To synthesize and distribute lessons learned, and to ensure the long-term stewardship (monitoring and maintenance) of work to restore riparian systems in the Colorado River basin
2019
Environment
$350,000
Ag Technology and Environmental Stewardship Foundation, Inc.
Advancing grassroots support for conservation action in Iowa, including watershed planning and implementation of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy
To support a pilot of a pooled loan fund, called the Sustainable Seafood Fund, aimed at providing $600,000 in partially forgivable loans to entities that commit to improve fisheries management
To bring instream flow projects to completion, support communications surrounding these projects, and promote increased state and local funding and other policies that benefit rivers in Colorado
To implement a stakeholder-driven, rights-based fisheries management plan for blue swimming crab (BSC) in Lampung Province; provide technical advice to replicate and scale this approach; and establish participatory fisheries management within a marine protected area network in Kaimana District, West Papua province, in coordination with Conservation International, so both biodiversity and fisheries can thrive
To reestablish the Kaimana district marine protected area management institution with legal recognition at the provincial level and build its capacity so that it will ultimately be able to access and effectively utilize Blue Abadi funds.
To improve Blue Swimming Crab (BSC) management in Indonesia by implementing a stakeholder-driven, rights-based fisheries management plan for BSC in Lampung Province, replicating this approach in West Java Province, and scaling lessons from these two sites to the fishery management area and national level.
To support Future of Fish in integrating social and economic benefits into fishery improvement projects (FIPs) in order to expand funding to FIPs beyond environmental funders
