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US-China Environmental Fund
Mission: "To strengthen stewardship and conservation of China’s natural and cultural resources by building and supporting partnerships between Chinese education and resource management agencies and international environmental experts."
In China since: 1993
Number of staff: 3 national and 1 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Mr. Leon Chen
Special Assistant to the President
Room A2506 Tianyuan Apartment
36, Guanganmen Nanjie Beijing 100054
Tel: +86 10 8229 3888
International Contact:
Marc Brody
President
3422 Kelliher Road
Mount Horeb
Wisconsin 53572
Tel: +1 608 767 3888
Fax: +1 608 767 3887
Established in 2003, the Fund aims to mobilise American expertise to work with Chinese partners on the design and implementation of conservation projects that can serve as replicable models.
In an early venture into environmental education, the Fund worked with environmental protections bureaus in five cities (Beijing, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Shanghai and Lanzhou) to produce locally specific reference texts for teachers and high school students. These include inventories of sites that teachers and students can visit for first-hand study and monitoring of the local environment. The Fund has also adapted and translated educational material for younger readers, along with a series of informative ‘Earth Vision’ posters. To encourage environmental ‘stewardship’, especially among the young, it has worked with local NGOs to arrange a number of group field-visits; and has also facilitated a ‘Theatre for Education and Awareness’ programme in which young people create and stage their own environmental dramas.
Another main thrust of the Fund’s work has been conservation planning and the development of model parks that allow people to both enjoy and learn to respect the natural environment. Over the course of several years it helped to create a Badaling International Friendship Forest Interpretive Park (八达岭国际友谊林), adjacent to the Great Wall near Beijing. It is now working with Sichuan’s Wolong Panda Breeding Centre (卧龙大熊猫繁育中心) on a plan to renovate the centre, creating new panda enclosures, educational exhibits, a conservation training centre and conference facilities. The Fund is also working with Beijing Municipal authorities on plans to upgrade the city’s parks for the 2008 Olympics.
In Yunnan, USCEF collaborated with the University of Wisconsin and local experts to design a community-based natural resource management project that is now being implemented by the United Nations Development Programme. The Yunnan Upland Ecosystem Project (云南高地小流域生态多样保护项目), funded by the Global Environment Facility, aims to conserve biodiversity in mountain ecosystems by establishing local management councils in each watershed, and by involving local communities in planning and monitoring project inputs.
USCEF is funded by individual donors, foundation grants and corporatesponsors. The US oil compnay, Conoco Phillips, has donated more than USD 1 million since 1998.
Links
http://www.uscef.org
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