to support bilateral exchanges in 2008 and 2009 between scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Institute for Biological Problems of the North in Magadan, Russia.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 and 2009 in connection with a series of bilateral Russian-American exchanges focused on wildlife conservation, ecotourism, and indigenous peoples' rights in the Altai Republic.

to support international travel expenses in connection with American, Eastern and Central European, and Russian participation in BIC's Europe and Central Asia Program in 2009.

to support Russian participation in the spring and fall 2009 meetings of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and to enable an American documentary filmmaker to travel to Russia's Taman Peninsula to chronicle the negative ecological impact of the oil industry in the region.

to enable two emerging environmental leaders from Bulgaria and Hungary to be in residence at Earth Day Network's Washington, D.C., office in 2009 as part of EDN's Eastern European Fellowship Exchange Program.

to enable green building experts from the United States to travel to Russia in 2008 to participate in The Altai Project's program Altai Strawbale Building Workshops for Energy Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of Russian and American trail specialists and parks representatives participating in a bilateral exchange entitled Strengthening the National Parks and Nature Reserves Around Lake Baikal.

to support the international travel expenses in 2009 associated with the Central and Eastern European Environmental Training Exchange in Washington State.

to enable laywers working at public interest environmental law organizations in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Ukraine to participate in the 2009 E-LAW Annual Meeting in Eugene, Oregon, and the 27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon's School of Law.

to enable policy makers, lawyers, journalists, and activists from the United States and Russia to gather in Budapest in spring 2009 with colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe to discuss issues related to environmental contamination.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of American, Russian, and Ukrainian crane specialists participating in ICF's project U.S./Russian Cooperation to Protect Cranes and Wetlands.

to enable Russian and Ukrainian wildlife managers to travel to San Francisco in winter 2008 to participate in a series of oiled wildlife response training workshops and to enable American wildlife specialists to travel to the Taman Peninsula to hold workshops near the site of the November 2007 oil spill.

to enable a delegation of Russian indigenous environmental activists working on climate change issues to attend the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska, in April 2009.

to support international travel expenses in 2009 in connection with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's project entitled Endangered Species Conservation Training for Russian Far East Nature Reserve Staff.

to support the international travel and related expenses in 2009 and 2010 in connection with TNC's bilateral exchange to strengthen protected areas management and invest in staff, partner, and stakeholder development in Mongolia.

to support international travel in 2008 and 2009 of Russian and American participants in bilateral exchanges as part of Pacific Environment's program Deepening the Environmental Movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

to provide support for Pacific Environment's Russian Far East Conservation Fund in 2008.

to enable Sakhalin Environment Watch to send a delegation of local authorities and community leaders from Sakhalin and Khabarovsk to Alaska in March 2009 to participate in activities commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill.

to enable park managers from Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia to participate in a two-week study tour in New England, to enable three American conservation professionals to participate in an environmental problem-solving team in rural Southeastern Europe, to enable American and Central European participation in a workshop on biodiversity and protected landscapes in Serbia, and to enable members of QLF senior staff to travel to Southeatern Europe for program development and evaluation as part of the 2009 International Stewardship Program in Central and Southeastern Europe. 

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of Mongolians, Russians, and Americans participating in exchanges as part of SRIC's project Mining and the Environment Dialogue Phase IV.

to support international travel expenses of Russian participants in TBI's 2008 Summer Environmental Exchange Program in California and Nevada.

to support the Tributary Fund's fall 2008 study tour in the United States Connecting Culture and Conservation: An Exchange to Facilitate Dialogue Among Mongolian and American Scientists, Educators, and Religious Spokespersons.

to support international travel expenses in 2008 of Polish and American environmental experts participating in a bilateral exchange in preparation for the COP Climate Change Meeting in Poznan in fall 2008.

to support Russian participation in a Conservation Action Planning Workshop in Alaska in fall 2008.

to enable three veterinarians from the United States to travel to Primorskiy Krai in fall 2008 to conduct lectures and fieldwork as part of WCS's project Developing Wildlife Health Capacity in the Russian Far East.

to enable staff members from Russia's Institute of Marine Biology in Vladivostok to travel to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California and the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta in 2009 for training in collections management, marine husbandry, and visitor programs in conjunction with preparations for the opening of the Primorsky Aquarium in Vladivostok in 2012.

to support Russian participation in a study tour in the United States in 2008 as part of WRI's project Reducing Oil Spills through Independent Monitoring.

to support international travel expenses of Russian and American participants in bilateral exchanges in 2008 and 2009 as part of WWF's Bering Sea Ecoregion Exchanges.