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The Operation Wallacea Trust was established in 2000 in the UK in order to
support activities that could directly contribute towards the conservation of
biodiversity in the areas in which Operation Wallacea is working. The Trust is a
UK registered charity (Charity number 1078362) which is entirely independent of
Operation Wallacea and is chaired by the Rt. Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP. The
Trustees are senior biodiversity and conservation management academics
(Professor Aubrey Manning, Professor Ian Swingland, Dr Martin Speight) and the business sector (Dr Ben Vivian, Martin Suthers and Simon
Notley).
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Funding to support the admin costs of the Trust in the UK are provided
by Operation Wallacea and other donations from the business community. The Trust
can therefore ensure that 100% of the funds raised to support overseas projects
are actually spent in those countries.
Currently, the Operation Wallacea Trust is working in the
following areas:
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In Indonesia the Trust has a registered Yayasan (NGO) that is run by Dr Edi
Purwanto. This Yayasan was originally created as the vehicle to manage the funds
for the GEF/World Bank Lambusango project, but it has now expanded to administer
the funds received from the Darwin Initiative, for establishing a sustainable
reef fishery on Kaledupa and from the World Bank for environmental training of
government staff throughout SE Sulawesi. This mix of a self-funded UK based
management Trust with influential politicians, academics and business Trustees
and a small management team working in the host country works well because there
are funding opportunities available at both international and national level and
these can be accessed by relevant personnel either in the UK Trust or in the
Indonesian based Yayasan. In addition the main principle of the way the Trust
and Yayasan manage projects is to ensure that businesses are developed where
there is a direct link to conservation of the forests or reefs.
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