Expressions of Interest from Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
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Social marketing training and campaigns will be implemented at 12 sites in Indonesia, through the government agencies responsible for management of priority marine protected areas. Each campaign will target a local population of about 20,000 people, and aim to change the behaviour of the fishing communities such that they understand the importance of no-take zones, respect them and support their enforcement. This will result in recovery of local fisheries and marine biodiversity and improve the management of about four million hectares of protected areas in Indonesia. Capacity of the local partners will be greatly strengthened so that they can sustain the campaigns and their impacts beyond the initial project. |
| funding needed |
$2,750,000.00 |
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The Program will support improved food security and improved income generation through sustainable fisheries management. Disease spread (and educational attainment) will be improved through improved levels of protein intake, especially among the poorer community members. Traditional access rights will be respected and reinforced. In some sites, where scuba diving tourism occurs, tourism will be improved due to the potential to see more large fish and enhanced marine diversity.
Adaptation to climate change will result from effective conservation of NTZs, and this can be further improved by mapping and conservation of areas that are more resilient to rises in sea water temperature.
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To be determined. About 50 of Indonesia’s official marine protected areas are candidate sites, from which 12 will be chosen. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6588 |
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The Leuser Ecosystem, situated near the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, is the largest conservation area in Southeast Asia, and arguably one of the richest in biological diversity. Its wide range of habitats, ranging from coastal beaches and lowland forests to alpine meadows, together with its large size (almost 3 million hectares) makes it the best hope of conserving such rare Sumatran species as the Sumatran rhino, orangutan, tiger and elephant. The Leuser Ecosystem is also the focus of a new approach for conservation in Indonesia, in which the management of a given part, which lies in Aceh (about 90% of the total), is the responsibility of the Government of Aceh; more specifically, a professionally staffed management authority known by its acronym BPKEL. This highly dedicated team of about 200 people has shown its effectiveness in reversing the forest destruction caused by illegal palm oil development, illegal logging, and inappropriate infrastructure. The Leuser Ecosystem is also a major carbon sink and has a mitigating impact on local climate. Enhancing this service, along with other environmental services such as natural beauty (for tourism) and fast flowing water (for run-of-river hydropower). This project aims to strengthen the management and financing of the Leuser Ecosystem while making its financing more sustainable. |
| funding needed |
$24,000,000.00 |
| objective |
Strenghthen the capacity of the Leuser Ecosystem Management Authority to carry out its duties; Harmonise development plans with conservation strategies; Protect and restore the Leuser Ecosystem; Achieve Sustainable Financing |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Carbon sequestration; Storm barriers, flood control and protection against sea level rise; Freshwater security; Income generation from tourism |
| area(s) impacted |
The Leuser Ecosystem is located near the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia. It is the largest conservation area in South East Asia. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6451 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$2,750,000.00 |
| objective |
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. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
The Program will support improved food security and improved income generation through sustainable forest management. Disease spread (and educational attainment) will be improved through improved nutrition, especially among the poorer community members. Traditional access rights will be respected and reinforced. In some sites, tourism will be improved due to the potential to see forest diversity and stay in traditional homestays.
Adaptation to climate change will result from effective conservation of forests, which in turn will help to conserve freshwater supplies and reduce seasonality of flow. Reduced forest degradation will also improve forest resilience to the spread of fire due to the heightened humidity at the forest floor.
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| area(s) impacted |
To be determined. About 50 of Indonesia’s official forest protected areas are candidate sites, from which 15 will be chosen. |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6432 |
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Social marketing training and campaigns will be implemented at 12 sites in Indonesia, through the government agencies responsible for management of priority marine protected areas. Each campaign will target a local population of about 20,000 people, and aim to change the behaviour of the fishing communities such that they understand the importance of no-take zones, respect them and support their enforcement. This will result in recovery of local fisheries and marine biodiversity and improve the management of about four million hectares of protected areas in Indonesia. Capacity of the local partners will be greatly strengthened so that they can sustain the campaigns and their impacts beyond the initial project. |
| funding needed |
$2,750,000.00 |
| objective |
This project aims to foster lasting understandings of the importance of no-take zones (NTZ), emphasize capacity-building and improve governance of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) by engaging local communities in the implementation of NTZ and managemnt of MPA. It also seeks to increase coral reef, fish biomass and hard coral cover in MPAs of the Coral Triangle. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
The Program will support improved food security and improved income generation through sustainable fisheries management. Disease spread (and educational attainment) will be improved through improved levels of protein intake, especially among the poorer community members. Traditional access rights will be respected and reinforced. In some sites, where scuba diving tourism occurs, tourism will be improved due to the potential to see more large fish and enhanced marine diversity.
Adaptation to climate change will result from effective conservation of NTZs, and this can be further improved by mapping and conservation of areas that are more resilient to rises in sea water temperature. |
| area(s) impacted |
This project, which to be mplemented together with the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, will promote sustainable fisheries management through no take zone establishment, directly benefiting hundreds of local fishing communities in at least 12 of Indonesia's most important marine protected areas. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6426 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$7,209,220.00 |
| objective |
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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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6358 |
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This project seeks to establish public-private partnerships in the Dinaric Arc Ecoregion in South-Eastern Europe. It includes the development of six business plans and at least the same number of public-private partnerships in southeast Europe and is based on thorough Protected Area need assessments. It also finds a context of political commitment as expressed in the Big Win joint statement and commitments at CBD COP 9 in 2008, and again, in the joint statement of Dinaric countries at the recent SBSTTA meeting in Nairobi. |
| funding needed |
$1,888,331.40 |
| objective |
Environmental authorities responsible for managing protected areas in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia have the knowledge, skills and tools to ensure the financial sustainability in the PA pilot sites and the creation of favourable conditions allows the successful collaboration with private sector initiatives. |
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The project will specifically seek to strengthen the management of the following pilot protected areas: Dajti National Park (Albania), Sutjeska NP and Hutovo blato NP(Bosnia and Herzegovina), Sjeverni Velebit NP(Croatia), and Tara NP(Serbia) |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6324 |
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Codrington Lagoon National Park (CLNP) is in the preliminary stages of development. However, due to current economic conditions, there is a lack of adequate financing to ensure the continued development of the national park. As a result, the national park is in jeopardy of being left unattended. The objectives of the project are to develop infrastructure for CLNP, build capacity among staff to implement management activities in the park, and re-establishing natural protective barriers from natural disasters around the park. |
| funding needed |
$1,375,000.00 |
| objective |
Develop infrastructure for the Codrington Lagoon National Park, build capacity among staff to implement management activities in the park, and re-establishing natural protective barriers from natural disasters around the park. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Storm barriers, flood control and protection against sea level rise, food security, income generation, conservation of biodiversity |
| area(s) impacted |
The Codrington Lagoon National Park |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6036 |
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The project will ensure long-term functionality of the Sustainable Eastern Caribbean Island Network (SEINET), which aims to confront emerging consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss by expanding and strengthening the Eastern Caribbean network of protected areas. Specifically, the project addresses the following elements: ecosystem-based adaptation for climate change, multiple-use marine zoning, sustainable finance mechanisms, community well-being and livelihood opportunities, and a comprehensive multi-pronged communications approach. |
| funding needed |
$20,250,000.00 |
| objective |
Expanding and strengthening the Eastern Caribbean network of protected areas |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Climate change adaptation, livelihood security, conservation of marine biodiversity |
| area(s) impacted |
6 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6032 |
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This project targets 8 of 30 protected areas in Timor Leste. These areas were selected because they contain high levels of biodiversity and threatened species, their boundaries are still unclear, and there is a lack of alternative livelihoods in those protected areas which drives deforestation, coral reef destruction and over-exploitation of wildlife. Specifically, the project seeks to create management plans for these protected areas, develop alternative livelihood for the communities living in and around these protected areas, increase staff capacity to manage these protected areas, and build geographic information systems (GIS) capacity to provide up-to-date information on the protected areas. |
| funding needed |
$2,000,000.00 |
| objective |
This project targets 8 protected areas for which it seeks to create and implement management plans, develop alternative livelihoods for associated communities and increase management staff capacity. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, food security, income generation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| area(s) impacted |
8 protected areas in Timor-Leste: Nino Konis Santana National Park, Tilomar Reserve, Mount Diatuto, Mount Mundo Perdido, Mount Taroman, Manucoco Reserve and Mount Matebian and Mount Tata Mailau. |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 6004 |
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The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) 1 is the largest and most diverse part of the greater Micronesian sub-region of the vast Pacific region. |
| funding needed |
$169,797.00 |
| objective |
Strengthening existing management and Enhancing remote management capacity;
Promoting connectivity and creating appropriate linkages to enhance climate change adaptation and/or resiliency;
Contributing to local achievements and targets under the Micronesia Challenge Framework |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Climate Change Adaptation, Freshwater Security, Food Security, Human Health, Cultural and Spiritual Access, Income Generation |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4944 |
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| funding needed |
$15,000,000.00 |
| objective |
To create at least 10 million hectares of new protected areas between 2010 - 2013 in poorly represented habitats in national protected areas systems in South America |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Improved livelihoods and wellbeing of local communities, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Income generation, Food/fresh water security |
| area(s) impacted |
Amazon region, South America |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4872 |
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The Eastern Caribbean is at the front line of adapting to climate change. Small islands are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, protected areas, economies, tourism and the communities that live there.
While global attention has been brought to bear on this issue, there remains a critical communications challenge: how to effectively engage the public, ensuring they have access to sound and timely information and a clear vision of what they can do to help mitigate the challenges posed by climate change.
My Island – My Community is an ambitious new partnership program committed to building public awareness across the Eastern Caribbean to encourage wide spread behavior change with regard to small island community preparedness and adaptation to climate change. It brings together a unique network of organizations committed to using the power of communications to enhance knowledge sharing, engage the public and directly support CBA activities (Community Based Adaption) across the 9 countries of the Eastern Caribbean. |
| funding needed |
$1,500,000.00 |
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Strengthen public awareness for behaviour change about the value of protected areas to climate change adaptation, economic development, and human wellbeing; focussed on decision-makers and resource users. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Climate change adaptation, food security, income generation. |
| area(s) impacted |
Regional |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4731 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$10,000,000.00 |
| objective |
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. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Community based protected area management, freshwater security, food security, cultural and spriritual access, income generation. |
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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. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4727 |
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Following participation in a regional workshop in Nadi in February 2009 to assess progress against PoWPA for Pacific Island countries, information on important marine and estuarine species and habitats was collated during a national planning workshop in June 2009 to develop marine and estuarine conservation targets for the national-scale ecological gap analysis. |
| funding needed |
$626,000.00 |
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Collate existing freshwater and marine information into a centralized, spatially referenced database, Collect new biodiversity and biogeographic information from data deficient taxa and habitats and Raise the technical capacity of members of the national Protected Area Committee (PAC) in conservation planning skills to improve the quality of products resulting from the ecological gap analysis. Timeframe: 3 years. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Identify priority areas for aquatic biodiversity protection in rivers, estuaries, and inshore and offshore waters. |
| area(s) impacted |
The Fijian marine ecoregion lies adjacent to the global hotspot for tropical marine biodiversity and provides livelihoods for thousands of people. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4708 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$1,950,000.00 |
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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. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Local level participation, carbon sequestration, storm barriers, flood control and protection against sea level rise, freshwater security, food security, regulating spread of diseases, cultural and spiritual access,Income generation from tourism and sustainable resource harvesting. |
| area(s) impacted |
The islands are highly diverse with rare and endemic species of indigenous flora and fauna. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4707 |
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Caribbean Challenge initiative—a government-led effort currently involving eight Insular Caribbean governments (CC8) who have committed to establish, by 2020, comprehensive and effective national systems of marine and coastal protected areas that cover at least 20% of their near-shore marine / coastal environment. |
| funding needed |
$11,000,000.00 |
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Improve soil stability and fertility, control and eradicate invasive species, enhance water quality and quantity, reduce people’s vulnerability to the direct impacts of climate change, protect food and water security. |
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The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau (ROP). |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4706 |
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Lying at the southern end of the Coral Triangle, the Lesser Sunda Ecoregion (LSE) stretches from Bali to Timor Leste, covering an area of more than 45 million hectares. Linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the LSE supports diverse and highly productive coral reef and pelagic habitats and is an important transition zone between Pacific and Indian faunas |
| funding needed |
$3,250,000.00 |
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(1) strengthen the existing MPAs and MPA networks, (2) identify new areas for MPAs and (3) carry out coastal and marine spatial planning which align with conservation and sustainable use of resources. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Income generation from sustainable resource harvesting and tourism, food security, cultural and spiritual access. |
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At the southern end of the Coral Triangle, the Lesser Sunda Ecoregion (LSE) stretches from Bali to Timor Leste, covering an area of more than 45 million hectares. Linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the LSE supports diverse and highly productive coral reef and pelagic habitats and is an important transition zone between Pacific and Indian faunas. |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4705 |
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Samaná Bay, a priority site for protection and one of the largest and most productive estuaries in the country, is an important humpback whale breeding area and home to large numbers of endemic species and important habitats including mangroves and seagrass beds, which in addition to providing spawning and recruitment areas, have been shown globally to sequester carbon on the same order as terrestrial forests.
Dwindling vital marine resources and biodiversity in a highly complex seascape increasingly threatened by unsustainable uses are risking the region's main economy and the livilihoods of hundreds fishers and tourism dollars generated from whale watching. |
| funding needed |
$612,000.00 |
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Study, monitor and work with the local communities to strengthen the management, the sustainable use and climate change adaptation of the marine areas within the region. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Cultural and Spiritual Access, Income Generation (e.g. from tourism, sustainable resource harvesting), and improved management and monitoring. |
| area(s) impacted |
Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic’s northeastern coast |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4672 |
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To build the social, economic and ecological resilience of mangrove biodiversity “hotspots,”
by restoring substantial critical mangrove habitats, developing sustainable mangrove resource
based cooperative businesses, and strengthening existing adaptive collaborative management
policies and practices. |
| funding needed |
$1,752,613.20 |
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Build the social, economic and ecological resilience of mangrove biodiversity "hotspots," by restoring substantial critical mangrove habitats, developing sustainable mangrove resource based cooperative businesses, and strengthening existing adaptive collaborative management policies and practices. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Build social, economic, and ecological resilience in critical mangrove systems of Indonesia. |
| area(s) impacted |
Sumatera and Wallacea wetland areas. |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4620 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$337,500.00 |
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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. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Conserve the unique biodiversity values of TGK forest and reduce poverty among forest-dependent communities |
| area(s) impacted |
The lowland humid forest ecosystem in Southern Madagascar |
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http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4042 |
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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. |
| funding needed |
$396,250.00 |
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Create new protected area(s) and Strengthen the management of an existing protected area. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Improve the Northern Reefs ecosystems and the livelihood of the communities of the States of Kayangel and Ngarchelong, establish sustainable use of the natural resources and food security of the area. |
| area(s) impacted |
The Northern Reefs, marine habitats |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4038 |
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MaMaBay faces many challenges – growing demands for agricultural land, intensive bushmeat hunting, illegal logging, unchecked and unsustainable fishing and expanding oil and gas industries. As productivity of the land is increasingly diminished by poor planning and land-use practices, more people turn to the forest and the sea for their livelihoods. |
| funding needed |
$1,500,000.00 |
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(1) Promote sustainable systems of forest, agriculture, coastal and marine resource management by local communities; (2) Build effective governance capacity in local communities and regional authorities; (3) Improve ranger based monitoring and control, community participatory monitoring and adaptive management. Timescale: 2 years. |
| ecosystem service benefits |
Conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial and marine resources. Ecosystem resiliency and adaptation to climate change. |
| area(s) impacted |
MamaBay marine area |
| link |
http://www.cbd.int/lifeweb/?eoi= 4036 |
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Global Island Partnership (GLISPA)
The Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) assists islands in addressing one of the world’s greatest challenges: to conserve and sustainably utilize the invaluable island natural resources that support people, cultures, and livelihoods in their island homes around the world. It brings together island nations and nations with islands — small and large, developing and developed — to mobilize leadership, increase resources and share skills, knowledge, technologies and innovations in a cost-effective and sustainable way that will catalyze action for conservation and sustainable livelihoods on islands. It is recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as a partnership to advance the implementation of the CBD 2010 biodiversity target, to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss, and the programmes of work on island biodiversity and protected areas.
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The Global Island Database (GID)
aims to develop linkages, partnerships and collaborations with the wide array of organisations involved in island conservation and decision-making to ensure that the database is up-to-date and relevant, and so it provides a platform for communication and networking. 
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