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Causes: Environment, Environmental Education
Mission: To preserve and protect particularly threatened and endangered species of animals and their habitats and to educate people in those countries where the projects take place about the importance of preserving their natural resources.
Programs: The foundation owns and manages the 6,134 acre runaway creek nature preserve in belize. Four trained bwb/asf staff of belize manages the property and the research that is carried out on the property. Research projects in process on rcnr are:1. Primate research conducted by the university of calgary. 2. Jaguar research conducted by omar figueroa, a ph. D. Candidate from the university of florida. 3. Bat research conducted by the biodiversity research international (bri). 4. Migratory bird census conducted by bwb/asf. 5. Mercury monitoring in neotropical migratory birds with bri. 6. Botanical research by the belize botanical gardens and green hills farm. 7. Runaway creek camp chair project, a minor fundraising project to support rcnr. Projects in wisconsin:1. Conducting bird census on lake pewaukee properties. Support of international conservation projects:1. Lewa wildlife conservancy usa/kenya; dr. Boese serves on the usa board of directors, chairman of program committee and conducts safaris on kenya site. 2. Dian fossey gorilla fund international; dr. Boese serves on the board of directors , past chairman of the board, and conducts mountain gorilla treks to encourage support for mountain gorillas.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.