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The Barbara Thomas Fellowship program
The Barbara Thomas Fellowship program funds up to five individual study programs a year, "Australian-ising" The Nature Conservancy's own well-established and highly regarded fellowship program.
Its aim is to broaden shared knowledge between TNC and its key partners, building the overall conservation capacity of Australian organisations.
Since 2007, the Barbara Thomas program has supported six fellows, four of them employees of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) who have visited Australia to impart the "intellectual capital" gained from TNC's half-century of experience and innovation
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They have strengthened TNC's partner organisations in areas such as:
- endowment support for indigenous protected areas;
- marketing and communication strategies; and
Australians awarded fellowships are:
- Christine Ellis, from Greening Australia, who spent two months with TNC studying its Major Gifts Fundraising strategies;
- Bruce Rose, from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts who studied Indigenous Protected Area strategies and their implementation in Ecuador, Brazil, Canada and the USA; and
Bruce Rose at a TNC funded CAFI (Amazonian Indigenous Foundation) land management training course for Young Indigenous Leaders with TNC staff member Lorenda Raiol (far right) - Bruce Rose is centre back
Meeting with Ecuadorian Park Managers in the Cayambe - Coca Ecological Reserve (Bruce far right)
- Veronica Dobson, a senior traditional owner from eastern Arrernte, part of the central Australian Perrule-Amerre group, who spent three weeks with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon studying strategies for indigenous knowledge exchange.
The Thomas Foundation will support Barbara Thomas Fellowships until at least 2011.
Inquiries about the program should be directed to Natalie Holland at The Nature Conservancy (
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