LifeWeb Food Security Expressions of Interest
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| Management and Protection Enhancement of Private Natural Areas in Honduras |
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The conservation of private lands in Honduras began in 2001 and consequently the Honduran Network of Private Nature Reserves was established as a central initiative of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Project which was also supported by other projects and international cooperation programs, intended to bring together a significant number of landowners with interest to promote the conservation and management of natural resources in one association, with the ultimate aim of bringing these to the category of private reserves. As one of the activities under the work program of the CBD in PA, the government of the Honduran Republic promotes the strengthening of management and private conservation initiatives, considering that it can complement the conservation of fragile ecosystems underrepresented in the national system of protected areas in Honduras. Dry forest ecosystems are one of the most threatened and also a priority for private nature reserves.The remnants of dry forest are subject to constant threats from the surrounding productive landscape, due to limited capacities, knowledge and experience of local planners in land use and landscape.
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| Forever Costa Rica |
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Costa Rica has 26 percent of its land area under various protection management categories. As in many other developing countries, however, challenges and threats are great. This is mainly due to the fact that development continues to pressure the ecological systems around terrestrial and marine protected areas. Overfishing, legal and illegal fishing, unregulated tourism development, urbanization, logging, and water pollution, sedimentation, the degradation of coral reefs and the depletion of fisheries, are threats that affect protected areas as well as other neighboring lands and waters. In addition, despite the enormous efforts made to date, Costa Rica’s protected area system still has conservation gaps that must be addressed if the desired ecological representation is to be achieved.
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| Renforcement du système d’aires protégées |
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Les aires protégées représentent environ 3 % de la superficie de la Tunisie. En effet, l’objectif majeur de création des parcs nationaux est tout d’abord préserver le patrimoine biologique de la Tunisie dans un but d’assurer la durabilité de ces ressources, de diminuer la perte des éléments de la DB et de s’acquérir d’ un réservoir biologique stratégique.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic |
19-Oct-2009 |
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| Strengthening the Provincial Protected Area System of Bolikhamxay Province of Lao PDR |
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The mixed semi-tropical forests of western Bolikhamxay Province are largely of a type that was historically found fairly widely in Indochina with species such as elephant and clouded leopard. Much of this habitat has been converted for agriculture, logging and plantations. However, several protected areas, including the three provincial protected areas that are the focus of this proposal, have largely escaped this conversion and thus are of national and regional importance.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic |
19-Oct-2009 |
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| Strengthening and enlarging the Protected Area System of Eastern Bolikhamxay Province of Lao PDR |
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In addition to unique endemics, these forests of eastern Bolikhamxay are also home to several endangered primates including gibbons, douc langurs and leaf monkeys. While we do know that gibbons, doucs and leaf monkeys are present, this area has been little explored biologically so it is therefore uncertain where these species will fall within the IUCN Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered categories.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic |
19-Oct-2009 |
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| Strengthening the Nam Kading National Protected Area of Bolikhamxay Province, Lao PDR |
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The Nam Kading National Protected Area is the third largest in Lao PDR at over 1,600 square kilometers, and can likely support viable populations of many medium sized mammals under threat, including at least four Critically Endangered and Endangered primate species. These include the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon, the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon, Red-shanked Douc Langur and one or possibly two Leaf-monkey species in the taxonomically unclear (but clearly highly threatened) Trachypithecus complex.
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| Development of an independent Conservation Trust Fund supporting Uganda's protected area system |
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A coalition of Government, NGOs, and civil society organizations have come together to discuss the need to develop a mechanism for long-term financing of Uganda’s protected areas. The group has recommended the creation of the Uganda Conservation Trust Fund (UCTF) that is independent of Government and which can generate the financial resources necessary to support the management of protected areas in Uganda.
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| Sustainable Management of Coastal Marine Resources of 6 Protected Areas of the Honduran Caribbean |
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The region's Caribbean coast is under intense anthropogenic pressure, as the populations of the five provinces that comprise the region, reach a total of just over 1. 7 million inhabitants, which represents 28% of the total population. Most of the population are Garifunas and Miskito (ethnic groups), which are located along the coastal area of the country. These ethnic communities are highly vulnerable, living in poverty and are seriously threatened by the degradation of natural resources. Project objectives include strengthening the governance of the region through institutional strengthening of NGOs and government institutions involved, improving the technical, financial regulation and management of coastal marine resources, accomplishing sustainable management and recovery of marine ecosystems through implementation of best fishing practices, tourism and infrastructure for economic development in the area, designing and implementing monitoring programs and research for decision makers by key stakeholders and implementing environmental education programs that promote good practices and sustainable development.
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| Management Strengthening of 7 Protected Areas in the Department of Olancho |
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The project will take place in the Department of Olancho, one of the most important regions related to forestry resources, which are very important for the national and local economy. The majority of the local communities involved in this project live in poverty, and lack the tools and mechanisms to effectively participate in the management of protected areas. The project objectives include consolidating the network of protected areas (7) of the Region of Olancho, managing PAs effectively and participatively and achieving an ecologically representative network, in order to accomplish environmental, social and economic functions.
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| Action Tsitongambarika |
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Intrinsic Biodiversity Problem - The disappearance of the lowland humid forest ecosystem of TGK would constitute a loss of the largest remaining area of this highly threatened and diverse vegetation type in Southern Madagascar, as well as a number of species endemic to the SE, and even to TGK itself, and many more that are poorly, if at all, represented in existing PAs.
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| A Community Partnership Park for Forests, Communities & the Zambezi River |
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The middle reach of the Zambezi River, from Chirundu, Zambia, to the river’s entry into Mozambique, is renowned for its wildlife diversity and abundance. This spectacular area, visited by thousands of tourists from around the world each year, hosts some of Africa’s best remaining populations of Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, African elephant, and African buffalo, and is also home to wild dog, lion, leopard, eland, sable and Lichtenstein’s hartebeest.
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| Management support to the Northern Reefs management area |
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The Northern Reefs area includes a large number of marine habitat types, including seagrass beds, algal flats, barrier reefs, fringing reefs, patch reefs, atolls, sunken atoll, lagoon areas, small sand spits/islands, and small volcanic rock islands.
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United Republic of Tanzania |
03-Sep-2009 |
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| Western Tanzania Livelihoods and Forest Conservation Project |
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In the forested regions of western Tanzania two project sites with protected areas at their core include communities that depend on and are essential for future sustainability and improved effectiveness of these protected areas. Yet these communities threaten the viability of the forest and freshwater upon which they depend.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT PROTECTED AREA BENEFITS
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Small Protection Zones Help Predators, Too [2010]
By HENRY FOUNTAIN, www.nytimes.com
A marine conservation zone that is closed to commercial fishing helps save the targeted fish species, or so one would hope. But what about birds or other top predators that dine on those species?
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