to bring two IAFC and two U.S. Forest Service experts to Lake Balaton, Hungary, to conduct a one-week training for Hungarian firefighters on best practices for managing wildfires in spring 2013.

to provide continued support for the Russian Fire Prevention Program in 2013.

to support PE’s winter 2013 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 support bilateral exchanges between American and Mongolian scientists on conservation projects at various monasteries, including and a three-day conservation science workshop for monastic leaders, in spring 2013.

to send conservation experts to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia for fisheries research and exchange of best practices in developing ecotourism in spring and summer 2013.

to support Irina Shmeleva’s participation in the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in summer 2013.