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Belize
Development of a National Ranger Training Academy and Conservation Training Centre
29-Oct-2012
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| abstract: | This project will increase the capacity of Belize’s National Protected Areas System to sustain globally important biodiversity and delivery of ecosystem services by professionalising and standardising protected area ranger practices. This specialized training academy will raise the bar for protected area law enforcement, biodiversity monitoring and adaptive protected areas management. This will contribute towards the conservation of biodiversity and maintenance of ecosystem services important in underpinning livelihoods of the rural poor. In partnership with the University of Belize the training academy will provide formal accreditation for rangers with recognized qualifications providing a pathway to higher education for exemplary students, and a means for rangers to progress professionally into senior protected area management roles. The longer term goal is for the training academy to become a regional centre contributing to the improvement of protected areas management across the Central America and Caribbean region. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=21533 |
| funding needed: | $977,023 USD€794 328 EUR |
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funding from: | Protected Areas Conservation Trust Belize
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Belize
Strengthening Belize’s national protected areas system by integrating landscape and seascape management approaches, ecosystem based adaptation for climate change and improving social and ecosystem resilience to climate change
09-Feb-2012
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| abstract: | This project will enable mechanisms to provide critical financing to ensure effective protected areas management, long term functionality and resiliency of the Belize’s National Protected Areas System. Additionally, the integration of significant components, such as marine and terrestrial-based ecosystem adaptation for climate change, coral reef resilience, forest resilience and opportunities to increase social resilience among vulnerable populations will enable an expanded role for protected areas to meet new challenges emanating from climate change. |
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| objectives: | The project’s ultimate goal is to complete the implementation of activities outlined in the National Protected Areas Policy and System Plan (NPAPSP) (Meerman, 2005) to foster an effective, comprehensive and consolidated national protected areas system in addition to the establishment of a consolidated administrative structure to maintain coordinated action in protected areas system management. Furthermore, the integration of critical components, such as ecosystem adaptation for climate change, ecosystem resiliency, and opportunities to increase social resilience of resource users will enable the managers of protected areas to adequately adapt and respond to the challenges resulting from climate change. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6950 |
| funding needed: | $27,000,000 USD€21 951 220 EUR |
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funding from: | Protected Areas Conservation Trust Belize
Belize Fisheries Department
Belize Forest Department
Global Environmental Facility
The Nature Conservancy
Oak Foundation Belize
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Uganda
Developing and testing a sub-national REDD+ strategy to safeguard the remaining forests within protected areas and on private land in Uganda’s north and north-central Albertine Rift
01-Feb-2012
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| abstract: | The project will pilot a sub-national REDD+ strategy in the Albertine Rift in south-west Uganda. This region ranks first out of the 119 terrestrial eco-regions of continental Africa in terms of biodiversity significance, but has one of the highest deforestation rates globally, losing 17000 ha/yr. By introducing REDD+, the project will apply a transformational approach to the management of the 329000 ha of remaining forests in protected areas, safeguarding carbon stocks of 390 M tCO2eq; without such action, Central Forests Reserves (CFRs) and private forests will be cleared in less than 20 years and pressures will mount on the national parks that protect the most important biodiversity and watersheds. The project will support development of a sub-national REDD+ strategy, develop standards for REDD+ projects for forest protected areas and adjacent lands, define a corresponding MRV system, and through co-benefit arrangements will improve land security and livelihoods for 14500 forest dependent households. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6924 |
| funding needed: | $3,694,947 USD€3 004 022 EUR |
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funding from: | United Nations Development Programme
Forest Sector Support Department
World Wildlife Fund
National Environmental Authority (NEMA - Uganda)
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
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South Africa
Reducing climate risk for vulnerable communities along South Africa's Garden Route
27-Jan-2012
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| abstract: | The Garden Route region of South Africa, within the Cape Floristic Region, is an area of outstanding global biodiversity importance - renowned for its species richness and endemism. The area, with its tall forests unique in the country, is also extremely vulnerable to climate change, with documented increases in recent years in flooding, drought, coastal erosion and fire that are occurring as a consequence of increased climate variability and inappropriate land use and management. |
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| objectives: | The project will bring together key stakeholders from the local and national levels to apply a landscape approach – working to create a mosaic of land uses that maximizes both biodiversity conservation and healthy ecosystem functioning – with the specific intent of enhancing climate risk management capabilities. This will be achieved by improving land management and rehabilitation work on private land, with new land brought under protection in corridors, as well as better management of existing protected areas. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6921 |
| funding needed: | $5,535,000 USD€4 500 000 EUR |
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funding from: | South African Department of Environmental Affairs
UNEP ProEcoServ Project
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Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone
Far West African Challenge: Strengthening protected areas to preserve biodiversity, address climate change and secure livelihoods
20-May-2011
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| abstract: | This vision aims to enable seven West African countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone) to meet by 2020 their commitments for protected areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity, including Aichi target 11 and related protected area commitments,, by strengthening the national and regional protected areas system. The project will seek to maximise protected areas’ ecosystem services, particularly to local communities; by addressing sustainable finance, addressing institutional and legislative barriers, building capacity of all involved stakeholders to addressing threats, promoting innovative governance mechanisms, as well as a major communication and outreach programme that will advocate the benefits from protected areas. |
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| objectives: | (1) Establishing a regional coordination - “Protected area pledge: Africa far west”
(2) Establishment of a regional protected areas’ network and associated biological corridors
(3) Identification of value of goods and services from protected areas along with the main beneficiaries
(4) Implementation of capacity building and outreach activities for protected area staff, communities and policy-makers
(5) Integration of climate change into protected areas planning and management
(6) Development of sustainable finance mechanisms for protected areas
(7) Promotion of legislation and policy related to protected areas
(8) Development of tools for addressing threats to protected areas |
| area impacted: | seven West African countries |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6666 |
| funding needed: | $36,900,000 USD€30 000 000 EUR |
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Mongolia
Strengthening of the Protected Area Network (SPAN)
15-Mar-2011
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| abstract: | The SPAN project is a national level project aimed at improving the management effectiveness and financial sustainability of Mongolia’s existing protected areas system. Currently, there are 74 protected areas in Mongolia covering a total of over 22 million hectares, which equates to approximately 14% of the country’s surface. Mongolia’s 74 protected areas include Strictly Protected Areas, National Parks, Nature Reserves and National Monuments, covering IUCN categories Ia, Ib, II and III. |
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| objectives: | The objective of the project is to catalyze the management effectiveness and financial sustainability of Mongolia’s existing protected areas system. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6580 |
| funding needed: | $2,300,000 USD€1 869 919 EUR |
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funding from: | United Nations Development Programme
Global Environmental Facility
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
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Comoros
Aménagement et renforcement de l’acceptabilité sociale de l’aire protégée du Karthala sur l’île de la Grande Comore
03-Feb-2011
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| abstract: | Ce projet d’aménagement et de renforcement de l’acceptabilité sociale du PARC NATIONAL DU KARTHALA (en cours de création officielle), contribue à concrétiser ce chantier et à favoriser son acceptabilité sociale par les communautés locales issues des 16 villages environnant et exploitant la zone forestière concernée. Il vise à concrétiser une matérialisation de la délimitation physique sur le terrain ainsi que le zonage de la première aire protégée terrestre et deux réserves communautaires riveraines pour faciliter les aménagements internes. Par ailleurs, il permettra de conforter les communautés locales en leurs apportant un appui technique et matériel pour le développement de la filière « apiculture améliorée (cf. rapport apiculture)» déjà initiée dans les villages de la zone de l’aire protégée, en tant qu’activité de substitution et génératrice de revenus pour les groupes vulnérables vis-à-vis de la nouvelle réglementation adoptée dans la zone. Cette activité s’inscrit dans la visée de la Stratégie Nationale sur la Biodiversité, notamment une des mesures pertinentes prévues et portant sur l’identification et la promotion des activités de substitution génératrices de revenus qui en font du développement des activités alternatives, une mesure essentielle pour l’acceptabilité sociale des aires protégées. |
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| area impacted: | Ce projet vise le Parc national du Karthala en cours de création officielle; prévue être de la catégorie II, avec une gouvernance partagée |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6566 |
| funding needed: | $300,000 USD€243 902 EUR |
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funding from: | Domestic sources
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Tunisia
Renforcement du système tunisien d’aires protégées terrestres marines et côtières
13-Jan-2011
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| abstract: | Le présent projet vise non seulement la création de nouvelles aires protégées mais aussi le renforcement de l'ensemble des aires protégées terrestres et marines en Tunisie, lesquelles sont actuellement en nombre de 43, dont 17 parcs nationaux et 26 réserves naturelles. Ce projet vise, par des approches qualitatives et quantitaves à échelle nationale, à améliorer la représentativité écologique du système d'aires protégées tunisien et à assurer une gestion efficace et durable. |
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| area impacted: | Le présent projet touchera tous les aires protégées terrestres et marines qui sont actuellement en nombre de 43 (17 parcs nationaux et 26 réserves naturelles). |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6537 |
| funding needed: | $20,000,000 USD€16 260 163 EUR |
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Indonesia
Replicating Success with Community-Based Forest Management in Indonesia
02-Nov-2010
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| abstract: | Social marketing training and campaigns will be implemented to expand community-based forest management at 15 sites in Indonesia, through government agencies and local community associations. Each campaign will target a local population of about 20,000 people, and aim to change the behaviour of the communities such that they understand the importance of sustainable forest management and support its implementation actively. This will result in the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity and improve the management of about one million hectares of protected areas in Indonesia with direct community-led management of buffer zones. Capacity of the local partners will be greatly strengthened so that they can sustain the campaigns and their impacts beyond the initial project. |
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| objectives: | This project aims to: foster understanding of the importance of forest management; build an effective and replicabe community-involved approach to forest management through a clear co-management approach; and increase forest cover while reducing forest degradation and clearing by directly engaging local communities. |
| area impacted: | To be determined. About 50 of Indonesia’s official forest protected areas are candidate sites, from which 15 will be chosen. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6432 |
| funding needed: | $2,100,000 USD€1 707 317 EUR |
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funding from: | Rare Conservation
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Kenya
MARINE PROTECTED AREAS STRENGTHENING PROJECT-KENYA
26-Oct-2010
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| abstract: | In addition to protecting coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Kenya have additional biodiversity attributes including; protecting the only remaining population of dugong in Kenya in the Kiunga MPA, protecting key feeding and breeding grounds for sea turtles in the Kiunga, Malindi-Watamu and Mombasa MPAs and protecting part of the largest mangrove forest on the Kenyan coast. Additional important attributes that have not been evaluated include carbon sequestration by coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds, the potential for medicinal products and the recreational and aesthetic value of these areas. Although no country-wide geographical prioritization of biodiversity has been carried out in Kenya, the high dependence of coastal communities on marine resources, the importance of MPAs for tourism (the mainstay of the Kenyan economy), fisheries and biodiversity and other ecosystem services, and the serious threat of climate change on coral reefs and associated ecosystems increase the urgency for strengthening the management of Kenyan MPAs. |
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| objectives: | The overall objective of the project is to enhance biodiversity conservation of marine habitats and species, improve management of MPAs and support the development of initiatives that improve livelihoods of coastal communities. |
| area impacted: | The project will contribute significantly towards national priorities as laid out in the in Poverty Reduction Strategy, Vision 2030, the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and natural resource policies including the Wildlife, ICZM, Fisheries and Ocean Policy, and Forest Policy amongst others. All these policies embody sustainable exploitation, management and conservation of the environment and natural resources, equitable sharing of benefits and empowerment of communities as important pillows of development. In addition, the new Constitution of Kenya reiterates the national responsibility for the environment under article 69 (1) (a). Most MPA's in Kenya also serve as critical carbon sinks and therefore could potentially participate in national REDDS strategies and action plans.
For a list of MPA's see http://www.wdpa.org/MultiResult.aspx?Country=112
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6417 |
| funding needed: | $1,100,000 USD€894 309 EUR |
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funding from: | Kenya Wildlife Service
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Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Consolidando una visión ecosistémica compartida de conservación del Bioma Amazónico: El Reto para mantener los bienes y servicios, la integralidad, funcionalidad y resiliencia del Bioma frente a efectos y presiones naturales y antrópicas en el contexto de cambio climático.
15-Oct-2010
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| abstract: | El Plan Regional de Acción 2010 – 2020, contiene un conjunto de acciones estratégicas y actividades de corto (1-4 años), mediano (5-7) y largo (7-10 años) plazo, para lograr los objetivos del Programa de Trabajo de Áreas Protegidas en los próximos diez años y consolidar la visión compartida de conservación del Biomo Amazónico. Esta propuesta pretende apoyar la implementación de las acciones que se definieron como prioritarias para el corto plazo en este plan regional. |
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| objectives: | Los objetivos y resultados de esta propuesta están enmarcados en el Plan de Acción 2010-2020. Las necesidades de financiación de las acciones estratégicas de corto plazo, asciende a U$7,209,220.98 (Tabla 5). |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6358 |
| funding needed: | $7,209,220 USD€5 861 154 EUR |
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Brazil
Consolidating the Brazilian National System of Conservation Units - SNUC
11-Oct-2010
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| abstract: | This proposal seeks to strengthen the Brazilian National System of Conservation Units (SNUC). Priority areas identified include: organizational strengthening and capacity building at all levels of the SNUC; strengthening of protected area management; building financial sustainability through the broad recognition by society; and the value of protected areas to the national economy and to the well-being of present and future generations. Communication and social outreach, accountability mechanisms and monitoring play key roles in this proposal in light of the necessity to establish effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. |
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| objectives: | The brief analysis between PoWPA and developed know-how in Brazil highlights the knowledge gaps that this Expression of Interest intends to mitigate. Particularly as they pertain to the following areas: Values of protected areas, financial sustainability, requirements in terms of capacity, communications and outreach, research needs and effective management. |
| area impacted: | The objective is to strengthen the National System of Conservation Units – celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this year - as a whole. Currently, there are around 700 conservation units on federal and state level involved by this project. Other projects with national and international financing will create and consolidate new protected areas in order to achieve the protection targets established by the national conservation policy (compare graphic by bioma – Annex 2). |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6351 |
| funding needed: | $92,245,000 USD€74 995 935 EUR |
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funding from: | Government of Brazil
Germany €3 500 000 EUR
Germany €15 000 000 EUR
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Mexico
Estrategia para el Fortalecimiento de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas de México
07-Oct-2010
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| abstract: | La Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP), encargada de la administración de las Áreas Protegidas de México, busca fortalecer y consolidar la conservación, aprovechamiento sustentable y restauración de las áreas protegidas mexicanas, reconociendo el papel estratégico que juegan para el desarrollo del país. Asimismo, explora alternativas para el manejo de los recursos naturales que permiten transitar hacia un desarrollo sustentable, a través de la implementación de una estrategia financiera diversificada y sostenible a largo plazo.
El proyecto tiene como objetivo general implementar una estrategia financiera diversificada y sostenible, que contribuya a la conservación, aprovechamiento sustentable y restauración de los sistemas de áreas naturales protegidas mexicanas y que garantice la operatividad de las Áreas Protegidas en el largo plazo. |
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| objectives: | The objectives of conservation projects are to mitigate threats such as climate change and to restore or maintain the viability of focal conservation targets. A project may lack the resources to do so, so having a financial strategy provides an overview of the monetary needs and strategies for managing long-term funding to ensure sufficient levels of funding and diversified financial national and international sources. |
| area impacted: | The project aims at strengthening the management of 174 protected areas in Mexico, which are administered by the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas. These include: 41 Biosphere Reserves, 67 National Parks, 5 Natural Monuments, 8 Areas of Natural Resources Protection, 35 Areas of Flora and Fauna Protection, 18 Sanctuaries, which represent 25,384,818 hectares of land. The project also seeks to create 21 new protected areas, specifically: 5 Areas of Natural Resources Protection, 2 Natural Monuments, 6 Biosphere Reserves and 7 Sanctuaries. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6341 |
| funding needed: | $21,545,769 USD€17 516 885 EUR |
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funding from: | Multiple Donors
Germany €9 500 000 EUR
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Philippines
Philippines Protected Area System
08-Jul-2010
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| abstract: | This Expression of Interest seeks support for the Philippine National Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) to build upon existing gap and strategy assessments in an effort to complete a comprehensive strategic plan for the national protected area system, and to make a significant progress towards implementing the strategic plan. The gap assessment and strategic plan will guide the future growth and institutional development of both the national protected areas agency (Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau - PAWB) and its component protected areas, thereby advancing the security of the manifold economic and social benefits that the national protected areas system provides to humanity. |
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| objectives: | Complete the establishment of the baseline for each of the five program elements of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas; Develop a strategic action plan for strengthening the Philippines National Protected Areas; Achieve the implementation of key milestones of the strategic action plan. |
| area impacted: | Philippine National Protected Areas |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6181 |
| funding needed: | $10,630,000 USD€8 642 276 EUR |
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Germany €9 000 000 EUR
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Cambodia
Commune-based Protected Area Management - Piloting an alternative approach in Cambodia
03-Jun-2010
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| abstract: | The project is introducing an alternative approach that aims to make the commune the basic management unit for implementing protected area policies. The project is designed as a pilot with two main areas of operations, the unprotected Prey Long forest block and the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary. The project has four components: the establishment of commune development plans for natural resources management; legal and technical training to enable the commune councils to take on this new role; practical training and equipment support for field activities; and a biodiversity value awareness campaign in the targeted communes. |
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| objectives: | The main objectives are to integrate protected area management guidelines and related legislation into commune governance structures and to strengthen the capacity of communes to implement natural resource legislation. |
| area impacted: | The project involves two pilot sites: the Prey Long Forest Landscape in central Cambodia and the Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6090 |
| funding needed: | $950,000 USD€772 358 EUR |
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Liberia
Support to the Liberian Protected Area Network through Strengthening Management Capacity and Livelihood Support
11-May-2010
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| abstract: | Though relatively intact, the Sapo National Park, Grebo National Forest, Grand Kru-River Gee National Forest, East Nimba Nature Reserve and the Lake Piso Sustainable Multiple Use Reserve face serious threats from illegal and unsustainable logging, unsustainable farming and illegal extraction of natural resources. The aim of this project is to strengthen the management of the existing protected areas and support the establishment of proposed protected areas and national parks in Liberia. |
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| objectives: | Strengthen the management of the Sapo National Park, Grebo National Forest, Grand Kru-River Gee, East Nimba Nature Reserve and the Lake Piso Nature Reserve. Strengthen the process of the establishments of proposed new protected areas. Establish and monitor new or already existing landscape corridors within the Taï-Sapo complex. Establish sustainable livelihood support projects and income generation. Ensure Land Tenure Reform and the strengthening of local institutions and administration. Education, Public Awareness and Capacity Building on Biodiversity Conservation. |
| area impacted: | Sapo National Park, Grebo National Forest, Grand Kru-River Gee (not yet registered), East Nimba Nature Reserve and Lake Piso Sustainable Multiple Use Reserve
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6069 |
| funding needed: | $13,500,000 USD€10 975 610 EUR |
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Antigua and Barbuda
Ensuring Biodiversity Protection and Sustainability through the development of Protected Areas in Antigua and Barbuda
02-May-2010
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| abstract: | A number of areas have recently been identified through various projects as important biodiversity hotspots that harbour a number of species of fauna and flora and face various threats including inappropriate development, invasive species and species removal. The objective of this project is to designate one new area as a national park and to manage this along with an existing national park in a manner that addresses these threats and begin the process of establishing a system of protected areas in Antigua and Barbuda. |
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| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=6024 |
| funding needed: | $1,760,000 USD€1 430 894 EUR |
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Bangladesh
Establishing a Protected Area Network for Threatened Freshwater Dolphins in Waterways of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh
22-Apr-2010
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| abstract: | The Sundarbans of Bangladesh are already experiencing the ecological effects of global climate change and declining freshwater supplies: seawater is encroaching farther into the mangrove forest and sedimentation is increasing in areas of key biological importance. At the same time, freshwater cetaceans in Bangladesh are threatened by increasing incidental kills, primarily from entanglement in gillnets but also from long lines and trawl fisheries. The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) seek to ensure the protection of freshwater cetaceans while concurrently safeguarding the well-being of local fishermen who depend on the same aquatic resources. The project will strengthen an existing national system of protected areas, promote participation, equity and benefit sharing within the context of protecting threatened species and a vulnerable aquatic ecosystem, establish a sustainable program of enabling activities including capacity building, policy support, awareness raising, and targeted research, and provide a rigorous mechanism for assessment and monitoring in support of management goals. |
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| objectives: | Ensure the protection of freshwater cetaceans in Bangladesh while concurrently safeguarding the well-being of local fishermen who depend on these aquatic resources |
| area impacted: | Ganges River, waterways of the Sundarbans mangrove forest |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=5989 |
| funding needed: | $431,000 USD€350 407 EUR |
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Ethiopia
Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve: Model site for integration of research-based conservation and development
24-Mar-2010
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| abstract: | Yayu forest is one of the priority forest areas in Ethiopia. Over 450 higher plants, 50 mammal, 200 bird, and 20 amphibian species have been recorded in the area. The forest is also one of the few remnant habitats for coffee (Coffea arabica). Ethiopia is the only center of origin and diversity for C. arabica and hence is important for in situ conservation of genetic diversity. The Yayu coffee forest is also important for the livelihoods of local households and stakeholders at different levels. This project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation while contributing to the improvement of local livelihoods through adaptive conservation-development integration activities. To achieve this, the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve approach will be adopted. This project’s specific objectives are to strengthen the capacity of government agencies and community-based organizations responsible for biosphere reserve establishment and management, brand, promote and market coffee forest products, rehabilitate degraded parts of the forest area and establish protocols for the monitoring of forest conditions. |
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| objectives: | Supporting the establishment of the Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve through capacity-building, forest restoration, forest monitoring and promotion of coffee products |
| area impacted: | 167, 021 hectares: the Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve which was nominated by the government of Ethiopia in September 2009 |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4945 |
| funding needed: | $500,000 USD€406 504 EUR |
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Honduras
Management and Protection Enhancement of Private Natural Areas in Honduras
02-Mar-2010
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| abstract: | 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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| objectives: | (1) Encourage private forest conservation in priority representative ecological areas which serve as connecting areas and are identified in the national gap analysis, (2) Develop policies and technical criteria for private conservation management in Honduras, (3) Strengthen capacity for enhanced technical assistance, planning and management of private reserves nationwide, (4) Promote sustainable activities for economic development and environmental sustainability of private nature reserves in the country.
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| area impacted: | National |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4876 |
| funding needed: | $615,000 USD€500 000 EUR |
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Papua New Guinea
Rehabilitation of at least 17 priority Protected Areas (WMA) of the existing Papua New Guinea conservation areas system and extend the current 3% PA coverage of PNG’s territory to 5 % by 2015
18-Feb-2010
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| abstract: | PNG is home to one of just four large, intact tropical forest wilderness areas remaining on Earth, with over 30 million hectares of old growth forests. An astounding 50 percent of PNG’s plants (approximately 15,000 species in total) are endemic. |
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| objectives: | Rehabilitate at least 17 priority PAs, Implement a range of incentives related to health, education, water, electricity, agriculture, and communications to indigenous communities managing PAs, Develop a Management Plan and strong Management Committee in each PA, Expand the concept of resilient ecosystem based protected areas network from 3 to 5% of the national territory working with communities in 4 large new priority conservation areas to have these areas becoming recognised as Legal Conservation areas during this 5 year project, Commence a PNG Stewardship Endowment Fund to provide for the recurrent cost of incentives and managing all the selected conservation areas. |
| area impacted: | Papua New Guinea contains over 5% of the world's biodiversity in less than 1% of the world's total land
area. PNG is home to one large, intact tropical forest wilderness areas remaining on Earth, with over 30 million hectares of old growth forests. An astounding 50 percent of PNG's plants (approximately 15,000 species in total) are endemic. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4727 |
| funding needed: | $10,000,000 USD€8 130 081 EUR |
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Zimbabwe
Biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation initiative for the improvement of local community livelihoods for the Levanga Conservancy and surrounding areas.
09-Feb-2010
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| abstract: | The Levanga Conservancy, a 13 035 hectare wildlife ranch created in the 1970s, is located in South East (SE) lowveld of Zimbabwe and is part of the 350 000 hectares Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) in Chiredzi district in Masvingo province. |
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| objectives: | (1) Contribute to the development of wildlife, forest and watershed management as well as ecotourism, (2) Promote conservation and sustainable use models that promote equal access and benefit sharing by allowing local communities to benefit from benefits arising from the use of wildlife and cultural resources, (3) Improve community adaptation to climate change by initiating alternative livelihoods strategies, (4) Raise awareness on biodiversity conservation, ethno-ecotourism and climate change. |
| area impacted: | Levanga Conservancy, a 13 035 hectare wildlife ranch created in the 1970s, located in the South East Lowveld of Zimbabwe. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4715 |
| funding needed: | $532,419 USD€432 861 EUR |
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Solomon Islands
Building National Capacity for Mainstreaming Protected Areas Outcomes that Support Payments for Ecosystem Service and Climate Change Adaptation in the Solomon Islands
02-Feb-2010
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| abstract: | The Solomon Islands consists of six major islands, 30 smaller islands and approximately 962 isles, atolls and cays. The islands chain extends over a distance of 1600km with a total area of 28,369km2 and Sea area (EEZ) of 1.34million sq km (National Environment Management Strategy, 1993:6).The islands are highly diverse with rare and endemic species of indigenous flora and fauna. |
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| objectives: | Establish at least one large marine and one large terrestrial protected area for each of the six major islands identified in the National Gap Analysis in the Solomon Islands over the next 3 years. The protected areas to be established will consider climate change adaptation and PES to provide the incentive for ongoing support for these areas. |
| area impacted: | The islands are highly diverse with rare and endemic species of indigenous flora and fauna. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4707 |
| funding needed: | $1,950,000 USD€1 585 366 EUR |
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Colombia
Strengthening Colombia’s National Protected Areas
14-Jan-2010
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| abstract: | This comprehensive national scale project will seek to strenghthen all of the protected areas of which Colombia's National Parks System is currently comprised. At present, this includes 56 protected areas, covering 12.602.320 ha, equivalent to 9.3% of Colombia's terrestrial area and 1.98% of its marine area. |
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| objectives: | Consolidate and coordinate the National System of Protected Areas for all PAs in the National Parks System, including improving control and surveillance capabilities, governance and management. |
| area impacted: | The project will be developed at national context, covering all the regions comprised by the National Parks System (SPNN), which currently includes 56 protected areas (PA) and 12.602.320 ha (9.3% of the terrestrial area and 1.98% of the marine area of Colombia). The SPNN covers (approximately about the last declared National Park, Uramba Bahía Málaga) 144 of the 314 terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems of Colombia. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4683 |
| funding needed: | $35,032,660 USD€28 481 837 EUR |
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Lao People's Democratic Republic
Strengthening and enlarging the Protected Area System of Bolikhamxay Province of Lao PDR
19-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | Due to their uniqueness, these evergreen forests are globally irreplaceable and an ecological priority for the Laos national protected area system. Their size and contiguity make them the best chance for the long-term viability of the endemic wildlife. |
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| objectives: | Reduce illegal hunting and illegal habitat conversion inside the six accessible Protected Areas of Bolikhamxay and the proposed new Protected Area, to raise awareness among local communities, to monitor Protected Area management effectiveness through indicator species population levels and assessments of the levels of habitat conversion. |
| area impacted: | Mixed semi-tropical forests of western Bolikhamxay Province |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4052 |
| funding needed: | $632,220 USD€514 000 EUR |
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Uganda
Development of an independent Conservation Trust Fund supporting Uganda's protected area system
19-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | 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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| objectives: | Create the legal, governance and management structure for the Uganda Conservation Trust Fund, Establish the fundraising, management and investment capacity to operate the fund and the granting procedure with an initial set of small grants. |
| area impacted: | National Parks, Wildlife Reserves and Community Wildlife Areas in Uganda, especially in the Albertine Rift region. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4051 |
| funding needed: | $469,000 USD€381 301 EUR |
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Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Strengthening Management and Consolidation of the La Paz Municipal Protected Areas System
08-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | The Municipality of La Paz posses a great variety of biodiversity, landscapes and ecosystems which, due to the unplanned increase of the urban areas, has been destroyed and devastated in many ways. |
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| objectives: | Strengthen environmental management of the Protected Areas System in the vacinity of the city of La Paz. The project intends to begin a conscientious process on the population, especially urban population, about the high value of protected areas, landscapes, mainly to raise inhabitants' consciousness of the importance of basins conservation belonging to protected areas which provide daily fresh water. The project will additionally aim to develop indicators and mechanisms that show harmony between productive and social development along with nature conservation. |
| area impacted: | Direct impat on areas in the vacinity of the city of La Paz, including those that provide fresh water to the urban popluation, and indirect impact on nationally through awareness building. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4050 |
| funding needed: | fully funded ($492,000 USD)fully funded (€400 000 EUR) |
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United Republic of Tanzania
Island Life - A National Protected Area Network for the Zanzibar Archipelago
08-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | The aim of the project is to ensure the preservation of viable populations of all of Zanzibar endangered endemics in a cohesive and well-managed network of government and community protected areas. These will be linked by functional habitat corridors and supported by local communities that benefit economically, environmentally and culturally from the conservation of their natural heritage. |
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| objectives: | (1) Create a network that incorporates all remaining conservation-priority forests into sustainably-managed government and community PAs linked by functional corridors; (2) Improve planning and management of the PA network; (3) Develop standardized long-term ecological monitoring programs across the entire network of government and community PAs; (4) Improve community forest management and equitable benefit sharing and Raise awareness of the importance of PAs. |
| area impacted: | Zanzibar-wide PA network |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4049 |
| funding needed: | $1,987,300 USD€1 615 691 EUR |
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Honduras
Strengthening the management of 7 Protected Areas in the Department of Olancho
06-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | 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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| objectives: | Strengthen the local capacity to improve the management of protected areas, create favourable conditions for local participation in the management of protected areas, consolidate an effective network of well managed protected areas, and ensure equitable and fair sharing of benefits from ecosystem goods and services with local communities. |
| area impacted: | The project will take place in the Department of Olancho, one of the most important regions for the national and local economy due to its forestry resources. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4048 |
| funding needed: | $1,230,000 USD€1 000 000 EUR |
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Afghanistan
Extending and strengthening Afghanistan’s Protected Area System
02-Oct-2009
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| abstract: | The proposed Little Pamir protected areas harbour Afghanistan’s largest populations of Marco Polo sheep. transboundary populations shared with China, Pakistan and Tajikistan. The area is one of WWF’s Global 200 ecoregions; i.e., one of the 200 most important ecoregions in the world. Band-e-Amir is Afghanistan’s only formally recognized protected area. By establishing Ajar as Wildlife Reserve and the Corridor as a protected landscape, a large area of northern Hazarajat will be brought under protection ensuring connectivity. |
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| objectives: | Identify potential protected areas in high priority areas of the country, Develop management plans and governance structures for already identified protected areas, and Enhance the management capacity in Afghanistan’s designated protected area. |
| area impacted: | Little Pamir, Band-e-Amir and Ajar in northern Hazarajat. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4043 |
| funding needed: | $2,000,000 USD€1 626 016 EUR |
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Madagascar
Action Tsitongambarika
30-Sep-2009
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| abstract: | 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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| objectives: | Establish an effective, sustainably financed, community co-managed protected area through the creation and promotion of an effective multi-sectoral partnership among the government, civil society and the private sector. |
| area impacted: | The lowland humid forest ecosystem in Southern Madagascar |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4042 |
| funding needed: | $307,500 USD€250 000 EUR |
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South Africa
Improved Livelihoods and Protected Areas through Land Reform Stewardship in South Africa
15-Sep-2009
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| abstract: | This Project will focus on 19 discreet pilot sites across South Africa, spanning five of its nine biomes and six of its nine provinces. The aim of the Project is to work closely with local communities to secure high priority biodiversity land in the protected area network and simultaneously to deliver livelihood benefits. |
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| objectives: | (1) Consolidate an emerging learning network and community of practice regarding land reform and biodiversity stewardship between the land sector and the biodiversity sector across the country; (2) Demonstrate the successful delivery of both livelihoods and biodiversity benefits at a pilot site level. |
| area impacted: | The Project focuses on nineteen pilot sites across South Africa, spanning five of its nine biomes and six of its nine provinces. Two of the pilot sites are located within the Maluti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Project (a project between South Africa and Lesotho) whereas several pilot sites are located within areas important for freshwater ecosystems |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4039 |
| funding needed: | $268,364 USD€218 182 EUR |
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United Republic of Tanzania
Western Tanzania Livelihoods and Forest Conservation Project
03-Sep-2009
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| abstract: | 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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| objectives: | (1) Enhance village land use planning and capacity building, (2) increase environmental education and awareness, (3) improve nature protection, (4) increase climate change resilience. |
| area impacted: | Forested regions of western Tanzania |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4030 |
| funding needed: | fully funded ($307,500 USD)fully funded (€250 000 EUR) |
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Peru
Conservation and Ecological Restoration of Lomas and Community-based Management of Natural Resources in Atiquipa
03-Sep-2009
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| abstract: | The Atiquipa lomas, located in the Caravelí province, Arequipa Region, are the most important and best preserved in Peru and contain the only remaining patch of lomas forest in the world. |
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| objectives: | Conservation, restoration and sustainable use of the Atiquipa lomas, with active participation of the Atiquipa Peasant Community including 1) biodiversity conservation, 2) water resources management and 3) climate change adaptation measures. |
| area impacted: | The Atiquipa lomas, unique and endangered ecosystems, located in the Caravelí province, Arequipa Region, are the most important and best preserved in Peru and contain the only remaining patch of lomas forest in the world. |
| link: | www.cbd.int/lifeweb/project.shtml?did=4029 |
| funding needed: | fully funded ($307,490 USD)fully funded (€249 992 EUR) |
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