16 Dec List of projects selected by Fondation Franklinia after its 1st Call for Proposals
Our first call for proposals generated a high level of response from all over the world showing that there are a number of nature conservation actors ready to work and preserve threatened tree species and also that there is a need for increased funding. The call for proposals was competitive. We received a number of good proposals to carry out conservation work in 51 different countries and targeting 83 threatened tree species.
Sixteen projects have been approved so far and a few others are still under discussion. Successful projects are listed below. The list will be updated once all agreements for pending projects will be signed
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
1. The Monteverde Institute: January 2020 – May 2022
Conservation of the Critically Endangered Ocotea monteverdensis and other threatened species in Costa Rica
2. Provita: February 2020 – January 2023
Proyecto Guayacán – Grassroots recovery of the Endangered tree, Guaiacum officinale, on Margarita Island in Venezuela
3. Envol Vert: January 2020- December 2021
Préservation des arbres menacés d’Amazonie péruvienne
4. Federação das Reservas Ecológicas do Estado de São Paulo (FREPESP) – Private Natural Heritage Reserves (RPPN in Portuguese): January 2020 – December 2022
Conservation and Restoration of Native Threatened and Rare Tree Species from Semideciduous Atlantic Forest in Brazil
5. Sociedade Chauá (Chauá Society): March 2020 – February 2023
Strengthening and increasing the restoration process of threatened species within the Araucaria Forest region in southern Brazil
6. New York Botanical Garden: March 2020 – February 2022
Conservation of Atlantic Forest’s endangered tree species in southern Bahia, Brazil
7. Botanical Garden Dra.Luz Maria Villareal de Puga, University of Guadalajara: January 2020 – December 2022
In-situ and ex-situ conservation of three endangered Magnolia species from Chiapas and Guatemala
AFRICA
8. Institute of Nature and Environmental Conservation (INEC): January 2020 – December 2021
Conservation of the Endangered African Teak, Pericopsis elata, in Ghana
9. Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée (LEA):December 2019 – November 2022
Assisting regeneration of threatened forest trees in Benin
10. The Regents of the University of California (UCLA) – Congo Basin Institute (CBI): December 2019 – November 2021
The Ebony Project – an innovative collaboration between CBI and Taylor Guitars to create a sustainable supply chain for the high value tree Diospyros crassiflora
11. Hope: December 2019 – November 2021
Restoring rare and threatened trees, in particular the African mahogany Khaya anthotheca, in Koome Island, Mukono District, Uganda
12. Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT): January 2020 – December 2021
Strategic conservation of the globally Endangered Pepper Bark tree Warburgia salutaris in South Africa
13. Famelona: December 2019 – November 2021
Restauration des habitats dégradés et gestion intégrée des arbres menacés de l’aire protégée d’Ampasindava au nord-ouest de Madagascar
ASIA
14. Mendel University (MENDELU): January 2020 – December 2022
Conservation of the endangered endemic Boswellia trees on Socotra Island in Yemen
15. Wildlife Alliance: January 2020 – December 2021
Protecting threatened tree species in the Cardamom Rainforest Biodiversity Hotspot in Cambodia through effective law enforcement
PACIFIC
16. National Tropical Botanical Gardens: January 2020 – December 2022
Protecting and restoring Endangered Endemic Trees of Kaua’i in Hawaii