The Disney Wildlife Conservative Fund has helped conservationists since 1998.
Since Earth Day 1995, Disney's Worldwide Conservation Fund, a global awards program, provides grants for non-profit corporations in the United States on a yearly basis. According to Walt Disney Corp., when Disney's Animal Kingdom Park opened in 1998, the DWCF provided its first conservation grants; since then, over 800 projects worth more than $14 million have been funded worldwide. These grants support rain forest, ocean, land and animal conservation funds.
New Nature Foundation’s "Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project"
Located in Western Uganda, New Nature Foundation’s "Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project" receives grants from the Disney Wildlife Conservative Fund. Kibale National Park is home to primates, hundreds of bird species and other mammals, as well was one of the densest wooded areas in Uganda. Wood is in high demand in Uganda as it is used to heat homes and to heat food. Wood in Uganda is scarce and this scarcity is threatening Kibale National Park. The DWCF funds Uganda and helps the New Nature Foundation plant more trees for usage by the Ugandan people for their daily needs so Kibale National Park remains preserved.
Blue Ocean Institute
The Blue Ocean Institute helps educate individuals on how personal, wasteful choices affects the world's oceans. The DWCF began funding the Blue Ocean Institute in 2009. The DWCF helps the Blue Ocean Institute by helping to create literature designed to show people change their habits for the better.
GRACE Center
In 2010, DWCF provided a grant to help build the GRACE Center in the Congo. The DWCF, in conjunction with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, helps to house orphan gorillas in order to re-establish their populations in the Congo and Rwanda. The GRACE Center rescues the orphaned gorillas from poachers.
Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom
According to the Disney World website, Disney's Animal Kingdom, home to 1,700 animals from 500 different species, is one of the largest conservation sites in the United States. The DWCF provides annual grants to help fund education and research for animal conservation.
Association of Zoological Horticulture: Conservation Grants Program
In 2008, DWCF began giving the Conservation Grants Program an annual gift of $5,000 for the research and conservation of plants. This program helps to protect plants in the wild.
Ecology Project International: Sea Turtle Ecology Fund
Located in Costa Rica, the Ecology Project International helps to protect sea turtles and aids in local beach cleanup. DWCF offers a yearly grant which goes to students who participate in the program and helps to educate them on leatherback sea turtle nesting sites, which the Ecology Project International helps to protect.
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