Environment Ecology International Foundations Organizations

  Foundations

• David Suzuki Foundation - explores human impacts on the environment, with an emphasis on finding solutions, including working to conserve Canada's temperate rainforests

• Alaska Conservation Foundation - community foundation for the environment that receives and awards grants throughout the state  

• Australian Conservation Foundation - works towards a society which protects, sustains and restores the environment, and provides healthy air, land, water and biological diversity; sustainable cities and industries; a nuclear-free Australia; and action to protect the global environment  

• Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation - dedicated to the preservation and rehabilitation of tropical habitats, and the conservation of their plants and animals  

• Conservation Grants - Conservation International funds and supports global conservation of key ecosystems through the development of conservation enterprises  

• Cottonwood Foundation - dedicated to promoting empowerment of people, protection of the environment, and respect for cultural diversity; focusing its funding on committed, grass roots organizations that rely strongly on volunteer efforts  

• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund - funds conservation activities in the World's "biodiveristy hotspots", a joint initiative of Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank  

• DEFRA Darwin Initiative Biodiversity Protection - a UK government grant scheme to promote biodiversity protection and sustainble development in less developed countries  

• Fundacion Jatun Sacha - protects ecologically important forest habitats through biological research, community agroforestry, co-managing the Ecuadorian National Herbarium and ecotourism  

• New Economics Foundation - a think tank devoted to creating practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the local, regional, national and global economies  

• Rainforest Foundation, The - U.S. - supports indigenous peoples and traditional populations of the rainforest in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights (

• Rainforest Foundation, The -- UK - supports indigenous people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their rights  

• Rare Species Conservatory Foundation - dedicated to preserving biological diversity by developing conservation strategies for saving endangered plants and animals  

• Silva Forest Foundation, The - provides information about ecologically responsible forest use and protection of forests

• Tropenbos Foundation, The - seeks to contribute to conservation and wise use of tropical rain forests