to enable environmental specialists from Russia and Ukraine to visit institutions and individuals in the United States involved in energy conservation efforts in 2002 as part of the Alliance’s Green Schools Program.

to support international travel and related expenses of forest specialists from Russia and the United States participating in the Trees for Tigers project in fall 2001 and spring 2002.

to enable environmental specialists from the United States to travel to Eastern and Central Europe in connection with the projectBuilding Bridges for Sustainability Education in fall 2001.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001 and 2002 associated with a project organized in conjunction with the Center for Russian Environmental Policy and the Russian Human Rights Commission entitled Environment and Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2002 associated with the Russian-American exchange project entitled Promoting NGO-University Partnerships to Train Residents in Stream Restoration and Sustainable Forestry Practices in Russian Mill Towns.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001-2002 associated with the Russian, Mongolian, and American exchange component of a project entitled An Exchange Program to Help Public Efforts to Control the Mining of Heavy Metals in Mongolia and Buryatia.

to support Ukrainian and American participation in a bilateral exchange in 2001 organized jointly by the Institute’s Center for Safe Energy and the Crimean Environmental Association Ecology and Peace in Simferopol involving the development of alternative energy strategies and conservation measures.

to support American participation in a project in Russia organized in collaboration with the Russian Environmental Law Network entitled Citizen Participation and Law Reform for Forest Protection and Sustainability in 2001.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001 associated with the Russian-American exchange component of the Center’s efforts to help increase the capacity of environmental organizations in Russia to use geographic monitoring systems.

to enable American and Czech environmentalists to participate in a project entitled Empowering Environmental Advocates in the Czech Republic in 2001-2002.

to enable American environmental specialists to travel to Sakhalin in fall 2001 to participate in a conference entitled Sustaining Forests in the Russian Far East: Opportunities for Trade, Conservation, and Community Development.

to support travel to the Czech republic in 2001-2002 by American specialists in environmental conservation and related fields in connection with the Community Revitalization Expert Advisors Program organized by the VIA Foundation in Prague.

to provide renewed support for exchanges to and from the United States by environmentalists engaged in activities of the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe.

to support Russian and American participation in fall 2001 and spring 2002 in an exchange project entitled The Legacy Program: Building Public Participation in Russian and American Decision-Making for Chemical Weapons Destruction and Military Toxic Waste Clean-Up.

to support the exchange of Russian and American environmental specialists in 2001 as part of the Confronting the Legacies of Nuclear Weapons Project of Mutual Support and Exchange.

to support travel to Lake Baikal in summer 2001 by Russian and American participants in a project designed to draw increased national and international attention to environmental problems affecting the lake and its watershed.

to enable environmental and community leaders from Nizhnii Tagil, Russia, to participate in a study tour of urban greenways in the United States in spring 2001.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001-2002 of Russian and American scientists participating in an exchange project entitled U.S./Russian Cooperation to Protect Cranes and Wetlands.

to enable environmentalists and animal welfare specialists from the United States, Russia, and countries of the former Soviet Union to attend an international conference at the Moscow Zoo in fall 2001 to discuss the care and protection of endangered species.

to support exchanges in 2001 and 2002 in connection with the environmental component of theSouth East Europe Youth Empowerment Corps.

to support international travel and related expenses of American and Russian environmentalists participating in ISAR’s Women in Nuclear Safety Activism Program in 2002.

to support the exchange in 2001 and 2002 of environmentalists, limnologists, and water management specialists from the United States, Russia, and Eastern and Central Europe participating in LakeNet, an international network devoted to the conservation of lakes and their watersheds.

to enable environmental and energy specialists from Central and Eastern Europe to participate in an international conference on safe and sustainable energy in the United States in summer 2001.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001 associated with Russian-American exchanges intended to increase the ability of citizens to shape public policy and advance the cause of environmental protection in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

to support international travel and related expenses in 2001-2002 in connection with the professional training at Boise State University and at the Raptor Research Center of the United States Geological Survey of a raptor biologist from Mongolia.

to enable environmental leaders from Russia and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe to participate in TrailLink 2001: The Third International Trails and Greenways Conference in St. Louis in fall 2001.

to support Russian-American exchange activities in connection with the Northern Eurasian Environmental Assistance Program in 2001-2002.

to support international travel and related expenses associated with the Ecological Restoration Exchange for Eastern and Central Europe in 2001 and 2002.

to support participants from Russia and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe in TBI’s 2001 Summer International Environmental Exchange program and to support the exchange of TBI board members from Russia and the United States.

to enable Russian and American salmon specialists to participate in an exchange and research program in 2001 in connection with the development of a long-term plan to create salmon refuges in Kamchatka.

to support international travel and related expenses associated with workshops in the Russian Far East and in the United States in 2001-2002 to train Russian scientists and park specialists involved in the creation of a Siberian Tiger Emergency Response Team in Russia.

to enable environmental scientists and specialists from Russia to participate in the Center’s Russian Visiting Scholars Program in 2002.

to enable environmental specialists from Eastern and Central Europe to meet with their American colleagues in Washington, D.C., in spring 2002.

to enable a delegation of environmental specialists and educators from the Russian Far East to participate in a workshop and conference on the Bering Sea in Anchorage, Alaska, in fall 2001.