Volcanoes of the Virunga National Park, DRC. © Juan Pablo Moreiras/FFI
Elephants in the Sudd, Southern Sudan. © Richard Lamprey/FFI
The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation provided a grant of £100,000 for four projects in 2007/08.
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest-established international conservation charity (founded in 1903) and works to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide. It chooses solutions that are sustainable, are based on sound science and which are compatible with human needs. Its vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet, where biodiversity is effectively conserved by the people who live closest to it, supported by the global community. It now works with over 180 local partners on conservation projects in over 40 countries.
FFI takes a holistic approach to nature conservation and its underlying ethos is to work in genuine partnership with local organisations, building their capacity to help themselves and ensuring biodiversity conservation becomes an integral part of livelihoods and natural resource management. It ensures local solutions, led and owned by local people.
Funding from The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation supported the following work.
• Oryx – The International Journal of Conservation - to employ a full-time Editorial Assistant. For more information: www.fauna-flora.org/oryx.php
• Core costs – to support this very cost-efficient organisation which is extremely effective at generating funds for conservation around the world and spends over 85% of its income on direct conservation.
• Sudan - re-establishing wildlife conservation in southern Sudan, to fund a scoping mission including meetings with government and NGO partners.
• Democratic Republic of Congo - development of a national strategy for community-based conservation, to hold consultation workshops with communities in eight protected areas.
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