Environment Grants Awarded 2004
The Foundation is pleased to announce that the following organizations received grants or contracts for services through the Environment Program in 2004:
Northern Forests
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – $170,000 Ottawa, Ontario
To support the national coordination of its boreal forest initiative as well as regional work on boreal forest issues in the North Central Region of Saskatchewan and the North Shore of Québec.
Canary Research Institute on Mining Environment and Health – $60,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Ottawa, Ontario
To build the capacity of citizen groups in Ontario to deal with mining through research, education and the creation of opportunities for informed discussion of mining issues at local and provincial levels.
Global Forest Watch – $50,000 (charitable agency agreement) Edmonton, Alberta
To map and analyze the anthropogenic changes to the forest cover over a ten-year period for the Manitoba and Saskatchewan portions of the Boreal Plains and Boreal Shield Ecozones through satellite monitoring.
Manitoba Protected Areas Society – $25,000(charitable agency agreement) Winnipeg, Manitoba
To participate in the Memorandum Of Understanding Working Group established by the province to identify, establish and manage a network of protected areas representative of all natural regions of Manitoba.
Northwatch – $50,000 (partial payment of a multi-year charitable agency agreement) North Bay, Ontario
To improve the ability of the public to participate in forest management planning in northeastern Ontario by supporting the local advisory committees to the Ministry of Natural Resources, establishing local forest networks, and providing linkages between local, regional and provincial policy processes.
Protected Areas Association of Newfoundland & Labrador – $40,000 St.John's, Newfoundland
Towards the establishment of the Lac Joseph-Atikonak Reserve in southwest Labrador through community outreach and scientific research.
Sierra Club of Canada – $64,500 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Ottawa, Ontario
To achieve improved forest conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador through research on forest management practices and to enable effective public participation in both governmental processes and private sector initiatives.
The Sustainability Network – $60,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Toronto, Ontario
To bring the capacity building services of the Sustainability Network to the prairie provinces through partnerships with Manitoba Eco-Network and the Saskatchewan Environment Network.
Union Québécoise pour la Conservation de la Nature – $95,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Québec, Québec
To strengthen institutional capacity by assisting with leadership transition and an expansion of the individual donor base.
Southern Landscapes
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – $15,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Ottawa, Ontario
To research, write and publish a guide to the Ecological Restoration of Old-Growth Forests providing a tool for habitat conservation and enhancement for the entire Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion.
Conservation Council of New Brunswick – $89,462 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Fredericton, New Brunswick
To enhance its membership and public outreach work in an effort to increase both its effectiveness and long-term sustainability.
Ecology Action Centre – $74,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Halifax, Nova Scotia
Support for its efforts to secure and promote the protection of Nova Scotia's Acadian Forest through scientific research, public education, management plan review, and coalition activities.
Hamilton Naturalists Club – $30,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Hamilton, Ontario
For the Halton Biodiversity Inventory Project run jointly by Hamilton Naturalists Club, Halton North Peel Field Naturalists' Club, South Peel Field Naturalists' Club intended to contribute to a better understanding of species status and biodiversity in the Halton region.
Island Nature Trust – $25,000 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
To gather existing data and collect new information relating to the biodiversity of the province toward the publication of a new Flora of Prince Edward Island.
Lambton Wildlife Inc. – $35,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Sarnia, Ontario
To support The Big Picture Project -- the ecological restoration plan for Canada's Carolinian life zone.
Nature Canada – $30,000 Ottawa, Ontario
For the Green Budget Coalition's ongoing efforts to provide recommendations for ecological fiscal reform towards the Federal Budget and to promote a multi-year reinvestment in Canada's environment.
Nature Conservancy of Canada – $36,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Toronto, Ontario
To build land securement capacity in Québec.
Nature Conservancy of Canada – $85,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Toronto, Ontario
To standardize, format and package eco-regional blueprint data for the Prairie, Quebec and Atlantic regions and communicate the results for use by Nature Conservancy of Canada chapters and other conservation partners.
Nature Conservancy of Canada – $50,000 Montreal, Quebec
To enhance scientific understanding of biodiversity and landscape scale conservation through the "Northern Appalachian Ecological Status and Trends Series" in partnership with 2C1Forest.
Nova Scotia Nature Trust – $50,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Halifax, Nova Scotia
To implement its strategic plan particularly in the areas of human resources development, communications, fundraising and staff training.
Ontario Land Trust Alliance – $10,000 Smith Falls, Ontario
To investigate models and strategies to build the capacity of the land trust movement in Ontario.
University of New Brunswick – $40,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Fredericton, New Brunswick
To support the Landscape-level Woodlot Conservation Project aimed at developing tools for private landowners to participate in large-scale conservation planning in southeastern New Brunswick.
Emerging Issues: Urban Growth and Development
Conservation Council of Ontario – $25,000 Toronto, Ontario
To assist with the start-up phase of a provincial network to raise awareness about the need to control urban sprawl, foster compact healthy community development and promote citizen involvement in planning.
Environmental Defence – $30,000 (partial payment of a multi-year grant) Toronto, Ontario
To research, write and publish a GTA Sprawl Indicators Report to be used as a practical planning and design tool for communities and municipalities throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
Environmental Defence – $95,000 Toronto, Ontario
To build a broad-based multi-sectoral alliance, engage community groups and deliver new research and policy directions to support the establishment of a robust continentally significant greenbelt in Ontario.
Evergreen Foundation – $20,000 Toronto, Ontario
To deliver the "Shared Spaces Land Protection Workshops" series designed to support municipal staff, land use professionals and community leaders by presenting innovative approaches to protecting and managing natural areas in their communities.
Gaia Foundation / Pembina Institute – $65,000 Toronto, Ontario
To deliver a smart growth program including identification of necessary policy changes, reporting on provincial progress, demonstrating the viability of implementation of smart growth policies at the local level and raising awareness among public & decision makers.
Toronto Bay Initiative – $17,000 Toronto, Ontario
To develop and distribute a map that identifies and interprets the natural and cultural resources in the Toronto Bay area and contributes to the wider understanding of "upstream-downstream" ecological connections of the Bay to Toronto's lost rivers and streams, the Oak Ridges Moraine and Lake Ontario.
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