Current Funders
Each year Earthwatch works with a number of corporations and trusts who provide sponsorship for our Capacity Building training programmes.
The following trusts and organisations are generously sponsoring the programme in 2008:
British American Tobacco plc
British American Tobacco is sponsoring 20 places on this year's Capacity Building Programme. They are also sponsoring the Belarus Wetlands and the Malaysian Bats projects.
Cadbury's Schweppes plc
Cadbury's Schweppes are sponsoring 24 Ghanaian University students to participate on the project Cocoa Farming and Biodiversity based in Ghana.
Darwin Initiative
The Darwin Initiative is supporting two Capacity Building teams to participate on the project the Lakes of the Rift Valley, in Kenya and Tanzania.
Mitsubishi Corporation plc
The Mitsubishi Corporation sponsor the Coral and Coastal Ecology of the Seychelles project.
Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa (MCFEA)
The MCFEA are sponsoring two students from the Southern African Wildlife College to participate on the Capacity Building Programme, an initiative they have maintained since 1998.
Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd
Newmont Ghana Gold are sponsoring a number of places on the Earthwatch project Ecology and Conservation of the white-necked rock fowl in Ghana, an example of a mixed stakeholder team which brings together Capacity Building participants with Newmont employees for a mutually beneficial learning experience.
Rio Tinto plc
Rio Tinto is sponsoring a team of local stakeholders to participate on the Earthwatch project South Africa's Hidden Species, and a francophone team to participate on Lemurs and Forests of Madagascar. Rio Tinto also sponsor 12 further places on the Capacity Building Programme.
Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation
For the past five years, Earthwatch has received grant funding from the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation for our African training programme called "Developing a New Generation of Conservation Scientists." The aim of this programme is to train early-career conservation scientists in field research techniques, leadership, and team management skills in order to increase their capacity to contribute to international conservation research, especially through roles on Earthwatch scientific research projects. This generous, sustained grant funding from the Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation has enabled Earthwatch to develop the careers of twenty young conservation scientists from a range of African countries.
Zurich
In another example of a mixed stakeholder team Zurich are sponsoring 20 Capacity Building places to participate on the Earthwatch project Mangroves of Sri Lanka.