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

to support a series of exchanges between American, Russian, and Central European environmental leaders in 2010 as part of BIC's Europe and Central Asia Program, which focuses on improving lending policies of International Financial Institutions.

to enable NGO leaders from the United States and Russia's Taman Peninsula to participate in a bilateral exchange in 2010 entitled Protecting Taman through Land Conservation, Monitoring, and Environmental Justice Campaigning.

to support a bilateral exchange of American and Mongolian environmental conservation educators and to enable parks specialists from the United States to work on capacity building with staff at Mongolia's Ikh Nart Nature Reserve in 2010. 

to enable a Russian instructor/designer and two recent graduates from the Institute of Architecture and Design in Barnaul, Siberia, to travel to the United States in summer 2009 to participate in a natural building intensive training workshop at Emerald Earth Sanctuary in Boonville, California.

to enable three American ecotourism experts to spend three weeks touring Baikal in summer 2009 and to enable six Russian NGO and government representatives to travel to the United States in winter 2010 to tour sites and meet with organizations that promote ecotourism.

to enable American specialists to participate in the Center for Safe Energy's 2010 exchanges focused on recycling and solid waste management in Kazakhstan and energy efficiency in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.

to support emerging environmental leaders from Central Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Russia participating in EarthCorps' environmental restoration and leadership training in Seattle and other locations in the United States in 2010.

to enable an environmental organizer from the United States to travel to Mongolia in summer 2009 as part of a collaborative film project documenting nomadic reindeer herders.

to enable environmental lawyers Merab Barbakadze from Georgia and Agnes Gabriella Gajdics from Hungary to travel to the United States to participate in E-LAW's 2010 Working Exchange Fellowships.

to enable American journalists, scholars, teachers, government officials, and NGO representatives to travel to Ukraine in October 2010 to learn about the effects of the Chernobyl accident and to research nuclear power and alternative energy sources.

to support American and Russian participation in October 2009 in a workshop at Muraviovka Park in Russia on health control and monitoring of captive and wild waterbirds and to enable ICF's vice president and two members of the North American Crane Working Group to travel to Muraviovka Park and other Russian nature reserves in June 2010 to participate in a workshop and study tour.

to enable botanists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia to travel to Missouri to participate in a symposium in October 2009 to finalize a Red Book of plant species at risk of extinction, to develop conservation strategies, and to give presentations on threatened plants of the Caucasus.

to support a series of American-Mongolian exchanges in 2010 and 2011 focused on clarifying Mongolian climate change policy and on mitigating the harmful effects of natural resource development on Mongolia's grasslands.

to enable members of the Brown Bear Working Group and an interpreter to travel to Yakutsk and Lensk, Russia, in summer 2009 to hold meetings with representatives of local communities, government authorities, and industrial site managers to develop a plan of action for the minimization of bear encounters.

to support international travel in 2009 and 2010 of Russian and American participants in bilateral exchanges as part of Pacific Environment's program Sustaining the Environmental Protection Movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East.

to provide support for Pacific Environment's Russian Far East Conservation Fund in 2009.

to support the international travel expenses of American and Eastern European experts presenting a Workshop on Raptor Research and Management Techniques as part of the Asian Raptor Research Conservation Network Conference in Mongolia in June 2010.

to enable representatives of Project for Public Spaces to travel to Prague in May 2009 and Krakow in September 2009 to participate in a conference on placemaking and to enable a member of the Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development to engage in a placemaking fellowship at PPS in New York in 2009.

to support a series of bilateral exchanges between American and Central and Southeastern European conservation professionals in 2010 as part of QLF's Central and Southeastern Europe Stewardship Project.

to enable four environmental educators from Sakhalin, Russia, to travel to Portland, Oregon, to receive training in the Salmon Watch curriculum and to participate in the Salmon Stewardship Summit at Camp Arrah Wanna in summer 2009.

to enable American mining specialists to travel to Russia and Mongolia in spring 2010 to give workshops and presentations on assessing mines, and to enable activists, educators, and government officials from Russia and Mongolia to travel to the United States to meet with Native American leaders and visit mine sites in summer 2010.

to support international travel expenses of Russian and Mongolian participants in TBI's 2009 Summer Environmental Exchange Program in California and Nevada.

to enable emerging Russian environmental leaders to participate in TBI's Summer Environmental Exchange and to bring Russian program staff to California for leadership, activist, and outreach training activities in 2010.

to support a bilateral exchange in 2010 of American conservation education specialists and Mongolian Buddhist lamas and community leaders to develop community-based conservation projects and strategies in Mongolia.

to support international travel expenses associated with a trilateral exchange between Romanian, Ukrainian, and American partner institutions to explore links between cultural heritage, sustainable forest management, and biodiversity protection in the Carpathians and Adirondacks.

to support Russian participation in a meeting and in training programs in November 2009 in Oregon and Washington State in connection with sustainable fisheries and to enable representatives of WSC to travel to Russia in December 2009 to conduct a joint seminar on prioritization of salmon rivers for conservation. 

to enable a wildlife biologist, environmental journalists, and a filmmaker from the Russian Far East to travel to Montana in fall 2010 to develop a documentary film on wildlife management in North America that will be shared with government officials, representatives of nonprofit organizations, and private citizens in Russia.

to support participation by Russian scientists, ecologists, activists, and forestry experts in WHRC's Russian Visiting Scholars Program in 2010.