Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $598 million in grants to projects around the world.
This weekend marks 792 yrs since Genghis Khan’s death. He was so impressed by Bukhara's 12th century Kalyan minaret that he ordered to preserve it when his soldiers destroyed the city. @uclcaal is documenting #Bukhara & other cultural sites in Central Asia uclcaal.org
UN experts urge decade of action to aid survival of indigenous languages shar.es/aXfhP7Since 2002, our Endangered Languages Documentation Programme @ELARarchive @SOAS has recorded more than 430 at-risk languages around the world.#IndigenousPeoplesDay
US bans timber imports from Peruvian company WCA after investigations by @Global_Witness & others exposed illegally-harvested timber in their supply chains ustr.gov/about-us/polic…More about how timber exporters are complicit in plundering Peru’s Amazon globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…
A project with @ZJU_China & @UCLarchaeology documenting endangered temple wall paintings is helping to understand how Buddhism, Taoism & Chinese folk beliefs have influenced each other in #Shanxi, home to some of China’s richest architectural heritage arcadiafund.org.uk/university-col…
A beautiful documentary about the Tompkins’ work to rewild #Patagonia @KrisTompkins_ @TompkinsConservaljazeera.com/programmes/ear…
A new research finds that low income countries have the highest percentages of #OpenAccess publication in the biomedical sciences doi.org/10.1371/journa…
Congratulations to @ColumbaStewart, Executive Director of @visitHMML who has been named 2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. His lecture ‘Cultural Heritage Present and Future’ will be live streamed 7 Oct, tickets free & open to the public #JefLec19 neh.gov/news/father-co…
Our grantee @EndangeredLands has announced its new Project Planning Grants endangeredlandscapes.org/2019/07/23/rei… The grants will help create plans for innovative projects to restore degraded landscapes and promote #biodiversity across Europe, from wetlands in Iceland to oak forests in Bulgaria
Let there be (LED) light! Celebrating with the @IlluminatedRiv the lighting of the first four bridges: London, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium. Great to be part of this transformative public artwork. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
The plan to mine the world’s research papers: nature.com/articles/d4158… A news feature on the work of our grantee @carlmalamud to liberate information locked behind paywalls 🔓
All Irish scholarly publications resulting from public-funded research will be openly available by default from 2020 onwards #OpenAccess #FAIRdata #OpenResearch 🇮🇪 dbei.gov.ie/Djei/en/News-A…
We support @TompkinsConserv to buy & restore land in South America. To ensure its protection, they donate the land & work w/ governments to create national parks. A new donation of 11,500ha will expand the Iberá National Park, a unique marshland-grassland ecosystem in Argentina
