Small Grants to Institutions: Species

 

Coordinating Institution:

 

Institution Country Amount (USD) Period Purpose
1 Administración de Parques Nacionales Argentina 6,000 In Negotiation Finish digitalizing and georeferencing information on fungi, algae and lichens species.
2 Fundación Miguel Lillo Argentina 10,000 19-Nov-2008 to 19-Nov-2009 Digitalize information on species housed in the Lillo Collection, especially on insects and plants located in the Northeast region of Argentina.  
3 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria Argentina 10,000 In Negotiation Digitalize information of Vascular Plants that grow in the Argentinean Patagonia region. 
4 Universidade Estadual de Campinas Brazil 10,000

8-Sep-2009 to 8-Sep-2010

Complementing the data bank, including the input of existing species in the collection not yet included in the data bank.

5 Universidad de Santiago de Chile Chile 10,000

8-Sep-2008 to  8-Nov-2009

Build a database of 16,158 species and a digital thesaurus. 
6 Red Nacional de Jardines Botánicos Colombia 10,000 Completed Promote the digitalization of approximately 1450 cards of useful plants species within 11 botanical gardens of the country
7 Instituto Alexander Von Humbolt Colombia 10,000 1-Sep-2009 to 30-Jun-2010 Create 250 species fact-sheets including biology, ecological and distributional information on Colombian Andean dung beetles, which will be available on the nodes of SIB and IABIN.
8 Aves y Conservacion Ecuador 28,546 In Negotiation To digitalize information referring to taxonomy, biology and status of all the Ecuadorian bird species, which are over 1.600.
9 Smithsonian Tropical Investigation Institute Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales - STRI Panama 15,000 In Negotiation Digitalize and georeference the 1500 specimens of the tropical bee colection of Dr. Roubik.
10 Universidad Mayor de San Marcos Peru 5,000 In Negotiation Provide information on the bats of Peru, facilitated by the availability and access to the Collection of mammals of the Museum of Natural History. 164 bat species from Peru, for which the metadata will be delivered quarterly in groups of 41 species
11 Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad - CORBIDI Peru 8,250 In Negotiation Digitalize al least 1,000 reptiles, birds, aquatic invertebrate species and about 27,000 records of amphibian, bird and aquatic invertebrate specimens.
12 Universidad Ricardo Palma, Museo de Historia Natural Peru 10,000 12-Jul-2008 to 12-Sep-2008 Digitize species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
13 Museo Nacional de Historia Natural y Antropología Uruguay 10,000 17-Sep-08 to 17-Oct-08 Digitalize information of 379 amphibian species recorded in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, plus those of subtropical distribution in Brazil (including the batrachians from the states of Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and southern São Paulo).

 

 

 

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This page was last updated on Tuesday January 19, 2010.