{"id":1519,"date":"2011-03-28T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco-consulate.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2023-12-13T01:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:57:33","slug":"the-prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-foundation-usa-forms-partnership-with-the-peregrine-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco-consulate.com\/redesign\/the-prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-foundation-usa-forms-partnership-with-the-peregrine-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation-USA Forms Partnership with The Peregrine Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As far back as the 1480s \u2013 as outlined in the famous poem from the Boke of St. Albans, <\/em>the regal peregrine has been associated with Princes, so it is truly fitting that the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation<\/strong> has teamed up with The Peregrine Fund, Inc <\/strong>to focus on present day conservation efforts. To mark this collaborative partnership, a Memorandum of Understanding <\/strong>between the US chapter of the Prince\u2019s Foundation and The Peregrine Fund has been signed.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of the MoU is to underscore the relationship between the two organizations and agree to the co-ordination of future projects, knowledge-sharing, and fund-raising activities and events.This two year, renewable agreement will see the Foundation and the Fund each appoint a representative to a coordination committee to oversee joint activities in the fields of raptor conservation, climate change including renewable energies, water management and sustainable development<\/p>\n

\u201cProtection of biodiversity is one of the three key objectives of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. Therefore, as part of the efforts to develop its actions in the United States, it is important for the Foundation to join forces with internationally renowned organizations such as The Peregrine Fund to increase awareness on the importance of safeguarding emblematic bird species, \u201csaid H.E. Mr. Bernard Fautrier, Vice President and CEO, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.<\/p>\n

“In our ongoing commitment to achieving the goals of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, this alliance with The Peregrine Fund, a renowned US conservation organization, will enable us to undertake conservation projects of importance to both our organizations.\u00a0 Raptors, like the polar bear, are at the top of their food chains.\u00a0 Ensuring their survival requires protection of the entire ecosystem to support that food chain.\u00a0 In our efforts to protect raptors and polar bears, we learn important lessons on protecting the ecosystems that support the top predator of all, humans.” said Mr. John B. Kelly, III, President, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation \u2013 USA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Peregrine Fund is pleased to bring its conservation expertise,\u00a0proven success, and focus on birds of prey\u00a0to this joint initiative with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. Birds of prey, as far-ranging, top predators are acutely sensitive to environmental change and serve\u00a0both as sentinel species that reveal conservation needs, and as umbrella species that help protect biodiversity,\u201d said Mr. J. Peter Jenny, President, The Peregrine Fund, Inc.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn exceptional synergy exists between both these distinguished organizations and, it is hoped that our
\ncomplementary resources and mutual compatibility will result in lasting benefits to many threatened birdlife populations,\u201d said the Hon. Maguy Maccario, Consul General of Monaco and Vice President, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation \u2013 USA who, along with Dr. Richard T. Watson, Vice President and International Programs Director, will make up the co-coordination committee.<\/p>\n

Among those Peregrine Fund initiatives which may be jointly funded or supported include:<\/p>\n

1) a climate change initiative focused on the\u00a0Gyrfalcon,\u00a0a species that\u00a0breeds exclusively in the Arctic where the effects of climate warming are predicted to be greatest and have already raised mean annual temperatures by 3\u00b0C;<\/p>\n

2) a biodiversity initiative in Madagascar to develop sustainable community-based conservation areas that will protect critical habitat for endangered species which\u00a0exist only on this\u00a0island nation and nowhere else on earth; and<\/p>\n

3) a species restoration project to save the critically endangered Ridgway’s Hawk on Hispaniola, Dominican Republic,\u00a0a Caribbean island that is rapidly losing its natural\u00a0biodiversity resources.<\/p>\n

The Peregrine Fund’s recent major conservation successes have included<\/p>\n