Innovation Award

Establishment of a Sheep Breeding Company for Nature Conservation in Bulgaria

To establish a Conservation Sheep Breeding Company, which focus to be the use of livestock as a tool of maintaining and supporting the natural habitats and certain ecosystems.

Island Coastal Academy Network (I-CAN), Western Indian Ocean- Internationally-Accredited Capacity-Building for Sustainable Coastal Biodiversity Conservation

This project aims to build local capacity in the western Indian Ocean islands for coastal biodiversity management, sustainable tourism and community-based organization management through a network of training academies offering internationally-accredited BTEC courses in collaboration with host-country institutions.

Business Planning for a New Protected Area: The Río Grande-Che Guevara Biosphere Reserve, Bolivia

This initiative will create a new model for conservation in Latin America: decentralized park management that puts local governments in charge, and allows them to use incentives, market-based management tools, and business planning models to improve local livelihoods, protect the biological asset base, and maximize revenues.

Burning for Biodiversity in Southern Africa: Faunal Responses to Fire

This new project aims to improve biodiversity conservation in southern Africa’s savannas through a multi-faceted programme of fire research, capacity building and effective fire management.

Leaving Passages for Wildlife Where the Interoceanic Highway Will Cross the Vilcabamba Amboro-Corridor, Southeastern Peru

This project combines research, education and capacity-building to identify important wildlife crossing points on the Interoceanic Highway, to evaluate and increase the knowledge of key mammal species that will be imperilled by the highway (Andean Bears, Jaguars and Giant Otters), and to find alternatives to maintain the populations connected from one to the other side of the highway.

Mitigation of Negative Human Impacts on Large Carnivore Populations in Niassa National Reserve, Northern Mozambique

To secure viable populations of large carnivores (lion, leopard, hyaena ) in NNR, which also supports 25000 people, by minimizing the negative impacts large carnivores have on communities (injury, death, stock theft) and reduce negative effects humans have on carnivores (retaliatory killing, snaring and sport hunting of underage animals).

Setting Up a National Level “Environment Impact Assessment Resource & Response Centre” (ERRC), New Delhi, India

The centre is in response to the need to keep a watch, as well as challenge Environment Impact Assessment reports which are based of inadequate and improper assessment of the impact of developmental activities on wild flora and fauna.

Blue Whales in Chile: The Giants of Marine Conservation, Chile

This project will campaign for a Marine Protected Area in Chile and also use the emblematic status of the Blue Whale species to generate a change in attitude among stakeholders towards the marine environment.

Alfaguara Project, Marine Conservation through Marine Ecotourism, Chile

The Centro de Conservación Cetacea's Alfaguara project seeks to effectively combine long term research, educational and capacity building programs with the objective of developing innovative marine conservation proposals oriented to safeguard the rich biodiversity of the area and guarantee the sustainable development of the communities involved.