Grant Profiles

Reef Restoration for Belize? Coral reef restoration in Belize might become a reality thanks in part to a grant from Project AWARE Foundation. Along with the Belize Fisheries Department, Friends of Nature and researcher Lisa Carne, Project AWARE is following a coral relocation project in this Central American country.(more)

Projeto Cação Works to Protect Brazil's Sharks Although there have been several notable achievements in shark protection, such as United States Shark Conservation Act of 2000, the Hawaii, USA Shark Finning Prohibition Act and an Australian shark finning ban, few countries have actual shark management plans in place. (more)

Hawaii Reef Etiquette Public Service Announcement A new reef etiquette public service announcement, funded in part by Project AWARE, is showing visitors to Hawaii, USA that it's easy to protect the marine environment. (more)

Girl Scouts Team Up With Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group to Save Our Waves Pedestrians in downtown Anacortes, Washington, USA might be forgiven for stopping in their tracks seeing girls spray painting sidewalks. After all, Girl Scouts are better known for their cookies and kind demeanor than their vandalism. The girls, however, were doing good rather than dastardly deeds as they stenciled stormdrains to earn their Save Our Waves patch while working for the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group. (more)

Conservation Society of Pohnpei's Environmental Explores Summer Camp Micronesia's lush, green island of Pohnpei is home to a broad and diverse set of environments - including barrier reef, lagoon and mangrove ecosystems. With 16 percent of the species endemic to the island, these thriving habitats support life that literally can’t be found anywhere else. (more)

Shark Fishers Conservation Network Shark fishermen in communities along Baja California, Mexico depend upon their catch to live. But many shark species are vulnerable to even the slightest fishing pressure. What can be done? Find out how a Project AWARE Foundation grant is helping the nonprofit Iemanya Oceanica develop sustainable alternatives for shark fishing communities.(more)

Cook Inletkeeper Beluga whales in Alaska, USA’s Cook Outlet are listed as threatened under the United States Marine Mammal Protection Act and have withstood a withering 73 percent population drop since 1985. The news for Belugas just got even worse as the species was just listed on the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animas as Critically Endangered – one step above extinct. But, Beluga whales aren’t without a champion as Cook Inletkeeper, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the vast Cook Inlet watershed and the life it sustains, is determined publicize the troubling situation.(more)

Leatherback Turtle Tracking Since 1959, the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC) has been a world leader in sea turtle research and conservation. With support from Project AWARE Foundation, the CCC has been coordinating a unique project that uses satellite tags to track far-ranging migrations of endangered leatherback sea turtles. (more)

Monitoring Sharks in Southern Brazil Although sharks have a sensationalized sinister reputation they remain a vital presence in the marine ecosystem. Scientists, policymakers and conservationists have all realized this for some time but overhauling conservation and management plans to reflect the importance has been hampered due to the oversight and lack of available data. Timely and accurate data is vital because conservation and management plans rely on this information to set policy – and protect species. (more)

Great Whites Uncaged Shark Entertainment, Inc., producers of “Air Jaws” and numerous other “Shark Week” documentaries for the Discovery Channel, recently captured part of a research project that may lead to increased protection for the great white shark. (more)

Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation The Wildlife Conservation Society's Sea Turtle Conservation program is spearheaded by scientists Dr. Cynthia Lagueux and Cathi Campbell. The pair developed and implemented a program that monitors turtle harvest levels, develops harvest alternatives, educates the local populations with respect to conservation and will produce a participatory-based management plan. (more)

28 Years of Trash The Texas Gulf Coast Council of Diving Clubs (TGCC) is an association of more than 16 dive clubs that gather annual on the first Saturday of October to clean up the Comal River after a season of tubers have “lost” tons of trash. (more)

Where have all the seals gone? Prince William Sound’s harbor seal population plummeted 63 percent in the years from 1984 and 1997 and is still dropping. Although many have been quick to point the finger at the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the environmental disaster only accounts for a fraction of the decline in this Alaska, USA environment. So if it isn’t oil, what is happening in Prince William Sound? (more)