Potential Funding: 

World Bank:

The World Bank has funded many preservation and conservation projects in the past including many regarding the Amazon Basin. A recent project involves the Brazilian government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).  The program is designed to create sixty-two million acres of new reservations and natural parks within the Amazon.  This project has a budget of thirty million dollars.

 Another conservationist program is the Pilot Program.  The World Bank, in conjunction with the G-7 countries, the European Union, the Netherlands and Brazil, co-run this project with a larger budget of 340 million dollars.

United Nations:

Although United Nations does not directly fund projects, it may help establish relations between countries with adequate economic power to aid conservationist efforts.

United Nations Development Program:

The UNDP consists of 166 countries. The program revolves around a set of “millennium development goals” which includes cutting poverty levels by half.  Countries involved work with each other on plans for solutions to global and national development.

United Nations Population Fund:

The UNPF provides funds for UNDP projects.  The UNFPA is the Brazilian branch of this fund.

National Science Foundation:

NSF is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest money in research projects.

Global Environment Facility:

The GEF facilitates international cooperation and financing for a variety of sustainable development projects. According to their mission plan, their goal is to confront the following six critical threats to the global environment:

1.  Biodiversity loss

2.  Climate change

3.  Degredation of international waters

4.  Ozone depletion

5.  Land degredation

6.  Persistent organic pollutants

The GEF has funded over 1000 projects in over 140 developing regions, with four billion dollars in grants and twelve billion dollars in co-financing operations. As of August 2002, the group received a pledge of almost three billion dollars from thirty-two donor nations. As of May 2002 the GEF had twelve operational projects.

World Wildlife Fund:

The WWF has been working on preserving the Amazon for thirty years: working mainly on preserving animals.  The program has also supported various different projects including protecting birds, prevention of illegal logging, etc.

Worldwide Fund for Nature:

This organization and the Brazilian government donated twenty-three million dollars to the Global Environment Facility's project to was to preserve about ten percent of the Amazon.

Greenpeace:

Greenpeace is a non-profit organization with a presence in forty countries across Europe, America, Asia and the Pacific. To maintain independence, Greenpeace does not accept donations from governments or corporations but relies on contributions from individual supporters and foundation grants. As a global organization, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment including the Amazon. Greenpeace cannot fund this project but can provide contacts to the corporate world. Greenpeace currently has a project in the Amazon working with an indigenous community of Deni Indians, involving the demarcation of land.

NASA:

NASA will play a key role in the development and funding of the satellite technology pivotal in the emergence of new methods of remote sensing.

Rainforest Conservation Funds:

The Rainforest Conservation Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the world's tropical rainforests. This organization has projected a possible donation of $3000 to the Mission project.

Large Corporations:

Large corporations such as Duracell, Nike and Kodak may fund Project Amazonia to promote their products and display an environment conscious image.