai Republic. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-146
Amount: $2,600
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World of Tigirek Village
To conduct outreach and environmental awareness campaigns in Tigirek village and educate local residents on the importance of protected area preservation. Group members will conduct meetings with villagers and define scope of issues; consult community members on organizing small businesses (like beekeeping, weaving vines); pay for two village residents to participate in a regional craft fair; and establish dialogues between village residents and regional administration about the protected area. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-159
Amount: $1,620
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Svetoletie
To promote and support the construction of pressed straw eco-houses in Altai, which have a thermal conductivity that is 7 times less conductive than of brick houses, thus making them energy efficient. The group will organize events to demonstrate the construction and to allow participants to take part in the construction process; the project will also be covered in local and regional mass media. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-161
Amount: $2,700
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Straw Chapiter
To enable the publication of a brochure on American, European and Russian experience in environmentally friendly housing construction techniques and to organize a conference entitled "Ecology as a factor of affordable housing" in the Altai Republic. Funds will also be used to conduct several practical workshops on environmental housing. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-162
Amount: $1,989
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The Community of Small indigenous Peoples “Takylgan”
To conduct clean up of the Arzhan Suu spring, which is thought to have healing properties and considered sacred by local indigenous peoples. Funds will also go towards establishing regular monitoring of the site; placing information boards on best practices for visitors; and reviving traditions which use the spring for healing purposes. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-163
Amount: $1,700
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Association of Small Indigenous Peoples of the North “Koryakia”
To address the potential impacts of pipeline construction projects Koryakia-1 and Koryakia -2 through a series of public awareness campaigns, monitoring activities and round table discussions. Funds will also be used to equip an office of the Olutorskaja Association of Small Indigenous Peoples with a computer and a phone, which works in a very remote region of Koryakia and lacks internet and phone connections. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-962
Amount: $3,000
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Edelweis
To hold eighty environmental lectures at twelve schools in three districts of the Chita region. The funds will enable members of the organization to travel to the designated districts for the lectures. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-965
Amount: $2,294
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Tomsk Children and Youth Public Organization "Ulei"
To improve the condition of the local nature monument "Camp Garden" through monitoring and restoration activities. Activities include constructing a scenic overlook area with information boards; and developing and carrying out regular eco-tourism educational tours in collaboration with experts from the local Geology Department. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-967
Amount: $1,750
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Amykta
To address the impacts of a proposed gas-chemical plant near the Pavlovsk settlement, and to involve the local population in the decision-making process. The group is planning to reach its goals by gathering and distributing information about plant construction, conducting public meetings and opinion polls, and increasing coverage in the local and regional mass media. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-969
Amount: $2,000
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Ecology Unit "Lik"
To conduct monitoring and inventory of the Big Tassor Lake Nature Reserve, which has been lacking government protection for the past several years. The group will implement clean-up activities; install information boards; and raise local public awareness about forest fires and forest pollution. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-970
Amount: $1,904
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Center of Ecological Policy and Culture
To conduct a "Forum of Young Environmentalists of Siberia" for the purpose of gathering active youth from Siberia to raise awareness on climate change, water resources preservation, and alternative energy issues through a series of meetings and workshops. Based on the results of the forum, a brochure will be issued and distributed among schools and NGOs at local and regional levels. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-156
Amount: $2,300
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Tomsk State Univeristy Fund for Science and Culture
To address the issue of unauthorized gravel excavation on the shores of the Tom River by attracting local attention to the issue and establishing a dialogue between local government, businesses and organizations. The group will conduct series of field trips to evaluate the scale of ongoing excavation; publish results in the local mass media outlets; initiate public discussions through public meetings; and publish and distribute leaflets. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-157
Amount: $2,000
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Initiative Group Black Stork
To continue a project from 2007 that focused on planting pine seedlings on sand bars to create a refuge for wild animals, especially the Siberian roe deer. Specifically, the group will organize and carry out public hearings on protecting the biodiversity in the flood lands of the Ob River and create a nature preserve to protect the remaining roe deer population. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-164
Amount: $2,321
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Association of Small Indigenous People of the North of Republic Buryatia
To conduct two seminars in the Buryatia Republic to raise awareness of the local rights and the environmental and health impacts of a proposed gold mining operation in the Sojoty indigenous community. The association works to protect the Buryat traditions by organizing and conducting traditional holidays; carrying out environmental monitoring; and collaborating with local and regional governments to ensure the protection of environmental and indigenous human rights. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-150
Amount: $2,500
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Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To develop public environmental expertise of the site of the proposed uranium development, Gornoe, in the valley of Chikoi River, near Baikalskaja protected area, which will be used in organizing public hearings and will be distributed to the relevant nature protection and state agencies. The organization will also conduct an evaluation of soil and groundwater, carry out radioactivity measurements, and lead training seminars in the nearby village Red Chikoi to educate local residents about their environmental and human rights in the area of uranium mining. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-147
Amount: $3,500
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Transbaikalian Regional Social Movement of Active Youth "Antei"
To monitor the content of heavy metals found in water, soil, food and children living in various parts of Chita city and create recommendations for the development of rehabilitation programs for pre-school children living in ecologically disadvantaged areas. Project results will be compiled with the help of local student-volunteers and sent to local and regional governments as well as publicized through regional mass media. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-165
Amount: $2,500
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Initiative Group "Kovran"
To create a plastics recycling campaign in the Kovran village. The campaign will include clean-up days of the village; the purchase and placement of trashcans around the village; and the creation of a youth group to monitor and plan further actions for the campaign. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-166
Amount: $2,330
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Green Alatau
To educate local youth about the benefits of the Kuznetskyi Alatau nature reserve. Activities include building a trail and conducting a field study assessment to monitor the ecological condition of selected areas of the protected area. The organization works to protect and preserve the biodiversity and ecosystems of Altai-Sayany region. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-167
Amount: $1,996
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Ecological Team "Clean Planet"
To establish a monitoring plan of Inberen Lake in preparation for a campaign to obtain protected status for the area. Additional activities include raising the public's environmental knowledge and conducting public hearings in the area. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-168
Amount: $2,800
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Public Organization Ethnic Ecological Center of Small Indigenous Peoples of the North "Garpanga"
To start the process of obtaining protected status for the wetland area of Chibagalah River, an environmentally fragile area that is threatened by poaching and frequent geology expeditions. The organization will research current legislation on protected areas; identify the most acceptable form of protected zone for this specific territory; draft and submit necessary documents to the regional administration; and carry out local outreach and advocacy campaigns through the media. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-169
Amount: $2,200
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Public Ecological Center Dauria
To organize a summer environmental camp for 40 Russian and Chinese kids with the purpose of educating youth about issues of the Dauria region and Argun River. In particular, this camp will create and organize youth monitoring of Argun river floodplains and promote Russia-China collaboration in addressing issues surrounding this transboundary waterway. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-149
Amount: $5,000
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Initiative Group "Pristine Angara"
To monitor and evaluate the environmental and health impacts of mining activities in the Motygino Region. Activities include public meetings and round tables in an effort to establish long term communication between the local population and government agencies. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-153
Amount: $2,800
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Vesnyanka
To attract public and government attention to the destruction of public recreational areas caused by the industrial development in Pozharskyi District, Prymorie. The group will also conduct monitoring of a local reservoir and the area near the oil and gas pipeline construction site with the overall goal of developing a set of measures to protect local recreational areas. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-154
Amount: $3,000
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EcoVoice
To conduct monitoring, community outreach, and public hearings regarding the construction of the Boguchanskaja Dam on the Angara River. Currently, the dam is under construction without a state Environmental Impact Assessment, and no compensation has been defined for people to be resettled. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-148
Amount: $1,400
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Wildplants
To raise awareness about the ongoing environmental and social violations by oil and gas development companies currently active in the Kargasok region. Specifically, the organization will conduct a local information campaign to attract local and regional attention to illegal waste dumping by industrial companies on indigenous peoples' traditional lands. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-158
Amount: $2,890
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The Evenks Association of Aldan “Sigun”
To educate representatives from 24 Evenks nomadic communities on public participation methods through a series of meetings and workshops. Additionally, funds will be used to raise public awareness about impacts of nearby development projects, including the Elkon Uranium Deposit project, the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline, and the Kankun dam. |
Year: 2010
ID: 53-958
Amount: $2,000
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Green Inventions
To partially cover travel expenses of students and teachers from remote regions of Tomsk Oblast, so they can participate in a regional youth contest of technical 'inventions' aimed at environmental protection and preservation - including resource- and energy-saving solutions. Participants are to define the most urgent environmental issues of Tomsk Oblast, and then identify a 'technical solution'; the best 'inventions' will be awarded certificates and winners will be encouraged to proceed with applying for patents. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-217
Amount: $1,665
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The Evenki People Initiative Group of Ejantsy Village
To increase awareness about the proposed development of a polymetal deposit on the Hamna River - this is just one of ten megaprojects supported by the government. The group will organize a series of meetings with affected communities; conduct regular monitoring of the project's progress; address the state bodies with a request to increase state monitoring over the development activities; and to minimize the environmental and health impacts of the project. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-310
Amount: $1,213
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Initiative Group of Motygino village citizens
To organize a week long summer youth camp on Kukui Islands to educate youth on the seasonal migrations of fish in the region. Activities include building discharge channels to help transport fish from isolated ponds to the Angara river. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-517
Amount: $1,200
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The Evenki People Initiative Group of Ejantsy Village
To increase the level of social and environmental awareness about the proposed development of a polymetal deposit on the Hamna River, one of the 10 industrial development megaprojects supported by the government in Saha Republic. The group will organize a series of meetings with affected communities; conduct regular monitoring of the project’s progress; and officially address appropriate state bodies with a request to increase state monitoring/control over the development activities in order to minimize environmental and health impacts and to appropriately compensate the local population. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-355
Amount: $1,387
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Krasnoyarsk R?gional Publi? ?nvironm?ntal Organization "Plotina"'
To support a public awareness campaign through mass media, public discussions, and round tables about the environmental and social impacts of a hydroelectric development project in the region. Activities include providing information and updates to the population in Krasnoyarsk city and in the lower Angara region about the dam's construction, as well as identifying activists and creating local initiative groups to carry out public control and monitoring of the dam. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-515
Amount: $3,000
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Tomsk Regional Public Organization Center of Ecological Policy and Information
To help implement a system for the recycling and proper disposal of used batteries in Tomsk City in order to prevent soil and water pollution. Activities include purchasing and placing receptacles for used batteries in shopping centers as well as working with local media outlets to promote a public awareness campaign about the issue. |
Year: 2010
ID: 54-155
Amount: $2,930
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