ARCADIA ANNUAL REVIEW 2012
Protecting endangered NATURE AND CULTURE
Contents
PRESERVING ENDANGERED Nature and culture
Contents 02 2012 overview 04 PRESERVING endangered nature – GRANTS MADE IN 2012 – Migratory birds and the East-Atlantic flyway – Illegal fishing in West Africa
– Halcyon Land & Sea Fund – Training African conservation biologists – Collaboration among UK environmental funders – Conserving rainforest seeds
18 PRESERVING endangered CULTURE – GRANTS made IN 2012 – African rock art – Bhutan’s oral heritage – Supporting universal access to all knowledge 24 A NEW Endowment – University of California Los Angeles, Department of History 25 our current grants
Cover photo: Cross-sections of seeds from Australian rainforest trees showing embryo size and shape. The Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust (RBGDT) are identifying techniques to conserve seed that cannot survive desiccation, and so cannot be stored using traditional seed banking methods.
30 Long-term grant programmes – Endangered Languages Documentation Programme – Endangered Archives Programme
Photo © Courtesy of RBGDT
34 financial commitments
Report produced by Harriet Gillett, May 2013
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2012 Overview
INTRODUCTION
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Since 2002, Arcadia has awarded more than $234 million to preserve endangered culture and nature, across the world.
Our cultural grants document our cultural heritage and make this information freely available to all.
In 2012 we paid $30.8 million to 36 ongoing projects. We awarded $18.1 million in six new grants and four renewed grants.
We support digital documentation of near-extinct languages, rare historical archives and endangered cultural practices. We then secure free, online, open access to these materials.
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In 2012 we awarded four new grants and renewed a grant to launch a new partnership (pages 18- 26).
Our environmental grants preserve endangered habitats and make research information on these places available to all. We support protection of tracts of land and sea, train conservation practitioners and support advocacy, policy development and research. In 2012 we awarded four new grants and renewed two existing grants (pages 4-17).
An unnamed Hesperantha, one of the many threatened species that Fauna & Flora International are helping to protect in South Africa. Poster illustrating everyday life in the early years of the state of Israel – part of the National Library of Israel Time Travel project © Courtesy of Odette Curtis / Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust © Courtesy of the National Library of Israel
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Migratory birds and the East-Atlantic flyway WETLANDS INTERNATIONAL NEW GRANT: $900,000 (2012 - 2017)
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The East Atlantic flyway and project target areas
Wetlands occupy 6% of the world’s surface, and support high species diversity and abundance. They are among the most threatened habitats globally, since they give people freshwater and food, and are easy places to dump rubbish. Migratory waterbirds travel between their breeding and wintering areas along networks of wetlands known as “flyways.” These birds are highly vulnerable to wetland loss. In the East-Atlantic flyway, a migratory route between southern Africa and Russia, 56% of the migratory waterbird populations are declining or have an uncertain population trend. In Africa, we support work in the Senegal River Delta on the border of Senegal and Mauritania (where the birds winter) and on the Arctic coastal tundra (where they breed). Wetlands International and their local partners pin-point the most important wetlands for migratory birds and then protect them. Local people help record the number of birds that come and go to see how effective the protection is.
Our grant to Wetlands International aims to improve the management of critical sites on the East-Atlantic flyway, in Russia anD West Africa © Courtesy of Wetlands International
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Illegal fishing in West Africa ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION NEW GRANT: $100,000 (2012-2013)
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Illegal fishing in Sierra Leone - this vessel has been documented operating illegally in West African waters for over a decade
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a key threat to marine environments. It amounts to between 11 and 26 million tonnes of fish each year, worth up to $23.5 billion globally. West African waters are among the world’s most productive marine ecosystems. But marine law enforcement in the region is weak through civil conflict, political instability and corruption. As a result, these rich waters are fished by industrial IUU vessels which supply shrimp, tuna and other high-value seafood to the EU and Asia. West African waters probably have the highest levels of IUU fishing in the world - nearly 40% of the region’s catch. The Environmental Justice Foundation works with coastal communities in rural western Africa to tackle IUU fishing. It helps them to manage their marine protected areas and fisheries better. The Environmental Justice Foundation also brings evidence of illegal fishing to consumers, businesses and policymakers, nationally and internationally.
© Courtesy of the Environmental Justice Foundation
We are supporting the Environmental Justice Foundation’s campaign in West Africa to combat illegal fishing through: • direct advocacy to make the EU enforce its own EU Regulation on IUU Fishing • expansion of community surveillance, reporting projects and political engagement in West Africa • promoting a global register of fishing vessels to prevent boats from changing names and flying flags of convenience (which make it almost impossible for enforcement agencies to impose fines and deter illegal fishing).
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Halcyon Land & Sea Fund FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL RENEWED GRANT: $5,000,000 (2012 - 2017)
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In Mozambique FFI are protecting Niassa National Reserve through the Chuilexi Conservancy which will link tourism and conservation within a larger wilderness zone
Arcadia helped Fauna and Flora International (FFI) establish the Halcyon Land & Sea Fund in 1998. It secures key areas of threatened natural biodiversity by purchasing or leasing areas, developing local stewardship and supporting conservation management where absent or weak. Halcyon Land & Sea also contributes to FFI’s Rapid Response Facility, a unique emergency small grant programme providing support to sites of global biodiversity importance during times of crisis. Our renewed support to FFI helps them continue this work. To date, Halcyon Land & Sea has: • secured almost 6.5 million hectares of critical habitat and has directly contributed to the conservation of almost 46.5 million hectares, an area larger than Sweden. • avoided the release of an estimated 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – equivalent to 37% of the UK’s annual carbon dioxide emissions by protecting carbon rich natural habitats from destruction. • protected some of the world’s most endangered species including leatherback turtle, hirola antelope, African wild dog, Iberian lynx and Zino’s petrel.
“Halcyon Land & Sea is extremely selective in its acquisition of sites, creating wildlife corridors and bridging essential gaps in site ownership. We work in partnership with local conservation agencies and local communities, which we believe is key to the sustainability of the projects.” Dr Abigail Entwistle, Director of Science, Fauna & Flora International
© Courtesy of JA Bruson
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A new project is securing forest landscapes in the Zarand Corridor, in the agrarian Transylvania region of Romania.
FFI are LINKING Borana Ranch, Kenya, to a much larger area, suitable for elephant and rhino.
This area supports some of Europe’s most threatened landscapes, along with key populations of wolf, bear and lynx.
FFI made a strategic small grant to improve security at the site, ahead of a planned rhino reintroduction.
© Courtesy of FFI
© Courtesy of Juan Pablo Moreiras/FFI
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Training African conservation biologists TROPICAL BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION NEW GRANT: $110,000 (2012 - 2013)
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The 18 Malagasy participants
African countries need well-trained local conservation champions who can help save their biodiversity and natural resources. The Tropical Biology Association builds expertise among African conservation scientists. The Association delivers bespoke training, provides long-term follow-up support and sustains an international network that is invaluable for participants’ future careers. With our support, the Tropical Biology Association delivered two innovative training programmes that created a cohort of competent and effective conservationists working in Africa and Madagascar. The field course in Madagascar trained nine African and nine (self-funded) European biologists from 14 countries. By spending a month with international and national experts, these promising young scientists learned how to analyse their own local conservation problems and devise practical lasting solutions. © Courtesy of the Tropical Biology Association
“…the course allowed me to refresh and refine my fieldwork and experimental design skills which will be invaluable for my career in conservation” (Vera Hoffmann – Namibia) The second training course built confidence and scientific communication skills of African biologists. This will enable them to become more active in the scientific community, publish papers and share their research results widely. The course involved 18 Malagasy participants from 12 universities, government and non-government organisations. It was organised by the Madagascar Tropical Biology Association alumni group, who passed on their knowledge to younger peers.
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Collaboration among UK environmental funders
Conserving rainforest seeds
ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK RENEWED GRANT: $105,000 (2012 - 2017)
SYDNEY ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS & DOMAIN TRUST NEW GRANT: $600,000 (2012 - 2017)
In the UK, only 3% of trust and foundation giving goes to environmental causes. The Environmental Funders Network (EFN) is an informal network of over 150 trusts, foundations and individuals in the UK, making environmental and conservation grants. The network aims to increase financial support for environmental causes and to help environmental philanthropy be as effective as possible.
Rainforests are one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems, threatened by climate change, invasive species, land clearing and plant disease.
Our grant provides core support to enable the EFN to continue to: • conduct research to improve the environmental knowledge base from which funders make their decisions • connect funders to share learning and due diligence (more than three-quarters of members believe that EFN has improved their grant practice) • hold high-profile events to encourage new donors to give to environmental causes
Seed banks are the best way to conserve rare plants away from the wild. Traditional seed banking involves desiccation. Most seeds can be dried to low moisture content and then frozen. But not all species, particularly rainforest species, respond well to these techniques. Alternative methods are needed. Our funding helps the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust (RBGDT) conserve the threatened rainforest species of New South Wales, Australia. Their target is to conserve 75% of these species by 2020. They collect seeds of threatened species; identify appropriate seed conservation techniques; and train people so that these techniques can be used more widely in the Pacific region.
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Archidendron hendersonii (white lace flower). Its habitat of riverine and lowland sub-tropical rainforest in New South Wales has mostly been destroyed for housing and agriculture
Dysoxylum fraserianum (rosewood or Australian rose mahogany), although widely spread, has been extensively logged for its fragrant red timber
© Courtesy of the RBGDT
In 2012, the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust collected seed from 60 species from rainforest regions in the north-east of New South Wales. Only one third of these species had seed that appeared likely to tolerate desiccation. These were dried and frozen in the seedbank. Seeds from the remaining 40 species are being assessed for their tolerance to drying. They will either be classified as suitable for traditional seed storage, or investigated for alternative conservation methods, like tissue culture or storage in liquid nitrogen. Seedlings of each species are also being grown for the living collection of the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.
© Courtesy of the RBGDT
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African rock art
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Painting of a female warrior figure in the Ukhambla Drakensberg National Park and World Heritage Site, South Africa
TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ART RENEWAL GRANT: $260,000 (2012 - 2013) BRITISH MUSEUM NEW GRANT: £830,000 ($1,254,600) (2012 - 2017)
Africa has some of the oldest and most varied rock art on earth, painted, drawn and sculpted from 10 000 B.C. to the 20th century. Since most rock art belongs to cultures that disappeared long ago, many monuments are little known, unprotected, eroded or vandalised. We have supported the Trust for African Rock Art since 2007. Today it has a unique archive of over 25,000 photographs of rock art from 19 African countries. Many of the sites have since been lost or damaged. In 2012, we made two grants to support a new partnership between the Trust for African Rock Art and the British Museum, to support the long-term security of the images. A new partnership Our grants to the Trust for African Rock Art and British Museum support the transfer of this image collection to the British Museum. It will be preserved in perpetuity and accessible free through the British Museum website. The British Museum will catalogue the archive and enrich it with archaeological and anthropological research. This will create a new resource for the study and preservation of African rock art and will ensure that this unique heritage is known, recognized and, hopefully, protected.
© Courtesy of the Trust for African Rock Art
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Bhutan’s oral heritage University of Virginia, USA NEW GRANT: $1,422,590 (2012-2017)
A scene from a semi-operatic drama on the Day of Judgement – the white angel tries to rescue the evil man
Until recently Bhutan was one of the world’s most isolated and traditional countries. In the last decade it has rapidly modernised. This is eroding its ancient Himalayan Buddhist culture, most of which is undocumented and unstudied. Bhutan’s rich and diverse oral heritage is particularly at risk. Many local languages are increasingly endangered. Traditions of oral history, literature and knowledge are disappearing even in the remotest of villages. Our grant to the University of Virginia will document this heritage and make it accessible to all.
© Courtesy of University of Virginia
Our grant supports an extensive survey and audio-video documentation of Bhutan’s oral heritage including languages, oral histories, family genealogies, folk stories, songs and chants, and vernacular idioms. The project also documents cultural knowledge about food and architecture, ecological beliefs and practices, and traditional skills. The materials will be published through an open access portal.
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Supporting universal access to all knowledge Internet Archive NEW GRANT: $250,000 (2012-2013)
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Our grant helped the Internet Archive to study problems handling large TV archives
The servers of the Internet Archive
© Courtesy of the Internet Archive
Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is a non-profit, open access digital library. Its mission is “universal access to all knowledge.” It is building one of the world’s largest open access digital libraries to create a permanent record of material published online. Capturing and archiving text, audio, video and software, as well as web pages, the Internet Archive documents cultural life in the early 21st century. We know more about digitising and collecting digital materials than about the technologies and techniques needed for long-term digital preservation. As a result much already digitised material is at risk of becoming inaccessible in the future.
© Courtesy of the Internet Archive
Our grant supports the Internet Archive’s work to improve and promote digital archiving best practice. Using material already collected by the Archive, the project focuses on audio-visual files stored on tape and disk for ten or more years.
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A NEW Endowment UCLA, Department of History NEW GRANT: $10 million (endowment)
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our current grants
All our grants made good progress towards their objectives in 2012. Advocacy work on environmental causes For almost two years, two of our grantees, ClientEarth and Oceana, have campaigned for reform of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy. Key objectives have been fishing at sustainable levels and ending wasteful discards of untargeted catch. The UCLA Department of History is one of the highest-ranking university history departments in the USA. It has 65 core faculty members and thousands of students. State funding cuts have put the future of graduate-level scholarship at risk.
The European Parliament has now voted on the proposed reform. With a majority of 502: 137, they demanded an overhaul of the policy regulating European fisheries, the third largest in the world. But the struggle is not over yet. The European Parliament, Council and Commission now need to negotiate the final text of the policy. The strength of the Parliament’s decision lays the basis for a robust outcome from those negotiations.
Mostly, our endowment to the UCLA Department of History will be used to attract and support top PhD students. The remainder will endow the department chair, and provide resources for faculty research, innovative teaching and lectures, symposia, conferences and seminars.
View from UCLA
Fishermen discarding fish in the Guadalquivir river, Doñana National Park, Spain © Courtesy of Oceana/Jesús Renedo
© Courtesy UCLA
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Reintroducing species
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Training conservation professionals and practioners
Our scholarships for students on the Cambridge MPhil course in Conservation Leadership trained young people from Bhutan, China, India, Ukraine and Zimbabwe for high-flying careers in conservation. The Environmental Leadership Training Initiative, run by Yale’s School of Forestry, has reached more than 2,000 conservation practitioners in biodiversity-rich but cash-poor countries in tropical South America and southeast Asia. The Millennium Seedbank at Kew, a “Noah’s Ark” for plants, and part of the international network of seedbanks, protects plants for future habitat restoration. The partnership includes our new grantee, the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust. They recently reintroduced the heather Erica verticillata. The species was last seen in the wild in 1908, and was thought to be extinct in its natural habitat in South Africa.
Hope amidst the ashes. The Environmental Leadership Training Initiative trains government regulators and company employees to rehabilitate mine sites in Indonesia. © Courtesy of Oceana/Jesús Renedo Erica verticillata © Courtesy of Anthony Hitchcock
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Digitising endangered culture
Access to undiscovered and unknown materials
14th-century Armenian Gospel from Aleppo
The National Library of Israel and the UCLA Library collaborative project to digitise ephemera of the history of the Middle East, which we supported in 2011, has completed its first phase. The National Library of Israel launched The Time Travel website with some 25,000 printed digitised ephemera. They illustrate everyday life in Palestine in the last decades of Ottoman rule under the British Mandate, and the early years of the state of Israel. The UCLA Library has built a technical platform to house digital material generated by the National Library of Israel and other partners. During 2012 they also captured ephemera documenting the Arab Spring.
© Courtesy of The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Posters illustrating everyday life in the early years of the state of Israel
Until late spring 2012, the Hill Museum was digitising 11th to 15th-century illuminated Christian manuscripts in Syriac, Armenian and Arabic in Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. After that it became too dangerous. The churches where the manuscripts were, have since been destroyed. Some manuscripts may have been taken to Lebanon. The fate of others is unknown.
© Courtesy of the National Library of Israel
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Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Long-term grant programmes
PROGRAMME FUND: $31,454,000 (2002 - 2016)
Recording undocumented North Ambrym language, Santo Island Vanatu
Estimates suggest 6 - 7,000 languages are spoken today. More than half of these are expected to disappear by the end of the century. In 2002 we set up the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. It documents near-extinct languages. So far, the programme has helped document over 300 of the world’s most endangered languages. The Endangered Languages Archive makes the results of these projects available through its website: www.elar-archive.org. In 2012 the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme received 123 applications for funding, an 8% rise on 2011. The programme made 35 grants, listed on page 40. Most of the successful applicants were African scholars documenting African languages. Examples of projects funded in 2012: • Lusese, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo spoken on Ssese islands of Lake Victoria in Uganda. There are 20 surviving speakers. The youngest is 72 years old.
© Courtesy of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
We fund two long-term external grant-making programmes. Independent boards of experts decide on grants within each programme. Our partners also give the grant holders technical, archival and scholarly support, and they preserve the cultural material collected long term. Both programmes now make their material available online under open access.
• Nihali, a critically endangered and undocumented language isolate, spoken in Maharashtra, India but unrelated to any other Indian language. • the Ha language, spoken in a single village of approximately 150 people on the southern tip of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.
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Endangered Archives Programme GRANT PROGRAMME FUND: $18,965,397 (2004 - 2016)
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One of the projects supported in 2012 documents ritual manuscripts of Yao people from the mountains in Southwest China
Historical records from pre-industrial societies across Asia, Latin America, Africa and parts of Europe are often neglected and deteriorating. To address this, in 2004 we set up the Endangered Archives Programme. It offers grants to researchers who digitise endangered archives worldwide. The digitised materials are available open access on the British Library website: www.eap.bl.uk. So far the programme has supported 197 projects in 70 countries. In 2012 the Endangered Archives Programme received 93 applications for funding. The programme made 29 grants listed on page 41. Examples of projects funded in 2012: • witchcraft trial records at three shrines in Accra, Ghana • performance-related material belonging to the Buchen, traditional Tibetan travelling actors • audio recordings of musical and ritual traditions of Harar, Ethiopia, surreptitiously collected during the rule of the Socialist Derg regime (1974-1987).
© Courtesy of Endangered Archives Programme, British Library/Dr Jian Xu
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FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS
Since 2002, we have made grant commitments of over $234 million to more than 124 projects. Grant Commitments by value since 2001
GRANT PAYMENTS BY YEAR
Cultural Preservation Environmental Conservation Legacy Projects
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LEGACY GRANTS $34 million
eNVIRONMENTAL GRANTS $74 million
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14%
54% 32%
Cultural GRANTS $127 million
Measured in US$ millions
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Prior to November 2010 we also defended human rights, promoted philanthropy, and supported education. These are shown as legacy projects.
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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Grants completed in 2012 GRANTEE
Grants AWARDED in 2012 GRANT DATES
GRANT
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS
GRANTEE ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS
New Grants
GRANT DATES
GRANT
Renewed Grants
Arctic Funders Group – scoping exercise
2011 - 2012
$10,000
Ecology Trust – Environmental Funders Network
2012 - 2017
$105,000
European Climate Foundation
2008 - 2012
$5,000,000
Environmental Justice Foundation – illegal fishing in West Africa
2012 - 2013
$100,000
Fauna & Flora International - Halcyon Land and Sea
2006 - 2012
$5,800,000
Fauna & Flora International – Halcyon Land and Sea
2012 - 2017
$5,000,000
University of Cambridge - Cambridge Conservation Initiative Collaborative Fund
2009 - 2012
$1,200,000
Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust – conserving rainforest seeds
2012 - 2017
$600,000
Yale University - Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (Grant One)
2006 - 2012
$4,800,000
Tropical Biology Association – training African conservation biologists
2012 - 2013
$110,000
Wetlands International – migratory birds and the East-Atlantic flyway
2012 - 2017
$900,000
CULTURAL GRANTS
CULTURAL GRANTS
New Grants
Renewed Grants
Einstein Papers Project
2010 - 2012
$45,000
King’s College London - Impact assessment of digitized collections
2011 - 2012
$143,000
Trust for African Rock Art – producing digital images
2012 - 2013
$260,000
Trust for African Rock Art
2011 - 2012
$150,000
British Museum – archiving material from the Trust for African Rock Art
2012 - 2017
$830,000
UCLA - Mosfell Archaeological Project in western Iceland
2007 - 2012
$500,000
Internet Archive – supporting universal access to all knowledge
2012 - 2013
$250,000
Harvard University - Scholars at Risk Programme (scholars at risk of persecution in their countries)
2005 - 2012
$1,000,000
UCLA Department of History – endowment
endowment
$10,000,000
$18,648,000
$18,155,000
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LONG-TERM GRANT PROGRAMMES
Endangered Languages Project: 2012 Grant Awards PROJECT DESCRIPTION
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MAJOR PROJECTS
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
GRANT
SMALL GRANTS (CONTINUED)
Documentation and analysis of Eastern Khanty and Southern Selkup languages of Siberia, Russia
£87,131
Documentation of Animere, a language of Ghana: a pilot study
£8,754
Documentation of Ecuadorian Secoya
£108,792
Documentation of the dialect Guraferdan Sheko, Ethiopia
£5,496
Documentation of Extreme North Cameroon Sign Language and Cameroon Sign Language
£42,000
Investigation of an undocumented sign language in a Chatino speech/sign community, Mexico
£9,997
Documentation of Koryak stories from speakers of non-standard varieties of Koryak and Nymylan Koryak, Russia
£128,841
Documentation of Dowe, a language of Tanzania
£9,877
Documentation of Ngan’gi, spoken in Australia’s Northern Territory
£38,956
Preliminary documentation and description of Gyalsumdo, a Tibetan language of Manang, Nepal
£7,723
Ersu and Xumi: comparative and cross-varietal documentation of highly endangered languages of South-West China
Documentation of bark-cloth making: an endangered cultural activity among the Baganda, Uganda
£9,212
£90,000
Documentation of cultural and linguistic practices of the Balai community, Ghana
£7,666
Multimedia documentation of the life and language of the creole community of Bastimentos, Panama
£8,829
Documentation of language, gesture and song of Aboriginal people of the Western Desert, Australia
£9,634
Audio-visual documentation of the last native speakers of Lusese, Uganda
£7,026
SMALL GRANTS Documentation of Gun-nartpa texts, Australia
£9,327
Preliminary audiovisual documentation of Ha, a language of Vanuatu
£9,936
Preliminary documentation of Danau, Myanmar (Burma)
£8,429
Comprehensive documentation of two dialects of endangered She language in China
£10,000
Further documentation of Miahuatec Zapotec: child language, spontaneous conversation, and ethnobotany, Mexico
£8,426
Documentation and description of Nihali, a critically endangered language of India
£9,996
Documentation of Dâw, a Nadahup language of Brazil
£9,998
Documentation of fishing practices among the Dwang, Ghana
£7,476
Documentation of “zapal” folk stories in Bunaq, a minority language of West Timor
£9,512
Documentation of libation rituals in Kiong, South-Eastern Nigeria
£8,408
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ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PROJECT: 2012 GRANT AWARDS (CONTINUED) PROJECT DESCRIPTION
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INDIVIDUAL POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAMME: 2012 GRANT AWARDS PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PERIOD (CENTURY)
GRANT
Digitisation of manuscripts at Al-Aqsa Mosque library, East Jerusalem
12th - 19th
£38,070
Multimedia documentation of semi-nomadic and sedentary Pite Saami lifestyles, Swedish Lapland
£114,093
Survey of the East India Company and colonial archives of Jamestown, St Helena, South Atlantic
17th - 20th
£14,469
Documentation of MalakMalak, a language of Northern Australia and compilation of a dictionary
£86,880
Digitisation of the monastic archive at May Wäyni (Tigray, Ethiopia)
15th - 19th
£15,828
Documentation of Cashibo-Cacataibo, a dialect of the language Panoan in, Peru, with a focus on information structure
£35,658
Digitising 19th and early 20th century Buddhist manuscripts from Dambadarjaa Monastery, Mongolia
19th - 20th
£34,524
Preserving the manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam
unknown
£9,370
Recovering the archives of the Benue Valley, central Nigeria
19th - 20th
£35,850
Northern Nigeria: pre-colonial documents preservation scheme
18th - 20th
£9,700
Safeguarding Gambia, Casamance and Guinea-Bissau’s oral histories: the Oral History Archive at Fajara, The Gambia
20th
£16,625
INDIVIDUAL GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS Description and documentation of Lelepa, a language of Central Vanuatu
£18,613
Documentation and description of Siriono, a highly endangered language of Bolivia
£15,111
Documentation and description of the language Tena Kichwa, Ecuador
£58,712
Documentation and grammatical description of Opuuo, Ethiopia
£27,566
Shrines of Accra: witchcraft trial records at Nai, Korle and Sakumo We, Accra, Ghana
20th
£7,391
Documentation of Jordanian Domari: recovering a severely endangered language through its fluent, nomadic speakers
£60,812
Digitisation and preservation of historical archives in the Public Records and Archives Administration in Tamale, northern Ghana
19th - 20th
£43,355
Documenting language and interaction in Kula, Indonesia
£32,803
Cameroon Photo Press Archives. Protection, conservation and access
20th
£29,451
Multimedia documentation of Kwak’wala, spoken in British Columbia, Canada
£50,509
The narrative and ritual texts, narrative paintings and other performance related material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India
19th - 20th
£6,945
Preservation of Yao manuscripts from South Yunnan: text, image and religion
19th - 20th
£28,860
Exploring land and society in pre-partition Sindh (1843-1947): collecting and copying endangered records of Sehwan Sharif and beyond, Pakistan
18th - 20th
£12,100
Book heritage of Ural Old Believers, Russian Federation
15th - 20th
£28,000
Listing and digitisation of the land administration archives of Imperial Ethiopia
20th
£10,000
Preserving the Hume family collection in Argentina and making it accessible on the web, Argentina
20th
£22,785
£1,172,199
$1,781,742
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Colonial archives in St Helena suffering from insect damage
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ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAMME: 2012 GRANT AWARDS (CONTINUED) PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PERIOD
Endangered Urdu periodicals: preservation and access for vulnerable scholarly resources, Pakistan
19th - 20th
£52,247
Digitsing state-society relations in the state archive of Oaxaca, Mexico
17th - 20th
£40,351
Safeguarding Nzema history: documents on Nzema land in Ghanaian national and local archives
18th - 20th
£7,535
Digital documentation of Dongkala, Chizhing, Dodedra and Phajoding temple archives, Bhutan
16th - 19th
£42,535
Digital preservation of newspapers of the first half of the twentieth century in Nicaragua
20th
£20,610
Documentation and digitisation of palm leaf manuscripts from Kerala, India
14th - 20th
£39,800
Lekil Kuxlejal: archiving Tenejapa’s indigenous heritage, Mexico
20th
£9,597
Safeguarding Anguilla’s heritage: a survey of the endangered records of Anguilla
20th
£12,315
Preservation of the audio recording collection in the Sherif Harar City Museum, Ethiopia
20th
£17,292
Identifying, relocating and digitising Native Administration records (1891-1964), Malawi
19th - 20th
£22,161
Preservation of Guinea’s Syliphone archives - II
20th
£32,665
Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka
19th - 20th
£17,680
(CENTURY)
GRANT
£678,111
$1,030,729
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GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE
HOW WE OPERATE
the advisory board
Arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment.
nicholas ferguson CBE – Chairman of BSkyB and Chairman of Alta Holdings.
We look for organisations led by exceptional individuals that operate in a sustainable, cost-effective, scientifically sound and ethical manner.
dr Don Randel – President emeritus of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and of the
University of Chicago.
We do not accept unsolicited applications for funding.
dame alison richard – Senior Research Scientist at Yale University, Vice-Chancellor
All grant decisions are made by our Donor Board in consultation with our Advisory Board.
Nicholas is also Chairman of the Kilfinan Trust.
emerita of Cambridge University and former Provost of Yale University. Lord rothschild om gbe – Chairman of the Rothschild Foundation and Yad Hanadiv,
the donor board Professor Peter Baldwin – Co-founder of Arcadia and chair of the donor board
and the advisory board. Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, Peter’s most recent work is The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009). A book on the history of the copyright wars over the past three centuries is forthcoming from Princeton. dr lisbet raUSing – Co-founder of Arcadia.
Lisbet has a doctorate in history from Harvard, and has taught at Harvard and Imperial. She currently serves on the advisory boards of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Library of Israel and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Lord Rothschild has also served as chairman of the National Gallery and of the Heritage Lottery Fund. In 2002, he was awarded the Order of Merit (for his services to philanthropy). The Order of Merit is a special honour awarded to individuals of great achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, and is restricted to 24 members in the UK. Arcadia’s principal advisor Anthea Case CBE – Anthea oversees Arcadia’s grant managers who research
proposed grants and shepherd existing grants to fulfillment. A former Chief Executive of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, Anthea also serves as a regional chairman of the National Trust and as a trustee of a number of arts and heritage organisations.
Screening of language video recordings to an Arafundi-speaking community, Papua New Guinea © Courtesy of Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, London / Darja Hoenigman
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