List of new projects selected for funding (October 2023 – June 2024)

Twenty one new projects were signed since October 2023. A majority were selected following a call for proposals for South-East Asia last summer.

We also supported the development of a national strategy for the conservation of threatened tree species in Colombia and issued a specific call for this country that is being processed.

In parallel existing beneficiaries of the Foundation who achieved good results applied for follow-up projects to consolidate and, in some cases, to expand their impact. Among these projects is the renewal of our support to BGCI for the Global Tree Assessment and the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Special Group.

The 21 new projects selected for funding are listed below:

• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF): A mechanism for supporting the conservation of threatened tree species in Madagascar (2023-2026).

• Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C. (GECI) : Preservation of endemic threatened tree species on Guadalupe Island, Mexico – Phase II (2023-2026).

• Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco: Centinela Rebirth – Restoring Threatened Tree Species in Western Ecuador (2023-2026).

• IUCN/SSC Colombian Plant Specialist Group: Conservation planning workshop for Colombian Trees (2024).

• Association Famelona Madagascar / Geneva Botanical Garden: Integrating Madagascar’s Sapotaceae into national reforestation programmes: how to ensure the conservation of a valuable group of threatened tree species (2024-2026).

• Dalat University : Conservation of threatened endemic Magnolia species in Lam Dong and Khanh Hoa Province in Vietnam (2024-2027).

• Vietnam National University of Forestry: Conservation of three threatened Magnolia species in the Hoang Lien National Park in Northern Vietnam (2024-2027).

• Yayasan Aksi Konservasi Celebica: Conservation of nine threatened priority trees on ultramafic land in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (2024-2027).

• Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD): Recovery of threatened rosewoods in conjunction with habitat restoration in Dakrong Key Biodiversity Area, Vietnam (2024-2027).

• Wild Earth Allies: Conserving Threatened Trees and Critical Habitat in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary (2024-2027).

• The Ethnobiological Society of Indonesia (PMEI): Conservation of Magnolia sulawesiana in Lore Lindu National Park, Indonesia (2024-2027).

• People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature): Protection and restoration of threatened conifer populations in Van Ho District, Son La Province in Vietnam (2024-2027).

• Indonesia Threatened Trees Forum (FPLI): Conservation of the Narrow Endemic and Possibly Extinct Cryptocarya (Lauraceae) in West Papua, Indonesia (2024-2027).

• Association of Friends of Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden: Conservation and range restoration of ten threatened Fagaceae species in Laos and Vietnam (2024-2027).

• Yayasan Orangutan Sumatera Lestari – Orangutan Information Centre (YOSL-OIC): Enhancing the Leuser Ecosystem through the Conservation of Threatened Sumatra Native Tree Species (2024-2027).

• Mendel University in Brno (MENDELU): Protection of endangered and red-listed native tree species in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park, Cambodia (2024-2027).

• Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in partnership with Kew: Secure the future of highly threatened and evolutionarily distinct (EDGE) tree species across Asia, Africa and Latin America through the development of local conservation leaders (2022-2026).

• Sangga Bumi Lestari: Empowering Indigenous Communities to Protect Threatened Trees through Ancestral Forest Management (2024-2027).

• SINTAS Indonesia: Race Against Extinction: Protecting a vanishing legacy, Dehaasia pugerensis, in its last stand of Meru Betiri National Park, Indonesia (2024-2026).

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI): GTA – Global Tree Assessment – Completing the Global Tree Assessment worldwide, Phase III (2024-2027).

• Provita: Proyecto Guayacán: grassroots recovery of threatened iconic trees on Margarita Island in Venezuela, Phase II (2024-2027).

A detailed description, as well as the location of projects supported by the Foundation are available on our website at the following address: (https://fondationfranklinia.org/en/projets-en-cours/).