Biodiversity support program (BSP)

Project to promote biological diversity concerns in A.I.D. and LDC programs worldwide. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will implement the project in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The project will build the capacity of A.I.D. offices and of cooperating LDC institutions to recognize the critical need for and economic potential of biological resource conservation. There are four major components: (1) TA to Missions, PVO's, and others to help establish national and local conservation strategies and programs, design research proposals, and survey ecosystems; (2) small matching grants to fund studies on specific ecological, sociopolitical, and economic issues related to conservation, e.g., the efficacy of buffer zones, the costs and benefits of conservation efforts; (3) training of LDC scientists to help them better formulate R&D proposals to take advantage of existing funding sources; (4) an information and evaluation network to collect, maintain, and disseminate information on A.I.D.'s and other organizations' conservation activities, to establish linkages among data bases, and to sponsor outreach e

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAX-840 (1988). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.