Ridgely, MD
Habitat Enhancement and Ecological Program, including using goats to remove invasive plants.
Atlanta, GA and Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Planting trees in the highlands of Guatemala, to prevent mudslides, reforest project areas, and bring more income to the indigenous Maya peoples of the area.
The Plains, VA
North with the Spring Project, tracking four bird species along their migratory route up the Mississippi Flyway.
Cotati, CA
Continued support for ALDF's Criminal Justice and Zero Tolerance for Cruelty programs, which use the courts, laws and individual cases to protect animals from abuse.
$18,000.00
$25,000.00
$4,500.00
$18,000.00
Austin, TX
To launch Rapid Ecological Assessment program, covering 35 bats on four continents focusing on the most endangered of these important animals.
Washington, DC
Promoting the importance of ethical environmental film making in the classroom and the field.
Annapolis, MD
Using corridors to connect lanndscapes and wildlife habitat around the Chesapeake Bay.
Seven Valleys, PA
Supporting the Bay Journal, which covers the Chesapeake Bay, providing timely and in-depth envronmental coverage through print, web, radio and syndication services.
Chestertown, MD
Supporting continued improvements to the Chester River, a major tributary to the Chesapeake Bay.
Washington, DC
$15,000.00
$10,000.00
$5,000.00
$15,000.00
$12,500.00
To support Clean Water Fund's programs in Maryland with special emphasis on issue-based, nonpartisan civic engagement.
Fairfax, VA and the Dominican Republic
Support for increasing propagation of native plants in the Washington DC suberban area, and reforesting an area in the Dominican Republic with cash crops to improve the lives of local
Queenstown, MD
15th Annual Planning Conference, bringing planners, elected citizens together to work for sustainable change on Maryland's shore.
$20,000.00
$15,000.00
Washington, DC
Support for the Environmental Film Festival, 2015, screening 160 over 13 days.
$40,000.00
Washington, DC
Second annual Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy recognizing the film that best inspires advocacy in response to a compelling environental challenge: to Louis Psihoyos for RACING
Washington, DC
Continuing to document, expose and publicize China's and Japan's noncompliance by an ivory-importing state through strengthening CITES protections for elephants, to re-establish a world-wide ban on the ivory trade.
Houston, TX
Supporting Photo Ark, a monumental work by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore to document the world's myriad species as studio portraits.
$15,000.00
$30,000.00
$5,000.00
Oakland, CA and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
To support a micro-hydro plant in a small community in Sabah,
Borneo, part of LEAP's Forever Sabah program to make Sabah a truly green state.
$5,000.00
Oakland, CA
Sewage Treatment plant training for wastewater operators in Sabah, a Forever Sabah project.
$2,100.00
Oakland, CA
Operations
$30,000.00
Portland, OR
The 12th National Animal Law Competition, helping law students hone their legal advocacy skills.
$15,000.00
Alexandria, VA, Kenya and Tanzania
To continue work conserving lions in Africa by working closely with Maasai herdsmen, changing the culture to one that does not include killing as a rite of passage; and preventing retribution killing.
Baltimore, MD
For the Aquarium's Marine Animal Rescue Program, rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing stranded sea turtles, seals and other marine animals along the East Coast; and other purposes.
Choose Clean Water advocacy for the Chesapeake Bay.
$10,000.00
$12,500.00
Tucson, AZ and Sonora, Mexico
Continued work supporting Jaguar Reserve and conservation in
Sonora, Mexico.
Tucson, AZ and Sonora, Mexico
Acquisition of Babaco, a ranch in Sonora, Mexico, to be added to the
Northern Jaguar Project's Jaguar Reserve.
Santa Monica, CA and Sumatra, Indonesia
Orang utan conservation in Sumatra, Indonesia.
$30,000.00
$30,000.00
$2,000.00
Norfolk, VA
Promoting humane treatment of horses by manufacturers of antitoxins for human use.
$20,000.00
Washington, DC
Promoting women as leaders and stewards of the Earth. $20,000
Columbia, NC
Continued conservation of Red Wolves in their home range in North
Carolina, against threats by hunters and other human impacts.
San Antonio, TX
Continued work testing for the Chytrid fungus in frogs in Chile.
$10,000.00
$10,000.00
Savannah, GA
Continued support for the Caretta Research Project, to expand its research focus, educational reach and conservation efforts for the Loggerhead Turtles on Wassaw Island, GA.
Savannah, Georgia
To enable the Caretta Research Project to participate in the 35th
$2,500.00
International Sea Turtle Sumposium in Turkey.
Front Royal, VA and Panama
Next step in work to restore Panamanian Golden Frogs to their habitat in Panama: release of a test species.
$20,000.00
Front Royal, VA, Myanmar and Thailand
To support elephant conservation and welfare in Burma and Thailand
Front Royal, VA and Myanmar
Production of film Burma's Elephants at the Crossroads, educating local Burmese on living in harmony with wild elephants.
Sonoma, CA and throughout the Himalayas
Conservation of Snow Leopards in 7 of their range countries, working with local communities to value and protect this endangered cat.
Washington, DC
A newspaper of, by and for the homeless, helping them escape homelessness, build work histories, and forge new lives.
Tucson, AZ
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Conservation in the American Southwest
$25,000.00
$25,000.00
$2,000.00
$6,902.00
Annapolis, MD
To launch a program developing leadership skills for the next generation of environmental leaders on the Chesapeake Bay.
Eugene, OR
To protect keystone Western predators (wolverine and lynx) and their habitats through litigation, advocacy, and related campaigns.
San Francisco, CA and China
Communications campaign in China (TV, billboards, other public education) using well-known Chinese actors and sports heroes, to convince that owning ivory is not socially acceptable. "When the buying stops, the killing can too."
$5,000.00
$30,000.00
$30,000.00
San Francisco, CA and China
To reduce demand for Tiger parts in China through a documentary
and associated campaign materials.
Seattle, WA
Conservation of corridors for cougars and other wildlife along the
East Coast of the United States.
$30,000.00
$20,000.00
Los Altos, CA and Africa
To Save the Elephants, to continue work persuading China's middle class and newly wealthy to avoid purchasing ivory.
Bronx, NY and Brazil
Green Ranching in Brazil's Pantenal, helping cattle ranchers coexist with an abundance of wildlife in this landscape-sized area.
Seattle, WA and Papua New Guinea
Conservation of the endangered Tree Kangaroo on the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and support for education and health benefits as well as self-government, for the local people who are their stewards.
$10,000.00
$10,000.00