We
would like to thank many people and organizations for their guidance
and support in making the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program at BRIT a
reality.
First we would like to thank Sy Sohmer and
the BRIT staff for all of their support and patience during the last
year of project planning and implementation. We deeply appreciate the
infrastructure and support provided by our home institution, BRIT. This
program would not be possible without it. We also thank the Friends of
BRIT and all individual donors who have directly or indirectly
supported the AABP. We thank the volunteers at BRIT who have dedicated
their time and expertise to helping us push forward on our project
vision.
We owe many thanks to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
for supporting us during the coming three years. We thank the Beneficia
Foundation and John Mitchell for supporting the core botanical studies
that led to the development of the AABP and for their continuing
support of projects. We thank the WWF for their support of wetland
studies in Madre de Dios, Peru. And we thank the Stanley Smith
Horticulture Trust for supporting our studies of ornamental plants in
the Peruvian Amazon.
We thank the Ministry of
Natural Resources in Lima, Peru, for their support and permission to
carry out our vision of science and education in the Andes-Amazon
region of southeastern Peru.
We thank our partners and collaborators
for all the contributions they have already made and will be making to
the AABP. We believe that integration is essential to carrying out the
broad vision of science, education, and conservation in the
Andes-Amazon region of Peru. We are happy to be working with such a
cross-generational, international, multidisciplinary team toward common
goals in the region.