Sources of Support

Financial support:

Canada Trust, Friends of the Environment Fund (2001)

Canadian International Development Agency (2001-2002)

Canadian Wildlife Service (2001, 2002)

Environment Canada's Habitat Stewardship Fund (2001-2002)

Important Bird Areas - Community Action Fund (2001)

Mountain Equipment Co-op's Environment Fund (2001, 2002)

In-kind support:

CHMR-FM
Memorial University of Newfoundland's campus and community radio station provides the Alder Institute with a weekly one hour time slot in which Open Air is broadcast.

Important Bird Areas Program (2001)
In Newfoundland and Labrador the Important Bird Areas (IBA) program is spearheaded by the Natural History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador.  The Canadian IBA program was launched in 1996 by the Canadian Nature Federation and Bird Studies Canada, the Canadian BirdLife partners. A number of pieces broadcast on our community radio program Open Air were brought to you thanks to the IBA program.

Innu Nation (2002)

Labrador Inuit Association (2002)

Joe Brazil
Inland Fish and Wildlife Division, Department of Forest Resources and Agrifoods, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.  Joe kindly loaned our community radio program, Open Air a Marantz cassette recorder.

Mountain Equipment Co-op
The Mountain Equipment Co-op provided Census and Sounds 2001 with some field equipment assistance.

Sennheiser Canada
Thanks to Sennheiser Canada and their Atlantic Representative, Shawn Crockard of Gain Marketing in Nova Scotia, Alder acquired our first specialized nature recording microphone.  With this microphone, a MKH-20 we are collecting the bird sounds of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Swarovski Optics and Kindermann Canada
Thanks to Kindermann Canada and Swarovski the Alder Institute had the loan of a fabulous pair of binoculars and a spotting scope which we were later able to purchase.  

Telinga microphones
Thanks to Telinga for supplying us with a parabola for enhancing our ability to record natural sounds including the  bird sounds of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Wilderness Medical Systems
In 2002, Wilderness Medical Systems kindly provided Census and Sounds with wilderness medical kits.

Zeddcomm Inc.
Based in Newfoundland, Zeddcomm is one of North America's fasted growing IT companies.  This website is thanks in large part to in-kind support from Zeddcomm.