加载中…美国为60个国家保护野生动物提供捐款
(2012-02-23 13:47:51)
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为印尼野生动物保护协会（Wildlife Conservation Society）提供的捐款将资助对危害野生动物犯罪活动进行调查，也为保护苏门答腊猩猩（orangutan）对偷猎者进行惩处的工作提供协助。
美国国务院国际信息局(IIP)« 美国参考»从华盛顿报道，全世界6个地区60个国家的合作方将共同获得美国鱼类和野生动植物管理局(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 为保护濒临灭绝的野生动物提供的近1,550万美元的保护野生动物捐款。
美国渔类和野生动物管理局将通过其野生动物无国界（Wildlife Without Borders）计划发放捐款。该局局长丹·阿什（Dan Ashe）说：“这些捐款为防止动物灭绝提供了关键性的援助，有助于减少动物生存受到的威胁，并增加社区评估、保护和管理野生动物的能力。本局野生动物无 国界计划的捐款非常重要，有助于我们保护一些灭绝速度最快的最珍奇的动物，使人们获得保护主要栖息地的主动性，并在全球为保护工作建立创新的合作伙伴关 系。”
这笔15,484,700美元的捐款将通过与170多个非营利组织、政府机构、大学和社区组织的合作项目，带动2,200多万美元的对等资金。
总额1,550万美元的捐款将通过野生动物无国界计划的物种捐助（Species grants）项目拨款1,250万美元，用于保护老虎、大象、犀牛、类人猿、海龟、两栖动物以及其他一些严重濒临灭绝的动物。
野生动物无国界计划的地区捐助（Regional grants）项目将提供290万美元，用于支持非洲、拉美及加勒比海地区、墨西哥、俄罗斯及东亚等地区的能力建设和技术援助。野生动物无国界计划全球项 目（Global program）还将提供10万美元，通过西半球迁徙动物保护计划（Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative）保护迁徙动物。
哥伦比亚保护绢毛猴基金会（Fundación Proyecto Titi）将帮助农村社区开展可持续发展项目，减少绢毛猴栖息地的森林砍伐。
野生动物无国界计划的出发点是，动物经常受人为边界——政治或其他边界的限制。美国渔类和野生动物管理局指出，政治边界通常割裂了地域空间，使栖 息地被分割得七零八落，分散了保护动物的力量。野生动物多样性程度最高、生态意义最重要的国家，恰恰是野生动物保护资源最少的国家，这往往使问题进一步复 杂化。
美国渔类和野生动物管理局说，动物生存及其对当地社区的价值有着直接关联。因此，野生动物无国界计划重点突出人的因素，利用能力建设和加强体制作为主要手段，从广泛的角度解决基层问题。
从2004年至2008年，野生动物无国界计划下属的物种、地区和全球三个项目为80个国家的1,000多个保护项目提供了支持。
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/chinese/article/2012/02/20120222160327x0.5903742.html#ixzz1nBIQwwN4
U.S. Awards Wildlife Conservation Grants for 60 Countries
21 February 2012
In Indonesia, a grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society will fund wildlife crime investigations and assist in the prosecution of poachers to protect Sumatran orangutans.
Washington — Partners in 60 countries in six regions will share nearly $15.5 million in wildlife conservation grants from a U.S. agency to protect endangered wildlife.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is awarding the grants through its Wildlife Without Borders program. “These grants provide crucial assistance in the effort to prevent extinction by reducing threats to species survival and increasing the capacity of communities to value, conserve, and manage their wildlife,” said USFWS Director Dan Ashe. “The Service’s Wildlife Without Borders program funding is vital to saving some of our fastest disappearing and most treasured species, empowering people to help conserve key habitats, and form innovative conservation partnerships worldwide.”
The $15,484,700 in grant funding will leverage more than $22 million in matching funds through partnerships with more than 170 nonprofit organizations, government agencies, universities and community groups.
Of the $15.5 million total, $12.5 million will conserve tigers, elephants, rhinos, apes, marine turtles, amphibians and other critically endangered species through Wildlife Without Borders-Species grants.
Wildlife Without Borders-Regional grants will provide $2.9 million in support for capacity building and technical assistance in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico, and Russia and East Asia. The Wildlife Without Borders-Global program will also provide $100,000 for migratory species conservation through the Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative.
Fundación Proyecto Titi in Colombia will aid rural communities with sustainable development projects to reduce deforestation in cotton-top tamarin habitat.
The Wildlife Without Borders program is based on the fact that species do recognize artificial boundaries — political or otherwise. USFWS says that too often political boundaries cut through specific ranges, fragmenting habitats and species conservation efforts. Further complicating the issue, according to USFWS, is that countries with the most diverse and ecologically significant wildlife often are those with the fewest resources for wildlife conservation.
The result, USFWS says, is that species survival is related directly to their worth to local communities. Therefore, the Wildlife Without Borders program focuses on people by addressing grass-roots problems from a broad landscape perspective using capacity building and strengthening institutions as primary tools.
The three subprograms of Wildlife Without Borders — Species, Regional and Global — have supported more than 1,000 conservation projects in 80 countries from 2004 to 2008.
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