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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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
Russia Advisory Board
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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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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
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Ornithologists
To purchase supplies for the nursery's open air cages for the upcoming 2009 summer breeding season. The organization works to restore the Asian population of the Aleutian barnacle by rearing young in nurseries and releasing them into the wilderness of the Northern Kurile Islands. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-480
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Ethnic Ecological Center of Small Indigenous Peoples of the North "Garpanga"
To evaluate the condition of the native fish population in the Indigirka River. The project will assess factors including oil reservoirs and poaching, and the results will be widely publicized. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-479
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Khakasia Regional Public Organiization "Legal Initiative:
To organize public surveys, hearings, and an awareness-raising campaign regarding the construction of a silica plant in close proximity to Abakan, the capital of Khakassia Republic. They will open and host a phone hotline for affected communities, publish articles on the project by environmental experts, public council representatives, and federal and municipal government representatives, and distribute booklets about the environmental and health impacts of silicon production. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-478
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Prosto Nurka-Eko
To establish a public monitoring and control program related to the construction of the Timpton Cascade dam. Activities include hosting roundtable meetings, conducting surveys, and filing official requests with local and regional government offices seeking compliance with environmental legislation during the project's planning and construction phases. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-477
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Strizh
To conduct a botanical and ornithological assessment of the Kulundinskoe Lake area, one of the most pristine ecosystems in Tomsk and Western Siberia. Activities include compiling information on the impacts of illegal dams, sulfate pollution, fires, and poaching in the area, and distributing the findings through videos and documents to both the public and key government agencies. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-476
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Biskamzha Village residents
To support forest fire prevention and forest restoration activities. Activities include conducting regular forest monitoring, a public education campaign, and reforestation activities in affected regions. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-481
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Coalition «Save Salmon TOGETHER!"
To create a database with information about state fishery laws to inform local indigenous communities and enable them to effectively protect their resources. This organization is comprised of the Kamchatka Trade Union, the Association of Small Indigenous Peoples, the Kamchatka League of Independent Experts, and the Informational-analytical portal Fish of Kamchatka. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-482
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Far Eastern Youth Environmental Educational Center “My Planet”
To develop and create ecotourism routes in the recently created Call of the Tiger National Park in Prymorye, and lead training programs for activist students. Additional activities include installing necessary equipment like interpretive stations, and establishing a regular public monitoring program for the Park. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-475
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Pristine Angara"
To hold a summer camp by a proposed dam construction site near the Motygino Islands nature park along the Angara River. The camp will serve as a forum to discuss negative impacts from dam construction, including loss of pastures, destruction of fisheries, and unjust resettlement practices, and will contribute to the broader campaign to protect the Angara River. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-473
Amount: $3,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Geblerovskoe Ecological Society
To support an awareness campaign about the proposed development of gold, silver, and polymetallic complex deposits in the foothill-steppe regions of Altai Krai, some of which may be located in the area of a future nature reserve and in the habitats of rare and endangered plants and animals. Additional activities include disseminating information through the internet and local papers, conducting workshops and seminars, and distributing a manual on social and environmental impacts of mining. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-452
Amount: $4,925
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Small Indigenous Peoples of the North "Arun"
To conduct a public opinion poll about a proposed dam project in the indigenous community. Additional activities include disseminating poll results through local and regional media, and holding a roundtable meeting in Tura village that includes indigenous leaders and representatives of RusHydro Company. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-471
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To work with students, teachers, and community leaders in 6 towns along the Lake Baikal's shore to organize a number of trail-building and eco-education projects around the lake. The project will include a series of workshops and seminars, as well as one winter and one summer project (each two weeks in length), which will provide a practical opportunity for participants to work on and extend the Great Baikal Trail into their own neighborhoods. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-888
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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The Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To conduct a community water quality assessment of the watershed adjacent to the Ozernoe pyrite-polymetallic deposit, which is being considered for development. The organization will hold workshops on water quality monitoring techniques in three villages; organize an ongoing public monitoring campaign; purchase necessary technical equipment; and create a map of the results of the assessment. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-474
Amount: $1,937
Russia Advisory Board
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Kemerovo Regional Public Organization of Indigenous People Teleut "Nabat"
To assess the socio-environmental impacts of mining activities on indigenous Teleut villages, including violations of traditional land rights and degradation of natural resources in the area. This organization works to preserve and promote the cultural, environmental, and social well being of the Teleut indigenous community through awareness-raising and community-based activism. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-470
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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School ecological movement «Protected Toreji»
To support a campaign among Russian and Mongolian high school students to protect the Mongolian gazelle, an endangered species that migrates into Russian territory during its spring breeding season and faces threats from border fencing, stray dogs, and poachers. Additional activities include informing drivers about the importance of the gazelle's protection and monitoring. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-453
Amount: $2,350
Russia Advisory Board
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Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai
To install two solar panels in the visitor center of the Ukok Plateau, which is part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Heritage Site, Altai, Golden Mountains. The panels will be used to heat the center and prepare food, reducing human-impacts on the plateau ecosystem. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-454
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Save Mongolian Gazelle"
To protect Mongolian gazelles, which migrate to the Zabaikalie region for calving. The group will monitor and enforce an anti-poaching program and conduct a public education campaign about the importance of the gazelles. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-472
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecowest
To support reforestation efforts in the Povarenka Village and raise awareness about rare and endemic plants in the area. The group will conduct a census of the endangered plants, then create and install three interpretive information boards in the area to inform the local population about the threat of nearby forest fires, landfills, and unregulated recreational activity. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-768
Amount: $950
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecodefense
To support an antinuclear campaign against the construction of the proposed Baltic Nuclear Power Plant. Project activities will include raising awareness at the local, regional and international levels through public and mass media campaigns; organizing active public participation in the environmental impact assessment procedure; and writing a collective letter to the Russian president. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-806
Amount: $4,625
Friends of the Earth
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Initiative Group “For Clean Nature”
To create and maintain a website that will inform local citizens and tourists about environmental issues relevant to the area's summer outdoor recreation industry, as well as information about rare and endangered plant and animal species inhabiting the protected areas of Novosibirsk Oblast. Additional activities include organizing a photo exhibition highlighting the negative environmental impacts of tourism in the area. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-772
Amount: $900
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk R?gional Publi? ?nvironm?ntal Organization "Plotina"'
To increase public awareness about the Environmental Impact Evaluation of the Motyginskaja Dam on the Angara River, and ensure that local residents participate in the process. As the result of activities including public hearings, media coverage, and an information campaign, the final Impact Evaluation will incorporate the full range of potential socio-environmental impacts from the proposed dam. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-450
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Siberian Environmental Center
To promote public participation and transparency mechanisms of mining operations in southeastern Altai through monitoring; company engagement; local participation in both hearings and the environmental impact assessment process; and legal support for local communities. Additional activities include creating a database and GIS maps, a website, and publishing a journal to build awareness around the issues. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-579
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group “Volunteers”
To support restoration and protection efforts at Lake Toroki and launch an anti-poaching monitoring program and a public awareness campaign. Additional activities include leading clean-ups of the lake and shoreline, placing interpretive signs, and designating areas for fishing, hunting, and recreation. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-771
Amount: $950
Russia Advisory Board
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Tahoe Baikal Institute/Russia
To develop ecotourism projects in the southern Baikal area with the participation of summer exchange students. The group will collaborate with local citizens, tourist agencies, and the Irkutsk Botanical Garden to develop appropriate projects. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-583
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group “Protection of Lake Chany”
To support a local public awareness campaign on environmental threats to the Lake Chany ecosystem. The group will make and distribute relevant apparel, create educational leaflets, and organize roundtable discussions between environmental activists, community representatives, and government officials; hopefully, these activities will help lay the groundwork for the establishment of a biological reserve at the lake. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-770
Amount: $950
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization "Institute of International Environmental Safety"
To publish and distribute a booklet about environmental volunteer opportunities for youth in the region. This organization promotes sustainable forestry alternatives, public monitoring programs, and participating in policymaking processes. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-637
Amount: $1,070
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk public organization “City Center of Gardening”
To increase awareness about the negative health and environmental impacts of pesticides used in local gardens. Additional activities include leading seminars for gardeners groups about sustainable alternatives and launching a radio and print media campaign on the issue. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-769
Amount: $950
Russia Advisory Board
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Tribal community of Zaporotskie "Kavral"
To enable the Itelmens indigenous community in Kamchatka to hire an attorney to represent its interests in protecting traditional fishing sites in the region. The salmon and smelt population has decreased by 300% since a commercial fishing company was granted a license. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-483
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Regional Social Committee for Water Protection
To organize an awareness campaign about domestic waste pollution along the Ob River, which negatively affects fisheries and drinking water quality in nearby communities. The organization will collaborate with local authorities and state nature protection agencies to plan field trips, monitoring programs, and clean-ups. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-767
Amount: $950
Russia Advisory Board
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Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai
To support the protection and conservation of sacred sites in Altai by disseminating the organization's project results in the Ukok Plateau, Kosh-Agachsky District. Additional activities include publishing a book, Sacred Sites of Altai, and conducting a workshop for participants from Altai, Mongolia, and Kyrgyzstan on protected areas. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-590
Amount: $3,500
Earth Island Institute
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To establish an entry check point at the Karakol Valley’s entrance in the village of Bichiktu-Boom, as a step toward creating more effective protection of the sacred valley. The entry point will be used to document and monitor tourist inflow, and to provide information and accommodation for visitors. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-889
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group «Friends of Karakan forest»
To establish the Karakanskyi pine forest as a specially protected natural territory of local importance, and to submit the necessary documents to the Novosibirsk administration. Additional activities include conducting community discussions, and an awareness campaign focusing on the importance of the forest's protection. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-455
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Public Children Organization House of Nature
To construct a nature trail in the Larinskyi Nature Reserve, a popular recreation destination just outside the city of Tomsk, and the site of environmental education programs. The new trail will minimize damage to the Reserve's ecosystem, which is home to many rare and endangered plants, particularly through the installation of trash cans and interpretive signs. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-636
Amount: $1,570
Russia Advisory Board
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Tyva Republic's Public Organization for Sustainlable Development of the Todzhinsky Kotlovina "Todzha"
To maintain efforts to establish a national park and cultural monument in the Tyva Republic by ensuring public input in the planning process. The project will enable local and indigenous communities to protect their lands from exploitation by foreign extraction companies, specifically by encouraging public participation in public hearings about the Lunsin Chinese Mining company that extracts gold and minerals in the traditional lands and reindeer herding areas of Todzhi people. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-890
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Kamchatka League of Independent Experts
To support an information and public awareness campaign on the issue of salmon poaching along the pipeline Kshukskoe Deposit Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskyi in the remote area of Western Kamchatka. The organization will gather and submit evidence of violations along the pipeline and make information available at regional and federal levels; organize advocacy campaigns that aim to stop the construction of the second operational road along the pipeline and to prevent using the already existing operational road as a public highway. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-451
Amount: $2,541
Russia Advisory Board
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The Gorno-Altaiskaya Municipal Organization of All-Russian Society of Invalids
To increase public awareness about illegal logging in Turochakskyi District. Activities include training local citizens on monitoring techniques, relaying appropriate information to government agencies, and distributing information about the importance of forest protection. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-484
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Khangalas
To organize public monitoring of the construction of a railroad in Khangalas region. The project activities will include: visiting construction sites; organizing public hearings; contacting the construction company and local authorities in order to get access to project documents; and distributing obtained information through local and regional mass media. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-961
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Public Organization Center of Ecological Policy and Information
To conduct an environmental awareness campaign about the current condition of the Ob River in western Siberia's Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Tomsk, Omsk, Kemerovo, and Novosibirsk Regions. A festival, which will be held as part of the campaign, will receive coverage in the local and regional media, and will include seminars for teachers, meetings with local administrators, and clean ups along the river and its tributaries. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-462
Amount: $4,973
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for organization of nature protection activities and services
To prevent illegal fishing of sturgeon in Tomsk Oblast by monitoring certain areas of the Ob River during the wintering of surgeon, when fish is most accessible to poachers. The organization will report poaching violations to the relevant state nature protection agencies, involve local student activists in monitoring, and attract public and government attention to the issue of illegal fishing through mass media and printed materials. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-960
Amount: $1,920
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team "Clean Planet"
To rehabilitate a river system near Inberen Village, with the intent of improving water quality and water flow. Activities include a river clean-up campaign, reforesting the banks of the river, and restoring the river's natural flow; the group will also launch an environmental education campaign to build awareness about the importance of river conservation. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-097
Amount: $2,660
Russia Advisory Board
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Kemerovo Informational Ecological Agency
To prepare and publish an Eco-bulletin from May to December 2009, which will be distributed to local non-governmental organizations, commercial organizations, and the public. The Kemerovo Informational Ecological Agency builds environmental awareness and encourages public discourse and participation in environmental decision-making in the Kemerovo region. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-456
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Lubovichok
To support actions aimed at the preservation and restoration of the Lubinskaja flood-lands. The project will include a school information campaign, as well as collaboration with the local organizations and the Ministry of Agriculture of Omsk Oblast on developing the plan of restorative actions. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-959
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Public Fund "Altai – 21 century"
To increase public awareness about alternative energy as an element of a campaign against the Katun Dam project. Activities include seminars on energy-saving techniques for local authorities and citizens; this organization also monitors projects including the Altai-China gas pipeline and distributes information in Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-469
Amount: $2,600
Russia Advisory Board
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City Public Organization "Ecological Club of Altai State University"
To organize a pilot project on plastic recycling in Altai Krai. Funds will be used to create several plastic recycling centers; to conduct an information campaign to inform the local population about recycling; and to organize meetings between local businesses and leaders that can play a role in starting a city-wide system of plastic waste gathering and recycling. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-956
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Guardians and Protectors"
To monitor the construction process of the gas pipeline going through Nadezhdiskyi District by organizing eco-patrolling teams that will document environmental violations. The organization aims to involve as many citizens as possible in decision making processes around the pipeline by raising awareness and holding public hearings. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-953
Amount: $1,770
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To return four hectares of the forest in Akademgorodok back to a protected status. Specifically, the group will challenge the state ecological assessment that allowed a housing development, ultimately depriving the area of the protected status. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-952
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Problems Solution Eco-Accord
To support the organization's role as the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice Eastern European Caucasus Central Asia Regional Hub. Additional activities include building support for civil society organizations involved in chemicals management. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-721
Amount: $30,000
Donor Advised
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Ekaterina Evseeva
To monitor the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline project, with an emphasis on protecting the Lena River. The Center will carry out a public media campaign to raise awareness about the potential impacts of the pipeline, and meet with local authorities and community representatives, with the goal of achieving stricter environmental accountability measures for the pipeline construction. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-686
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Yuakut Branch of a Network of Public Ecological Monitoring "Pole"
To monitor and assess the socio-environmental impacts of silver and gold mining projects in the Yana River basin. Through activities including a training program on monitoring techniques and forums for public discussion about the mines, the organization will develop a long-term monitoring program for the region in collaboration with local government agencies. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-461
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Zarubino Village School"
To clean up and patrol coastal areas near Zarubino Village in Hasankyi. The organization will also conduct a media campaign to bring attention to the importance of coastal conservation. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-096
Amount: $2,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Triglava"
To increase environmental monitoring and protection in the Altai Republic. Activities include distributing information, carrying out assessments and documenting environmental violations, and holding community meetings to develop participatory community monitoring programs. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-463
Amount: $1,330
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Organization Tolkyn
To create public awareness about the negative socio-environmental impacts of the proposed Katun Dam project in the Altai Republic. Activities include providing information about environmental and human rights to indigenous peoples in the area, holding round-table discussions with impacted parties, and working to strengthen links between the public, government and business. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-464
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth public union of small indigenous people of Altai Republic
To assess the environment and health of two Tubalars indigenous communities affected by test rocket launches in the Altai region over the last 40 years. The organization will collect data and complete medical tests and disseminate the results in the media and to public officials; they will also file an appeal seeking just compensation for affected families to the Office of the Public Prosecutor. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-465
Amount: $2,910
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoloigcal Club Last Environment
To create a series of 10 educational television programs about the environmental threats to the marine biodiversity of Peter the Great Bay. The programs will be released on DVD and distributed in local nature reserve centers, museums, schools, and other educational institutions in Russia's southeastern Primorye Territory. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-466
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Creative Union of Professionals
To create a video featuring rare and archival footage of the Argun river, which runs along the Russia-China border, and has experienced deterioration from increased chemical feedstock mining activity on the Russian side, and population growth in settlements on the China side, over the past ten years. The video will be distributed on DVD and shown on local and regional television. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-467
Amount: $847
Russia Advisory Board
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Chukotka branch of «Russian Red Cross»
To hold a seminar to train thirty public environmental inspectors and unite them into the Chukotka branch of the Russian Social Ecological Union, enabling them to conduct an analysis of the modern ecological situation in Chukotka and develop concrete actions in collaboration with regional public inspectors and local environmental groups. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-468
Amount: $4,495
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk R?gional Publi? ?nvironm?ntal Organization "Plotina"'
To promote public awareness and participation regarding the construction of Boguchanskaja and Motyginskaja Dams at the Angara River. Funds will be used to organize public hearings; travel to construction sites and impacted areas; organize public discussion between local populations, scientists, environmental experts, and local government representatives; and send requests to the regional and federal Nature Protection agencies to conduct an updated Environmental Impact Assessment. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-950
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological-Educational Center "Altair"
To support cedar forest reforestation activities in the Truochakskyi Region of the Altai Republic. Activities include creating cedar nurseries, implementing three reforestation activities, and increasing awareness among local students and indigenous peoples groups about the importance of cedar forests. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-085
Amount: $1,030
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To initiate legal action against the decision to build two uranium enrichment centers on the existing Angarskyi Electrolysis Chemical Plant, which is already leaking toxic wastes into the groundwater, and is located dangerously close to local communities and watersheds. The organization will gather and distribute information about the construction plans to the local public; prepare an expert analysis of this information; publish and submit a formal request to stop the proposed construction to regional and federal governments; and to start preparation for legal action if there is no reaction to the request. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-951
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Live Water
To support an environmental evaluation in the area of the projected Sakhalin-Khabarovsk- Vladivostok pipeline, in collaboration with the Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science. The results will be used to determine compliance with environmental regulations during the construction and operation of the pipeline; the organization will also create a regional council of experts to improve environmental policies surrounding large-scale infrastructure development projects in Russia's Far East. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-966
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns
To organize an information campaign for local indigenous communities about recent changes to the Russian Federation forest code, which will affect indigenous resource use rights, timber harvest practices, and will inevitably result in illegal poaching and timber harvesting. Additional activities include distributing a report on forest reform, legislative documents, and a package of special application forms for receiving resource use rights. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-457
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Museum Workers and Ecologists
To hold a drawing contest for local youth to raise awareness about the importance of cedar forest protection. This organization works to build awareness among the public, youth, and authorities to protect and preserve the Siberian Cedar from illegal logging and forest fires. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-104
Amount: $2,100
Russia Advisory Board
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Mede-Center
To work with indigenous communities in Khabarovsk Krai to improve communications and awareness of their legal rights and other social, environmental, and economic issues. This organization is a legal center that represents indigenous peoples of the region to ensure that their rights are respected. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-093
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Club "Firn"
To create a network of eco-clubs in Buryatia Republic. This volunteer organization was created to promote civil society development and support local non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups in the Baikal region. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-088
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Vydrinskaja School"
To implement an environmental education program in the Vydrino Village in the Buryatia region, organize several youth volunteer teams to carry out clean-ups in popular recreational areas and round table projects with local activists, ecologists and residents to discuss and develop forest fire prevention strategies, and produce an educational video about the Lake Baikal ecosystem. The organization's purpose is to protect and preserve the ecosystem of Lake Baikal and nearby rivers |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-083
Amount: $1,624
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Yakutsk "Health"
To attract pubic and government attention to the issue of low quality of drinking water in Yakutsk city and Ust-Maja town through series of public meetings and mass media coverage. Additional funds will be used to visit remote settlements of the indigenous populations of Evenki (where gold mining takes place) and conduct a series of events to raise public health and environmental awareness, while also attracting the attention of local authorities to the issue. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-973
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Svirsk Community Foundation
To promote energy saving activities and attitudes by creating an Energy-Saving Center in the local library. The organization will collaborate with the library to purchase new window frames, an autonomous heating system, and energy saving light bulbs; create an information board on energy saving activities; conduct regular lectures in the library on energy-saving methods; and try to establish partnerships with local businesses to raise more funds for this initiative. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-972
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Evenki People Initiative Group of Ejantsy Village
To increase social and environmental awareness about the proposed development of Hamna River polymetal deposit, Sardana, which is one of ten industrial development megaprojects supported by government in Saha Republic. Additional activities include conducting a mass media campaign to attract public and media attention to the potential dangers of the deposit's development. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-459
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Citizens "Clean Your Planet"
To organize and carry out a series of environmental awareness and waste management events in Tomsk. The events will include: designing and distributing printing materials about waste management in Tomsk city; conducting clean-ups and placing trash containers on city streets; and collaborating with local waste management facilities to organize trash removal. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-964
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns
To conduct a public assessment and environmental impact analysis of the gas pipeline Sakhalin Khabarovsk-Korea, with a focus on Khasanskyi District Prymorie. Specifically, the organization will involve prominent environmental experts in the project activities. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-963
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Citizens "Eco"
To support efforts to protect the pine forest near Bazoi Village. The group will lead community cleanup efforts; raise awareness about waste management and forest fire prevention; strengthen the dialogue with regional authorities towards establishing an official protected area; and help to build the network of local groups working on similar issues. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-632
Amount: $774
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Cedar"
To create a one hectare outdoor recreation zone in the Kozhevnikovo Settlement, which lacks any such public space, in collaboration with local government, forestry officials, schools, and volunteers. The project will be covered by local media outlets and a video will be made for distribution among the schools of Tomsk Oblast. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-634
Amount: $911
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Ecoknowledge"
To support a public awareness and monitoring program in Igumenskyi Park that seeks to raise awareness about the threat of housing developments encroaching on the park through informational booklets, newspaper articles, and information stands. Additional activities include restoration activities and construction of a playground. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-635
Amount: $780
Russia Advisory Board
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Social movement «Springs of Askat»
To support the creation of the protected area Choros-Gurkina Park. Activities include preparing a biological and cultural-historical assessment to apply for protected area status and conducting an information campaign about the importance of conserving the area. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-458
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Citizens "Revival"
To restore bird habitat and promote public education about the importance of conservation efforts. This groups is comprised of middle school teachers and seeks to mobilize the local community to participate in conservation activities. |
Year: 2009
ID: 53-633
Amount: $1,562
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Public Organization Wind Rose
To build awareness about the negative impacts of industrial pollution in Siberia. Activities include organizing a regional conference with participation from public organizations, local citizens, and government administration; and distributing environmental education materials to seventy regional industries. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-427
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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IRDOO Ecologos
To support youth environmental initiatives to improve the ecosystems of the Saltaim and Tenis lakes, which comprise important habitat for many rare birds. The organization will work with administrators and government representatives to decrease human impact on these unique lake systems. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-428
Amount: $2,600
Russia Advisory Board
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Community of Small Numbered Indigenous Telengit People "Ailan"
To develop an ethnic-eco-tourism project to provide a sustainable source of income and relieve pressure on illegal hunting and fishing. The group is working to preserve the culture and traditions of the Telengits. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-099
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Ecological Policy and Information
To publish and distribute a booklet that highlights environmental problems in Tomsk. This organization collaborates with the media, educational institutions, local and regional non-governmental organizations, and local government to promote environmental rights. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-884
Amount: $1,685
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Teachers
To publish and distribute environmental education teaching materials for instructors in Tomsk. Issues to address in the materials include water contamination, household waste, and energy saving measures. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-886
Amount: $1,968
Russia Advisory Board
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The Great Baikal Trail Association
To collaborate with local authorities on the shores of Lake Baikal to develop land use plans that favor community-based development projects and incorporate a network of hiking trails. This area is threatened by outside investors who seek to develop mega resort complexes along the lakefront. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-063
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Public Organization Ecological Association
To assess the conditions of public parks in Krasnoyarsk. The organization will establish a working group to develop new laws to protect and improve these areas, and present a legislative initiative to the city council. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-082
Amount: $2,490
Russia Advisory Board
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Independent Non-Profit Organization "Apostrophe"
To cover the costs associated with publishing and distributing the newspaper Your Environment. Funds will also be used to send organization representatives to remote regions in Kamchatka where they will be researching fishing violations and the construction of a gas pipeline. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-087
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Student Ecological Club of Altai State University «Under the Open Sky»
To support forest nurseries at four schools through the creation of a coordination center that will provide monitoring. Local students will also be taught methods of nature conservation through seminars and trainings. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-089
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Novosibirsk Oblast
To protect the bat population in the Barsukovskaja Cave by building a lattice fence at the entrance. The cave is home to the largest colony of bats in Western Siberia. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-954
Amount: $1,250
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Zheleznodorozhnaja and Izdrevinskaja Middle Schools' Students and Teachers
To conduct geo-botanical research of the River Izdrevaja Valley and Berezovskyi Zakaznik which will assess the overall ecological health of the area and create an inventory of the rare plants and animals living there. Led by a group of students, they will also carry out clean ups in collaboration with the local population and create a brochure about local environmental problems. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-955
Amount: $1,350
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk R?gional Publi? ?nvironm?ntal Organization "Plotina"'
To enable representatives to travel to the Motygino region to build awareness about the impacts of a proposed dam project. Activities include conducting and Environmental Impact Assessment, the results of which will be submitted to local, regional, and federal government agencies. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-081
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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School Forestry "Formica"
To support reforestation projects through planting and growing cedar seedlings, monitoring cedar plantations, and installing feeding racks for birds and animals. This group organizes scientific and research projects aimed at the protection and preservation of the taiga forests of northeastern Russia's Altai Krai region. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-091
Amount: $1,992
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Initiaive for Olekma Region «SoKOl»
To build awareness among residents of Olekminskyi about the impacts of the Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline. Communities will be trained to monitor the environmental impacts of the project on the Lena River . |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-792
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Robinsons Radio"
To improve radio communication among rangers and foresters who work in different parts of the Tigireksky nature reserve, with the goal of creating more effective management techniques. Additional activities include increasing local awareness about the reserve and involving youth in forest management. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-105
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "No More Dumps in Berdsk"
To conduct a pilot program on household waste separation and recycling in Novosibirsk and Berdsk. The program will then enable the group to complete a cost-benefit analysis and present the findings to public officials. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-791
Amount: $2,990
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Region Public Foundation "Civic Development Center"
To conduct an independent evaluation of the Severskaja power station. The findings will be distributed throughout the region and will serve as the basis for a series of public events related to atomic energy production and environmental threats. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-799
Amount: $3,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Biosphere
To monitor and clean up eleven areas along the Irtysh River and the border with Kazakhstan. The goal is to apply for protected area status for these areas. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-788
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Village Patriots
To implement a series of environmental initiatives in Petrovka Village, including creating an ecological committee and establishing an environmental center in the village library. The organization plans to hold regular committee meetings in this space to discuss measures to improve the district's environmental health. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-781
Amount: $2,300
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Students of the Sea of Sea State University "Clean Ocean"
To organize a clean-up of the coastal zone of Hasanskyi, and to monitor the region's pollution levels. An environmental awareness campaign will be launched to increase awareness about coastal pollution. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-796
Amount: $1,895
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Club of Novosibirsk State University
To research public attitudes towards protected areas in Novosibirsk Oblast and present the findings to regional authorities. The group will also organize an event to raise public awareness about the parks and attract local resources to support them. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-101
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Public Organization " Ecological Center"
To increase youth awareness about waste reduction and recycling. Workshops will bring together activists, experts and local citizens to develop initiatives to implement waste recycling programs in Omsk. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-094
Amount: $2,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization “Tomsk Nature Protection Society”
To hold a seminar for 60 youth to build environmental leadership. Also to publish and distribute a booklet with environmental information about challenges in the Tomsk region to regional high school and university students. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-883
Amount: $1,275
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk City Public Organization "School of Growth"
To increase awareness about environmental issues in Novosibirsk. Activities include youth photo exhibitions and public media events. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-956
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Ecological Organization "Chayanda"
To assess the conditions of the Nuja River, a heavily polluted water source for the region. The group will work with oil and gas companies as well as local authorities to clean up the river and improve access to clean water. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-080
Amount: $2,426
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "The Children of the Sea"
To implement an environmental education program in schools throughout the Primorsky Krai region, to increase awareness of issues like climate change and natural resource management. The program will promote partnerships among schools, non-governmental organizations, scientific institutes, and local businesses. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-794
Amount: $2,980
Russia Advisory Board
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To protect the Karakol Valley, which is considered sacred by local indigenous peoples of the Altai region. Activities include creating a community-based legal information center with internet access, and publishing and distributing legal human rights information pertinent to indigenous peoples. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-804
Amount: $2,966
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Problems Solution Eco-Accord
To support the Chemical Safety Programme, which aims to increase awareness about the effects of persistent organic pollutants on human health and the environment. Eco-Accord also aims to facilitate the ratification of the Stockholm Convention in the Eastern European, Caucuses and Central Asia region. |
Year: 2008
ID: 51-992
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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Irkutsk Regional Public Organization of Women Rights Protection "Hope"
To raise awareness about housing construction threats to the city's parks and recreational areas. This organization works to create a more inclusive political process for the women of Irkutsk. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-800
Amount: $2,968
Russia Advisory Board
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Scientific Society "Talent"
To address environmental pollution associated with the disposal of car batteries in Krasnoyarsk. Activities include assessing contamination levels, pressing the Nature Protection Office to review company practices, and initiating awareness-building campaign. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-783
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Pedagogical Club "Veteran"
To implement a reforestation campaign in the Tomskaja Oblast region. Two hectares of cedars will be planted; the organization will also design an awareness-building campaign about the importance of cedar protection and preservation. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-887
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Eco-Village "Svetlotie"
To support an initiative to build environmentally-sound residences out of pressed straw. The group will partner with the Altai Institute of Architecture and Design on the project. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-803
Amount: $1,838
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zoosphere
To publish and distribute a booklet about successful Greengrants-funded projects in Russia, as well as information about grant writing,. The booklet will be distributed among environmental organizations in Siberia and the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-787
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Chindachi"
To hold a series of community fieldtrips to the steppe ecosystem of Kalastuevskyi Chir as part of a project to design and implement appropriate land management practices. This organization focuses on building environmental and cultural awareness among youth. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-786
Amount: $777
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Maizas Village Residents
To support a campaign against uncontrolled cedar logging in the Kemerovskaja Oblast. The group will organize a series of meetings between village residents and the State Forest Protection Agency to promote logging monitoring and appropriate forest management. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-784
Amount: $1,651
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Ecotourism Development «Lotus»
To protect three nature reserves in Amur Oblast through increased public awareness, clean-ups, and the construction of eco-trails. The group also organizes eco-tours, camps, and related field trips to increase public awareness about the importance of protecting nature. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-100
Amount: $2,525
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zarechnyi Parostor
To carry out a community-based reforestation project in Tomsk. Activities include creating a tree nursery and designing an environmentally-sound wind power plant to supply electricity among the area's biological research stations. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-789
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Teachers of Nadezhdinskyi Region
To address the negative impacts of household waste in Nadezhdinsky Region. Contests will be held in five local schools for students to design recycling systems, which will be displayed in a public exhibition. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-782
Amount: $400
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk
To assess the natural resources of the Onguren region, with the goal of promoting local management. The organization will also promote a specially protected area for local indigenous communities. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-064
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Ecological group "Taiga"
To develop tourism infrastructure in the Udygeiskaja Legend National Park. This work will be carried out in collaboration with park staff and local volunteers. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-092
Amount: $2,992
Russia Advisory Board
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Green World
To hold an International Citizens Hearing on the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear/Radioactive Waste Management. The conference will also address local, regional, national, and international approaches to sustainable development. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-068
Amount: $3,500
Earth Island Institute
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To protect Lake Argem, a culturally and ecologically significant resource. Activities include creating a management plan, building a house for park guards, and organizing community members to support the project. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-069
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Bilik
To create and distribute a publication that focuses on environmental concerns, including oil and gas development and mega-dams, to residents of the Altai region. This organization focuses on environmental education and promotes youth engagement with environmental issues. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-070
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To protect the city's parks and obtain an official Object of Cultural Heritage recognition for the city. The group is also pursuing eight lawsuits against local construction companies that are violating zoning laws. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-078
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tahoe Baikal Institute/Russia
To increase environmental awareness and promote truly sustainable eco-tourism at a popular tourist site by Lake Baikal, through interpretive displays, improved campsites, and nature guides. Also to assess the cumulative impacts of tourism in the region, and to provide recommendations for future tourism development. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-759
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk
To send three specialists to the Toturo-Kirengski Traditional Land-Use Reserve to help community members develop eco- and ethno-tourism practices. Activities include planning an intinerary for visitors, training native guides to work with tour groups, and surveying the reserve for native medicinal plants for collection. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-758
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group "Save the Argun River"
To build awareness about the need to protect the Argun River ecosystem, and to prevent illegal wildlife poaching. This group was created to protect the river and promote public participation in environmental protection efforts. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-716
Amount: $2,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Wildplants
To improve environmental protection capacity among the Selkupy indigenous peoples, with the goal of protecting traditional ways of life. Activities include producing and distributing media materials on waste pollution and forest fire prevention and holding a series of public meetings and round table discussions. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-106
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Tigirek"
To produce and distribute 3,000 informational booklets about the negative impacts of prescribed burns in agricultural areas. These fires compromise environmental health and threaten the region's bird population. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-079
Amount: $2,130
Russia Advisory Board
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The Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To reforest abandoned gold mining sites around Lake Baikal. Activities include promoting the indigenous knowledge of the Eroo population as it relates to ecological restoration, in conjunction with the technical knowledge of gold mining experts. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-802
Amount: $2,970
Russia Advisory Board
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Children's Newspaper «Lesovichok»
To continue the production of the newsletter, which covers environmental issues of interest to local youth. The organization plans to expand the newsletter's circulation. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-790
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Cultural Initiative Development Center
To support the Save Yuntolovo environmental group, which focuses on the conservation of the Yuntolovo wetlands in the Baltic region. Specifically, this area is being threatened by the Western High Speed Highway, which is financed by various international institutions. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-500
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To implement education initiatives around climate change. A series of seminars will be held at schools throughout the Baikal region about the challenges climate change and unsustainable energy use pose for Siberia; part of the project includes a regional youth conference to promote youth involvement in designing energy-saving strategies. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-443
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative group “Eco-designers”
To create a collection of clothes made from environmentally-friendly materials and conduct a seminar to teach student designers in Krasnoyarsk about eco-materials, eco-clothes and eco-designing. The collection will be covered in local mass media. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-107
Amount: $1,910
Russia Advisory Board
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Ongudai Region Special Protected Nature Territories Association
To survey and register land within the Ooch Enmek Nature Park, in order to comply with new government regulations. The preserve includes six villages as well as numerous sacred sites for the region's indigenous peoples. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-431
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai
To develop approaches to sustainable natural resource management in conjunction with park managers, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Tourism, and community members. Activities include organizing public meetings for citizens, initiating a public media campaign around sustainability, and working closely with key stakeholders in the area. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-426
Amount: $1,769
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecology and Culture of Mountain Altai
To produce and distribute brochures about potential impacts of the proposed gas pipeline project in the Altai. Also to hold roundtable discussions with people in the region who will be impacted by the proposed construction. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-425
Amount: $2,849
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Ringing Cedars
To monitor the construction site of an oil pipeline that will impact Kozmino Village and the Manankina and Kmylovka Rivers. The findings of the citizen monitoring will be published and distributed to various stakeholders. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-424
Amount: $2,790
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Public Initiatives Rynda
To organize a campaign to clean up the Aspen Stream, which has been impacted by large-scale logging. The Center will reforest the banks of the stream, hold clean-up activities, and create recreational areas for local residents. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-423
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ekaterina Evseeva
To carry out baseline research before the Eastern Siberia Pacific Ocean oil pipeline begins to operate. The results will allow the group to monitor environmental changes caused by the pipeline and advocate for laws that protect indigenous rights in the region. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-419
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Mezhdurechensk Citizens
To implement a plan to prevent illegal elk and reindeer poaching and promote animal protection. Along with monitoring activities, the group will also undertake an information campaign to raise awareness about the importance of elk and reindeer protection. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-418
Amount: $1,240
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North
To assess the degree to which International Financial Institutions have failed to enforce benefit-sharing commitments with local communities, specifically around the Novatek Gas project in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and the Timan Bauxite mine in the Komi Republic. The Center will analyze these projects in the context of World Bank finance regulations. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-504
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Neryungri Public Organization of the Nature Protection Society of Russia ( VOOP)
To hold a field trip for local students to study the natural environment of the Nerungrinskyi area. Additional activities include organizing a citizen clean-up and evaluating residential water quality. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-801
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature and Culture of Altai
To hold seminars throughout the Altai region to inform people about the possible socio-environmental impacts of a proposed gas pipeline project. The seminars will provide space for people to voice their opinion on the project. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-430
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group of Pensioners
To organize a series of seminars and a booklet to educate local communities on how to recycle and re-use plastic bottles for household purposes. This group also implements regional reforestation projects. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-785
Amount: $1,538
Russia Advisory Board
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City Public Organization "Ecological Club of Altai State University"
To hold a seminar for environmental organizations to discuss Russian environmental law, website design, organizing, and other relevant issues. The outcomes of the meeting will be published and distributed among Altai environmental organizations. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-795
Amount: $4,171
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To organize an awareness-building campaign about the negative socio-environmental impacts of chemical plants in Irkutsk and Angarsk. Activities include publishing brochures about the contamination and organizing an air and water monitoring program. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-414
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Club Ulukitkan
To independently monitor indigenous Evenks land that has been heavily exploited by gold mining. The organization will also conduct an awareness-building campaign about land rights among the Evenks and initiate legal action against the mining companies. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-412
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Far Eastern Health Fund
To increase circulation of the environmental newspaper Fresh Wind, and to establish networks with other Far Eastern environmental organizations to expand protected areas in Primorsky. This organization works to address regional environmental health issues by promoting sound, science-based policymaking. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-084
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Ecological Organization "Art"
To formally register and offer capacity-building support for the regional public organization Todzha. The goal is to increase public participation in environmental protection efforts, especially in the face of ore deposit development and railway construction. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-086
Amount: $1,888
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk)
To develop a campaign to inform residents about the negative environmental impacts of the construction of a dam on the Irtysh River. Activities include expert independent analysis of the proposed dam, distributing the results to the public, and organizing several protest demonstrations. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-090
Amount: $3,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Green Vladivostok
To complete an environmental impact assessment of a thermal power station. Also to develop a media campaign to build awareness about the negative socio-environmental impacts of industrial pollution. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-797
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Novokuznetsk Youth Organization «EKOS»
To improve waste management and water quality. The organization will hold a series of student-taught waste management training workshops for local businesses. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-798
Amount: $2,436
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Unikum"
To hold a citizen clean-up of the left bank of the Bazaiha River, which flows through the Torgashinskoe Plateau and is home to many wildlife species. Additional activities include building public awareness about habitat protection, monitoring recreation areas, and implementing a recycling campaign for local households. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-793
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Child and Youth Public Organization “Uley”
To increase environmental awareness among youth by holding a series of school seminars, conferences, festivals, and tours to local nature reserves. This organization works to bring together the youth organizations of Tomsk to create a network of likeminded groups united to create change around environmental issues. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-885
Amount: $1,282
Russia Advisory Board
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Geblerovskoe Ecological Society
To create a school forestry program to plant cedar trees in the Altai region. The goal of this program is to involve schoolchildren in environmental activities and raise environmental awareness among the greater community. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-417
Amount: $2,967
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Leaders
To hold environmental festivals in Altai Republic and Ataisky Krai to increase environmental awareness among students and environmental groups. Additional activities include holding meetings to generate dialogue between the public and local authorities, and strengthening support of indigenous ways of life. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-603
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team "Springs"
To create an environmental education center in the Krasnyi Yar Middle School. The center will promote learning around issues include industrial water pollution and environmental protection for rivers in the area. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-095
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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ISAR-Siberia
To leverage government support for environmental activities, by organizing grant competitions in conjunction with the local administration. This project will also be used as a feasibility study in the development of a Russian Greengrants Alliance of Funds member. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-527
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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City Public Organization "Ecological Club of Altai State University"
To support a local university environmental club, Green Leaf, to build awareness about protecting natural reserve areas in the Altai Krai region. Members will work through schools and organize clean-ups of Lake Krasilovo. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-102
Amount: $1,988
Russia Advisory Board
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The Initiative Group on Conservation of Biodiversity in South-Eastern Altai
To educate the public about the importance of protecting rare animal species in the southeast region of the Altai. Activities include producing videos, posters, and booklets for distribution among schools and hunters in the Kosh-Agachskogo area. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-604
Amount: $1,560
Russia Advisory Board
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Far East Public Resource Center
To organize a series of workshops for students attending the universities in Vladivostok and Nakhodka where they will develop nature protection projects particularly focused on monitoring environmental conditions of the Southern Primorski region. This organization works to support initiatives of noncommercial organizations and individuals directed at increasing the public role in decision-making processes related to preserving the environment. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-605
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Amur Regional Children's Public Organization "Green World"
To increase public awareness and proactive policy around solid waste management issues in Tynda city. The outskirts of the city have become a dumping ground; the goal is to involve residents and students in a broad-scale clean-up effort. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-098
Amount: $3,975
Russia Advisory Board
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Fans of Nature
To clean up several water springs that serve as a source of potable water. This organization has been working for 12 years to promote environmental education and awareness in Krasnochekovo Village. |
Year: 2008
ID: 52-129
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Children Youth Group "UNEK"
To teach the community about resource-saving measures to conserve electricity and water related to household activities. Activities include staging a drama show about conservation for children, organizing student workshops, and working to promote resource conservation through media sources. |
Year: 2008
ID: 53-103
Amount: $2,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Ecological Agency
To monitor power lines in Tomsk Oblast to assess the threat that they pose to birds, thousands of which die each year as a result of contact with the lines. The organization will complete a study that identifies the area's most vulnerable bird species and outlines a long-term protection plan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-429
Amount: $2,930
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To organize independent air pollution monitoring near the Sakhalin Energy liquefied natural gas plant in the southern part of Sakhalin Island. It is believed that the plant, the oil terminal, and the tankers will discharge toxic substances into the atmosphere, threatening a nearby community. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-359
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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Equilibrium
To restore and protect state reserves and national parks with teams of local volunteers, including youth. This organization will also carry out a special event, the Day of Siberian Animals, to inform local people about the need to protect rare and endangered species in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-134
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Great Baikal Trail Association
To support the organization's trail-building youth camps, which promote youth environmental education and active participation in the environmental movement. The Lake Baikal region is the focus area for a system of hiking trails, as part of an initiative to promote ecotourism and economic development for local communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-444
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Center of Public Health
To analyze the soil, water, and human health pollution impacts in a area believed to be contaminated by a local tin smelter. The report will be submitted as part of a lawsuit to force the company to clean up contamination and provide compensation to local people whose health has been adversely affected. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-142
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoprotection
To build public awareness regarding the possible impacts of a proposed atomic power station in Tomskaja Oblast. Activities include a press conference, opinion polls, seminars, and roundtable discussions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-121
Amount: $1,972
Russia Advisory Board
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Oikos
To improve environmental protection efforts in the Berezovsky Wildlife Area. Activities include conducting a wildlife census, replanting trees, creating an ecological map of the protected area, and building public awareness about the importance of the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-122
Amount: $1,260
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
To support two projects: a public campaign around the problem of radioactive waste in the Yenisei River; and a campaign to bring attention to the repression of Russian non-governmental organizations by the government. One goal is to create more links between the Russian legislature and non-governmental organizations to create a space for dialogue and public opinion. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-123
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center
To establish a public campaign to protect the Bolshaja River in the area of Bolsherechie, Omsk. Activities include meetings with local citizens and government officials, organizing clean-up trips, and establishing stronger links among environmental groups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-124
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Alkor
For a clean-up project in the coastal area of Livadiya, which has suffered a severe solid waste problem resulting from heavy tourism impacts. This organization works to organize and coordinate environmental and social initiatives in the Nakhodka City District of Livadyia. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-125
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Ecological Assessment and Environmental Monitoring
To hold seminars in the Tomsk area with a coalition of scientists, government representatives, non-governmental organizations, and wildlife managers to address environmental problems in the region. The Center's members include Tomsk Polytechnic University professors and students, and works to bring greater public attention to environmental issues, especially radioactive pollution. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-126
Amount: $1,460
Russia Advisory Board
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Petrel
To restore an oak forest near Arhara Village, including monitoring and protecting reforested areas. They will also carry out a complementary education campaign about the importance of forest protection. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-127
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Black Stork
To create a refuge for wild animals like the Siberian Deer from poachers; specifically to reforest an area in collaboration with local environmental groups, citizens, and students. A complementary education campaign about the importance of endangered species will also be carried out. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-128
Amount: $1,982
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Earthmen
To clean up and reforest two nature sanctuaries--Lake Kazachka and Suetskyi Dome--with the participation of high school students, forestry staff, and the village administration. 40,000 seedlings will be planted to reforest 10 hectares of degraded lands. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-130
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Live Spring
To protect a cedar forest that is threatened by new building constructions. Activities include organizing public monitoring groups, a clean-up campaign, and reforestation projects. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-421
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Russian Nature Protection Society
To clean up small rivers in the Khabarovskyi Krai region that have been contaminated by industrial pollution and consequently caused serious health problems for local people. Monitoring, clean-up, and environmental education activities will be completed involving student associations and citizens as well as municipal agencies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-133
Amount: $4,205
Russia Advisory Board
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The Amur Regional Children's Public Organization "Green World"
To create a network of environmental organizations in the Amur region that will focus on public education, a media campaign, and increasing citizen voice in advising environmental legislature. Green World is a youth environmental movement that promotes environmental awareness among the local population. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-422
Amount: $1,987
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Protection Team
To build support among the public for the creation of the Bastak natural reserve, which borders the Pompeevka area. The project will create public awareness of the importance of this reserve through expeditions to the area, information campaigns, and roundtables with citizens and government officials. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-135
Amount: $1,991
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Revival
To reforest two hectares of degraded land in the village of Kozhevnikovo, and fence it off to protect it from cattle grazing. This youth-focused group is also developing a proposal to submit to the village authorities that will promote broader reforestation efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-376
Amount: $1,535
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of Kamchadals
The Union of Kamchadals works to protect the human rights and legal interests of the indigenous Kamchatka people, who were deprived of all rights under Soviet rule. Funds will be used to organize a coalition of local tribal communities along the Tigil River to promote national wildlife management, protect fishing places from poachers, and create better measures to protect the salmon on which the Kamchatka rely. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-136
Amount: $5,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Green Landing
To promote clean solid waste management and prevent new illegal dumping grounds for household and industrial solid waste pollution. Activities include publishing a manual on solid waste management, creating a video on proper techniques, conducting seminars on waste management laws, documenting current illegal dumps, and organizing clean-ups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-137
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Vesnyanka
To unite leaders of the youth environmental movement in Luchegorsk City through conservation projects. Activities include an environmental assessment of the Pozharskyi area, and a public education campaign to draw attention to the problems of environmental contamination and biodiversity loss. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-138
Amount: $1,999
Russia Advisory Board
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Indigenous People's Communtiy Trust
To create an information center in an indigenous community of the Altai, to educate leaders about their environmental rights. As a result, local indigenous representatives will be able to better represent and defend their rights at the government level and in the court system. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-139
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Organization Tolkyn
To create public awareness of the ecological and cultural importance of nature sanctuaries in the Altai region through production of a video that will be aired on a regional television station as well as press articles, and culminating in a discussion with local government officials and the State Assembly. This organization works to preserve and restore the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of the Altai. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-140
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Clean Planet
This branch of the Ecological Center works to promote environmental awareness in the Sargatka Municipal District of Omskaja Oblast. Funds will be used to restore Lake Inberen and the surrounding rivers through reforestation and cleaning up a natural spring. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-145
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Nizhnaja Eltsovka
To carry out an environmental awareness campaign in Nizhnaja Eltsovka about solid waste pollution and its impacts on the Eltsovka River. A meeting will be held with the heads of the relevant municipal agencies to pressure for halting logging and promoting clean up activities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-144
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Spring
To monitor the environmental condition of the Osha River; activities include involving youth in monitoring and clean up, and creating and distributing a report about the findings of the assessment to the State Ecological Department. This group is a branch of the Omsk Children and Youth Ecological Center. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-141
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecoworld
To organize a youth environmental festival that focuses on recycling and the importance of protected areas; the event will be covered by the media and followed up with a television program on the same issues. This group focuses on promoting environmental awareness among youth. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-143
Amount: $1,886
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoclub ECLIPS
To promote environmental education for youth in the Irkutsk, Baikal region by involving students and teachers in ecological monitoring activities. The Ecoclub will collaborate with various schools to create a formalized system for environmental monitoring and research regarding the pollution and degradation of the Irkutsk environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-131
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To conduct a campaign to protect an ecologically valuable public park from housing developments. Activities include constructing a website, involving the public media, and submitting a formal challenge of the zoning decisions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-114
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To fund an environmental impact assessment as a baseline study of environmental conditions in the Baikal region. As a result, mining impacts will be able to be accurately measured and evaluated. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-096
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Ecologists of Bolotninskyi
To hold a seminar for teachers in the Bolotnino region on rare and protected plants in the area, and to create a public center to monitor the state of rare plants. Additional activities include organizing field trips and school research events to conduct a rare plant census, the preparation of recommendations for the protections of rare plant species, and holding a conference to publicize the findings of the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-371
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Siberian Environmental Center
To generate awareness about the problems of industrial pollution and household waste in the Inya river. Specific activities include involving the local population in clean up efforts, distributing informational booklets on the issue, and creating a map of the river and adjacent protected areas that indicates the main points of pollution. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-372
Amount: $1,670
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Problems Solution Eco-Accord
To support Eco-Accord's Chemical Safety Program, which focuses on raising awareness about the effects of persistent organic pollutants on human health and the environment. Eco-Accord also aims to facilitate the ratification of the Stockholm Convention in the Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia region as part of its work to seek new approaches and solutions to environmental, economic and social problems at the local, national, and global level. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-991
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To increase and diversify environmental education materials available to the public along the Lake Baikal trail system. The trails currently cover more than 400 miles and provide a key opportunity to introduce conservation to rural populations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-097
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Young Correspondent
This youth journalist club covers activities of local youth clean up campaigns through an environmental page in the regional newspaper. Funds will be used to print three special edition issues of its environmental bulletin and begin work on a new media project about endangered plants and animals in the Kozhevnikovo area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-383
Amount: $1,159
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Spring
To clean up the shores of the polluted Lake Lunchinino in collaboration with local residents, students, and the village administration. In addition, this citizen-based group will produce a video about the importance of the lake and distribute it among local residents. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-382
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Luskutovo Village residents
To eliminate a large unauthorized waste dump in Tomsk, and prevent continued use of the site. The groups will also organize a public event around the closure of the dump to generate public action on the issue. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-381
Amount: $1,405
Russia Advisory Board
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RITM
To acquire protected status for an area threatened by illegal logging and waste pollution. the necessary documentation about the area will be collected and submitted to the appropriate agency. The necessary documentation about the area will be collected and submitted to the appropriate agency, and a public committee will be created that will maintain contact with authorities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-378
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Strizh
To designate the Baturino-Simanskyi area--home to a number of rare and endangered bird species--as an Important Bird Area, according to the criteria of the international ornithological community. A bird census will be conducted, along with a report regarding current habitat threats, to promote better stewardship of the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-120
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Kemerovo Regional Public Organization
To initiate legal action against a Moscow-based mining company that extracts manganese deposits. The goal of the legal action is to prevent the re-licensing of this company, and to continue the organization's awareness-building campaign about the negative impacts of extractive industries throughout the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-113
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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MEBO-Center
To teach local people about the importance of protecting the natural heritage of the Novosibirsk area; activities include field trips, the publication of an educational handbook, and the production of a video about nature preserves. This initiative group was created by teachers and students of the Novosibirsk State University in the Botany and Ecology department. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-370
Amount: $1,590
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Branch of All-Russian Nature Protection Society
To hold a series of seminars for 25 junior high school ecology teachers to introduce an innovative environmental education system. A pilot project will be carried out in selected schools in Novosibirsk. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-375
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Women's Council of Inder Village, Dovolenskyi District
To conduct a series of cleanups in and around Inder Village, and to form a monitoring group to protect the coastal zone of the nearby lake and nature sanctuary area. This women's association aims to improve the environment in the region and increase public awareness regarding environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-373
Amount: $1,030
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Drofa
To preserve and protect the Kamyshlovka River, a key ornithological area, by promoting public awareness and dialogue between citizens and government officials. Activities include creating a map of the area to be protected, organizing student clean-up expeditions, coordinating bird protection teams, and organizing a public conference about the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-115
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Inspectors
To fund a public education campaign about the importance of rare and threatened plants, with the goal of reducing illegal rare plant smuggling. Educational seminars with customs workers will be held, in addition to producing a brochure about how to identify plants that may be smuggled across the border in this region of the Altai Republic. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-116
Amount: $1,455
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Velston
To assess the environmental damages to Lake Zharyldykol, located in the northwest part of Omsk, which has been degraded by illegal fishing and cattle grazing. Clean up and restoration activities will also be organized, with the goal of establishing a nature monument status for the lake. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-117
Amount: $1,585
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoloigcal Club Last Environment
To conduct a campaign to protect the Manchurian Fir Tree of the southern Primorski Krai region. This association of journalists works to promote ecological awareness and knowledge, and to encourage government bodies to make environmentally-sustainable decisions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-118
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Barabinsk Branch of Russian Nature Protection Society
To support the preservation of a the Cape Kazantsevsky nature sanctuary in the Lake Chany area of Western Siberia, through the involvement of local youth in nature protection activities and monitoring. This organization is the Novosibirsk branch of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection formed in 1958. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-119
Amount: $1,965
Russia Advisory Board
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?cological Public Centre of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia)
To protect the rights of indigenous communities in the northern Sakha Republic, which are threatened by a hydroelectric power station on the Timpton River. Research on the impacts of the station will be presented to government officials and tribal communities, with the goal of ensuring indigenous participation in decision-making processes. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-411
Amount: $2,991
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Osinniki
To document the environmental and health impacts of a proposed solid waste storage area near the Senkina River. The group will work towards initiating legal action against the site. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-413
Amount: $2,550
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk)
To protect water resources in Omsk from pollution and promote public participation in water resource management. The organization aims to unite the regional environmental movement and to strengthen partnerships among various stakeholders in water management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-415
Amount: $4,950
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To challenge a judicial order that allows for residential construction in the local city park. Activities include holding a public protest, distributing information about the environmental impacts of destroying the park, and working towards achieving a protected status for the park area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-416
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zarechnyi Parostor
To support a collaborative tree planting involving students, local residents, government officials, and logging company representatives. An information booklet will also be published and distributed that discusses the value of the southern Taiga ecosystem. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-377
Amount: $1,658
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Ecological Union
To bring attention to the negative environmental consequences of the mega Bogunchanskaya Dam project on the Angara River, the largest hydroelectric project under construction in Russia. The group will launch a broad information campaign, create a website, and produce a video entitled 'Environmental Problems of the Boguchanskaya Dam Construction'. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-420
Amount: $4,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiatiative Group Planet
To clean up illegal waste from around a freshwater spring, and to monitor the water quality. As a result of this project, there will be an accessible source of water for local villagers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-374
Amount: $1,725
Russia Advisory Board
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Children Youth Group "UNEK"
To fund a project aimed at improving the ecological condition of the River Om, a possible alternative source of drinking water for the population of Kalachinsk area, Omsk Oblast. The project will monitor the banks of the River Om to locate and document the illegal dumps, industrial sewage, and cattle graveyards that lead to environmental degradation. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-836
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To support community environmental education in and around Elkhorn Island, which is threatened by oil pipeline construction and industrial pollution. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-469
Amount: $1,250
Earth Island Institute
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk
To fund the demarcation of and resource inventories in Evenk traditional lands, a prerequisite for getting them designated Territories of Traditional Land Use. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-468
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Zoosphere
To fund children's art competitions, entitled Wild Animals of the Homeland, ' in Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk and Barnaul. Also to organize an exhibition of the best illustrations, to publish and distribute a catalog of those illustrations, and to distribute free copies to ecological organizations in Siberia and the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-835
Amount: $1,980
Russia Advisory Board
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Tourist Club Horizon
To support preservation of the unique linden garden that was planted in 1870 by Cossacks, and which is now being cut down by local woodcarvers. The grantee organization will collaborate with forestry officials to obtain protected status for the linden garden. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-834
Amount: $1,555
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Public Organization Ecological Association
Top help change consumer attitudes toward the local environment through the production of anti-consumption advertisements. By conducting seminars in colleges and universities, the organization will attract creative young activists to create the commercials. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-833
Amount: $1,925
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Development of Ecological Tourism in Prymorie
The organization works to protect and preserve the nature, culture and traditions of Prymorskyi Krai through developing and promoting ecotourism in the region. This grant will be used to define significant tourist sites in the forested areas of Prymorksja Oblast and gain them the status of Specially Protected Areas. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-832
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Resource Center Regional Activist Network
To support a project to reduce the social, economic, ecological, and cultural risks of oil terminal construction in Kozmino bay, Primorskyi Krai. The grantee will conduct public seminars and meetings, carry out a public ecological evaluation of the terminal construction materials, and assist in the creation of local citizens' groups to monitor the project at the local level. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-831
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Ecological Network of Sakha Republic
To fund a review of a portion of the Eastern Siberia -- Pacific Ocean Pipeline Project. The construction of the internationally-funded pipeline is being conducted in violation of Russian environmental legislation, and without any coordination with local authorities. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-830
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Ecological Student Inspection
To fund a project to preserve and develop recreational zones in the city of Tomsk. The group will identify and clean up the abandoned city park, involve local citizens in project activities, and establish communication between local population and authorities on the issue of green recreational zones in the city. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-829
Amount: $1,975
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Protection Squad Bars
To support this student organization in organizing an information campaign about a proposed dam on the Amur River. The group will visit seven settlements near the proposed dam site and conduct polling and public discussions there. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-537
Amount: $1,985
Russia Advisory Board
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Environmental Watch on North West Caucasus
To pressure a gas company to comply with environmental standards in the Taman Peninsula, and to push for compensation for past environmental damage. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-505
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Nature Protection Squad Berkut
To fund an expedition to the site of a proposed dam on the Amur River, and to develop printed materials and electronic presentations on the dam's possible consequences. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-536
Amount: $1,986
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Sustainable Human Settlements Development
To promote the participation of local youth in developing and implementing sustainable and environmentally friendly housing construction techniques in the Akademgorodok district of Novosibirsk. Also to promote collaborative actions between local youth, administration and business through a series of meetings and roundtable discussions. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-923
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Organization Tolkyn
To support a campaign to protect the Arzhan-Suu spring and to influence government at various levels to protect natural sites in the Altai. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-447
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Taiga Research and Protection Agency
To involve public organizations and individual citizens in nature protection activities in the mountainous Shoria area. The Taiga Research and Protection Agency will, among other activities, gather and distribute information about the Green Movement in Russia and organize a seminar on nature protection initiatives. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-828
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group ART
To support work to decrease the negative impact from gold mining on the Bii-Hem River Basin in the Tavy Republic. Initiative Group ART will research the current water composition and status of aquatic life in the river, create and distribute a video on river pollution there, and inform local communities of their environmental rights under Russian law. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-853
Amount: $1,959
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Vega-Spas
To support an expedition to study the condition of the Chulym River and the sources of pollution there, and to organize discussions about the results. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-449
Amount: $1,287
Russia Advisory Board
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Tobolsk Ecological Society
To fund an effort to create a Specially Protected Territory on the left bank of the Irtysh River. The purpose of the project is to ensure protection of the area's unique biodiversity, especially its rare and endangered plants and animals. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-840
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Three T
To fund a meeting of youths, activists, and tourists in the Kuzbass area, in order to raise environmental awareness and to present methods of waste recycling. The grantee organization will also organize a clean-up action in the forest area around the meeting place. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-841
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Amur Regional Children's Public Organization "Green World"
To fund an environmental education program and to create and distribute an ecological newspaper. The newspaper will present discussions of urgent environmental problems in Eastern Russia, as well as practical recommendations on the implementation of current Russian legislation concerning wildlife management. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-843
Amount: $1,956
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Chita Journalists
To fund an information campaign in Chitinskaja Oblast about the possible negative consequences of the planned Amazarskyi cellulose factory and Novoberozivskyi lead mine. Also to organize a roundtable discussion of possible next steps against the developments. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-846
Amount: $2,098
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group at Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University
To support a DNA-based analysis of genetically-modified crops in agricultural products in the Amur Oblast. Results will be distributed to local citizens via the local press, and will be presented at regional ecological conferences. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-847
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center Nomad
To fund a new series of workshops, entitled A Garden of My Dream, in which forest experts share their experience in creating parks other open spaces. As a result of the project, three communities in the Buryatiya Republic will create their own parks. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-849
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Editorial Board of the Steppe Bulletin
The organization works to promote activity aimed at steppe protection and preservation in the countries of the former USSR. This grant will be used to publish and distribute an edition of 'The Steppe Bulletin.' |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-850
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Bird Protection
To fund a project to restore rare baloban falcons to Southern Siberia. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-434
Amount: $1,964
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Ascention
To support a project aimed at applying principles of ecological management to local industries. The organization will carry out an opinion poll of local industry representatives, a training seminar for non-profit organizations, and a roundtable discussion that will include local citizens, government officials, and industry representatives. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-852
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Parks Restoration
To support collaborative efforts among local groups to preserve parks and create "green zones" in the city of Krasnoyarsk. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-436
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To monitor whether the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) follows its own environmental standards in considering the Sakhalin II oil and gas project. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-399
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Bureau for Regional Outreach Campaigns
To improve BROC's transportation and logistical resources so that they may better monitor key extractive industry operations. The activities to be monitored include illegal logging and fishing, as well as some questionable activities concerning mining, offshore drilling, and oil and gas pipelines. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-629
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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Initiative Public Union Ecoformat
To support the creation of a recreational zone, including ecological trails, in the Tomsk region. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-432
Amount: $1,989
Russia Advisory Board
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Club of Shorskyi Park Friends
To fund an information campaign on the traditional homelands of indigenous peoples, and to investigate a proposed copper mine. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-431
Amount: $1,750
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Public Children Organization House of Nature
To support restoration of the Bogashevskyi cedar forest, a local nature reserve. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-430
Amount: $1,992
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Branch of Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
To involve the youth of Krasnoyarsk in a public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of ongoing nuclear activities in the region. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-429
Amount: $1,981
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Strizh
To support creation of a specially protected nature territory at Kolarovskie Lake in the Tomsk region. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-428
Amount: $1,702
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
To fund independent research on radiation in the Krasnoyarsk area and to locate and remove radioactive materials from designated areas. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-427
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Kemerovo Regional Public Organization Committee on Usinsky Manganese
To fund a campaign -- including public debates, legal action, and environmental monitoring -- against a proposed manganese mine. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-426
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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?cological Public Centre of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia)
A proposed dam on the River Olekma will flood a major portion of a nature reserve. This grant will support a campaign to inform the local population about environmental impacts of the proposed dam, a local opinion poll, and public meetings with government representatives. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-851
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Ecopatrol
To support a campaign to bring about proper enforcement of logging regulations in Primorski Krai. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-437
Amount: $2,383
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Iris
To support the study and documentation of rare and endangered animals and plants in two territories: Shelabolihinskyi and Kamenskyi, Altai Krai. The booklet will be printed and distributed to schools and other public organizations. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-839
Amount: $1,701
Russia Advisory Board
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Clean City Association of Russia
To fund portable laboratories to conduct water quality testing in rivers and lakes in the Tatarstan Republic. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-460
Amount: $1,000
Earth Island Institute
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Student Nature Protection Squad Manchzhur
To organize a series of campaigns to dispose of solid waste in the Far Eastern State Marine Biosphere Reserve. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-456
Amount: $1,873
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Studying Rare Animals
To support a scientific survey of endangered bird species in the Inia River Valley in the Western Altai. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-455
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Ecological Union
To inform the public of environmental and social impacts of several large infrastructure projects in the Lower Angara region. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-454
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Khabarovsk Regional Public Organization The Center of Medical and Ecological Problems
To implement a study of the impact of smoke from wildfires on the children of Khabarovsk Krai, and to develop and publish recommendations based on that research. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-453
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of Kamchadals
To support detection and monitoring of salmon poaching in remote areas of Kamchatka. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-452
Amount: $1,979
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Eco-We
To fund monitoring of bird populations in Academgorodok, and to involve the local population in protection efforts. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-451
Amount: $1,600
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Eco-Leaders
To strengthen and expand a coalition of environmental groups in six different regions of Altai Krai. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-433
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Student Ecological Organization Planet
To fund a pilot project to organize the separation and recycling of municipal waste in three districts of Barnaul city. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-448
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Ecological Policy and Information
To support an awareness campaign entitled Know What You Are Buying, which will help to protect the rights of Tomsk citizens to safe food products. In response to numerous requests from local consumers, the Center will carry out an evaluation of popular food products in the local market to identify genetically-modified ingredients, and then issue Red and Green lists of food manufacturers. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-837
Amount: $1,915
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Balamut
To support youth programs to clean up a nature area near Krasnoyarsk and to build a path for tourists visiting caves there. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-446
Amount: $1,998
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group River Transport Workers Protecting the Nature
To fund the restoration of the protected territory near Moryakovskaja village, including the establishment of environmental monitoring squads. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-445
Amount: $1,964
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecocenter Flamingo
To support a campaign to protect a rare and endangered flower, the Siberian Kandyk, which local residents gather and sell each spring. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-444
Amount: $1,999
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Rostok
To engage local youth in a clean-up and restoration campaign for the Zelenyi reservoir, in the Omsk region. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-443
Amount: $1,650
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Regional Social Committee for Water Protection
To support a variety of programs protect rare and endangered fish in the Ob River. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-442
Amount: $1,984
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Spodvizhnik
To support research on the links between pollution and cancer cases in Krasnoyarsk, to publicize that information, and to prepare policy recommendations. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-441
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Children for Peace In the World
To support a youth program seeking to restore a pine forest in the city of Sosnovoborsk. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-440
Amount: $1,996
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Alternative
To fund projects to clean up springs, lakes and a river in the Kuznetskyi Alatau nature reserve. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-439
Amount: $1,535
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Eco-Oko
To involve tourists and local residents in activities opposing construction of a dam on the Katun River. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-438
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Garden Fund
To fund research on laws regarding protection of municipal "green areas," as well as discussions of ways to that protection more effective. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-450
Amount: $1,570
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zakaznik Birskyi
To fund a series of expeditions to determine the number of surviving Amur tigers and their prey, and to estimate the scale of logging operations in the area. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-435
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To support a field study of the exploratory uranium mine sites in the area surrounding Lake Baikal, and to produce a handbook on the hazards of uranium. Despite limits on the scale of mining currently taking place, levels of uranium in the local drinking water continue to rise. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-764
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Public Organization Bemby
To fund a clean-up of the local specially-protected area Cedar Ecopark. The group will place trash bins in the Ecopark and build fences around it to prevent the damage caused by motorists and grazing cattle. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-941
Amount: $1,990
Russia Advisory Board
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Far Eastern Environmental Public Interest Organization Ecodal
To carry out a series of seminars entitled: Non-Governmental Organization Activity under the New Legal Framework in Russia. Also to organize meetings of environmental activists in Khabarovsk, and to publicize those meetings in the mass media. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-944
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Youth Group Tayezhnyi Krai
To carry out an education campaign to protect the rare flowers of the Botanical Garden of Vladivostok and the adjacent areas. Teams of youth will monitor the garden, educate tourists and locals, and organize environmentally-focused lectures in local schools. |
Year: 2006
ID: 52-228
Amount: $1,188
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group No to Timber Wastes
To contribute to forest conservation by encouraging more efficient utilization of felled logs and processing of timber waste. The grant will be used to draw the attention of the local administration, businesses and the population to the issue of full processing of timber, and to organize the removal of timber waste from logging areas. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-940
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "The Children of the Sea"
To fund seminars and the development of youth projects aimed at decreasing the human impact on coastal and marine areas. The best projects will be implemented in collaboration with local businesses involved in implementing eco-technologies. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-920
Amount: $1,930
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Kochevnik
To increase environmental activity of local youth in the Republic of Buryatiya. Initiative Group Kochevnik will form an environmental organization of students from local universities, arrange a trip for them to the Baikal Nature Reserve, and support them in arranging further collaborative ventures. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-921
Amount: $1,955
Russia Advisory Board
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Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai
To publish a brochure on the results of an environmental workshop attended by representatives from local schools and staff from Specially Protected Nature Areas. The workshop established a collaborative relationship between local middle schools and nature parks, which in turn has led to joint projects, information exchange, and ecological tours. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-922
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Forest Guardians
To fund a workshop for 15 youth organizations involved in reforestation and forest preservation activities in Novosibirsk Oblast. The results of the workshop will be summarized in a booklet which will be distributed among local schools. |
Year: 2006
ID: 51-942
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Altai
To fund development of an environmental protection project that will bring together different grassroots youth groups in the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-881
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Organization Vostok ( East)
To create a Ecotourism Coordination Center in the Prymorie Region, which will help preserve national monuments there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-195
Amount: $1,633
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Ecopatrol
To organize public hearings and round table discussions on the issues of wildlife management and public participation in environmental decisions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-932
Amount: $1,830
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Pervomaiskyi Nature Resources Protection
To support programs to organize children from two local youth sport camps into groups that will clean up three local lakes. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-862
Amount: $1,891
Russia Advisory Board
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Environmental Fund Sikhote-Alin
To create an organization to perform public environmental monitoring and review of industrial logging in the Bikin River valley. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-861
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To fund a new Great Baikal Trail Center in Sevrobaikaslk, and to support construction of trails and a resource library for ecotourism development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-920
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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Children Ecologocal Club Blue Bird
To organize local high school students from troubled families to clean up a local recreational area called Kok-Tei. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-860
Amount: $528
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Club Horizon
To support a program to reforest the Ob River basin and organize a forestry school in the Smolensk District. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-859
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Aniva
To support a program to research the negative ecological and social impacts of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project on the local community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-858
Amount: $1,330
Russia Advisory Board
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Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East
To fund travel for indigenous representatives to participate in negotiations on compensation for communities displaced by the Sakhalin Oil and Gas Project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-853
Amount: $7,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zabaikalsk
To fund efforts to alleviate conflict between the supporters of the Daurskyi Nature Preserve and farmers from the surrounding region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-886
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zoo
To conduct a series of lectures about a specially protected nature territory, to organize tours of the area, and to create a club of young environmentalists. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-885
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Charusa
To continue a project to involve local residents and tourists visiting the River Inya to take part in the region's protection. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-880
Amount: $1,790
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Khabarovsky Krai
To support a series of public hearings on the environmental impact of the Sakhalin oil project, in order to inform the local population and ensure that construction complies with relevant environmental regulations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-882
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Time Doesn't Wait
To support the clean-up and reforestation of six hectares near Uglegorsk City and the creation of a eco-trail through the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-875
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Fund for Educational Support Planet
To fund reforestation activities in the Altai Republic, and to attract attention to the rapid degradation of the taiga ecosystem in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-878
Amount: $1,360
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North Kolta Up
To fund increased participation of local indigenous communities in environment-related decision making in the Karagasokskyi District of Tomsk Oblast. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-863
Amount: $1,890
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Public Organization Ecological Association
To fund a gathering of young environmental activists in Krasnoyarski Krai to develop possible solutions to the growing trash disposal problem. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-877
Amount: $1,711
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Debut
To fund staging of an environmental play by a children's theater in the village of Kolyvan', as well as the play's tour of the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-879
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Ongudai Region Special Protected Nature Territories Association
To establish a temporary system of public monitoring of natural features and ecological attributes of the Altai area, to allow for better area protection and improved reporting of violations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-867
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Biosphere
To send a group of environmental experts to the River Om for 10 days to evaluate ecosystem conditions and develop recommentations to improve the condition of the river and its tributaries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-868
Amount: $1,993
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Altai
To fund field trips to identify, photograph and map natural features in Altaisky Krai that will be designated for protection, and to conduct opinion polling relative to the project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-876
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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GOO V Budushee Vmeste
To support mass media campaigns on the environmental situation in Novisibirsk. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-870
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Ecological Agency Planet
To fund an environmental trail through unique natural features of the Charysh area of Altai Krai, in order to decrease recreational impact on the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-872
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Indigenous Peoples Association of the North
To support public environmental monitoring and review of logging activities around the indigenous Dogordon Village, located in the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-873
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Teachers Initiative Group
To support a series of expeditions to catalog the flora, fauna and other key aspects of areas that can be designated as Natural Monuments. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-874
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Squad Altair
To protect the natural monument known as Amrinskoe Gully by holding training sessions for local environmental activists, distributing educational materials, and staging clean-up sessions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-884
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Regional Public Organization Irbis
To support development of eco-tourism in different parts of the Altai Republic, and to establish regular monitoring and clean-up activities in collaboration with local indigenous communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-188
Amount: $1,890
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecology
To fund a public meeting and opinion poll in portions of Novosibirsk Oblast on a possible bird hunting moratorium during the spring hatch. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-198
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizen Council 100 houses
To fund restoration projects at Lake Bezymyannoe, in the suburbs of Novosibirsk, and to change local citizens' attitudes toward the lake. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-176
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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Ural Ecological Union
To support a program to highlight alternatives to existing energy industries, and to establish a working group of stakeholders to oversee the program's implementation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-119
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To oppose construction of a dam on the Katun River, by arranging for an independent environmental impact evaluation and by raising public awareness of the issue. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-196
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Assistance to Citizen Initiatives
To fund publication of news bulletin on energy-saving techniques, new building construction methods, "green" energy alternatives and other related issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-120
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To support an environmental impact assessment at the proposed Khiagda uranium site, and to compile a public handbook for monitoring the environment in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-123
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To support four different local environmental education and information outposts, which facilitate citizen participation in campaigns on oil/gas development, mining, illegal clear-cutting and other issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-124
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Sources
To focus attention of the local population and authorities on developing alternative energy sources in Groin Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-194
Amount: $1,581
Russia Advisory Board
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Children Public Organization VIEKO Kedr
To fund restoration of a pine forest and to expand a tree nursery, using participation of at-risk youth. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-192
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Ecology Teachers
To fund high school environmental clubs and environmental events for the local community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-191
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecodom
To support creation of a recreational tourist zone, with protected status. in the traditional territory of the Shores indigenous group, and to combat illegal logging in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-200
Amount: $1,860
Russia Advisory Board
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The Union of Chita Volunteer Environmental Squads
To fund a series of training sessions for environmental groups in the Chita region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-189
Amount: $1,654
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Teachers
To fund efforts to involve residents of five villages in Tomsk Oblast in a campaign to improve water quality. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-199
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Semipalatinsk Union
To support activities to protect the rights of Environmental Migrants -- refugees from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan who now reside in and around Novosibirsk. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-187
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To organize and publicize an environmental impact assessment of lead and zinc mining in the Lake Baikal region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-186
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Promoting Sustainable Development
To fund various activities to increase collaboration between young environmentalists and government entities, businesses and other sectors of society. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-185
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Student Club Ecos
To support community clean-up and environmental awareness activities along the Aksha River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-184
Amount: $1,871
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Children's Youth Public Organization Siberian House
To organize a media campaign for protection of natural monuments in Tomsk Oblast, and to conduct ecological inventories in several nearby natural monuments. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-183
Amount: $1,755
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Squad
To fund restoration and clean-up of a park in Odesskoe village, as well as efforts to gain that park Specially Protected Area status. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-182
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group School Forestry
To support an environmental education campaign, as well as student and citizen reforestation activities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-181
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Mikhailovskyi Chemical Technological College Students
To support a campaign to obtain official Natural Monument status for Crimson Lake, a local recreational site currently under the threat of agricultural development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-180
Amount: $1,428
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecocenter Alkor
To fund development and implementation of technologies for solid waste collection and recycling in the coastal areas of the Vostodk Nature Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-179
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Live Water
To support creation of a Youth Eco-Agencies Network that will study and monitor fresh water resources in the Amur River basin of Prymorie. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-178
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Branch of All Russian NGO Russian Ecological Independent Expertise
To support a formal assessment of a new park development plan in Novosibirsk, and to organize public meetings to discuss the issue. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-177
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of Indigenous People Kun
To support a range of environmental protection and restoration activities conducted by the Telengits indigenous people in the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-190
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Live Creeks
To fund protection of the habitat of rare invertebrate marine species in the area and to attract attention to the sharp decline in the area's biodiversity. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-233
Amount: $1,531
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group All Together
To fund environmental education programs, some of which will involve participation of children with behavioral problems. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-197
Amount: $1,170
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecodefense
To support activities of the Chernobyl +20 Coalition, a network of about 30 organizations raising public awareness of continuing nuclear issues in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-260
Amount: $1,450
Friends of the Earth
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Public Ecological Center Dauria
To fund a grant writing workshop for grassroots environmental and social groups in the Krasnoyarsk region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-201
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoton
To fund a plant census and assessment of human impacts on the Shelabolihnskyi region of the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-234
Amount: $1,450
Russia Advisory Board
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Volunteer Ecological Squad Delta
To fund a wildlife census, stream restoration, creation of a nature trail and environmental training for high school students. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-232
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Revival
To fund restoration of the Voikovskaja Forest ecosystem, which has suffered from illegal logging and fires. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-231
Amount: $1,494
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecotrails of Pryamurie
To support creation of an eco-trail near Svobodnyi City, the third largest city in the Amur area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-230
Amount: $1,410
Russia Advisory Board
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Protection of Rare Species
To organize a campaign to raise awareness of endangered plants and animals of the Western Altai region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-229
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Around You
To support campaigns for improved waste disposal, public cleanup and reforestation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-193
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To support independent citizens' monitoring of construction sites for the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development projects on Sakhalin Island. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-243
Amount: $5,000
Rainforest Action Network
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Oleng
To fund student monitoring of forests in the Kemerovo region, fire prevention seminars, and a student photo exhibition on local native primroses. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-129
Amount: $1,290
Russia Advisory Board
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Children of the Baltic
To fund two teacher seminars on environmental issues and awareness in St. Petersburg and Sosnovy Bor. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-026
Amount: $1,500
Earth Island Institute
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Center for Assistance to Environmental Initiatives
To fund creation of a volunteer Youth Energy Corps that will travel around Saratov to demonstrate energy conservation techniques in schools, senior facilities and orphanages. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-025
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Social Ecological Organization Primrose
To support a series of public meetings and media events to attract attention to forest protection issues in Pozharskyi District and encourage participation in activities for local youth. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-116
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Childrens Organization Green Party
To fund environmental education and tree-planting programs near the villages of Dmitrievka, Kanichi, Pautovka and Bichura. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-117
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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School Organization Brigantine
To fund a community forestry school that will involve students in tree planting and programs to raise awareness of the local deforestation crisis. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-118
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Istok
To fund youth programs to clean up riparian areas along the Bysa River, create nature trails in the Norskyi Nature Reserve, and organize school programs, including an arboretum and a environmental theater program. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-111
Amount: $1,075
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Lesovichok
To fund a school program on reforestation that will include field work in restoring a Korean pine forest near Kirilovka village. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-109
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Debut
To increase public awareness of damage to the Kazyk River (due to construction of shipping locks) through a series of public events and activities in Novosibirsk, Kochnevo and Kolevan'. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-123
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Nature Protection Society
To fund a teacher's seminar on promoting environmental education through volunteer programs in the Omsk region. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-125
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Scientific Society Pathfinder
To fund a tree-planting, forest restoration, and erosion control program near the community of Anjero-Sudjenks. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-131
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Organization Rostok
To fund riparian study of the Voroshilovsk Waterfall, the formation of a youth group to clean up and monitor the river, and an effort to gain legal protection for the waterfall. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-110
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecomission
To raise public awareness about health and environmental damage from poor water quality through a series of public events and publications. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-130
Amount: $660
Russia Advisory Board
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Student Ecological Club Rainbow
To develop an environmental education and field work program that will include programs for at-risk youth and a student volunteer ranger program. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-147
Amount: $1,939
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of the Local Peoples of the Northern Part of Magadan Oblast' Ai Bini
To support indigenous communities in the northern Evenskyi Region and Magadan District through sustainable economic development and prevention of salmon poaching. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-146
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Petrovsk
To fund a local media and awareness campaign about environmental conditions in the Kundulun area and a program to clean up the Myykyrt River. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-139
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Breeze
To support a student monitoring organization that will document illegal poaching and logging in the Pribaikaiskyi Nature Reserve and organize a 'Baikal Day' to call attention to local environmental issues. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-138
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Club Sakura
To initiate a project involving youth from a local summer camp in cleanup activities on the nearby Kruchina River. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-137
Amount: $1,194
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecological Initiative
To fund a summer camp dedicated to forest protection, education and forest stewardship activities. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-136
Amount: $1,982
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Charitable Fund
To support a program to involve disabled children in environmental education and clean up efforts for local riverbanks and ecosystems. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-135
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Forestry School Novopavlovskoye
To fund a series of seminars for students and the public on fighting forest fires and halting poaching on public lands. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-134
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let Dauria Steppe Bloom!
To fund a campaign to raise awareness about preventing fires in dry steppe ecosystems. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-133
Amount: $1,350
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Formal Initiative Group To the Forest with Love
To fund creation of an ecology center for teachers and students that will provide a venue for classes, professional trainings, seminars and meetings and a photography and video laboratory. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-128
Amount: $1,530
Russia Advisory Board
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Organization Askold
To fund a student expedition to Askold and Putyatin Islands to evaluate the condition of island ecosystems, restore forest areas, and organize a summer ecological monitoring program for scientists and students. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-114
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative group Ostrov
To support a program of citizen involvement in the protection of a local marine preserve, promote ecotourism, beach monitoring and cleanup efforts, and to increase public pressure on government authorities. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-106
Amount: $843
Russia Advisory Board
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Baltic Pipeline System Monitoring Project
To study and monitor the World Bank-funded Baltic Pipeline System in the Gulf of Finland and encourage greater public accountability for this project. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-209
Amount: $2,300
IFI Advisory Board
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Childrens Ecological Union Swallow
To organize and train local youth to protect a newly-established nature preserve against forest fires, poaching and littering through citizen ranger patrols. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-112
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Education Center Norskyi
To fund an outreach and media campaign to raise awareness of environmental threats, such as logging and poaching, to the Norskyi Nature Reserve and the surrounding region. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-113
Amount: $800
Russia Advisory Board
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Federation for Ecotourism
To support a coalition effort to promote ecotourism in the Lake Baikal region and fund construction of an 8km hiking trail through a newly-established State Park. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-215
Amount: $1,200
Earth Island Institute
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Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To fund radiological testing at Lake Baikal for fallout from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site to determine the safety of commonly harvested foods, such as mushrooms, berries and fish. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-030
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Fakel
To support research and environmental education in the Nogliksky region with a particular emphasis on how development is affecting patterns of bird migration. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-145
Amount: $670
Russia Advisory Board
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Iniative Group Rostok
To fund reforestation near the village of Progress and a program to increase local environmental awareness and promote sustainable development. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-108
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Forestry School Golden Eagle
To fund development of educational materials on forest protection and public meetings and events to encourage participation in the development of a local school of forestry. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-115
Amount: $1,772
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Fireman
To fund a volunteer ranger and environmental education program that will work with local schools and scientific organizations to protect forests from logging and poaching. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-140
Amount: $1,978
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Public Rights Protection Center
To fund a series of public meetings to develop recommendations for the design of specially administered areas in northern Sakhalin that would increase autonomy of local indigenous peoples. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-144
Amount: $1,600
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Eco-Business Incubator
To fund planning and development of a Irkutsk state park in the Baikal region that can serve as a buffer to the Baikalski Nature Reserve. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-031
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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National Collective Farm
To fund a program of citizen ranger patrols in local forests to document illegal logging and poaching and to draw public attention to these activities through media outreach. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-141
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Young Nature Defender
To fund an education and pollution monitoring program that will help local citizens ensure the safe operation of the Bykovugol coal mine and processing plant. |
Year: 2003
ID: 50-143
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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Ustye - Goloustnoye Center for the Environment / Baikal Wave
To support the purchase of a 4-stroke outboard boat motor and 800 liters of fuel so that this group can continue its monitoring and anti-poaching activities on Lake Baikal. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-194
Amount: $3,400
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Eco-Educators / Baikal Wave
To produce several short films documenting the current environmental challenges at Lake Baikal and outlining potential protection strategies. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-195
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Center of Social Help to Families and Children
To fund research into the causes of a disease affecting fir trees in the Podnebesnye Zubya region and to involve local citizens, including disabled children, in the research program. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-429
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Trionix Center
To support environmental awareness and citizen monitoring programs in the Ulchskyi region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-428
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Green Zone
To fund a program to educate and involve students in monitoring and protecting ecosystems in the Magadan area. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-423
Amount: $1,590
Russia Advisory Board
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Oikos Research Organization
To support improvement of water quality in the Amur region through citizen involvement in monitoring pollution and restoring wetlands and riparian areas. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-426
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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ECOTOK
To support Russian translation and distribution of Earth Day materials for environmental groups across northern Eurasia. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-052
Amount: $1,000
Earth Day Network
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Impulse
To support expansion of a green youth volunteer program in communities of the Zeisko-Bureisko Plain to help reforest and restore natural areas. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-425
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Ranger
To create a student tree nursery to grow local species for a reforestation effort in the Amur region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-424
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Public Committee of the Ecological Movement
To reduce pollution of the Yenisei River from a petroleum refinery in Krasnoyarsk by assessing and mapping the pollution and studying the feasibility of rebuilding or moving the facility. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-430
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East
To fund the travel expenses of a representative of this indigenous organization attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-055
Amount: $1,500
Earth Island Institute
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Siberian Ecological Agency
To support efforts of the people of Tomsk to raise awareness of pollution from the Siberian Chemical Combinat and to prevent damage to wetlands and other local ecosystems. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-422
Amount: $1,866
Russia Advisory Board
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SoDeistvie - Teamwork
To support efforts to enforce environmental regulations in the construction of an oil refinery in Magadan by hosting two conferences and working with journalists to expose deficiencies. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-420
Amount: $1,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To fund the travel expenses of a representative attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development to discuss the experience of Russian communities working toward sustainable development. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-071
Amount: $3,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group for Promoting Environmental Education
To support environmental education in the schools of Novosibirsk and Novosibirsk Oblast and to support citizen reforestation activities. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-427
Amount: $2,150
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Inspection of the Lower Amur Region
To fund a series of public events in cooperation with government foresters to raise awareness of illegal logging in the southern Amur region and gain greater public participation in its prevention. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-439
Amount: $1,999
Russia Advisory Board
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Rainbow
To support creation of youth groups to monitor pollution and protect the biodiversity of the Prymorskii Krai region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-448
Amount: $1,991
Russia Advisory Board
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Live and Dead Water
To fund an education campaign in the Khakassia region about the links between environmental degradation and increased health risks. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-447
Amount: $1,850
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizen Center of Nuclear Activity Prevention Youth Branch
To support efforts to build public awareness of the potential dangers of nuclear development in the Krasnoyarsk region through media outreach and a web site. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-446
Amount: $1,981
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Children's Movement CHIR
To support creation of a Green Patrol for students and adults who will monitor the environment in the Tumen Oblast region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-445
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Lake Defenders Club, Altai
To support citizen patrols of the Chulyshman River Valley by students of Gorno-Altai University working to stop poaching and illegal logging and monitor tourist activity. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-444
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Partisan Public Organization of Hunters and Fishermen
To support creation of a wildlife refuge in Prymorye that will be used for ecological research. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-443
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Lights
To support continued efforts to protect the Brianka River Estuary on Sakhalin Island through training of citizen environmental patrols and a reforestation program. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-442
Amount: $1,950
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecologist Club
To support the in-school environmental education program Knots of Knowledge in the Chita region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-441
Amount: $1,336
Russia Advisory Board
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ROSSECO
To support efforts to reduce human impact on the Silinski Forest and to encourage local participation in ecosystem protection. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-433
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Regional Public Organization Istok
To support expansion of a school-based ecological club focused on the restoration and protection of Pervomaiskii Park. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-440
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Russian Environmental Policy
To fund the travel expenses of a representative giving testimony at the World Summit on Sustainable Development on the ecological impact of nuclear facilities and tests. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-078
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Komsomolsk Zapovednik Initiative Group
To fund public meetings to raise awareness of potential environmental damage from an oil terminal under construction in De-Castri and to develop strategies to protect surrounding ecosystems. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-438
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecopolis Ecological Group
For a series of meetings that will bring together environmental organizations, the public and government officials to determine strategies for protecting wetlands and riparian areas along the Charysh River. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-437
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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International Socio-Ecological Union
To fund the travel expenses of a representative attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development to discuss sustainable energy issues. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-086
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Obreg Tomsk Regional Public Organization
To support efforts to halt construction of the Krapivinski Dam through research and analysis and by encouraging citizen involvement in decision-making. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-436
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Irkutsk Children and Youth School of Ecology and Health
For a program of citizen action to protect the Academgorodok Forest through monitoring of industrial activity and restoration of damaged areas. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-435
Amount: $1,353
Russia Advisory Board
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Green Amur
To support efforts to involve the people of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the protection of the Silyanka River through education, outreach and research. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-434
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Rivers Network, Altai
To fund a conference in the Altai Republic to discuss a hydroelectric dam planned for the Katun' River and explore possible alternatives. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-449
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Scientific Student Society
To support a reforestation program in and around the city of Khabarovsk to protect local watersheds, improve the region's ecological health and educate students and citizens. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-432
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Adonis School Forest District
To support a school tree nursery program as part of an effort to restore Sakhalin Island's Ado-Tymovo Forest and provide environmental education for local children. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-431
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Independent Environmental Service on North West Caucasus
To support an education and advocacy campaign against the Blue Stream gas pipeline and an ammonia terminal on Taman Peninsula. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-160
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Center for Ecological Survival
To fund a photo exhibit, media outreach, and a video on deforestation of the Siziman-Stone Forest in the Khabarovsk region. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-411
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Phoenix Forestry School
To support cleanup of the Yagadnaya River, creation of protected areas, education for local people and restoration of fish-spawning habitat. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-417
Amount: $700
Russia Advisory Board
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ViKam Media
To support research on the ongoing construction of a natural gas pipeline in Kanchatka and to develop materials for increasing public awareness and oversight of the project. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-405
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoton
To support creation of a park at Aya Lake in the Altai through ecological research, a study of local tourism, thorough mapping of the area, and creation of a formal proposal to the government. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-393
Amount: $2,650
Russia Advisory Board
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EcoBuss
To support efforts to protect the Big Ussurka watershed, threatened by a rapid increase in logging, by bringing pressure on government officials and increasing public awareness and action. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-407
Amount: $1,065
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Lesovichok
To support a youth group in the village of Volchanets working to protect and restore local pine forests through a program of public education and reforestation. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-408
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Tradition Initiative Group
To fund an environmental law seminar and information campaign for indigenous students in the Vladivostok area to help them better participate in the protection of their traditional lands. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-403
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Pervotsvet
To fund a series of ten videos on local environmental challenges, such as pollution, mining and illegal logging, in and around the city of Luchegorsk. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-410
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoton
To map the small rivers and springs of the Primorsky region and create a student volunteer program to restore and reforest surrounding areas. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-402
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecos School Ecological Society
To support reforestation and cleanup of forests near the village of Chigiri, fund a series of ten ecological seminars for school students, and to fund a community forest festival. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-412
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Lotus
To support efforts to protect the remaining forests of the Zeisko-Bureskaya Valley from agricultural development and logging through research, education and legal efforts. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-413
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Kamchatka Research Fund
To support efforts to more effectively protect the newly created Kluchevskyi Nature Preserve through public education, research, improved management, and better regulation of local tourism. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-414
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Oikos
To support a program to protect a small forest near the village of Ivanovka through citizen tree planting and soil restoration, and to host a conference on protection of forests throughout the Zeisko-Bureyskaya Valley. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-415
Amount: $1,300
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Regional Public Organization Istok
To fund research on rural farming communities in the Altai and produce a record of ethno-ecological traditions of the Kumandin as a model for sustainable resource use. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-262
Amount: $1,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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The Druzhina Nature Protection Troops
To support research and publication of two books on the successes and challenges of the region's often isolated student environmental organizations. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-416
Amount: $1,630
Russia Advisory Board
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Territorial Neighbor Community of Native Indigenous Peoples of the North
To support the efforts of local indigenous people to restore, protect and monitor the environmental health of the First River. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-409
Amount: $1,400
Russia Advisory Board
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Oikumena
To support protection of the Zeisk Nature Preserve through purchase of a computer to allow this outreach group to publish educational materials and better manage its operations. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-395
Amount: $1,300
Russia Advisory Board
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Knowledge-Power
To fund hearings, research and a public awareness campaign about a proposed natural gas plant on Sakhalin Island. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-388
Amount: $1,665
Russia Advisory Board
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Boomerang
To support hands-on educational programs on forest ecology and protection and to create trails and trail maps on southern Sakhalin Island. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-390
Amount: $1,700
Russia Advisory Board
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Gaia Apatity Environmental Center
To fund research on insulation technologies, organize training activities and make energy efficient improvements in the windows of several public buildings. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-296
Amount: $4,600
Friends of the Earth
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Irkun Youth Ecological Organization
To support a reforestation program that brings volunteers from the community of Novobureisk together to plant trees, monitor illegal logging and educate fellow citizens on the importance of forest protection. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-391
Amount: $1,300
Russia Advisory Board
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Sources
To develop educational materials for communities in the Ust-Koksinsk region of the Altai to promote awareness of the world class status of local forests and the serious threats of poaching, illegal logging and pollution. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-392
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To fund a collaboration with Korean and Japanese organizations to raise awareness of environmental destruction in Sakhalin from the oil and gas industry and threats to the Grey Whale. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-304
Amount: $4,833
IFI Advisory Board
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Ecological Lights
To fund protection of the Brianka River Estuary on Sakhalin Island through a public awareness campaign on the effects of logging on sturgeon spawning and to support citizen volunteers working to prevent illegal logging. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-394
Amount: $2,420
Russia Advisory Board
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Cedar Forestry School
To support efforts to protect Cedar-Tis Forest and Amurstalevskye Heights, two popular natural areas now under stress from human pressures. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-406
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Organization Rostok
To support restoration of Deer Creek, badly damaged by recent illegal logging, by funding damage assessment, a tree nursery and reforestation. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-396
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Young Ecologist
To protect and restore the Lake Khanka area through education, research, tree planting and erosion control. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-397
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Larga
To protect biodiversity in the forests of Lankovskyi Peninsula by creating a park and educating local residents on the importance of protecting forests. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-398
Amount: $1,300
Russia Advisory Board
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Ussuriisk Children's Organization
To support an education, reforestation and cleanup effort that will bring together local youth to protect a lake near Ussuriisk. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-399
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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EcoOko
To support better coordination of environmental groups in the Khabarovsk region, improve local outreach materials, create a regional information database, and fund an environmental journalism prize. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-400
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Oktargai
To clean up the Donmas-Sug River ecosystem, prevent further pollution and promote public awareness and participation. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-401
Amount: $560
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Protection Troop
To support and train a team of college students who will help protect the forests of the Khabarovsk region through law enforcement, monitoring and fire protection. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-389
Amount: $1,450
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Regional Club of Public Environmental Monitoring
To support ongoing study of pollution in the Kamenka River to determine its sources and to pressure government authorities to enforce laws. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-419
Amount: $700
Russia Advisory Board
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Oasis
To fund recruitment and outreach for a program that brings together indigenous youth in the Primorsky region for reforestation, improvement of a local arboretum and environmental education. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-404
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Barabino Public Organization of Russian Nature Protection Society
To support creation of a nature trail system and an environmental education program in the Novosibirsk region and training of students to be guides and rangers. |
Year: 2002
ID: 02-418
Amount: $770
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Study Club Pilgrim Sakhalin Region
To identify active student environmental groups in the Sakhalin Region, provide training, and link a regional network of environmental educators and activists. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-030
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Scientific School Society Source Amur Region
To support the Source Society, a group of five science teachers and 50 high school children working to attract public and government attention to the dire condition of the Tom' River. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-029
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Public Nature Conservation Guard Taiga
To establish an environmental leadership school for students from Novosibirsk State University who want to become citizen environmental inspectors to help understaffed local authorities monitor hunting and fishing activities in protected territories. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-024
Amount: $1,150
Russia Advisory Board
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Chita Volunteer Center
To fund a student-led program to improve the condition of local rivers, lakes and springs in the Chita region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-023
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To protect the musk deer around Lake Baikal from poachers who sell the musk deer glands on the black market. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-059
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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The Public Nature Guard Sterkh Vladivostok
To fund citizen monitoring of proposed protected areas in the Primorsky region and provide outreach to local communities and schools. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-034
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Novokuznetsk Society for Protection of Nature, Kemerovo
To train and support ten new citizen inspectors to conduct environmental monitoring of manufacturing facilities and fishing operations in Novokuznetsk. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-028
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Arkhara District Children's Public Organization Argo Amur Region
To identify young environmental leaders from seven Russian villages and to train them in environmental conservation and natural resource management. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-027
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Boreas Initiative Group
To bring together 50 students from Altai, Tuva, and Khakassia for seminars and practical courses about protecting nature through tourism and activism. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-026
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Volunteer Center Ak Suu
For an interregional conference on the environmental and public health damage caused by Russian test-rockets that have been launched in the Altai region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-025
Amount: $575
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To support a public interest environmental impact assessment of exploratory drilling for uranium in the Lake Baikal region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-060
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Uldis Knakis Fighting Youth Nature Conservation Guard
To help citizens enforce restrictions on poaching of spawning fish and game species in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, particularly during critical breeding seasons. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-022
Amount: $2,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Lake Defenders Club, Altai
To conduct five video expeditions to the Altai Nature Preserve and other protected areas within this World Heritage Site to encourage greater government commitment to protection. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-031
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Indigenous Peoples' Society Altyn Shor
To help the indigenous Shor people in Russia pursue their rights to self-determination, sustainable development and spiritual regeneration through the Tugan-Cher Legal Information Center. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-033
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Journalist Group Living Region Khabarovsk
To fund the development and implementation of a coordinated approach to focusing media attention on key environmental issues in the region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-041
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of the Center for Ecological Initiatives Aniva
To fund environmental outreach in the Aniva district of Sakhalin Island through a regular public exhibit and a series of articles in the local and regional press. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-035
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Nature Guard Krik / Magadan Center for the Environment
To support monitoring and outreach activities of this youth group and to teach courses on environmental monitoring. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-036
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Student Ecological Club Phoenix Chita
For environmental education and action and the publication of a how-to book to help citizens find information on local ecology, environmental laws and polluters. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-037
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Transbaikal Regional Branch of the Russian Ecological Academy, Chita
To train teachers in new methods of environmental education in 30 local schools and to publish and distribute resource and curricular materials. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-038
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Irkutsk Youth Organization Public Guard for Nature Conservation and Rule of Law
To restore and protect the lakes and wetlands at the mouth of the Irkutsk River and to create a pollution watch, build interpretive trails and conduct outreach. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-039
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Students of Natural Geography in the Transbaikal Pedagogical Institute, Chita
To support a university student initiative to teach younger students about wetland and riparian restoration and involve them in cleaning up the Ingoda River. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-045
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Raketa Kamchatka
To fund volunteer efforts to restore Kirpichiki Creek, monitor ongoing compliance with environmental laws and conduct outreach. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-044
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecoton Altai
To support a citizen initiative to evaluate the condition of several wildlife refuges and wetlands and to develop recommendations to government. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-043
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Sledopyt Kemerovo
To fund a citizen monitoring program to protect sensitive watersheds and enforce compliance with hunting regulations and wildlife management laws. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-042
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecodal
To fund ongoing legal assistance from this environmental law clinic to environmental groups in the Khabarovsk Region of the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-040
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Irkutsk Regional Council of the All-Russian Society for Nature Protection
For a public awareness campaign and support of citizen inspectors working to identify and prevent air and water pollution from illegal sources. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-032
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Environmental Initiative Group Cedar
To support the creation of a park to protect a 280-acre cedar forest that is threatened by dam construction. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-294
Amount: $1,100
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk City Public Organization VIZART(Novosibirsk)
To fund an arts and environment program for schoolchildren who will take nature field trips and create short animated films. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-304
Amount: $1,572
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk)
To support efforts to reintroduce the endangered Bustard (Otis Tarda), a bird that was once common to southern Siberia. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-303
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Conservation Group Usuriisk Bear (Primorskyi region)
To support a citizen monitoring program that protects the Ussuriisk Nature preserve in cooperation with government officials. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-302
Amount: $1,600
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Conservation Group Berkut (Birobidzhan)
To support the creation of a student environmental research, education and monitoring organization in the Jewish Autonomous Region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-301
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Lower Amur Ecological Inspection (Amur Region)
To fund a citizen monitoring program to supplement government efforts to protect nature preserves in the Khabarovsk region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-300
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Student Environmental Club Kedr (Novosibirsk)
To support protection of rare plants and animals in the Barsuuk caves region through education, networking with other groups and citizen monitoring. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-299
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Piligrim (Sakhalin)
To support the creation of a collaborative network of Sakhalin environmental groups and to improve coordination and strategic planning. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-305
Amount: $400
Russia Advisory Board
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For Environmental safety of Space Activities
To support efforts to gain government help for four villages and surrounding ecosystems affected by debris from space program launches. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-296
Amount: $1,100
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group "Save the Argun River"
To support efforts to protect wild populations of Dzeren (Procapra guttorosa), an ungulate that is heavily poached and endangered. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-298
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Environmental Group EKOS (Omskaya oblast)
To support efforts of this organization to clean up garbage from the Cherskyi bank and develop a geological collection for the local museum. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-293
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Legal Center (Kemerovo)
To support efforts to provide legal help to the indigenous Shor people whose rights are often ignored by extractive industries and developers. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-292
Amount: $1,964
Russia Advisory Board
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Club On the Edge of the Oikumena
To support a school-based program to protect the Baliaga River by monitoring water quality and publicizing the results. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-291
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Children's Ecological Group
To fund a volunteer effort to restore Green Park, Village Undino's only safe open space due to local mining of radioactive thorium. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-290
Amount: $946
Russia Advisory Board
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Zov Arshana
To support the creation of a center to monitor planning and development of an oil pipeline through Tunka National Park. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-239
Amount: $2,200
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To support continued work on a public interest environmental impact assessment of exploratory drilling for uranium in the Lake Baikal region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-238
Amount: $4,200
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Zherdii and Shabalina (Novosibirsk)
To support efforts to protect the water quality and in-stream flows of the Kamenka River through research, monitoring and outreach. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-297
Amount: $1,614
Russia Advisory Board
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Green World
To support efforts to build awareness of ecological and energy conservation issues in the Gulf of Finland and Baltic regions. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-161
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To fund the purchase of a small boat and support expansion of a citizen program to monitor compliance with environmental regulations on Lake Baikal. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-158
Amount: $4,000
Earth Island Institute
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Novosibirsk Regional Social Committee for Water Protection
To fund the study of Novosibirsk's shrinking aquifer, organize activities to call attention to the problem and identify potential solutions. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-307
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Group Debut (Novosibirsk)
To support an ecological research and monitoring program that will focus on the rivers and lakes of the Novosibirsk region. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-310
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Organization Poronaiskii Environmental Education Center (Sakhalin)
To support student efforts to clean up beaches in Sakhalin Island's only nature preserve and restore sturgeon spawning areas in the Uchur River. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-308
Amount: $1,766
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Oleng
To support a student-led cleanup and monitoring program for several tributaries of the Kondoma River. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-309
Amount: $809
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Public Ecological Impact Reviews
to protect environment and human rights in Buryatia associated with proposed oil pipeline construction from 2003-2005 |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-313
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Organization Bagulnik (Jewish Autonomous Region)
To fund environmental education and outreach and a forest ranger training program for ten students pursuing careers in forestry. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-306
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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International Socio-Ecological Union
To support this group's efforts to develop public environmental inspection techniques and process, publication and distribution of an inspection manual, training of inspectors, and documentation of violations. |
Year: 2001
ID: 01-147
Amount: $20,000
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