List of projects selected for funding by Fondation Franklinia (1st semester 2022)

The Foundation’s calls for proposals keep generating a considerable interest from conservation organisations around the world. We received a total of 94 project proposals to carry out conservation work on threatened tree species in 50 different countries. We would like to thank all the organizations that submitted a project. After careful analysis, we selected 26 projects that will be implemented in 38 countries and will target 363 threatened species including 90 Critically Endangered, 133 Endangered and 140 Vulnerable.
Some organisations have already benefited from the Foundation’s support; they are entering a new phase of funding, consolidating their action and, in some cases, expanding their activities to new sites. We would like to thank all these organizations for their long-term dedication to preserving threatened tree species in their natural habitat.
The new projects are listed below:

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANS

1. Protección de la Fauna Mexicana A.C. (Mexico): Conservation of endangered forests in Sierra de Zapalinamé state natural reserve (2022-2024).

2. Conservación de la Biodiversidad del Usumacinta A.C. (Mexico and Guatemala): Conservation actions for the threatened tree species in the low basin of the Usumacinta River in Tabasco, Chiapas and Guatemala (2022-2024)

3. Morton Arboretum (Mexico and Costa Rica): Safeguarding threatened tropical montane cloud forest oaks in Mesoamerica (2022-2025).

4. Osa Conservation (Costa Rica): Conserving the rare and endemic trees of the AmistOsa region in Costa Rica (2022-2025, phase 2).

5. Monteverde Institute (Costa Rica): Restoring threatened tree species and their habitats in the multi-life zone Bellbird Biological Corridor in Costa Rica (2022-2025, phase 2).

6. Costa Rica Wildlife Foundation (Costa Rica): Saving the endemic and endangered Jicaro Danto tree (Parmentiera valerii EN) in the Guanacaste Mountain range in Costa Rica (2022-2025).

7. Fundación Bioconservancy (Colombia): Conservation of Endangered Magnoliaceae at the Mesenia-Paramillo Nature Reserve in the Western Andes of Colombia (2022-2025).

8. Fundación Estación Biológica Bachaqueros (Colombia): Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta threatened trees recovery project (2022-2025).

9. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (Nicaragua): Fostering local community engagement with the protection, conservation and restoration of the diverse forests of Nicaragua (2022-2024).

10. Fundación Great Leaf (Ecuador): Esperanza – Protecting western lowland primary rain forests harboring threatened tree species (2022-2025).

11. Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales (Ecuador): Rescuing a newly discovered Cedrela species from the brink of extinction (2022-2024).

12. Association Nordesta Reforestation et Education (Brazil): Restoration of threatened tree species populations in Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve in Northeast Brazil (2022-2024).

13. Fundación para la Conservación y Estudio de la Biodiversidad (Argentina): Regeneration of 3 globally threatened and other locally threatened tree species in the Southern Yungas of Argentina (2022-2025).

14. Universidad de Concepción (Chile): Restoration of threatened tree species populations in Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve in Northeast Brazil (2022-2024).Conserving and restoring the threatened Nothofagus species in South America (2022-2025).

AFRICA

15. Tooro Botanical Gardens (Uganda): Tree conservation and forest restoration in Uganda (2022-2025).

16. Hope for Nature (Uganda): Restoring rare and threatened trees in Koome Archipelago in Uganda (2022-2025, phase 2).

17.Conservatoire botanique national de Brest (Madagascar): Conservation and restoration of 11 threatened tree species in Montagne des Français protected area in Madagascar (2022-2025).

18. Endangered Wildlife Trust (South Africa): Strategic conservation of the Endangered Pepper Bark Tree in South Africa (2022-2025, phase 2).

19. Zoological Society of London (Africa): Saving trees on the EDGE of Existence – Africa (2022-2025).

ASIA

20. Wildlife Alliance (Cambodia): Protecting threatened tree species in the Cardamom Rainforest Biodiversity Hotspot, Cambodia through effective law enforcement (2022-2024, phase 2).

21. Dalat University (Vietnam): Conservation of two threatened endemic Quercus species in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam (2022-2025).

22. Uva Wellassa University (Sri Lanka): Conservation of threatened tree species of Udakiruwa tropical rainforest, Sri Lanka through community empowerment and stewardship (2022-2025).

OCEANIA

23. Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project (Hawaï): Securing survival and increasing ecological stability of eight of Hawai’i’s most endangered endemic tree species through ecological restoration (2022-2025).

GLOBAL

24. Botanic Gardens Conservation International: Scaling up conservation action for the world’s threatened trees (2022-2025).

25. Fauna & Flora International: In situ conservation of threatened trees (2022-2025).

26. TRAFFIC International Limited: The IUCN/TRAFFIC Analyses of the tree proposals to Amend the CITES Appendices (2022).

A more detailed description of these projects will be available on our website soon (https://fondationfranklinia.org/en/projets-en-cours/). The location of all the field projects supported by the Foundation is shown on the map below. Some of them are funded indirectly through Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Fauna & Flora International and the Zoological Society of London in partnership with Kew Gardens.

Geographic distribution (direct support; indirect through BGCI; indirect through FFI; indirect through ZSL)