Donors
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In 2010, core funding for the activities of DIVERSITAS was provided by the following countries:
- Argentina (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET)
- Austria (Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture)
- Belgium (Politique Scientifique Fédérale de Belgique)
- China-Taipei (Academia Sinica)
- France (Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - MNHN (in kind support))
- Germany (Federal Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF and German Research Foundation - DFG)
- Mexico (National Council on Science and Technology - CONACYT)
- Norway (Research Council of Norway – NWO)
- Slovak Republic (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- South Africa (National Research Foundation - NRF)
- Spain (Ministry of Science and Technology - MYCT)
- Sweden ( Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences - SSEESS)
- Switzerland (Swiss National Science Foundation - SNSF)
- The Netherlands (Organisation for Scientific Research - NWO, and the Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Sciences - KNAW)
- United Kingdom (Natural Environment Research Council - NERC)
- USA (National Science Foundation (USGCRP, NSF-GEO, NSF-BIO and NASA)
In 2010, DIVERSITAS also received financial support for specific activities from the following organisations:
- Association of Tropical Biodiversity Conservation (ATBC)
- Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology (JSPS), Japan
- EcoHealth Alliance (ex Wildlife Trust)
- Environment Research & Technology Development Fund, Ministry of Environment, Japan
- European Council
- European Science Foundation
- FAPESP-Brazil
- GBIF
- ICRAF-CCAFs
- Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, The Netherlands
- Mountain Partnership FAO/SDC
- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France (in kind support)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
- National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-INEE), France (in kind support)
- Network Forum Biodiversity Research Germany (DIVERSITAS Deutschland)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- Switzer Foundation - Stockholm Resilience Centre
- United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
- University of California - Davis, USA
- USA National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Wageningen University, The Netherlands
DIVERSITAS expresses its gratitude to all of these organisations, and to the International Group of Funding Agencies for global change research (IGFA) for their help in promoting dialogue with national funding agencies, as well as to the French Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) for hosting the DIVERSITAS International Secretariat.
The Scientific Committee of bioDISCOVERY and its community would like to thank the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Institut Ecologie et Environnement (CNRS-INEE) for the sponsorship of the bioDISCOVERY Science Officer position.
