Environmental Defense Grant



Organization - Environmental Defense
Grant Amount - $1,280,000
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to Environmental Defense, in partnership with Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Fundação Viver, Produzir e Proteger (FVPP), Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP), and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) aims to improve effective management of the new protected areas within the Terra do Meio Mosaic, as well as the surrounding indigenous territories of the larger Xingu Corridor. This is the continuation of a previous grant that helped create many of the protected areas targeted within this grant.


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