Annual Report 2010-11 - Global Invasive Species Programme - GISP

AcknowledgementsFunding for the activities of DIVERSITAS was provided through core funding originating from thefollowing:Academia Sinica, China-Taipei Association of Tropical Biodiversity Conservation (ATBC) Center ofExcellence for Asian Conservation Ecology (JSPS), Japan Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicasy Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina EcoHealth Alliance (ex Wildlife Trust) Environment Research &Technology Development Fund, Ministry of Environment, Japan European Council European ScienceFoundation FAPESP-Brazil Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany FederalMinistry of Education, Science and Culture, Austria GBIF German Research Foundation (DFG), GermanyICRAF-CCAFS Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, The Netherlands Ministry of Higher Educationand Research, France Ministry of Science and Technology (MYCT), Spain Mountain Partnership FAO/SDC Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France (in kind support) National Aeronauticsand Space Administration (NASA), USA National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-INEE), France(in kind support) National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico National ResearchFoundation (NRF), South Africa National Science Foundation (USGCRP, NSF-GEO, NSF-BIO and NASA), USANatural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom Network Forum Biodiversity ResearchGermany (DIVERSITAS Deutschland) Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW), The NetherlandsPolitique Scientifique Fédérale de Belgique, Belgium Research Council of Norway (NOW), Norway RoyalNetherlands Society of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), The Netherlands Slovak Academy of Sciences, SlovakRepublic Stockholm Resilience Centre Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences(SSEESS), Sweden Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland Switzer Foundation UnitedNations Environment Program (UNEP) University of California – Davis, USA Wageningen University,The NetherlandsDIVERSITAS expresses its gratitude to all of these organisations, and to the International Group of FundingAgencies for global change research (IGFA) for their help in promoting dialogue with national fundingagencies, as well as to the French Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) for hosting the DIVERSITASInternational Secretariat.The Scientific Committee of bioDISCOVERY and its community would like to thank the Centre National dela Recherche Scientifique – Institut Ecologie et Environnement (CNRS-INEE) for the sponsorship of thebioDISCOVERY Science Officer position.Acknowledgements 43