ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Living Planet Index The authors are extremely grateful to the following individuals and organizations for sharing their data: Richard Gregory and the European Bird Census Council for data from the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring scheme; the Global Population Dynamics Database from the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London; Derek Pomeroy, Betty Lutaaya and Herbert Tushabe for data from the National Biodiversity Database, Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, Uganda; Kristin Thorsrud Teien and Jorgen Randers, WWF-Norway; Pere Tomas-Vives, Christian Perennou, Driss Ezzine de Blas and Patrick Grillas, Tour du Valat, Camargue, France; Parks Canada; David Henry, Kluane Ecological Monitoring Project; Lisa Wilkinson, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division; Juan Diego López Giraldo, the Environmental Volunteer Programme in Natural Areas of Murcia Region, Spain. Ecological Footprint The authors would like to thank the following national governments for their collaboration on research to improve the quality of the National Footprint Accounts: Switzerland; United Arab Emirates; Finland; Germany; Ireland; Japan; Belgium; and Ecuador. Much of the research for this report would not have been possible without the generous support of: Skoll Foundation; Pollux-Privatstiftung; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Oak Foundation; The Lewis
Foundation; Erlenmeyer Foundation; Roy A. Hunt Foundation; The Winslow Foundation; Flora Family Foundation; Foundation for Global Community; TAUPO Fund; Mental Insight Foundation; The Dudley Foundation; Foundation Harafi; The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Cooley Godward LLP; Hans and Johanna Wackernagel-Grädel; Daniela SchlettweinGsell; Annemarie Burckhardt; Oliver and Bea Wackernagel; Ruth and Hans Moppert-Vischer; F. Peter Seidel; Michael Saalfeld; Peter Koechlin; Luc Hoffmann; Lutz Peters; and many other individual donors. We would also like to acknowledge Global Footprint Network’s 90 partner organizations, and the Global Footprint Network National Accounts Committee for their guidance, contributions, and commitment to robust National Footprint Accounts. The authors would also like to thank the following for their helpful comments in the preparation of this report: Robin Abell; Andrea Beier; Gianfranco Bologna; Carina Borgström Hansson; Susan Brown; Danielle Chidlow; Lifeng Li; Kim Carstensen; Victoria Elias; Lydia Gaskell; Monique Grooten; Cara Honzak; Sue Lieberman; Tony Long; Colby Loucks; Leena Iyengar; Miguel Jorge; Karl Mallon; Liz McLellan; Damien Oettli; Stuart Orr; Duncan Pollard; Gordon Shepherd; Geoffroy de Schutter; Stephan Singer; Rod Taylor; Toby Quantrill; Vishaish Uppal; Richard Worthington; and Natascha Zwaal.
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