to support the participation of Russian scholars at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York City in February 2012.

to bring four Siberian social scientists to participate in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, California, in April 2013.

to support a two-week fellowship at BIC in Washington, D.C., to provide advocacy training and outreach support for civil society organizations in Bulgaria, Kosovo, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States in 2013.

to provide continued support for loon research activities in Chukotka, Russia, in 2012.

to send five American specialists to coordinate clean-up activities and conduct soil and groundwater testing as part of a comprehensive remediation plan at the Gorlovka plant in Ukraine in 2012 and 2013.

to support three bilateral environmental exchanges in Russia and Alexandria, Virginia, to address oil and gas development in the Taman Peninsula and Krasnodar Region of Russia in summer 2012.

to support bilateral exchanges in 2013 focused on education, cultural resource conservation, and wildlife veterinary services in Mongolia.

to send four prospective nature guides from Siberia to train in Washington State in summer 2013, and to send two Americans to Russia to work collaboratively on developing a long-term training program for interpretive guides at Lake Baikal in fall 2013.

to bring four American experts to Akhurian, Armenia, to plan and construct a sanitary, sustainable landfill as part of the Integrated Waste Management Project in fall 2012.

to bring five volunteers and two conservation scientists from the United States to Altai, Russia, as part of the Strengthening Snow Leopard and Argali Sheep Conservation with Citizen Scientists project in summer 2013.

to send Winnemem-Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk from northern California to Altai, Russia, for two weeks to participate in film screenings, meetings with Altai elders and artists, and visit sacred sites in July 2013.

to support four Central and Eastern European participants in EarthCorps’ 2013 Central and Eastern European Environmental Training Exchange in Seattle, Washington.

to support the participation of grassroots leaders Nataliya Shpeg from Lviv, Ukraine, and Bazarsad Nanjindorj from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in the 2013 E-LAW Fellows Program in winter 2013.

to send five American scientists to Mongolia to develop sustainable plans for future development of Hovsgol and Gobi Saikhan parks, and to bring three Mongolian scientists to the United States to exchange best practices in park management in summer and fall 2012.

to enable four scientists from the Missouri Botanical Garden to travel to the Scientific Plant Production Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to conduct workshops and field research on endangered species with botanists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in September 2012.

to support six exchanges between environmental scientists, NGO representatives, and governmental officials from Mongolia and the United States to aid in building Mongolia’s in-country capacity to implement effective land planning and management strategies in 2013.

to enable Colin Beavan to conduct a 14-day speaking tour in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia to promote No Impact Weeks and screen the film No Impact Man in summer and fall 2012.

to provide continued support for the Russian Fire Prevention Program in 2012.

to support PE’s 2012 activities including several exchanges relating to protected areas and best practices in Altai, Russia; building sustainable fisheries in Kamchatka and Sakhalin, Russia; and developing community strategies to improve and remove unsafe dams in Siberia.

to send three American experts to lead conservation assessments and train local counterparts in field methods and data analysis for snow leopard populations in the Tajik Pamir mountains in Tajikistan in summer 2012.

to bring three professional design, fair-trade, and marketing experts from the United States to Mongolia to work with rural Mongolian herder women in a week-long workshop as part of the Snow Leopard Enterprises program in summer 2013.

to conduct an exchange for emerging community activists and younger staff from partner organizations in Mongolia, Russia, and the United States as part of the Mining and the Environment dialogue series in 2012.

to bring four American scientists specializing in land and water restoration and illegal wildlife medicine trade to collaborate with Mongolian scientists on conservation projects at various monasteries and conduct a three-day conservation science workshop for monastic leaders in spring 2013.

to send an expert team to Southeastern Europe for fisheries research and exchange of best practices in developing ecotourism in spring and summer 2012.

to bring five emerging Russian scientists to the United States for a three-month joint study of environmental changes in Russia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and to send American conservation scientists to Moscow to analyze data on environmental changes in Russia’s protected areas in 2012 and 2013.

to bring nature reserve managers, salmon ecosystem scientists, and ecotourism outfitters from Kamchatka, Russia, to exchange best practices with local Wild Salmon Center partners and to conduct field research in Anchorage, Alaska, in July 2012.

to enable two Russian scientists to study North American arctic bird research protocols in New York City and conduct field research on the Chaun Delta of Chukotka, Russia, in summer 2012.

to send wildlife biologists to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to develop models of gazelle migration patterns, research conservation methods, and participate in workshops as part of the 2013 WCS initiative Mongolian Gazelle and the Eastern Steppe.

to bring three Russian veterinarians to exchange best practices with experts at the Bronx and Minnesota zoos in spring 2013; and to send one veterinarian from the Bronx Zoo to the Primorskaya Academy in Ussuriysk, Russia, to conduct lectures and demonstrations in fall 2013.

to bring two Russian scientists to WHRC to conduct research, attend scientific conferences, and exchange best practices with American scientists as part of WHRC’s Russian Visiting Scholars Program in summer 2013.

to support a six-day conservation study tour for Chukotka-Kamchatka-Alaska regional staff to exchange best practices with Alaska NGO colleagues, scientists, and experts engaged in shipping, fisheries, and climate science in Anchorage, Alaska, in September 2012.