annual report - The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

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Photo Credit: Agata Staniewicz
Juvenile False gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), East Kalimantan, Indonesia
YOUR HIGHNESS
During 2010 the Fund has been able to greatly aid the global effort to conserve the diversity
of life in the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, by expanding upon its success in 2009.
Over the course of the two years since early 2009 your donation of 25m Euros has had a
significant impact on species conservation throughout the world. The Fund has been able to
provide grants to dedicated and passionate individuals across six continents, in almost 80
countries. This means that from the inception of the fund in 2009 through the end of 2010
over $5m had been disbursed in total to targeted species conservation work, implemented
through nearly 380 projects on the ground. In a short time the Fund has become one of the
world’s most important organizations providing small, targeted species conservation grants.
Following a rapid start to grant dispersal in 2009 amounting to around $2m, the Fund has
continued to build on this in 2010, providing almost $3m in additional support. This has
enabled the Fund to greatly increase the taxonomic variety and geographic breadth of the
work that your donation has been able to underpin. This means that more species have
been helped back from the brink of extinction, and the passionate efforts of dedicated
conservationists have been given crucial financial backing.
As the Fund looks to 2011 and beyond, it will continue to build on this solid base in order
to develop the Fund into a truly long-term foundation, able to help the cause of species
conservation long into the future. On behalf of the Fund and the recipients of its grants, I
would like to thank you for your support and vision in making this aim a reality.
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak
Managing Director
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