For more than a century, The Gillette Company and its portfolio of world-class brands have been trusted by consumers worldwide. Every day, more than a billion consumers choose a Gillette product and the Company is committed to supporting the communities in which it does business. Corporate social responsibility is at the heart of the Company’s long standing mission to conserve natural resources, minimize the impact of its manufacturing processes on the environment and provide meaningful community outreach programs that help secure a better world for local communities. Gillette, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), is a founder and national corporate vice-chair of the Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership (CWRP), a first of its kind private-public initiative to restore environmentally valuable wetlands.

Contact:
Paul Fox
Director of Global External Relations
Tel: 617-421-7571
Email: Paul_Fox@gillette.com
 

The UN Foundation is an independent, grantmaking public charity organized under US tax law – it is not a United Nations agency or program. Founded in 1998 through Ted Turner’s historic gift of $1 billion to the United Nations, the UN Foundation's mission is to promote a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through grantmaking and partnership building in support of United Nations agencies and partners. By building a wide range of partnerships with all sectors of society—private, public, and civil society—the UN Foundation and its partners seek to address global problems in the areas of environment and energy; women and population; children's health; and peace, security, and human rights. As part of its work in the environmental field, the UN Foundation has partnered with the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO in order to protect Natural Heritage sites and the exceptional biodiversity they contain. With this goal in mind, the UN Foundation has catalyzed a variety of public-private partnerships with the World Heritage Centre and committed more than $33 million to these conservation-driven initiatives.

Contact:
Erika Harms
Partnership Development Officer
World Heritage Campaign
Tel: 202-887-9040
Email: eharms@unfoundation.org
 

The Nature Conservancy is a leading nonprofit conservation organization based in Arlington, Virginia (USA), with programs in 28 countries, including activities at 18 World Heritage sites. The Conservancy has been working since 1951 with the mission to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy works in collaboration with partner organizations, government agencies and other stakeholders to identify, protect, and manage significant habitats and natural systems, employing pragmatic, non-confrontational strategies to reduce threats to biodiversity and ensure the long-term health and function of ecosystems. The Conservancy has helped protect more than 117 million acres around the world. Over the past decade, the Conservancy has substantially enhanced its focus on the conservation of critically important and productive freshwater, coastal and marine habitats.

Contact:
Lynne Hale
Director
The Marine Initiative
Tel: 401.874-6872
Email: lhale@tnc.org
 

Coastal America is a partnership among federal, state and local governments and private alliances to address environmental problems affecting our nation's coasts, waterways and wetlands. The federal partners are: Departments of Agriculture, Air Force, Army, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Navy, State, Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency and the Executive Office of the President.

Contact:
Patmarie Nedelka
Deputy Director
Policy and CWRP
Tel: 202-401-9808
Email: patmarie.nedelka@usda.gov
 

The Coastal America Foundation was formed by a group of nationally recognized marine scientists to provide a tax-deductible vehicle that funds local communities participating in national programs for ecological restoration. This is accomplished by supporting the local communities cost sharing in projects being implemented by the highly successful Coastal America partnership. The partnership leverages the funding authorities and staff capabilities of numerous federal and state agencies. The Coastal America Foundation supports education and outreach in the coastal environments and their watersheds.

Contact:
Bill Hubbard
Chair
Tel: 978-318-8552
Email: seamail@CoastalAmericaFoundation.org

 
For over 30 years, UNESCO and its partners have worked through the World Heritage Centre to identify, assess and protect places of outstanding universal value. To date, more than 170 countries have adhered to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, making it one of the most universal international legal instruments for the protection of cultural and natural heritage. Whilst fully respecting the national sovereignty, the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention recognize that the protection of our World Heritage is the duty of the international community as a whole. There are currently 788 World Heritage sites (611 cultural, 152 natural, and 23 mixed properties).

Contact:
Lynne Patchett
Partners for Conservation
Tel: +33 (1) 45 68 1830
Email: L.Patchett@unesco.org

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is a global environmental agreement that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation in the conservation and sustainable use of wetland biodiversity and resources. The Convention presently has 138 member countries, which have so far designated 1369 wetlands around the world—covering 120 million hectares—for the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. The Ramsar Small Grants Fund was established by Ramsar in 1990 as a mechanism to assist developing countries and those with economies in transition in implementing the Convention and to enable the conservation and wise use of wetland resources. Since that time, the Fund has provided funding and co-funding for approximately 165 projects totaling over $4.7 million. The Wetlands for the Future Fund, created in 1997 specifically for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, has awarded over $2.2 million to 187 projects in the region.

Contact:
Margarita Astralaga
Senior Advisor for the Americas
Tel: +41-22-999-0178
Email: astralaga@ramsar.org

As a national alliance of 11 community-based organizations representing all the major coastal areas of the U.S., Restore America's Estuaries’ (RAE) mission is to preserve the Nation’s network of estuaries by protecting and restoring the lands and waters essential to the richness and diversity of coastal life. From restoring salt marshes and oyster reefs to opening fish runs, RAE is recreating healthy and abundant ecosystems. RAE succeeds by engaging tens of thousands of volunteers and empowering communities.

Contact:
Mark Wolf-Armstrong
President
Tel: 206-937-5303
Email: mwarmstrong@estuaries.org