International Rivers 2012 Annual Report

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AnnualReport 2012

AmazniaViva

Wrong

Climate forDammingRivers

Growing the movement for healthy rivers & human rights

Save theMekong

Released September 2013
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Jason Rainey

Executive Director

Deborah Moore

Chair, Board of Directors

In 2012, International Rivers continued to detly navigate

the struggles to deend rivers at risk around the world.

We strengthened our regional oces in dam-building hot

spots and added sta and resources to better support our

movement and local partners in Brazil, India, South Aricaand Thailand. Highlights o our regional initiatives included:

Fighting or ood security or millions o people on the

Mekong River in Southeast Asia;

Creating awareness o the climate risks o dams on the

Zambezi;

Providing training workshops and policy advocacy

to advance environmental fows or healthy r ivers in

India; and

Working in solidar ity with indigenous people in

the Amazon to protect their r ivers rom destructivebig dams.

At the heart o International Rivers work is our belie that

the health and vitality o rivers and communities is inextricably

connected. Part o what makes us unique is that we ocus

on protecting rivers and the rights o communities all over

the world who are suering rom the same patterns o

destructive development. We doggedly pursue solutions

that will work or both people and the planet, working

hand-in-hand with the vulnerable communities whose

rights and livelihoods are most aected by the damagingconsequences o mega-dams.

As Amazonian indigenous leader Valdenir Munduruku

recently said in Brazil:

They [the government] want to say that they will build

dams on our land and then see what we want in return.

And we do not want anything in return. We want ourriver free and our nature preserved. The Minister says

he wants to consult with indigenous peoples, but that the

governments decision to build the dams has already been

made. What kind of consultation is that?

International Rivers is working or a just and sustainable

uture where local communities rights and aspirations

like those o the Munduruku in Brazil and the Turkana

people o Kenya are ully part o the democratic process

o managing our shared r iver heritage. This past year,

we added six new members to our Board o Directors,injecting new expertise and enthusiasm into building

the nancial strength and strategic eectiveness o

International Rivers. Our collective success is only

possible with the crucial support o our community o

engaged river deenders.

Thank you or all that you do!

Dear River Lovers and Defenders,

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International Rivers protects rivers and deends the rights

o communities that depend on them. We work to stop

destructive dams and promote water and energy solutions

or a just and sustainable world.

Rivers are vital to sustaining all lie on earth. We seek

a world where healthy rivers and the rights o local

communities are valued and protected. We envision a

world where water and energy needs are met without

degrading nature or increasing poverty, and where

people have the right to participate in decisions that

aect their lives.

Mission

Vision

International Rivers protects rivers and rights while

promoting real solutions or meeting water, energy and

food management needs. We believe in the power o

people to make change happen and to champion the

movement or healthy rivers and human rights. To dothis, we work towards the ollowing:

Empowering civil society

We have long played a key role in building the global

river-protection movement and we continually strive to

broaden and strengthen its reach. We oster grassroots

organizations in more than 60 countries and build the

capacity o our regional par tners by providing technical

and strategic advice to activists and aected people.

Changing the terms of the debateWe work to reorm the top-down, opaque decision-

making processes that accompany large dam projects.

We seek to ensure that important social and

environmental issues are not swept under the rug and

that all communities have the opportunity to

meaningully and eectively participate in local

decision-making processes.

Stopping destructive projects and addressing

legacy dams

We discourage nancial, government and industry support

o harmul r iver projects. We hold responsible parties

accountable or the damages rom dams by advocatingor social reparations and ecological restoration.

Raising awareness

Through social media, publications, presentations and

media work, we raise awareness about the deplorable

environmental, economic and human rights impacts o

big dams and the viability o better options. By ampliying

the voices o the people directly aected by large projects,

we ensure that their opinions are included in the ongoing

public debates about alternative models o development.

Promoting solutions

We promote ecient, decentralized and just solutions

to meeting our water and energy needs that will alleviate

poverty and protect our planet. We help partners nd

viable alternatives to destructive big dams through

in-depth research and then support them as they present

such analyses to decision makers.

How We Work

As you read this report, you will learnmore about our work rom the global and locallens, including our 2012 agship campaigns:

Amaznia Viva Page 4

Save the Mekong Page 6

Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers Page 8

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Amaznia Viva

From our ofce in Brazil, International Rivers has been working or nearly 20 years to protectthreatened rivers, biodiversity and indigenous communities. Our Amazon Program aims tostrengthen grassroots mobilization, support innovative communications and advocacy strategies,and increase the accountability o Brazilian public and private institutions.

From the headwater rivers in the Andes to the orest plains o Brazil, there are more than150 dams planned or the Amazon Basin, including 60 large dams. Brazils industrial growthmodel is driving this new dam boom, which would electriy the extractive industries in the

Amazon rainorest and threaten the livelihoods and cultures o the thousands o indigenouspeople who rely on healthy rivers.

Ashaninka women on the shores o the Ene River in the

Peruvian Amazon.

What are we campaigning for in the Amazon?

To halt construction o the most destructive dams in

the Amazon, particularly in the Xingu, Tapajs and

Maran river basins

To shit Brazils energy plans to reduce hydropower

dependency and to capitalize on abundant wind and

solar resources

To increase transparency and accountability o key

nancial institutions and the Brazilian government

To strengthen and connect regional movements to

eectively resist on-r iver energy projects, advance

the rights o indigenous people and other

river-dependent communities, and protect the

biodiversity o the Amazon Is home to 60% o the planets remaining tropical rainorests and the source o the Earths greatest biodiversity

Drains an area nearly the size o the continental US

Is the worlds largest source o reshwater, contributing 20% o global river ows into our oceans

Is threatened by 60 new large dams including the Belo Monte Dam, which would divert the ow o the Xingu River,devastate an extensive area o the Brazilian rainorest, and displace over 20,000 people

Ashaninka children watch the Ene River in the Peruvian Amazon in ront o their village

an area that would be ooded by a dam.

TOMS

MUITA

TOMS

MUITA

The Amazon Basin:
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Other Latin America Program Highlights

In 2012, our Latin America team worked closely with

dam-aected communities in Mexico, Colombia, Peru,

Guatemala and Chile to raise awareness about threats

to their rivers and support community resistance to

destructive projects. InPeru, we supported a legal

injunction by the Ashanika people o the Ene River

against the Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement.We released

an alternative power development plan orGuatemala

that ocuses on energy eciency and renewables while

maintaining the health o the countrys rivers, and worked

closely with Chixoy Dam-aected communities seeking

justice and reparations.

Working with partners in thePatagonia Sin Represascampaign, we continued to stall the HidroAysn project

in Chile through legal challenges, public scrutiny and

widespread opposition. In May, Chilean company Colbn

indenitely suspended work on the transmission line EIA

due to a lack o public and political agreement,

leaving HidroAysns uture uncer tain.

Patagonia, Chile, Rio Baker Sin Represas.

On June 15, 2012, demonstrators opened a channel across

an earthen coer dam to symbolically ree the Xingu River.

2012: The State of the Campaign

International Rivers continued to work closely with

indigenous people, social movements and NGOs to raise

awareness and public pressure or accountability o the

Brazilian government. Despite gross violations o domestic

and international legislation on human rights and

environmental protection, the government orged ahead

with the Belo Monte Dam and a series o other

destructive dam projects in the Amazon. Our work

with local partners ocused largely on strengthening

grassroots education and organizing, support or legal

strategies in deense o human rights, and calling or

transparency and eective saeguards o the Brazilian

National Development Bank.

In June, we helped organize Xingu+23, a large gathering

o indigenous people and other aected groups

along with activists rom Brazil and around the world

to protest the Belo Monte project. The gathering included

the symbolic breaching o a coer dam and reeing o the

Xingu River 23 years ater the historic rst meeting o

indigenous people in 1989. The action was carried out

on the eve o the UN Conerence on Sustainable

Development (also known asRio+20). Days later in Rio

de Janeiro, a series o public events and protestsdenounced attempts to market Belo Monte and other

destructive dams as clean energy or a green economy.
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Save the Mekong

International Rivers has been at the rontline o eorts to protect the Mekong River Basin,the lieblood or millions o people who rely on this river or their livelihoods and ood security.

Working closely with partners on the ground, International Rivers helps coordinate the Save theMekong campaign, mobilizing regional and international responses to the threat posed by largedam schemes on the mainstream and tributary rivers.


In March o 2012, ater years o advocating or robust

and transparent scientiic evaluation o the impacts o the

proposed Xayaburi Dam, our campaign reached a major

milestone: the downstream nations o Cambodia and

Vietnam called or a ve-year moratorium on dam

construction until urther studies could be completed.

Months later, International Rivers conducted a act-

nding visit to the dam site and exposed that Laos was

continuing to build the dam despite the lack o a regional

agreement. Subsequently, this led to high-level statements

by concerned governments including US Secretary

o State Hillary Clinton urging Laos to postpone

construction on the project.

Most villagers near the Xayaburi Dam site fsh daily, and

consider fsh to be a central part o their diets. There are over

50 migratory species at risk o extinction because o the dam.

Thai villagers protest against the Thai government buying electricity rom the Xayaburi Dam

in Laos. Laos continues to build the dam, despite the lack o an agreement between the our

Mekong River Commission countries o Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.

Our vision for success in the Mekong:

Xayaburi Dam construction is cancelled, which would create a precedent o protection

Mekong River Commission member governments work together to protect the Mekong River including needs o the people and to cancel plans to build mainstream dams
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Other Highlights from Southeast Asia

In addition to our Save the Mekong campaign,

International Rivers expanded our support or civil

society partners who are working to protect theIrrawaddyand Salween rivers in Burma and an indigenous peoples

movement that is campaigning against a cascade o dams

in Sarawak,Malaysia.

We documented testimonials o villagers who have been

negatively impacted by Mekong tributary projects insouthern Laosand are using these cases to pressure the

regional decision-makers and international nancial

institutions responsible or these dams. Our role is

especially important as hydropower issues inside Laos

remain politically sensitive. This prevents Lao civil society

and citizens rom holding project developers accountable

or the ar-reaching social and environmental consequences

o destructive dam projects.

The Mekong River is the mainlieline or past and uturegenerations in Thailand.

In an era when countries areopening up to ree trade and tryingto boost trans-border investment,corporate giants in the regionscramble to reap benefts romsmaller, resource-rich countries likeLaos, Cambodia and Burma.

As investors with support rom

their governments seek onlyto maximize profts, they paylittle attention to the impacts onlocal villagers and river ecology.They orget that environmentalproblems have no boundaries andthat they, too, cannot avoid thenegative consequences o theirown projects.

I hope Thais can show a bigheart and help protect the naturalresources o the region as i they

were ours. Environmental protectionhas no boundaries ater all.

The Save the Mekong campaign has inspired actions

throughout the region, including on the Salween River in Burma.

Thai villagers protest Laos illegal construction o the Xayaburi

Dam during the Asia Europe Summit. 60 million peoples

livelihoods and cultures are connected with the Mekong

Rivers natural cycles.

The Xayaburi Dam site, taken during a feld visit in

October 2012.

Pianporn DeetesInternational Rivers Thailand

Campaign Coordinator
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Wrong Climate forDamming Rivers

Climate change is oten used as a justifcation or the new global dam-building boom. Hundredso large dams are proposed in areas likely to ace great hydrological uncertainty, including in theHimalayas, Arica, the Amazon, the Mekong and China. Dams also prooundly harm the ecologicalservices provided by the worlds major rivers, making it harder or societies to adapt to a changingclimate. Large dams especially in the tropics are also a major source o greenhouse gasemissions, which is oten not actored into their impact assessments. While there is uncertaintyin hydrological orecasts, one this is clear: its the wrong climate or damming our rivers.

Thats why International Rivers advocates or national and international strategies that promoteinnovative approaches to meeting energy, water and poverty reduction goals without sacrifcingthe health o rivers and river-dependent communities. We counter the dam industrysgreenwashing o destructive dams and encourage more sustainable river basin managementpractices and policies.

In the ace o an uncertain climate, healthy rivers are more important than ever beore or thehealth o our planet.

Protesting the Barro Blanco Dam, Panama.

Why is it the wrong climate for big dams?

Big dams are at huge risk rom climate changes impactson river ows

Healthy rivers are key to successul climate adaptation especially or the worlds poorest, who are at greatest riskrom climate change

Large reservoirs can be signifcant sources o greenhousegases

The Mekong River near the construction site or the Xayaburi Dam.

ASAMCHI
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Our international network o climate champions put

out a call or major policy reorms within the Clean

Development Mechanism, identiying why destructive

dams in the Amazon and Southeast Asia should not

receive carbon osets. We also produced a strong

analysis o the climate risks o dams on the Zambezi

entitledA Risky Climate for Southern African Hydro,

which included a short video about the key risks. Further,

our Climate Team worked with our regional programs to

raise awareness at the local and national levels about the

wrong climate or damming r ivers.

Other Policy Program Highlights

International Rivers Policy Program works to strengthen

the social and environmental policies o institutions,

corporations and banks responsible or unding and

building destructive dams.

We advocate or transormations in inrastructure

development strategies o institutions with an emphasis

on poverty reduction, climate change mitigation and

adaptation, and environmental protection. We supportour regional programs, civil society and dam-threatened

communities through policy analysis and capacity-building.

Inga Station 1 on the great Congo River.

Kariba Dam let Tonga communities in upheaval; the Kariba

Dam-displaced people are some o the poorest in Southern

Arica.

KAREN

RETIEF

In 2012, International Rivers worked globally to draw

attention to the risks o dam building and greenwashing.

At the6th World Water Forum in France, we workedwithpartners to protest greenwashing rom the dam industrys

Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, and

participated in high-level debates on the role o water

storage in climate resilience. At theG20 Summit in

Mexico, we drew media attention to the olly o the

worlds major economies promoting the Grand Inga

Dam as a singular solution to energy poverty in Arica.At the Rio+20 conerence in Brazil, we partnered with

local activists to protest the government and corporations

ramming through construction o destructive hydropower

dams on the Amazons key rivers.
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Africa Program

International Rivers Arica Program works to encourage

Arican governments to diversiy their energy sources to

avoid becoming excessively hydropower-dependent,

to reduce energy poverty, and to develop decentralizedclean energy where possible.

Working within ourWrong Climate for Damming Rivers

campaign in 2012, the Arica Program published a

comprehensive report on the hydrological and inancial

risks o building more large dams on the Zambezi River

in the ace o climate change (see page 6 or more details).

This report continues to be used in our campaigns against

the Mphanda Nkuwa and Batoka Gorge dams. I built,

these dams would ail to meet long-term electricity

production goals, while irreversibly impacting the peopleand wildlie o the Zambezi Delta and fooding the

magnicent gorges and r iver habitat below Victor ia Falls.

In East Arica, International Rivers worked in partnership

with the Kenyan organization Friends o Lake Turkana to

apply pressure on the Ethiopian government or pushing

ahead with construction o the Gibe III Dam.Thisprojectwould dam the Omo River, choking the lieline o Lake

Turkana, a World Heritage Site in Kenya that supports

a quarter o a million people.

Ikal Angelei, ounder o Friendso Lake Turkana (FoLT) in Kenya,received the prestigious GoldmanEnvironmental Prize in April 2012.A long-time partner o InternationalRivers, FoLT led the successul

campaign to halt internationalunding or the Gibe I II Dam, whichwould choke the Omo River anddry up Lake Turkana.

Other Program Highlights

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On the upper Nile River, we monitored Ethiopias plans

to build the largest dam on the continent theGrand

Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. These dam developments

are shrouded in secrecy and linked to poor human r ights

records. Working with our partner organizations in Arica

and our Policy Program, we have put the US government

as one o Ethiopias major nancial aid sources and

the World Bank on notice or their roles in abetting

non-compliant dam developments that are intensiying

regional conficts in the Nile Basin.

For the International Day o Action or Rivers 2011, Friendso Lake Turkana held public meetings along the lake in Kenya

where they worked with partners to create awareness about

the destructive Gibe III Dam.

Nyangatom herdsmen leading their cattle to drink rom the

Omo River in Ethiopia.
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China Program

China has emerged as the worlds biggest dam builder

and nancier both domestically and internationally.

Since the government lacks strong commitments to

environmental and social protection, the Chinesedam-building industry is one o the largest threats to

sustaining reshwater ecosystems.

International Rivers plays a catalyzing role or policy

reorm and strategic advice to grassroots organizations

campaigning against destructive overseas dam projects by

Chinese corporations.

As a result o several years o policy dialogue between our

China Program and Sinohydro Corporation, the worlds

largest dam builder adopted company-wide environmental

and social standards in late 2011. The new policy meets

the highest international standards, including a commitment

to the World Bank saeguard standards. International

Rivers published a report in 2012 called The New Great

Walls: A Guide to Chinas Overseas Dam Industry, which

summarizes key aspects o Sinohydros environmental

policy or communities impacted by Sinohydro projects.

Our China Program also supports communities

throughout Asia, Arica and Latin America advocating

or alternatives to destructive dams on their home rivers.

The suspension o Burmas destructive Myitsone Dam in

late 2011 prompted the Chinese overseas dam industry to

reassess their practices in 2012 and marked a shit in that

countrys path toward more inclusive governance. We

also assessed impacts to communities and their local

environments threatened by proposed Chinese-backed

dams in Laos, Ethiopia and Colombia.

South Asia Program

The Himalaya Mountains are the tallest in the world and

host the greatest biodiversity on the Indian sub-continent.

There are more than 500 dams planned or under

construction in the Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins,which threaten reshwater environments and the cultural

survival o indigenous people in the region.

With so many threats to r iver health, International Rivers

has been organizing with local partners on upstream

policy reorms. With a strategic ocus on improving the

laws in India that sanction new dams and by integrating

the leading science and best practices on environmental

fows and coordinated river basin management throughout

the region International Rivers has shited the public

policy dialogue in the region.

In 2012 we commissioned aground-breaking report

on environmental lowsor South Asia, characterizing

the negative impacts o dam operations on downstream

aquatic communities and identiying key policy

recommendations or the operation o existing and new

dams. Through workshops with national partners and

public ocials in India, some key recommendations rom

the report have been accepted and implemented by the

Ministry o Environment and Forests.

Further utilizing our g rassroots approach to river

protection, we worked closely with local partners to:

Advance public-interest legal actions against high-prole

hydropower schemes that violate existing laws and

procedures to bring scrut iny to Indias ast-tracking o

large hydro dams without adequate consultation and

environmental review

Other Program Highlights

Mobilize opposition to destructive dam projects on theTeesta River a key biologicial and cultural diversityhotspot in northeast India and Bangladesh

Document unique natural and cultural sites threatenedby new dams and advocate or declaring reaches o

the Teesta River in the Indian state o Sikkim as aUNESCO World Heritage Site

Coordinate civil society groups and other stakeholdersto advance their strategies in advocating or trans-boundarywater sharing on the Indus River in Pakistan and Indiaand or protecting rivers in Nepal; and or engaginggovernment oicials in Bhutan, which is rapidlydeveloping hydropower projects or exportingelectricity to India

A Snapshot of Chinas Dam Boom

300+ Number o overseas dam projects that Chinasstate-owned companies, like Sinohydro Corporation,

and banks are currently involved in.70 Number o countries in which the above dams are being

planned, fnanced or built.

6 Number o the worlds great rivers that are at risk,including the Amur, Yarlung Tsangpo, Lower MekongMainstream, Salween, Nile, and Magdalena rivers.
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2012 Donors

$100,000 AND OVER

blue moon undCritical Ecosystem Partnership FundFund or International RiversThe Kendeda FundJohn D. & Catherine T. MacArthur

FoundationThe McKnight FoundationCharles Stewart Mott Foundation

$10,000 TO $99,999

AnonymousAmerican Jewish World ServiceJane & Gerald BaldwinMargaret A. Cargill FoundationConnect US Fund o Tides

FoundationConservation, Food &

Health FoundationCultures o ResistanceFoundation to Promote

Open SocietyKen Greenstein

JMG FoundationKlorfne FoundationGeorge & Miriam Martin FoundationMarra FoundationMilan & Letitia MomirovOxam AustraliaPatagonia Environmental GrantsSwit FoundationSynchronicity EarthTikva Grassroots Empowerment

Fund o Tides FoundationWallace Global FundThe Waterloo FoundationWeeden Foundation

Mary E. Weinmann

$1,000 TO $9,999

Anonymous (2)Margo BlairEdith BorieChelsea Congdon &

James BrundigeCli Bar Family FoundationGary CookChris Flint

Further FoundationThe Fred Gellert Family FoundationCharles R. & Mary GibbsMarvin & Tamara GreensteinGary HeldJohanna HillDanny Kennedy & Miya YoshitaniNoel KirshenbaumSusan Kopman*Leslie & Jacques LeslieBetty LoRalph LukenPatrick McCully & Sarah BardeenMarcia McNally & Randy Hester

Johan MeylaertsSteve J. Miller FoundationDeborah Moore & Adam DawsonThomas NergerPanta Rhea FoundationNew Resource BankMargaret SchinkRosalind SeyssesSungevityTheodore A. Von Der Ahe, Jr.Winky FoundationWomadix Fund

$500 TO $999

Eric BessetteCarrie & Jim BurroughsMonica & Barry DavisChristina Desser &

Kirk MarckwaldCaleb & Sidney B. GatesJonmin & Robert GoodlandAnne H. Hammett*

Anna HawkenJen Kalaut & John RussellDaniel KullBarbara MeasterMarcia D. & Sanord MillerCymie Payne & Stephen ElstonLeonard Sklar & Amy LuersJoshua M. Sperry &

Ilinisa Hendrickson*Ben Zuckerman

$100 TO $499

Anonymous (2)Russ Abbott*Monti AguirreKathryn AlexanderMichael AlphersManu AmpimMarsha AngusDavid Arkin & Anni TiltMary ArnoldSally Arnold & Christine WeirJohn Arthur & Joni SutherlandIngvar BackeusKimberly BakkesMarilyn Bancel & Rik MyslewskiBill Barclay & Cathy FogelPaul Beach*Martha Belcher & Martin WagnerStephen BergerTeresa BeynartDavid J. H. BlakeMaria Tara BlascoElisabeth BloomfeldPeter BrackeWarren BrockelmanToni & Philip BrooksDorian Brooks & Malcolm KottlerJayme Faith Cadiz SagisiDeb Callahan & Ken CookHal CandeeAndr CarothersSteven & Martina ChapmanAtessa ChehraziSarah ChesterChuong ChungPeter Coyote & Steanie PleetMichael & Nancy DanielsDavid & Doris DawdyCandace S. DekkertThomas J. DeMarcoBarbara Des RochersRaj & Helen Desai*Gary DeskinsZephyr DetranoMarta Drury & Kerry LobelKendall DunkelbergKathleen Ecker & John MackieLydia Edison

Claire B. Feder

Mary FelleyTeresa Ferrari & Jo SaarmanAnne-Lise FrancoisClaudio Gilberto FroehlichJune GarciaJohn & Heidi Gerstle

Leah M. Gibbs & John D. JansenSally Goodwin & Kurt Hoelting*David GordonJo Anne & John GottcentGemma Grott*Sophie Hahn & Eric BjerkholtRobert & Donna HalcombStephen Hamilton &

Suzanne SippelDavid Hankin & Nancy DiamondFaye HarasackKathryn Harlow & Hans HolznagelDavid L. HarrisonRobert Hass & Brenda Hillman

Christine HayesDonald & Louise HeynemanMartha Hodgkins &

Brian D. RichterMary HooperMary HoughtelingKristin HullMarion HuntAlred & Bonnie JanssenHuey JohnsonDavid JosephCindy & Mike KammMike KappusJonathan Kempsey

Lauren T. KleinJane Kramer & Dr. Mitchell FeldmanJennier KrillKarl KroothDaniel & Laura LeavertonBrigitte LeBlancMichael LeDuc & Sarah ShieldsGlen LeverichJoanna LevittCharlton LewisStephen LinaweaverWarren LinneyChristopher LishRenewable Energy

Engineering, LLC

Frank LorchLapoe LynnKent MacDougallEllen Manchester & Robert DawsonJun-ichiro Matsuda*Thomas & Dorothy Mayer

Miah McClintonNion McEvoyDan McNevinDavid MillerFlavia MillikanDonald MillikanStephen Monroe*Patricia MuozAdela MyersKevin OHalloranJenny ParkBo PerssonSandra PostelBill & Lori Pottinger

Angus & Janet PowelsonJohn PrestonJason Rainey & Tania CarloneBonnie RaittTory ReadDaniel Roemer & Eve CominosAndre RollingerLorrae RomingerDiane RosenburgDr. Brian & Judith RossRaaella Rossi & James FordJessica RothhaarZbigniew RozbickiRobert Rutemoeller

Elizabeth SabelManojkumar SaranathanDaniel SchneiderThayer & Mary ScudderAntoinette SebastianCaroline Seckinger &

Gustave CarlsonAndrea ShallcrossJason & Lisa SkaggsLadan SobhaniScott Spann & Nicole GnutzmanRaphael Sperry & Laura JuranSusan StrasserPetur Thorleisson*

Brian TownsThomas Van Dyck

Thank you to the supporters and members of the movement for healthy

rivers and human rights.

All o the people and organizations below are a critical part o the movement weve

helped to build over the past quarter century a movement o river deenders who are

standing their ground to protect livelihoods, oppose destructive dams, and advance energy

and water solutions.

* Monthly Sustainer


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* Indicates that the supporter is a Monthly Sustaining member, an individual whohas made a commitment to making a monthly or quarterly donation.2012 Donors

Richard Vanden Heuvel*Luis VeraMark VermeulenFrancesca VietorMeeta VyasLaurie Wayburn

Bernhard WehrliSteven WeissMargaret WelkeMichael WhitsonCharles WilkinsonMateo Williord & Becky TarbottonJonathan & Susan WittwerSusanne Wong & Craig LatimerSally WoodbridgeMary Woolsey

$35 TO $99

Anonymous (5)Laura Allen

Stephen AmorinoPeter AmschelCliord AndersonKarolo & Rosa AparicioJeanne AppelbaumSimone AthaydeDevin BakerWendy BardsleyVivian BarronCarl Bauer & Brooke BedrickVickie BellCatherine BernerDavid BernsteinBertrand Bouchard

Lothar BrockPedro Bruao CurielZoe Katherine & Thomas BurkeRuth BusbeeRay CageJosiah CainCatherine CaufeldMichelle ClanahanJo ClitonBrent E. ClothierBruce CohenKen ConcaJohn Conner*Lacadio Cortesi & Joanne Welsch

Hilary CostinAlasdair Coyne

Hilary CrosbyJoneil CustodioLieve De KinderJanet DelaneyFabienne DethiollazJohn Downey

Mark DrakeWilliam R. DvorakMichelle EatonGary & Susan ElkoPhyllis FaberYael M. FalicovPhilip FearnsidePilar FierroJonathan FoxErich Franz SchimpsKristen FrattoElizabeth & Guy FulordVictor GalayBrendan Galipeau

Ari GamalSheryl GillespieTom GrahamMaryLou GrahamEfe GreathouseElizabeth HenninRobert Max HolmesPatrick HorsbrughKurt Hotchkiss*Nicolas HuberGary HughesShay HurleyDiana & Warren KarlenzigRichard Kattelmann

William H. KellyRhonda KlevanskyPeter KlostermanCathleen & Brewster KneenRichard & Margaret KnowltonJohn KnoxDoug KudlickJohn LandersRoger & Onelia LeeKenhee LeeDavid LennetteAnna LewingtonGregar LindDoug & Susan Linney

Oskar LugerLucio Marcello

David Marcus & Karen FriedmanWilliam MartensPrudential FoundationTrish McCall & Gary FriedmanJulie H. & Byron T. McKeeMary M. McPherson

Seth MensahEdith MiranteColleen Mlecoch & Janet AndersonLaurel & Grant MoorheadPaul MossAlison G. MurrayGail MyersCarey MyslewskiJean NaplesSuresh NautiyalRael NidessYoko NishidaKimberly OConnorMeaveen OConnor

Wick Pancoast & Carrie WilsonXiaoma PengJudy & David PlottDarlene PrattRichard QuartaroliNorma QuintanaJessie RaederSusan RashkisNancy ReichardNikki ReischCarol ReschkeVincent Resh & Cheryl Haigh ReshSusan & Harold ReynoldsJennier Reynolds

Peter RichardsonIvan Roberts-DavisJames & Gisele RobertsonNoel RoweSrabani RoyKurt SableStewart & Nancy SandersNick SarkisianFred ScatenaMichael SchirmerMarion SchneiderHenry & Louise SchultzKerry Seed & Dan RuanAndre Semenza

Virginius R. Shackelord, IIIVibha & Ashvin Shah

James SheltonTaka ShinagawaDaniel Silver, M.D.David SimonGerard & Nonie SocciDonna Soohoo

Dale SorensenLinda SpanglerSarah B. StewartSusan G. StoneWora SukraroekMarie SwitkesMilton TakeiCatherine TamasikPatricia ToddJane TrechselAnn Leslie UzdavinisMaria van den BergCecile van der BurghTom van Hettema

Quinn Van Valer-CampbellEve VogelPeter VorsterRichard VultaggioGisa WagnerIrene & Howard WheatleySteanie Wickstrom & Rex WirthLawrence F. Williams & Patti PrideWendy WilsonAaron WolAmy YuEddie YuenDeborah ZiertenScott Zimmermann

Helen Zipperlen

UP TO $34

Eileen AdamsMartin ArnouldLars-Olo ArvidsDeborah AustinMarcus BailieJuliaan BakkerBill BardeenBrian BehleMichael BeilerShay BlackRichard Bloom

Margot BreidahlElizabeth Brink

Helena BrykarzFrancis Butterworth &

Patricia RamirezLiz CarltonNancy CarrollErwin Castellino

Ondrej ChaloupkaSampson ChanMichelle ChanDebra CleaverLinda ConnorKate CrusaderJudy de GrootJerey DickemannWilliam DietrichEryn ElashNeil & Barbara ElliotDirk FabianLeanne FarrellAlexander Flemmer*

Lydia GarveySara GibsonRobert John GibsonDiana & Marc GoldsteinMiriam GreenblattGenevieve HathawayJennier HeungRobert K. HitchcockBrenda HolzingerCaroline HopeTom Huntington & Shelly GuyerPierre-Alexandre HurtubiseJames H. JorgensenSteve Kadivar

Megan KeelingMark & Delyth KitchWendy KnittleSteven R. KrolikTerrilyn KruegerLisa La MarUdi LazimyJoseph Lee & Susan EisnerTanja LehmannFlavia LeiteFrank LewinLi Miao LovettCynthia B. LuceSherry Marsh

Terry L. MaulMassimo Mera

Barbara & Gerald MeralMeredith MillTy MooreSarah MumordSarah MunschPeter Nguyen

Michael NorenAnthony Oliver-SmithLisa PayneRodney PeasleyNancy PeierKimberly PikulDaniel RichmanDorian Roe-HammondPauline RosenbergKate RossClaudia Rousseau*Ramona Rubin*Anton RyslingeFumiko Sakoda

Bruno SantosMary SariMaria SauseMark SchapiroAnn SeipReena ShadaanSylvia J. ShermanDaniel & Joanne ShivelySuzanne B. & Laurence ShoupUlla SkoldAnn StewartElizabeth StoryMichael SullivanRebecca Tarvin

Sidsel ThommesenJennier UmbergRichard WalkerLeon WhiteStewart WiggersDavid WikanderCindy Wilson GattenbyGail YoungelsonTheresa ZiadieDominic ZieglerMarc Zimmerman


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Financial Report

To obtain a copy o International Rivers most

recent audited fnancial statement or IRS 990 orm,

please contact [email protected].

TOTAL EXPE NSES: $2,330,035

Expenses

Starting Balance: $3,013,339Total Revenue: $1,280,203

Total Expenses: ($2,330,035)

Ending Balance: $1,963,507

74.4%Grants$952,783

74.5%Program Activities$1,736,330

14.0%Administration$327,131

11.5%Fundraising$266,574

4.1%Events$51,8281.9%

Other$24,114

TOTAL INCOME: $1,280,203

Revenue

19.6%Contributions$251,478


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Marilyn Bancel

Martha Belcher

Andr Carothers

Patricia W. Chang

Gigi Coe

Peter Coyote

Christina L. Desser

Huey D. Johnson

Barbara Rose Johnston

Dorka KeehnLauren Klein Hayes

Juliet Majot

Patrick McCully

Nion McEvoy

Sylvia McLaughlin

Mutombo Mpanya

Mayumi Oda

Drummond Pike

Paul Polak

Gary Snyder

Paul Strasburg

Lara TruppelliLori Udall

In 2012 International Rivers welcomed 14 interns and volunteers in ourBerkeley and regional ofces. They helped create useul translations, moreaccessible communication tools and thoughtul research projects, andprovided inrastructure support. Our 2012 interns and volunteers included:

Sabine Johnson-Reiser, who helped to produce an accurate and timelybilingual spreadsheet o major dam projects in China

Jenny Binstock, a public policy Masters candidate, who conductedresearch on climate adaptation and then led a group o UCLA studentsto produce a report on assessing the climate resilience o dams anddam-aected communities

2012 Interns and Volunteers: Simone Adler, Jenny Binstock, KatherineBrousseau, Sinan Chu, Colleen Cowles, Charlie Dubbe, Laney Ennis,Annette Fay, Xin Guo, Carly Patterson, Dan Ruan, Sebastian Thisted,Stephanie Thorne, and Yang Yang.

Intern andVolunteerProgram

AdvisoryBoards

Board ofDirectors

Jane Baldwin

Brent Blackwelder

Margo Blair

Gary Cook

Ken Greenstein

Robert Hass (Honorary)

Jen Kalaut

Susan Kopman

Leslie Leslie

Milan Momirov

Deborah Moore

Cymie Payne

Leonard Sklar

Scott Spann

Rebecca Tarbotton

INTERNATIONAL

ADVISORY BOARD

Clio Bermann

Lila Buckley

Joan Carling

Gustavo Castro Soto

Nga DaoPhilip Fearnside

Liane Gree

Nicholas Hildyard

Carl Middleton

Frank Muramuzi

Astrid Puentes

Lcia Schild Ortiz

SOUTH ASIA

ADVISORY BOARD

Latha Anantha

Shripad Dharmadhikary

Dipak Gyawali

Naeem Iqbal

K. J. JoyAimal Khan

Mohammad Abdul Matin

Janaka Ratnasiri

Ravindranath

Himanshu Thakkar

Neeraj Vagholikar

In Memoriam

Rebecca Tarbotton

July 30,1973

December 26, 2012

Executive Director o

Rainorest Action Network

International Rivers

Board Member

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Monti Aguirre

Latin America Program Coordinator

Vickie BellDevelopment Director

Peter BosshardPolicy Director

Elizabeth BrinkDigital Director/Day o Action orRivers Coordinator

Sandy Cappelli

Bookkeeper/Ofce ManagerPianporn DeetesThailand Campaign Coordinator

Chochoe DevaporihartakulaSoutheast Asia AdministrativeAssistant

Inanna HazelDirector o Finance and Operations

Kirk HerbertsonSoutheast Asia Policy Coordinator

Zachary HurwitzPolicy Program Coordinator

Aviva ImhofCampaigns Director

Chuck JohnsomDigital Administrator

Tania LeeLao Program Coordinator

Berklee Lowrey-EvansCommunity Engagement Manager/Patagonia Campaign Coordinator

Grace MangChina Program Director

Samir MehtaSouth Asia Program Director

Brent MillikanAmazon Program Director

Lori PottingerWorld Rivers Review, Editor/Arica Campaigner

Jason Rainey

Executive DirectorKate RossCampaigns Assistant

Elizabeth SabelFoundations Director

Rudo Angela SanyangaArica Program Director

Ame TrandemSoutheast Asia Program Director

Quinn Van Valer-CampbellAdministrative Assistant

Katy YanChina Program Coordinator/Intern and Volunteer Coordinator

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