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SAUDI ARABIA YEM11 Conservation Outcomes YEM21 1 Yemen scale: 1/3,000,000 Eastern Afromontane 50 km Conservation 200 0 200 400 600 Key Biodiversity Areas in the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot ARABIAN The Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot prevent biodiversity loss. Key biodiversity areas In order to match the level of funding available PENINSULA kilometers stretches over a curving arc of widely scattered (KBAs) are sites that are globally significant for from CEPF with a concomitant geographic HIGHLANDS scale: 1/7,000,000 but biogeographically similar mountains. It covers biodiversity conservation and are considered scope, CEPF and the consulted stakeholders Outcomes YEM1 projection: sinusoidal an area of more than 1 million square kilometers actually or potentially manageable for prioritized 36 terrestrial sites, five freshwater running over a distance of more than 7,000 conservation. KBAs contain species that require sites, and six corridors. The terrestrial sites YEM20 central meridian 37° east longitude YEM18 Sanaa kilometers. The hotspot is remarkable for both its site-scale conservation to prevent extinction represent 5.5 million hectares, or 18 percent of YEM YEM5 12 hotspot boundary high level of biological diversity and the life- within the next generation: globally threatened the total KBA area and 5.5 percent of the total YEM6 sustaining systems it maintains for millions species, restricted-range species, and globally surface of the Hotspot. Criteria used to prioritize Eastern Afromontane YEM2 of people. Characterized by a series of montane significant congregations of species. Corridors these targets include: number of globally LAKE TANA Y E M E N CATCHMENT CEPF priority corridor "islands" (including the highest peaks in Africa are interconnected landscapes of sites, anchored threatened species, presence of threatened YEM7 29 May 2012 and Arabia) and extensive plateaus, the hotspot on KBAs, with the rest of the conservation habitat types, resilience to climate change, status YEM8 is home to several ecoregions. They include the corridor comprising either areas that have the of protection, provision of ecosystem services, BALE YEM13 MOUNTAINS other biodiversity conservation corridor East African Montane Forests, Southern Rift potential to become part of an existing KBA threats, and opportunities for conservation R E D YEM24 Montane Forest-Grassland mosaic, the Albertine (through management or restoration) or areas action. 1/7,000,000 Rift and the Ethiopian Montane Grasslands and that contribute to the ability of the conservation S E A ETH36 terrestrial key biodiversity area, CEPF Priority* Woodlands, as well as the ecoregions of the corridor to support all elements of biodiversity in CEPF’s niche in the Eastern Afromontane YEM17 Southern Montane "islands" in Malawi, the long term. Hotspot is to support civil society to apply Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The result is a innovative approaches to conservation in under- YEM23 YEM3 TZA19 region suitable for a wide range of vegetation In 2011, a team led by BirdLife International and capacitated and underfunded protected areas, terrestrial key biodiversity area, other* types, with an estimated 7,600 plant species, Conservation International consulted more than key biodiversity areas, and priority corridors; of which at least 2,350 are endemic, or unique, 200 stakeholders from civil society, government, thereby enabling changes in policy and building YEM16 YEM22 Taizz ZMB1 freshwater key biodiversity area, to the region. and donor institutions to gather and synthesize resilience in the region’s ecosystems and CEPF priority data on biodiversity, socioeconomic and economy to sustain biodiversity in the long term. YEM15 Being so geographically vast, the Hotspot can be institutional context, climate change, ecosystem The specific strategic directions and investment YEM19 YEM split into four regions from north to south: the services, and ongoing and planned conservation priorities for the hotspot can be found in the freshwater key biodiversity area, 4 YEM18 Arabian Peninsula, the Ethiopian Highlands, the investments in the 15 countries in the hotspot. ecosystem profile available at www.cepf.net. other Albertine Rift, and the Eastern Arc and Southern This team identified 261 terrestrial KBAs, 49 YEM9 YEM10 † Highlands (including the Kenyan and northern freshwater KBAs, and 14 corridors, which include Virunga protected area Tanzanian volcanic mountains). representative elements of the Hotspot’s 2,350 endemic plant species, 157 endemic bird main map Mohi peak This map depicts geographic priorities for species, 90 endemic reptile species, 100 G u l f o f A d e n conservation in the Hotspot, showing key endemic mammal species, 100 endemic biodiversity areas (site-level outcomes) to be amphibian species, and 181 globally threatened Lilongwe town (national capitals underlined) protected and corridors (landscape-level freshwater fish species. outcomes) to be consolidated in order to country border (terrestrial) (disputed) 1 river (permanent) 2 (intermittent) 3 Riyadh 4 lake 30°E SAU10 40°E 50°E e wetland SAU14 5 inset map extent E G Y P T 6 n * Terrestrial key biodiversity areas (KBAs) incorporate data: management data and are delineated as discrete Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) 7 sites for implementing conservation action; freshwater BirdLife International a KBAs often include within their boundaries both Conservation International SAU5 focal areas for habitat conservation and wider IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit S A U D I VMap0, NGA Mecca SAU6 † watersheds or catchment areas. WDPA, 2011 scale: 1/75,000,000 t selection based upon location and includes IUCN A R A B I A Categories Ia, Ib, II-VI SAU projection: sinusoidal K.Koenig - Cartographer Biodiversity hotspots are regions 18 central meridian 37° east longitude © May 2012, CI Maps that harbor especially high SAU20 SAU4 numbers of endemic species and, SAU3 n at the same time, have been 20°N 2 Lake Tana significantly affected by human 20°N scale: 1/3,150,000 activities. Each hotspot faces Nile SAU12 ETH40 SAU 50 km extreme threats and has already SAU13 SAU 9 1 Gondar lost at least 70 percent of its R E D o SAU17 ETH49 original natural vegetation. Over fwETH3 50 percent of the world’s plant S E A SAU19 SAU16 ETH60 species and 42 percent of all SAU11 Lake Tana terrestrial vertebrate species are fwETH4 ETH endemic to the biodiversity S U D A N SAU2 SAU7 SAU15 29 fwETH2 hotspots, making them urgent m ETH10 priorities for biodiversity ETH61 SAU8 ETH76 conservation at a global scale. ERI9 YEM11 Scientists have identified 35 such Riyadh YEM14 fwETH1 areas around the world, providing E R I T R E A ERI6 o a basis for global prioritization of ERI4 ARABIAN PENINSULA conservation investments. ERI3 ETH54 ETH79 HIGHLANDS ETH9 LAKE TANA Khartoum ERI1 r ERI2 ETH16 e CATCHMENT l B i lu e ERI8 Asmara ERI5 Sanaa N ETH21 The Critical Ecosystem Partnership N e i t l f ETH36 Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of i e Y E M E N Conservation International, the h Dega, 3047m ERI7 Global Environment Facility, the W Government of Japan, the MacArthur ETH7 Khartoum Sanaa Abbay ETH42 Foundation, L'Agence Française de ETH Asmara (Blu ETH e N Développement and the World Bank. 66 il 70 ETH e) A fundamental goal of CEPF is to A 23 Taizz ETH59 ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation. 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