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Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) is an international non-governmental environmental conservation organization based in Sebastopol, CA, with offices in Arcata, CA, and Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It focuses on economic issues underlying the conservation of rainforests, oceans, and other ecosystems. CSF has focused on the world's tropical rain belt in Latin America, Africa, and Asia due to high amounts of biodiversity in those areas. Founded in 1998 by John Reid (conservationist), CSF has grown to over 20 employees in three offices around the world.
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Mission
CSF says its mission is "to teach environmental organizations around the world to use economics and strategic analysis to conserve nature". Since 1999, the group has trained over 1200 people from over 80 countries.[1]
Training
CSF produces economic analysis of projects that could potentially harm the environment as well as people. CSF also conducts training courses in South America, the United States, and elsewhere, including their flagship course "Economic Tools for Conservation" held annually at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. These courses educate conservationists in economic fundamentals and practices, so that they can persuasively and accurately present information.[2] Its training courses encompass the basics of economics, cost-benefit analysis, net present value, and various other tools in order to help its alumni present real numbers to strengthen parks and protected areas, influence policies, craft sustainable development paths and avert damage from major infrastructure projects such as roads and dams.[3] Among other issues, CSF is concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change.
Achievements
Some notable achievements include helping to establish 1.5 million acres of protected area in central Brazil, helping local people divert the construction of a road through Volcán Barú National Park in Panama, successfully preventing construction of a dam that would have flooded significant portions of Madidi National Park in Bolivia, and delaying the paving of highway BR-319 in the Brazilian Amazon which, without proper safeguards, could have inflicted harm on the world's largest rainforest.[4]
References
- ^ Our Future Planet="Conserving Nature with Economics - The Conservation Strategy Fund"> http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/466
- ^ CSF Website="About Us"> http://live.csf.gotpantheon.com/en
- ^ Our Future Planet="Conserving Nature with Economics - The Conservation Strategy Fund"> http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/466
- ^ Our Future Planet="Conserving Nature with Economics - The Conservation Strategy Fund"> http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/news/466
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- Organizations based in California
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