CROC Project Wins Top Follow-up Award From BP Conservation Programme (2003)

The 2003 awards were announced on June 24th, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York by guest of honour, Geoffrey Sachs, economist and director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

32 projects have been given support totalling US$565,000. Two Consolidation Awards of US$75,000 given to the best continuing conservation projects that the Programme has helped to seed since its inception have been won by projects in Columbia and Madagascar; six Follow-up Awards amounting to £189,000 have been given to the best proposals for follow-up work submitted by one of the previous years’ winners; and 24 awards totalling £226,000 have been given to first year projects, divided into Gold, Silver and Bronze categories.

The winning projects are based in 21 countries and will be carrying out work ranging from monitoring of globally threatened bird species in Central Kazakhstan to enhancing community participation in sea turtle conservation in Kenya.