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The What is Missing? (WIM) Foundation will honor the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI)
with a grant to support your work with the Sankuru “Fair Trade” Community Carbon Initiative to assist in the development of
certified credits principally through reducing emissions from avoided deforestation (REDD). We consider the Sankuru “Fair
Trade” Community Carbon Initiative an exemplary REDD project that helps tackle climate change, protect biodiversity, and
advance the well being of local communities.
The WIM Foundation exists to help protect habitat and safeguard biodiversity through diverse public education and
awareness efforts, including my final memorial: “What is Missing?” – a tribute to vanished (and vanishing) parts of our natural
world and a call to action to help reverse the trends. As forests are home to half the world’s species, the foundation is
focusing special attention on the issue of deforestation.
We will award the grant and honor the BCI’s Sankuru “Fair Trade” Community Carbon Initiative and five other exemplary
projects at a Support REDD+ special event at the IPCC in Copenhagen on December 16th, 2009. We hope you will be able
to join us in Copenhagen for the event, which is co-hosted by Rt. Hon. Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, Prime Minister of
Papua New Guinea; His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon and; His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo,
President of Guyana.
The other WIM Foundation honorees whose projects will be recognized at the event are: Dr. Wangari Maathai, Dr. Jane
Goodall, indigenous Surui Chief Almir of the Brazilian Amazon, Dr. Sarah Otterstrom of the Return to Forest Project in
Nicaragua, Dr. Russell Mittermeier, President of Conservation International for its Conservation Carbon Project in China
and Iman Sapari with the Yayorin orangutan habitat protection project in Indonesia.