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EOG
Conservation Funding Reaches
Half a Million
The EOG Association for Conservation has reached a milestone – and eight
projects will see the benefits of this in 2009…
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n 2006 the outdoor industry set up an organisation to proactively Surfers Against Sewage - Campaign Film, UK
look after its livelihood and most vital resource – the natural Nominated by Patagonia
environment. Since then, and from a standing start, the EOG This project is to produce and distribute an educational film following a
Association for Conservation has funded fourteen projects well-known professional surfer, initiating a number of campaigns within
contributing €300,000 to grass roots conservation projects local communities to protect local surfing areas. The film aims to inspire,
worldwide. With almost 50 members, the Association this year has educate and mobilise supporters to undertake their own campaigning
reached the impressive half a million Euro funding milestone. efforts, linked directly to SAS campaigns, to achieve positive outcomes for
Association members have chosen a further eight extremely diverse and their local beach environment.
far-ranging projects for 2009. The announcement of those projects took
place on the second day of OutDoor in Fridrichshafen, with some of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds - Protection of the Red-
project representatives giving a brief introduction to their work: Footed Falcon
Nominated by Patagonia
Calla - Association for Conservation of the Environment, Czech This project aims to continue the BSPB’s work for the Red-Footed Falcon
Republic which has suffered drastic declines in Bulgaria over the past decade. The
Nominated by Rock Point project will take place in three regions of Bulgaria and will involve
Calla has created one of the largest sand martin nest sites in Southern construction, installation and monitoring of specially designed nest boxes,
Bohemia over the last 10 years through the management of disused sand and public awareness/media campaigns to change attitudes and behaviour
pits. With the Association’s help, the project aims to create and restore five that harms the species.
further nest sites and three ponds as well as use lectures and excursions to
inform and win support from the local public. Deutscher Alpen Verein - Reconstruction of Gamsscharte, Eastern
Alps
CMELAK - New Virgin Forest Project, Czech Republic Nominated by Messe Friedrichshafen (OutDoor)
Nominated by Rock Point The Gamsscharte is an important Alpine passage connecting three refuges
This project has one of the longest business plans - 300 years! The aim is in the Tirol, Salzburg and Südtirol. Due to a receding glacier over the last
to transform areas of pine monoculture into mixed forest supporting a high few years, the passage has become so dangerous it has had to be closed.
biodiversity through the purchase of land, awareness campaigns and The project involves identifying the course of a new trail and constructing a
planting tens of thousands of native species saplings. secure pathway, involving local volunteers.
Naturevolution - Makay Nature Project, Madagascar Biosphere Expeditions - Human-Predator Conflict in Mamili National
Nominated by Petzl Park, Caprivi Delta, Namibia
Thanks to its extraordinary and convoluted relief, the Makay mountain Nominated by Haglöfs
range has protected many different and endemic ecosystems, however due In Mamili National Park there is urgent need to find strategies to resolve
to farming and bush fire practices, it has now become a matter of urgency conflict between predators and humans, which has led to a significant
to protect this threatened area. The project aims to draw up an inventory of decline in animal numbers, as well as threatening the lives and livelihoods of
Makay’s biodiversity, educate local people about the preservation of their local inhabitants. This project involves the fitting of GPS collars to problem
natural resources, create eco-tourist trails and obtain Protected Area status. animals to enable tracking, alerting communities and relocation if necessary,
workshops on animal husbandry and kraal construction (predator-proof
Euronatur - Germany Brown Bear Conservation, Northern Spain cattle holding areas).
Nominated by Vaude
Following work to stabilise numbers and improve the habitat of the
brown bear population in the western ranges of the Cantabrian Mountains,
the project is being awarded funding to improve the situation for the The EOG Association for Conservation –
population in the eastern ranges. This will include improving the bear’s food Making a difference through Conservation
supply, minimising the impact of hunting and poaching, monitoring the
status and development of the population and organising age-based www.eogconservation.org
educational activities.
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