2017 Annual Report About CEPF Biodiversity—the rich array of life on Earth—is fundamental to human survival, but under tremendous and growing threat. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) was founded in 2000 to take on this challenge by empowering civil society in developing countries and transitional economies to protect the world’s biodiversity hotspots, which are some of Earth’s most biologically rich yet threatened terrestrial ecosystems.
92 2,215 Countries and Grantees Territories impacted Supported US$217M US$371M Grants leveraged by Committed those grants
14.7M hectares 45.7M hectares protected areas key biodiversity areas with created improved management 1,250 2,804 globally threatened species communities directly supported benefited
Figures for 2000 – June 30, 2017
1 WHAT MAKES CEPF UNIQUE CEPF supports the development of conservation strategies that are driven by local input, and provides grants to civil society—nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), communities, indigenous groups, the private sector and academic institutions—to implement those strategies. By these means, CEPF seeks to protect biodiversity, build long-term local conservation leadership and nurture sustainable development. The conservation strategies also are designed to be valuable to other entities working to conserve the biodiversity hotspots, and often lead to collaboration and coordination with other organizations and governments. CEPF’s investments are especially important because the biodiversity hotspots are home to more than 1 billion people, millions of whom are impoverished and highly dependent on nature for survival.
Our Grants • Are guided by ecosystem profiles—analyses of the biodiversity and socio-economic conditions in biodiversity hotspots—that are produced by, and in consultation with, local stakeholders and serve as regional conservation strategies. • Go directly to civil society groups in the biodiversity hotspots to build this vital constituency for conservation alongside governmental partners. • Are awarded on a competitive basis. • Complement governments’ efforts to meet targets related to the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (the Aichi Targets), the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. • Create working alliances among diverse groups, combining unique capacities and eliminating duplication of efforts. • Achieve long-term results through an ever-expanding network of partners working together toward shared goals and enduring conservation leadership.
OUR DONOR PARTNERS CEPF is a joint program of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. For more information, please visit www.cepf.net.
Cover photo: A man navigates the Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar. © Olivier Langrand Young woman with baby in Nzérékoré, Guinea. © Olivier Langrand 2 How CEPF Works
Private Sector Academia International NGOs Local and National NGOs Community-Based Organizations
CEPF Secretariat
Donor Partners
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6 7 5 1 Biodiversity 1. CEPF commissions strategies Hotspot prepared by stakeholders. 2. CEPF Secretariat and its regional implementation team (RIT) assess the RIT’s capacity and determine roles and responsibilities.
4 3. CEPF provides grants and technical support to 2 civil society, including the RIT. 4. Civil society implements projects that contribute to the conservation strategy.
5. Projects result in species and 3 ecosystem conservation. 6. Local civil society leadership grows.
7. Local civil society takes the lead on hotspot conservation.
4 Contents
YEAR IN REVIEW 7
CEPF AND THE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS 9
MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 11
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON 13
THE PARTNERSHIP 15
PROGRESS REPORT 17
HIGHLIGHTS 29
APPROVED GRANTS 41
FINANCIAL SUMMARY 49
GRANTEE PARTNERS 53
DONOR COUNCIL AND WORKING GROUP 63
SECRETARIAT AND REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS 64
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The CEPF burrowing frog (Fejervarya cepfi) found in Ambali, India. © SD Biju | People of Talae Village, Cambodia, participate in land use planning. © Non Timber Forests Products (NTFP) Organization | Insect found along the Nu River, China. © Li Xiaolong | Permaculture project participant Lisa Manembu tends a garden on Karakalang Island. © IDEP Foundation/ Image by Gede Sugiarta | Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana), Sulawesi, Indonesia. © Riza Marlon 6 Year in Review
August 2016 Grantees share lessons in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands Civil society organizations came together in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and Honiara, Solomon Islands, to discuss progress made by CEPF-funded projects in each country through CEPF’s investment in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot. Recipients of CEPF grants shared experiences, achievements and lessons learned since the investment began in 2013. Networking and partnership building were an important part of the meetings, as well as national priorities for biodiversity conservation.
© IUCN Oceania August/September 2016 Cerrado and Guinean Forests grant making moves ahead CEPF staff traveled to Brasilia, Brazil, and to Accra, Ghana, to train two new regional implementation teams (RITs): Institute for Education in Brazil (Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil – IEB) for the Cerrado Biodiversity Hotspot, and BirdLife International for the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot. The RITs work on the ground directly with CEPF’s grantees, helping to build local capacity and implement CEPF’s strategy in the biodiversity hotspot. CEPF and the new RITs also issued the first calls for proposals for each hotspot.
© Michael Becker September 2016 Partnership for Key Biodiversity Areas launched Twelve international conservation organizations, including CEPF, launched the KBA Partnership during the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii. The partnership was established to enhance global conservation efforts by systematically mapping globally important sites and ensuring that financial resources are directed to these most important areas for biodiversity.
October 2016 © Jaime Rojo Western Ghats final assessment report published Following seven years of grant making in the Western Ghats of India, part of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot, CEPF and its regional implementation team, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), published the final assessment report for the investment. The report provides an overview of the US$6.1 million investment, distributed via more than 100 grants to civil society groups in the hotspot. Results include: • Global threat assessments completed for 1,394 species, and management plans implemented for 14 priority species. • Biodiversity conservation strengthened for more than 220,000 hectares within protected areas and more than 110,000 © Olivier Langrand hectares in production landscapes. • Sustainable agricultural practices adopted by 34 tea and coffee estates, covering more than 19,000 hectares. • Community forests rights of tribal communities officially recognized across a cumulative area of 80,700 hectares. • Four new conservation reserves created, covering more than 41,000 hectares and piloting a model that acknowledges the inextricable link between conservation and human well-being.
7 November 2016 Caribbean Islands ecosystem profile update launched Following an initial five-year investment in the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot that was completed in late 2015, CEPF contracted a team to lead the updating of the hotspot’s ecosystem profile—the stakeholder-driven assessment that guides CEPF grant making. Led by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), planning for the update began in November 2016. By the end of the fiscal year, the profiling team had engaged more than 125 people as participants in national consultations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. Participants represented a broad cross section of the conservation community. Building resilience to climate change received considerable attention in the national consultations and will be reflected in the CEPF investment strategy. © Olivier Langrand February 2017 Indo-Burma team organizes coordination among regional donors, grantees CEPF collaborated with other funders active in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot to support a regional meeting of civil society groups and their donors aimed at a new approach to coordination at the regional scale. CEPF’s regional implementation team for the hotspot, the IUCN Asia Regional Office, organized the meeting, which was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Participants discussed the development of a networked model linking implementers, intermediaries and funders working on ecosystem conservation in the Lower Mekong Region. A vision statement for the network was developed and a range of collaborative projects identified. © CI/photo by David Emmett April 2017 Mountains of Central Asia ecosystem profile draft completed In April, the team developing the ecosystem profile for the Mountains of Central Asia Biodiversity Hotspot—led by Zoï Environment Network, a Switzerland-based NGO with extensive experience in Central Asia—completed a draft of the profile, which was then reviewed by the CEPF Donor Working Group and subsequently approved in August 2017 by the CEPF Donor Council.
© Olivier Langrand May 2017 Regional implementation teams exchange ideas and experiences CEPF held a Regional Implementation Team Exchange in Athens, Greece. Twenty-eight members of CEPF’s RITs from the nine biodiversity hotspots where CEPF currently is making grants came together for three days to share ideas, challenges and solutions. Three former RIT leaders from previous investments also attended to provide insight and perspective. Sessions included building grantee capacity, incorporating gender into CEPF’s work and finding ways to engage with the private sector. © Thomais Vlachogianni June 2017 Newly discovered frog species named after CEPF Five years of extensive field studies in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Biodiversity Hotspot by Sonali Garg, a Ph.D. student of former CEPF grantee and University of Delhi professor S.D. Biju, led to the discovery of four new species of burrowing frogs in the Western Ghats region of India. In recognition of CEPF’s investment in the hotspot from 2008 through 2015, one of the species was named in honor of CEPF. The world of biodiversity welcomes the CEPF burrowing frog (Fejervarya cepfi). Mediterranean Basin Hotspot ecosystem profile finalized As CEPF’s first five-year, US$11 million investment in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot approached © SD Biju completion, CEPF finalized an update of the ecosystem profile for the hotspot in June, laying the groundwork for a second investment. Produced by a consortium of organizations led by BirdLife International and IUCN, the updated profile represents the input from consultations with more than 500 people representing local governments, communities, businesses and civil society organizations in the hotspot. The resulting analysis of the hotspot and its biodiversity sets out a conservation strategy that will guide CEPF’s planned investment of an additional US$10 million over the next five years.
8 CEPF and the Biodiversity Hotspots
CEPF supports civil society-led conservation projects in developing and transitional countries and territories within Earth’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. These hotspots hold especially high numbers of unique species and provide services that are vital to human well-being, such as clean air and water; flood and climate control; soil regeneration; and food, medicines and raw materials. The biodiversity hotspots face extreme threats. Each hotspot has lost at least 70 percent of its original natural vegetation, and the remaining areas of natural habitat within the biodiversity hotspots cover only 2.3 percent of the planet’s land surface. But this relatively small area harbors 77 percent of the planet’s terrestrial vertebrate species, many of which can only be found in the biodiversity hotspots. From its inception in 2000 through fiscal year 2017, CEPF has awarded grants to civil society partners in 24 biodiversity hotspots to implement its stakeholder-driven strategies—known as ecosystem profiles—for 3 protecting the most critical ecosystems in the 15 28 biodiversity hotspots. During the 2017 fiscal year, CEPF was active in grant making in nine biodiversity 22 hotspots: Cerrado, East Melanesian Islands, Eastern Afromontane, Guinean Forests of West Africa, Indo-Burma, Madagascar and 5 the Indian Ocean Islands, Mediterranean Basin, Tropical Andes, and Wallacea. In 21 late 2015, CEPF launched development of 1 a new ecosystem profile for the Caribbean Islands, following the completion of five years of grant making in the hotspot. Once completed, the new profile will provide 26 the framework for future biodiversity conservation funding in the Caribbean Islands. Also, during fiscal year 2017, CEPF completed ecosystem profiles for a planned Biodiversity Hotspots first-time investment in the Mountains of Central Asia Hotspot and a reinvestment in Current CEPF Investment the Mediterranean Basin Hotspot.
Note: The Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Past CEPF Investment Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Hotspot was divided in 2005; a portion of it is now part of the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot, and the Eligible for CEPF Investment remainder is part of the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Hotspot. Before the separation, CEPF had initiated an investment in the original Eastern Other Hotspots Arc Hotspot and, through that investment, awarded grants in portions of the hotspots that are now known as the Eastern Afromontane and the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa. Inception through fiscal year 2017
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Biodiversity Hotspots Where CEPF Has Invested
1. Atlantic Forest 13. Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 2. Cape Floristic Region 14. Mediterranean Basin 3. Caribbean Islands 15. Mesoamerica Eligible for CEPF 4. Caucasus 16. Mountains of Southwest China 5. Cerrado 17. Philippines Investment 6. Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa 18. Polynesia-Micronesia 25. Irano-Anatolian 7. East Melanesian Islands 19. Succulent Karoo 26. Chilean Winter Rainfall–Valdivian 8. Eastern Afromontane 20. Sundaland Forests 9. Guinean Forests of West Africa 21. Tropical Andes 27. Horn of Africa 10. Himalaya 22. Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 28. Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands 11. Indo-Burma 23. Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 29. Mountains of Central Asia 12. Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands 24. Wallacea
10 Message from the Executive Director
CEPF grantees build local capacity, collaboration and a future for the great green macaw Even people who do not have the faintest interest in birds are likely to be impressed by the great green macaw (Ara ambiguus)—its 85–90 cm long green-and-blue body is highlighted by bright red patches on the forehead and tail. Its beauty has contributed to the macaw’s unfortunate popularity in the illegal pet trade. But a bigger problem for the species, which is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species, has been the loss of its natural habitat. This spectacular bird species is part of the vibrant ecosystems of lowland tropical rainforests in Central and South America. But logging and clearance for agriculture and ranching have reduced the macaw’s distribution range. The great green macaw particularly relies on mountain almond trees (Dipteryx panamensis) for nesting and food, but these unique trees are disappearing due to their high value as commercial hardwood. Taking action In Costa Rica, the organization Tropical Science Center (TSC) was launched in 1994 to study the conservation biology of the great green macaw. Preliminary results provided evidence that the nesting range of this species in Costa Rica had been reduced by 90 percent since the early 20th century. TSC studied the macaw and its habitat, about which little was known, and used radio telemetry to compile basic data on its territory requirements. In 1998, after receiving a request from the Ministry of Environment and working with local and national stakeholders, TSC proposed a plan to protect enough habitat to maintain a viable breeding population in Costa Rica. The plan included the creation of the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge, 54,000 hectares of natural ecosystems that provide an ad hoc breeding habitat for the great green macaw. This is where CEPF stepped in. Through CEPF’s investment in the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot, which began in 2002, it sought to protect Maquenque as part of the conservation strategy CEPF developed with local stakeholders and with the support of the Costa Rican government. CEPF provided funds to TSC and the San Juan–La Selva Council, a consortium of organizations including TSC, to take the necessary steps toward establishing the reserve. Those steps included a land tenure study, development of a management plan and an education campaign. In doing this, not only were local organizations able to collaborate with government officials to eventually reach their goal of formal protection for this area in 2005, but they were also able to strengthen their own organizations and partnerships. Lasting benefits for people and nature Today, the legacy of these achievements is evident. Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge is the core of the San Juan–La Selva Biological Corridor and conserves biologically diverse forest and wetland ecosystems that host more than 6,000 species of vascular plants, as well as 139 mammal, 515 bird, 135 reptile and 80 amphibian species. Among the residents of the area is a growing population of great green macaws. Recent studies by TSC show that the population has increased from 210 in 1994 to more than 350 individuals, including 50 breeding pairs—a number that is steadily climbing.
11 “This is one of the most successful wildlife conservation efforts ever done in Costa Rica,” said Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, minister of environment of Costa Rica. “We feel proud in bringing from the brink of extinction this beautiful species.”
“Thanks in great part to the support of CEPF, Costa Rica has succeeded in restricting timber activities in the critical nesting area of the great green macaw as well as halting the unsustainable harvest of the mountain almond tree on which this species heavily depends,” said Olivier Chassot, former executive director of TSC, who is now executive director and chief executive officer of the organization MigraMar. Communities are also benefiting from these conservation efforts. To promote sustainable development and conservation in the northern part of Costa Rica, the Costa Rican government provided incentives to local farmers and communities to encourage their support for reforestation with native tree species that are both commercially important and of benefit to the great green macaw. Consequently, a high percentage of Maquenque and of the biological corridor is conserved through environmental service payments to private landowners. The San Juan–La Selva Council also has worked to generate employment opportunities in the area, which was previously economically depressed. A shift from limited forestry and agricultural activities to a more integrative socio-economic vision based on small-scale, nature-based tourism has fostered more long-term and sustainable employment. Years of environmental education, capacity building, information campaigns and cultural events have led communities to an empathy for the plight of the great green macaw, according to Chassot. Additionally, the direct and active participation of the communities in research and conservation has further encouraged residents to get their voices heard on matters affecting their environment. “This is one of the most successful wildlife conservation efforts ever done in Costa Rica,” said Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, minister of environment of Costa Rica. “We feel proud in bringing from the brink of extinction this beautiful species.” The amount of money CEPF provided for projects related to Maquenque was modest—US$217,000 in total. But what CEPF grantees have been able to achieve with that support is testimony to the power that lies in a strong local civil society. CEPF’s funding served as a catalytic contribution to the efforts of local conservation leaders, who have successfully demonstrated that nature in all its magnificent diversity can thrive while supporting communities. – Olivier Langrand, CEPF executive director
Olivier Langrand. © Nicholas Karlin | A great green macaw takes flight in Costa Rica. © Ralph Earlandson/Flickr Creative Commons 12 Message from the Chairperson
Results show importance of civil society in conservation and sustainable development CEPF began making grants to civil society organizations to conserve biodiversity in 2001, as species and the ecosystems that support them were under tremendous strain. Since then the world has changed a lot in a relatively short time—consider the rise of social media, proliferation of smart phones, adoption of the euro, the “War on Terror,” and the Arab Spring, for a few examples. And threats to biodiversity and natural ecosystems have continued to grow. The rising human population and its accompanying needs; ever-evolving organized crime and terrorism and their links to poaching; the steady acceleration of climate change: These challenges and more have made the diversity of life on Earth increasingly precarious. Nonetheless, with optimism and determination, the more than 2,200 CEPF grantees have chipped away at the biodiversity crisis as part of networks of local conservation projects in the world’s biodiversity hotspots, each project contributing to the implementation of larger hotspot strategies that in turn advance global conservation and sustainable development goals. These efforts have been designed to complement the environmental and sustainable development activities of governments and the private sector. CEPF demonstrates the vital role of civil society, giving individuals, indigenous peoples, communities, nongovernmental organizations and even small business operators the means to conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable development through projects that augment the efforts of other sectors. CEPF grantees are making a difference CEPF’s approach to measuring the impact of its grantees has evolved over time. To date, here’s some of what we know: • CEPF-funded projects have benefited more than 1,250 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. • Projects receiving CEPF support have contributed to the creation or expansion of 14.7 million hectares of protected areas, roughly the size of Nepal, and have strengthened the management of 45.7 million hectares of Key Biodiversity Areas, an area larger than Sweden. • Of the grant funds CEPF has awarded since 2007, 67 percent have gone to local or national organizations working in developing and transitional countries of the biodiversity hotspots. And funding to international organizations is often designed to allow such organizations to mentor and strengthen smaller local and national groups, or to respond to an urgent conservation need that cannot yet be addressed by a local organization. • Reflecting CEPF’s mission to strengthen civil society in the biodiversity hotspots, tools that track organizational capacity of CEPF grantees show that in the eight hotspots where a significant number of the tool scorecards have been completed, grantees report an average increase of 13 percent in capacity during their CEPF- funded projects.
13 What CEPF and its grantees have accomplished is the provision of ample evidence that strategic, locally driven conservation and sustainable development are effective not only in implementing immediate conservation action, but also in building a thriving local civil society equipped to take conservation into the future.
• CEPF supported the establishment of 161 networks or partnerships designed to ensure the sustainability of conservation outcomes and strengthen civil society organizations. • Recognizing the importance of helping communities benefit sustainably from their natural ecosystems, CEPF-funded projects have resulted in direct benefits to people. In 2017, CEPF started to record numbers of people receiving cash and non-cash benefits. In the short period since then, CEPF-funded projects have resulted in cash benefits to 42,992 people, and non-cash benefits to 56,265 people, such as increased access to ecosystem services (for example, fresh water) and improved land tenure. • More than 100,000 people have received training through CEPF-funded projects. Training topics have included ecology, plant collection, resource management, GPS, ranger training and financial management. Biodiversity loss is an enormous issue that must be met with a range of tactics and higher levels of funding. The CEPF model anticipates this, delivering conservation strategies that engage governments and many partner organizations that are also confronting the challenge via their own unique approaches and resources, allowing CEPF’s grantees to complement and coordinate with the work of governments and the private sector. What CEPF and its grantees have accomplished is the provision of ample evidence that strategic, locally driven conservation and sustainable development are effective not only in implementing immediate conservation action, but also in building a thriving local civil society equipped to take conservation into the future. Scaling up this model is an essential and cost-effective element of a successful global effort to save our biodiversity and critical ecosystems. CEPF’s grantees have shown themselves to be up to the challenge, and we are proud to support them. – Julia Marton-Lefèvre, CEPF Donor Council chairperson, executive fellow, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, and former director of IUCN
Learn more by reading CEPF’s Impact Report, cepf.net/impact/2017-impact-report, or the Impact Report Highlights, cepf.net/impact/2017-impact-report-highlights.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre © Julia Marton-Lefèvre | People of Talae Village, Cambodia, participate in land use planning. © Non Timber Forests Products (NTFP) Organization 14 The Partnership
L’Agence Française de Développement L’Agence Française de Développement (the French Development Agency) is a financial institution that is at the heart of France’s Development Assistance Policy. It supports a wide range of economic, social and environmental projects in more than 74 countries. www.afd.fr Conservation International Through cutting-edge science, innovative policy and global reach, Conservation International empowers people to protect the nature that we rely on for food, fresh water and livelihoods. With offices in more than 30 countries around the world, the organization works directly with the people who live closest to the forests, oceans and grasslands that benefit us all. www.conservation.org The European Union (EU) Comprising 28 member countries, the European Union is the largest single provider of development aid in the world. The EU development policy recognizes biodiversity as a crucial element for human well-being through the production of food, fish, fuel, fiber and medicines; the regulation of water, air and climate; and maintenance of land fertility. Through EuropeAid, the EU invests in biodiversity and development projects in more than 100 countries. www.europa.eu The Global Environment Facility (GEF) The Global Environment Facility is the world’s largest public funder of projects to improve the global environment. The GEF unites 183 member governments together with leading international development institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector in support of a common global environmental agenda. www.thegef.org The Government of Japan The Government of Japan is one of the largest providers of development assistance for the environment. Japan seeks constructive measures and concrete programs to preserve unique ecosystems that provide people with important benefits and help reduce poverty. www.env.go.jp/en The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. www.macfound.org The World Bank The World Bank is the world’s largest source of development assistance. It works in more than 100 developing economies to fight poverty and to help people help themselves and their environment. www.worldbank.org
15 Message from Rémy Rioux, Agence Française de Développement
“A World in Common”—it’s more than the tagline of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). It’s the fundamental truth that drives not only our agency, but many governments and organizations around the globe to encourage and support sustainable development. We are sharing this world, and our realities are interconnected. AFD became a donor of CEPF in 2007 to be part of the global conservation of biodiversity, which we all rely on as citizens of the world. Biodiversity—the diversity of life on the planet—has long been under siege. Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012, according to the Living Planet lndex. Amongst the 85,000 species assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 28 percent are threatened with extinction. Threats to biodiversity include habitat destruction for development and © Agence Française de agriculture, poaching and over-harvesting, pollution, introduction of non-native species; Développement all man-made factors compounded by the effects of climate change. Species and habitat loss impact negatively the capacity of ecosystems to provide food, fresh water, raw materials and medicines, and limit the potential for species-related scientific discoveries that could benefit the world. The destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, mangroves and coastal areas also impairs nature’s ability to help offset and adapt to climate change and undermines the potential for sustainable economic activities that rely on nature. AFD believes it is in the best interest of France and all nations to invest in the preservation of species and natural ecosystems and the restoration of degraded natural habitats. The potential return on these investments is huge. Tropical forests alone, if kept intact, offer 30 percent of the climate change mitigation needed to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius, while also providing wild resources for food and income for people facing failed harvests. Sustainable management of rivers, aquifers and floodplains is essential to the conservation of water supplies in parts of the world where growing aridity threatens livelihoods, and to control flooding where extreme climatic events will be more and more frequent. Healthy mangroves and wetlands ease the impact of storms, and diverse oceanic ecosystems provide huge quantities of food while also storing carbon that would otherwise be released in the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. In 2017, AFD has invested 314 million euros directed to strengthening the management of natural ecosystems and biodiversity, including 99 million euros in Africa. Africa is expected to be the continent hardest hit by climate change, according to the U.N.’s lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The U.N. also estimates that Africa will be the home of one-third of Earth’s human population by 2100. The need to inject nature- based solutions as sustainable boosters of African economies has never been more urgent. This is where the role of CEPF is crucial. AFD’s support to CEPF delivers on our strategy in Africa and globally through projects that maintain ecosystem services provided by properly managed natural ecosystems, thereby improving human well-being. The investment in CEPF also furthers France’s contributions to achieving the Aichi Targets of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity as well as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and complements the French investment in the Global Environment Facility. ln addition, CEPF’s means of delivery reflects AFD’s philosophy of empowerment of local actors: conservation strategies implemented by local civil society partners, yielding important results that help set up a healthier, more stable future in Africa and around the globe. lnvesting in biodiversity and ecosystems is one of the most effective and cost-efficient means for making progress toward a safer, more equitable and more sustainable world. CEPF helps us strategically deliver investments to the local communities and organizations that can build lasting, positive change. – Rémy Rioux, chief executive officer, AFD
16 17 Progress Report Since its inception in 2000, CEPF has strived to safeguard some of the world’s most biologically rich ecosystems by supporting civil society in implementing stakeholder- informed conservation strategies in biodiversity hotspots. The following data demonstrate the impact CEPF has had on a global scale through the projects implemented by its grantees within four impact categories: biodiversity, civil society, human well-being and enabling conditions.
Distribution of Funds by pillar Total: US$217 million 47% Biodiversity 11% Civil Society 17% e nabling Conditions Regional Implementation Team 17% enabling Conditions Other 8% hUman Well-Being
Insect found along the Nu River, China. © Li Xiaolong
18 Biodiversity Biodiversity, the amazing variety of life on the planet, is fundamental to thriving ecosystems and communities. Plants, animals, fungi and even micro-organisms have important roles to play in maintaining a planet that supports 7.6 billion people. CEPF’s primary focus is on conserving biodiversity. CEPF’s goal: Improve the status of globally endangered species and the critical ecosystems that support 1,250 Globally Threatened Species those species. Benefiting from CEPF-Funded Projects
Protected Areas
Created or expanded 14.7 million hectares 1% By Region 2001 through fiscal year 2017 3% 9% Africa Atlantic Forest 2% Cape Floristic South America Caribbean Islands Caucasus Asia Cerrado Central America East Melanisian Islands 47% Eastern Afromontane Pacific Islands Eastern Arc Mtns & Coastal Forests Caribbean Guinean Forests of West Africa 38% Himalaya Indo-Burma Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mediterranean Basin Mesoamerica Mountains of Southwest China Philippines Polynesia-Micronesia Succulent Karoo Sundaland Tropical Andes Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Wallacea Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Million Hectares
19 Key Biodiversity Areas with Strengthened Management
45.7 million hectares 2001 through fiscal year 2017 By Region
24% Atlantic Forest 29% Africa Cape Floristic Middle East Caribbean Islands Caucasus South America Cerrado 1% Central America East Melanisian Islands Eastern Afromontane 2% Caribbean Eastern Arc Mtns & Coastal Forests 10% Asia Guinean Forests of West Africa Himalaya Indo-Burma Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 34% Mediterranean Basin Mesoamerica Mountains of Southwest China Philippines Polynesia-Micronesia Succulent Karoo Sundaland Tropical Andes Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Wallacea Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
0 3 6 9 12 15 Million Hectares Production Landscapes with Strengthened Biodiversity Management
Total: 8 million hectares 2001 through fiscal year 2017 By Region
Atlantic Forest 19% Cape Floristic Caribbean Islands 1% Caucasus Cerrado East Melanisian Islands 1% Eastern Afromontane 46% Eastern Arc Mtns & Coastal Forests Guinean Forests of West Africa 20% Himalaya Indo-Burma Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands 1% Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mediterranean Basin Mesoamerica 12% Mountains of Southwest China Philippines Polynesia-Micronesia Succulent Karoo Pacific Islands South America Sundaland Africa Central America Tropical Andes Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Europe Asia Wallacea Middle East Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 Million Hectares 20 Civil Society CEPF was established to conserve biodiversity by delivering financial resources and technical assistance to civil society—nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), communities, indigenous peoples organizations, academic institutions and private companies—to empower local people to take the lead. CEPF’s goal: Strengthen the capacity of civil society to be effective as environmental stewards and leaders in the long-term conservation of biodiversity.
Percentage Change in Capacity of Number of Partnerships CEPF CEPF-Supported Organizations Has Helped Create Overall average increase: 13 percent Total: 161 2010–2017 2001–2017
25 4% 20 South America 4% 15 Pacific Islands 32% Africa 2% 10 Middle East
5 8% Europe
0 3% Central America Global* Indo-Burma 34% 13% Asia Caribbean Islands Caribbean Eastern Afromontane Mediterranean Basin Polynesia-Micronesia
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Maputaland-Pondoland-AlbanyMountains of Southwest China
* Note: CEPF gathers this data via the Civil Society Tracking Note: CEPF defines “networks/partnerships” as a connection Tool, which CEPF began using in 2010. The chart includes (alliance, network, partnership) among civil society groups data for the 198 grantees who had completed assessments and possibly other sectors. The relationship can be either by the end of fiscal year 2017. formal or informal, but it must have a lasting benefit beyond the immediate project. Examples include an alliance of fishermen to promote sustainable fisheries practices; a network of environmental journalists; a partnership between an NGO and a private sector partner to improve biodiversity management on private lands; and a working group focusing on reptile conservation.
21 Human Well-Being Through its support to organizations and communities in developing and transitional countries in the biodiversity hotspots, CEPF seeks to help the people of the biodiversity hotspots find ways to support themselves now and in the future by conserving the biodiversity and ecosystems they rely on for food, water, soil fertility, medicines, commercial products and cultural integrity. CEPF’s goal: Improve the well-being of people living in and dependent on critical ecosystems within the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
Communities Directly Benefiting Total: 2,804 2001–2017
5% South America 5% Pacific Islands 2% Europe 13% 56% Central Africa America
19% Asia
Communities have received non-cash livelihood benefits such as improved access to clean water, strengthened land tenure and increased representation in decision-making processes. Since data collection commenced in 2017 to calculate the number of people in these communities, 56,265 people have been recorded as receiving non-cash benefits, 27,745 of whom are women and girls. Additionally, since CEPF began grant making in 2001, more than 100,000 people have received training in natural resource management, alternative livelihoods such as beekeeping, financial management, community leadership and a range of other topics. Where the sex of the trainee was reported, 41.9 percent were women. In 2017, CEPF started to record the number of individuals receiving cash benefits, such as increased income or employment. Within this short period of time, 42,992 people were recorded as receiving cash benefits, and where the sex of the beneficiary was reported, 33.2 percent were women.
22 Enabling Conditions Certain conditions are necessary for establishing and maintaining biodiversity conservation. Among the most important are policies that promote conservation action, availability of financial resources and the development of biodiversity-friendly practices in the private sector. CEPF’s goal: Establish the conditions needed for the conservation of biodiversity.
Number of Laws, Policies and Regulations Enacted or Amended, by Theme and Region Total: 175 2001–2017
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Number of Sustainable Finance Mechanisms Supported by CEPF, by Region Total: 25 2001–2017
4 South America 8 1 Africa Pacific Islands 1 Europe 6 Central America 4 Asia 1 Caribbean
23 Regional Results Through its support to organizations and communities in developing and transitional countries, CEPF and its grantees engaged in implementing conservation strategies in nine biodiversity hotspots during fiscal year 2017. The following charts show the approximate progress made in each hotspot in terms of grant making and conservation targets.
Mediterranean Basin Eastern Afromontane US$11.2 million 2012–2017 US$9.8 million 2012–2019
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0% 0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Involving civil society Establishing Protecting Key Mainstreaming Improving protection Supporting in coastal zone sustainable water Biodiversity Areas biodiversity into of Key Biodiversity sustainable financing management resource management development Areas of conservation
Percent granted of funds earmarked Progress toward strategic Percent granted of funds earmarked Progress toward strategic for strategic direction direction targets for strategic direction direction targets
Mediterranean Basin Indo- Eastern Burma Afromontane
Guinean Forests Madagascar and Indian Wallacea East Melanesian Cerrado of West Islands Africa Ocean Islands Tropical Andes
24 Indo-Burma US$10.4 million 2013–2020
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60% Percent granted of funds earmarked for strategic direction 40% Progress toward strategic direction targets 20%
0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 4 Strategic Direction 6 Strategic Direction 8 * For the Indo-Burma Hotspot, there Safeguarding priority Providing innovative Empowering Mainstreaming Strengthening civil are a total of 10 strategic directions, globally threatened responses to wildlife communities to biodiversity, society capacity species trafficking and conserve and manage communities and but donor partners outside of CEPF consumption priority Key livelihoods into are addressing strategic directions Biodiversity Areas development 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10.
East Melanesian Islands Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands US$9 million 2013–2021 US$7.5 million 2015–2020
80% 120% 70% 100% 60% 80% 50% 40% 60% 30% 40% 20% 20% 10% 0% 0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Strategic Direction 4 Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Empowering local Integrating biodiversity Safeguarding priority Catalyzing civil society Empowering Mainstreaming Strengthening civil communities to conservation into local globally threatened partnerships communities to conservation into society capacity protect and manage planning species protect and manage political and economic biodiversity biodiversity decision-making
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25 Tropical Andes US$10 million 2015–2020
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0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Strategic Direction 4 Strategic Direction 5 Strategic Direction 6 Improving protection Mainstreaming Promoting stakeholder Fostering private Safeguarding globally Strengthening civil and management of biodiversity into engagement in sector approaches for threatened species society capacity and priority Key policies and infrastructure, mining biodiversity alliances Biodiversity Areas development and agriculture conservation projects
Wallacea US$6 million 2014–2019
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80% Percent granted of 60% funds earmarked for strategic direction 40% Progress toward strategic direction 20% targets
0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Strategic Direction 4 Strategic Direction 5 Strategic Direction 6 Addressing threats to Improving Supporting Strengthening Engaging the private Enhancing civil high-priority species management of Key sustainable natural community-based sector in conservation society capacity Biodiversity Areas resource management action to protect marine species and sites
26 Cerrado US$8 million 2016–2021
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0% Strategic Direction 1 Strategic Direction 2 Strategic Direction 3 Strategic Direction 4 Strategic Direction 5 Strategic Direction 6 Promoting Supporting Promoting Supporting Supporting Strengthening agricultural protected area supply chains the protection data tools for the capacity best practices creation/expansion associated with of threatened decision-making of civil society and effective sustainable use species management
Guinean Forests of West Africa US$9 million 2016–2021
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Percent granted of funds Progress toward strategic earmarked for strategic direction direction targets
27 The Moracaˇ River, Montenegro. © CZIP
28 Highlights
29 Matasha, a Maasai guide who works with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, in the cloud forest of Chyulu Hills, Kenya. © Charlie Shoemaker 30 Conserving Species Biodiversity conservation is the core of CEPF’s work. The amazing array of species in the world’s biodiversity hotspots is critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems that people rely on for food, fresh water, fuel, medicines, climate change mitigation and more. Biodiversity also is important to communities for its spiritual, aesthetic and recreational values. The efforts of CEPF grantees to protect and learn more about species benefit us all. Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus), one of the largest living bird species at 160 to 183 cm in UN Convention on length with a wingspan of almost 3 meters, has faced Biological Diversity a number of challenges. Populations in central and Aichi Targets east Asia as well as southeast Europe have been hard hit by threats such as wetland alteration and destruction, hunting and disturbance by fishers and tourists. But the pelican’s fortunes have taken a substantial turn for the better, a change that CEPF grantees have contributed to. The species’ Red List status was recently “downlisted” from “Vulnerable” to “Near Threatened,” meaning that its conservation status Target 12 is improving globally—an all-too-rare, and much- By 2020, the extinction of welcomed, occurrence. known threatened species has been prevented and This change in status is due to a four-fold increase in southeast Europe’s Dalmatian pelican their conservation status, population since the 1990s. The increase can be attributed to implementation of a Species Action particularly of those most in Plan, and the protection provided by the European Union’s Birds and Habitats Directives, which decline, has been improved helped conserve key breeding sites in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria. Actions taken by CEPF and sustained. grantees at an important breeding site, Skadar Lake on the Montenegro and Albania border, are also part of the equation. Noé, a France-based conservation organization, is working with partner organizations in the area of UN Sustainable Skadar Lake to construct and maintain nesting rafts that help the pelicans stay on top of changing water levels, saidˇ ´ Bjanka Prakljacic, project coordinator for Noé. The organization also has installed Development Goals video surveillance to monitor the lake’s colony. “This program has dramatically helped the stability of the pelican population,”ˇ ´ Prakljacic said. “We have seen record increases over four years.” In the recent past, National Parks of Montenegro put the number of active nesting pairs of Dalmatian pelicans at less than a dozen. In 2017, there were 48 nesting pairs, which produced 58 chicks. The group of CEPF grantees also worked with the neighboring communities to establish a no- approach zone and ranger patrols during nesting season, efforts bolstered by implementation of a “pelican hotline” where violations can be reported. Grantees are also developing ecotourism projects Goal 15 to allow local communities to benefit from the growing colony. Protect, restore, and promote “Without CEPF, this success wouldn’t have been possible,”ˇ ´ Prakljacic said. “At the beginning, a sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems; sustainably number of organizations and institutions proposed different activities. CEPF recommended that manage forests; combat we work together on this project.” desertification; halt and The collaborative approach paid off, with complementary conservation actions taken by National reverse land degradation; Parks Montenegro, the Natural History Museum of Montenegro, the Centre for Protection and halt biodiversity loss. and Research of Birds in Montenegro (CZIP), EuroNatur, Tour du Valat, and Institute of Nature Conservation in Albania (INCA).
31 “ This program has dramatically helped the stability of the pelican population. We have seen record increases over four years.” — Bjanka Prakljacic,ˇ ´ project coordinator, Noé
Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot The Endangered Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata) is one of the rarest turtle species in existence. This once-plentiful terrapin has dwindled to just a handful of mature individuals in the wild in Myanmar. It lays its eggs out of the water, putting the species at risk of interference from humans and animals. In addition, electrofishing, incidental loss in fishing gear and habitat loss due to gold mining led to a population collapse. The Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) in Myanmar is working to reverse the downward population trend. With support from CEPF, TSA—along with the Wildlife Conservation Society—has mobilized a cadre of community volunteers to “head start” turtles, moving eggs to a secure location where they can hatch in safe, fenced-off areas. Here they receive around-the-clock protection for up to two years, after which they can be released into the wild with vastly improved chances for survival. From a starting point of just one fertile wild turtle egg in 2015, the individuals head-started in captivity seem to be helping the local population turn a corner. “The latest count included five nests with a few eggs each, including two believed to be from head- started females,” said TSA’s Steven Platt. “That’s a significant percentage increase.” East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot In Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, the French Ichthyological Society has been adding to the understanding of freshwater fishes and crustaceans inhabiting the islands by conducting an inventory. CEPF funding is at the heart of this work, enabling terrestrial biodiversity studies and building local capacity for species study and protection. Through work with local organizations, the society provided research support and trained landowners. Project participants carried out surveys that revealed rich freshwater biodiversity and discovered 12 new species for science, including five fish species, six shrimp species and one species of crab in the Solomon Islands. Survey teams also reported many new occurrences (species never recorded), both in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. CEPF grantee David Boseto of Ecological Solutions, Solomon Islands (ESSI), who was named a CEPF “Hotspot Hero” in 2016 for his work in the Solomon Islands, received the additional honor of having one of the new fish (Eleotris bosetoi) named after him. ESSI partnered with the French Ichthyological Society on the inventory; an additional new fish species was named Schismatogobius essi in recognition of the organization’s conservation efforts. “Our species and protection work in the Solomons has benefited significantly from CEPF investment,” Boseto said. “Their funding is accelerating the pace of discovery.”
Dalmatian pelican on Lake Skadar. © Jaime Rojo | Steve Platt of the Turtle Survival Alliance holds a Burmese roofed turtle at a project site in Myanmar. © Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff | The Eleotris bosetoi fish, a new species discovered in the Solomon Islands. © P. Keith (MNHN) 32 Strengthening Local Conservation Leadership CEPF supports projects that strengthen local and national organizations and communities that are contributing to biodiversity conservation in the hotspots, enabling these groups to take the lead in future conservation efforts. Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot
UN Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Targets
Target 19 By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to The Hong Kong Birdwatching Society is working to bolster networks among civil society biodiversity, its values, organizations—and between those organizations and government agencies—to reduce illegal functioning, status waterbird hunting at key intertidal wetlands in China’s Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are The wetlands, which stretch from Hong Kong to the border with Vietnam, are part of an important improved, widely shared and bird migration route. As birds stop to feed on invertebrates in the mudflats, thousands every year are transferred, and applied. killed as a result of illegal mist net hunting. Waterbird populations have been collapsing, with many once-common birds added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. With help from a CEPF grant, the Hong Kong Birdwatching Society has worked to engage public UN Sustainable groups, training them to monitor bird populations and use satellite images to locate mist nets. Armed Development Goals with this proof of the nets’ locations, they hoped the authorities could no longer turn a blind eye to the illegal killing of birds. The society’s efforts paid off, with monitors helping to confiscate and eliminate nearly 200 illegal mist nets, as much as 90 percent of the total in the region just five years ago. Vivian Fu, the project manager, said that, in addition to training volunteers to monitor hunting activity, the organization built relationships with the local forestry department, which is responsible for law enforcement within the Zhanjiang and Leizhou coastal wetland areas. “Most of our work was building capacity within the local community,” Fu said. “Now that we have a Goal 4 volunteer team, even though the project has ended, they are continuing to monitor and patrol—as Ensure inclusive and well as recruit and build capacity—on their own.” equitable quality education The project also is proving to be scalable, with volunteers from other regional NGOs traveling to and promote lifelong learning attend workshops and training. opportunities for all. What’s more, Leizhou now attracts more threatened species, such as the Critically Endangered spoon- billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea); this is a strong indicator that the environment is becoming more habitable for these vulnerable birds.
33 “ For most of their lives, the indigenous people have seen the reserve as something not part of their own lives or territory. Being involved in the development of this plan has been an important step toward empowering them to manage the reserve.” — Miguel Caicedo, director of Reserva Natural La Planada
Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot In the Pialapí Pueblo Viejo Indigenous Reserve in southwestern Colombia, the ancestral homeland of the InkalAwa (“People of the Mountain,” also known as the Awa people), La Planada Nature Reserve was established in 1982. Control of the 3,200-hectare reserve, which is home to species such as the tanager finch (Oreothraupis arremonops), the cloudforest pygmy-owl (Glaucidium nubicola) and the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), was given to the town council of Pialapí Pueblo Viejo in 2010. With funding from CEPF, local indigenous organization Resguardo Pialapí Pueblo Viejo is developing a management plan for the reserve, seizing the opportunity to not only better connect the reserve to the local indigenous community and its needs, but also to build and display the organization’s capacity to employ sound financial and organizational practices. Strengthening the organization and the reserve can provide a boost to communities that struggle with poverty, are recovering from years of armed conflict and must deal with the influence of coca production for the illegal drug trade. According to Miguel Caicedo, director of Reserva Natural La Planada, Resguardo Pialapí Pueblo Viejo, the Awa people are embracing this chance to define the road ahead in hopes of generating additional funding to maintain the reserve in ways that protect the ecosystems and benefit local people. CEPF- funded training has strengthened the organization’s administrative capacity and enhanced budgetary and accounting processes, helping the organization demonstrate its financial capacity to other potential donors. The reserve has already secured funding from the GEF Small Grants Program. “The indigenous people had no experience in the management of a natural reserve,” Caicedo said. “This project has shown them how to administer and create a plan for the reserve, so they can develop other projects and acquire the funding they need for implementation.” Perhaps the most important outcome for the project, though, is the way it has affected how the Awa view the land. “For most of their lives, the indigenous people have seen the reserve as something not part of their own lives or territory,” Caicedo added. “Being involved in the development of this plan has been an important step toward empowering them to manage the reserve.” Activities through late 2017 include hosting workshops in the communities of Pialapí and Curcuel (including the Casa Grande and Dos Quebradas communities) to train participants in the key elements of management plan development. The project has also helped Resguardo Pialapí Pueblo Viejo to establish relationships with other NGOs that are influencing and advising indigenous reserves in the area on the management of protected areas in their respective territories.
Spoon-billed sandpiper. © Ken/Flickr Creative Commons | Hong Kong Bird Watching Society volunteers help eradicate an invasive cordgrass and remove rubbish on the mudflat in Leizhou, Guangdong, China. © Ye Zhi-ying | Members of the Curcuel community, Colombia. © Guillermo Cantillo Figueroa 34 Bringing Conservation into Development Decision-Making Helping governments and industries to factor biodiversity-relevant data into development decision- making is an important component of the CEPF approach. Our strategies support grantees’ work with government and the private sector to establish policies that incorporate conservation concerns into project planning. Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot In Bolivia, the forests of the Apolobamba, Madidi, and Pilon Lajas protected areas are threatened by the UN Convention on presence of numerous gold mines, Biological Diversity some authorized by the Bolivian Aichi Targets government, and some illegal. The mines represent an important source of economic output, but there are uncertainties regarding mining rights and difficulties in enforcing regulations, in particular because of the remote location and sprawling geography involved. The result has been significant destruction to the Target 2 landscape, water and biodiversity. By 2020, at the latest, Included in the areas affected by biodiversity values have mining are high-mountain forests of been integrated into national and local development and evergreen Polylepis trees, which have already been drastically reduced by deforestation. Bird species poverty reduction strategies such as the Critically Endangered royal cinclodes (Cinclodes aricomae) rely on these forests, which and planning processes also are important for water management due to their ability to store large amounts of water and and are being incorporated release it during dry season. into national accounting, In response, CEPF funded a project to establish a baseline count of mining operations, monitor legal as appropriate, and and illegal mining activity, train stakeholders to improve awareness of mining activity, and ensure reporting systems. that those miners operating legally within the protected areas know how to improve their practices to reduce their environmental impact. The baseline study was an important first step. “Before the project started, authorities didn’t have a UN Sustainable clear idea of how many mining cooperatives were in operation,” said Oscar Loayza, project director Development Goals with CEPF grantee the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). “Estimates put the number at 30 to 50, but our baseline study determined there were closer to 200.” With that knowledge, authorities are working to register all legal mining co-ops and identify their illegal counterparts in the service of better enforcement. WCS also made contact with Alianza por una Minería Responsable (Colombia), Fundación MEDMIN (Bolivia) and the Better Gold Initiative (Switzerland). Together, these organizations oversee the Fairmined and Fairtrade gold certifications, which support price premiums for gold that meets specific environmental and other criteria. They are now working with miners to help them improve Goal 15 their practices toward a possible future certification. WCS also is working with a legal mining Protect, restore and promote cooperative on a pilot project to integrate environmental best practices into mining. sustainable use of terrestrial “CEPF funding has made all of this work possible,” Loayza said. “The training of more than 650 ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat people, the baseline [study], and reporting for monitoring programs in protected areas.” desertification, and halt and The resulting improved understanding of environmental issues related to mining and the potential reverse land degradation financial incentives for adhering to sustainable mining practices lay a foundation for better and halt biodiversity loss. management and community engagement.
35 The resulting improved understanding of environmental issues related to mining and the potential financial incentives for adhering to sustainable mining practices lay a foundation for better management and community engagement.
Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot In Beijing, on August 22, 2013, Jamaica’s minister of land, water, environment and climate change, the Hon. Robert Pickersgill, stated that the Goat Islands were “under very serious consideration” as the site for a planned transshipment port to be built by the Chinese state-owned China Harbour Engineering Company at a cost of US$1.5 billion. At the time, some Jamaicans considered it an important step toward creating jobs and establishing the nation as a key player in the global logistics sector. The Goat Islands, however, are at the heart of the Portland Bight Protected Area (PBPA), site of the largest mangrove system in Jamaica and a large nursery for fish and shellfish. The PBPA also encompasses 20,978 hectares of dry limestone forests and 8,287 hectares of wetlands, not to mention the primary habitat for many vulnerable and endemic species, including the Critically Endangered Jamaican iguana (Cyclura collei). CEPF grantees the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) and the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (C-CAM), along with stakeholders of the PBPA, mobilized to launch a “Save Goat Islands” campaign—changing the minds of government decision-makers and the fate of the islands. The central feature of this campaign was a coordinated outreach effort consisting of professional lectures, presentations, community meetings and seminars. C-CAM, the organization responsible for management of the protected areas since 2003, continued to co-manage with stakeholders such as the government, community groups, fishers and donors, and to improve development planning in light of the proposed port. The organization engaged the Conservation Strategy Fund to conduct an economic comparison of alternative sites for the port and study environmental impacts. In the end, the study determined that an equivalent facility at an alternative site would cost US$200 million less than the Goat Islands plan, while causing far less environmental damage. “Building [on the proposed alternative site of Maccary Bay] poses little risk to endangered species and threatens a much smaller area of important ecosystems,” said Ingrid Parchment, executive director of C-CAM. “Conversely, economic losses at Goat Islands in terms of lost tourism potential and contribution to fisheries productivity are estimated to be three times higher.” The prime minister announced in November 2016 that the port would not be built at the Goat Islands site due to the potential environmental damage. One year later, the Urban Development Corporation announced that it would establish the Goat Islands as a wildlife sanctuary for endemic and endangered species—a direct result and distinct win for JET, C-CAM and their partners, as well as the vulnerable species that call the islands home.
Two miners outside a shed used for handling hazardous materials at the site of a legal mine in Apolobamba National Park, Bolivia. © Conservation International/photo by Michele Zador | Jamaican iguana. © Robin Moore/GWC | Goat Islands, Jamaica. © Jamaica Environment Trust/Jeremy Francis 36 Enhancing community benefits from biodiversity conservation CEPF conservation strategies are driven in part by the concerns of local communities, and many projects funded by CEPF pursue opportunities to meet the immediate needs of these communities while ensuring a healthier future for them and their ecosystems. Wallacea Biodiversity Hotspot The Indonesian island of Karakalang, in the northern part of the Celebes Sea, faces an unusual problem. Its clear UN Convention on waters and beautiful white sands are Biological Diversity well known in the region, yet the island is too remote to sustain an economy Aichi Targets through ecotourism. Karakalang hosts rich ecosystems that are home to threatened biodiversity, including bird species such as the Endangered Talaud rail (Gymnocrex talaudensis), the blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis) and the Endangerd red-and-blue lory Target 3 (Eos histrio). By 2020, at the latest, incentives, including subsidies, One solution to the island’s economic harmful to biodiversity are challenge that is also friendly to its biodiversity is permaculture—sustainable, self-sufficient eliminated, phased out or agricultural systems. reformed in order to minimize or avoid negative impacts, With support from CEPF grants, Indonesian nongovernmental organization Yayasan IDEP Selaras and positive incentives for the Alam (known as IDEP) is promoting permaculture among Karakalang’s population. A grant in 2015 conservation and sustainable helped the organization create a five-zone permaculture system in Rae, Bengel and Ambela villages: use of biodiversity are developed Zone 1 for homes and household gardens, Zone 2 for household cash crops, Zone 3 for community and applied, consistent and in farms or gardens, Zone 4 for a protective buffer, and Zone 5 for conservation of wildlife. harmony with the Convention and other relevant international Through a second CEPF grant in 2016, the project expanded to Ensem and Tuabatu villages. obligations, taking into account These villages face such challenges as soil erosion, pests like the sexava grasshopper, and degraded national socio economic watersheds resulting from forest clearing for farming. The permaculture approach helps address conditions. these problems by more carefully managing the land and avoiding the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. IDEP is encouraging collaboration among the villages, building local capacity for sustainable natural UN Sustainable resources management, and working with government agencies to adopt, acknowledge and replicate Development Goals project successes. “CEPF made it possible for IDEP to reach communities in the Talaud Archipelago so that they know, understand, and are able to convert to sustainable livelihood practices and do conservation work at the same time,” said Sri Handavani, support coordinator for IDEP. Men, women, youths and school children from the villages have all gotten involved in the project. It’s a win-win. Talaud’s resources are being more effectively managed while the economy gets a boost from the export of responsibly sourced commodities produced via permaculture, such as clove, Goal 2 nutmeg, vegetable chips and virgin coconut oil. End hunger, achieve food At least 15 hectares per village have been converted to organic farming practices, with more than security and improved 50 families in each village cultivating home gardens to provide nutritious food for their families. nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
37 “The pilot model is promising and has been warmly welcomed by both communities and local authorities. Payments are substantial and provide an opportunity that the community would not have otherwise.” — David Lety, WCS technical director for the Bolikhamxay landscape
Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot In Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), 54 percent of the country’s wealth is estimated to come from natural resources, particularly via hydropower, making conservation crucial to both the country’s natural and economic health. Over the past two decades, conservation efforts in the Lower Mekong Basin, which includes some of world’s most biodiverse ecosystems, have produced positive results. To build on these efforts, however, while ensuring that development is sustainable and benefits communities, additional funding and tools are required. One potential solution is payment for ecosystem services (PES) agreements. Such agreements tap users of “services” resulting from ecosystems—such as the provision of fresh water for hydropower— to pay those who own and/or manage the ecosystems that deliver those services. Recent regulations and legislative action from the Lao PDR government provided an opportunity for developing national standards for PES agreements. CEPF grantee Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) took action, piloting a PES model with communities living upstream of the Nam Gnouang dam in Bolikhamxay Province. The goals of the project include conserving and restoring key forest areas—which provide habitat for many species, including the Critically Endangered saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)—and influencing the developing national policy on PES to emphasize proper valuation of ecosystems, community empowerment and private sector best practices. WCS identified two communities, Nacheng and Khamkhuna villages, that were interested in participating in a PES agreement and had forest areas that met the project criteria. WCS, local authorities and the villagers mapped out the forest plots and developed management plans. In 2018, the communities and the project signed pilot agreements to protect and restore 1,870 hectares of forest in exchange for payments that can be used for activities selected by the community. The overall goal of the management plan is to facilitate natural regeneration of secondary forests and fallows through the reduction, and where appropriate, banning, of activities such as logging, livestock raising and swidden agriculture, which typically involves using fire to clear land. Endorsement by local authorities validates the creation of village protection forests and aligns with the national strategy to protect watersheds and forest cover. The hope is that, if these pilot agreements prove to be effective, they can be sustained or expanded to other villages by the Theun-Hinboun Power Company, which operates the dam, or by the government. In an area that struggles with poverty, this source of additional income can make a significant difference. “The pilot model is promising and has been warmly welcomed by both communities and local authorities,” said David Lety, WCS technical director for the Bolikhamxay landscape. “Payments are substantial and provide an opportunity that the community would not have otherwise.” The villagers have, for example, decided to finance improvement and expansion of their water supply system and to set up revolving funds to develop improved cattle raising systems.
Permaculture project participant Lisa Manembu tends a garden on Karakalang Island. © IDEP Foundation/ Image by Gede Sugiarta | Rice paddy outside Khamkhuna Village, Lao PDR. © Olivier Langrand 38 Nature-Based Solutions to Address Climate Change Protection and restoration of tropical forests and other natural ecosystems could make up 30 percent of the greenhouse gas emission reductions necessary to avoid climate-related disasters that would disproportionately affect the poor, according to climate experts. CEPF supports projects that conserve or rehabilitate natural forests, wetlands and coastal ecosystems as cost-effective means for mitigating the potentially devastating effects of climate change and extreme weather events. Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot The Chyulu Hills of Kenya are quintessential East Africa—lush green UN Convention on cloud forests overlooking savannah Biological Diversity grasslands populated by iconic African Aichi Targets wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and lions, and communities of Maasai people clad in traditional red and plaid fabrics. The Kenya-based Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT) has been working for years to protect this extraordinary environment for the benefit of the local communities and Target 15 wildlife through activities focusing By 2020, ecosystem on ecotourism, land conservancy resilience and the agreements, and employment of local contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has scouts and rangers, and by establishing been enhanced through a REDD+ project. (REDD, or reduced conservation and restoration, emissions from deforestation and including restoration of at forest degradation, plus the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and the least 15 percent of degraded enhancement of forest carbon stocks.) ecosystems, thereby The REDD+ project is designed to pay the residents of the area for maintaining the forest, which contributing to climate change mitigation and stores carbon that could contribute to climate change if the forest were destroyed. Payments adaptation and to combating to the community result from the sale of carbon credits on the international voluntary market. desertification. Safeguarding the forest also has the added benefits of protecting the source of vital fresh water and maintaining habitat for a multitude of species. To bring the project, which was more than six years in the making, to fruition, MWCT needed UN Sustainable to verify the carbon credits generated by the forest by completing the necessary greenhouse gas Development Goals emissions reduction quantification, verification, and social and biological monitoring. This is where CEPF stepped in. A grant of US$100,000 from CEPF helped cover the cost of verification and enabled the project’s first carbon credit sale. In September 2017, the sale of 19,800 credits was made to Tiffany and Co., providing US$237,600 of revenue for the community. The revenue from the project contributes to the local economy and supports additional conservation activities, such as ranger recruitment and training, anti-poaching operations, and human-wildlife conflict monitoring, resolution and prevention. The funds also address community needs, particularly in education and health care, with initial funds being used to hire new teachers and provide basic school supplies. Goal 13 Take urgent action to “Community members and leaders have been delighted to see the first funds being made available combat climate change and to be able to direct those funds towards supporting their priorities. The carbon sales help to and its impacts. demonstrate that conservation can contribute to community well-being and the local economy,” said Samson Parashina, community leader and chairman of MWCT.
39 “Community members and leaders have been delighted to see the first funds being made available and to be able to direct those funds towards supporting their priorities. The carbon sales help to demonstrate that conservation can contribute to community well- being and the local economy,” — Samson Parashina, community leader and chairman of MWCT.
Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot Though its name may sound less than sheltering, southwest Madagascar’s Bay of Assassins has a lot to offer the people and other forms of life that call it home. Its mangrove forests, which are part of the Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area, are habitat for shellfish, serve as breeding grounds for fish species that are commercially important, and constitute a source of wood for fuel and construction. The mangroves also have a particularly high capacity for storing carbon, as well as serving as a buffer from storms and tsunamis. Overharvesting of wood for building and for commercial use, however, has severely degraded the mangroves. The Velondriake Association, a community-based organization, seeks to protect and restore the mangroves, in part through a CEPF grant. United through a mangrove carbon project known as Tahiry Honko (“preserving mangroves” in the Vezo local language), 10 villages in the Bay of Assassins began replanting seedlings in 2017. Nearly 78,000 mangrove seedlings were planted that year by 100 volunteers, and more than 19,000 were planted in the first quarter of 2018. “Communities in the Bay of Assassins depend on mangroves for their daily needs,” said Lalao Aigrette, deputy national lead for the Blue Forests Program of Blue Ventures, which co-manages the Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area with the Velondriake Association. “The CEPF grant has helped local villages in Bay of Assassins not only to restore their degraded mangroves by replanting, but also to ensure protection of the forests by supporting regular mangrove forest patrols.” To strengthen community ties, meals were served to volunteers and plantings were organized around celebrations for Mangrove International Day and International Women’s Day. Restoring the mangroves requires time and ongoing effort, both through the development of local laws and conservation plans and through recurring plantings. The seedlings planted through the project so far have an average annual survival rate of 80 percent. In addition to reforestation zones, Tahiry Honko also established sustainable management zones and permanent mangrove reserve zones that prohibit the harvesting of mangrove wood. Communities worked with the Fisheries and Forestry Department, local authorities, and nongovernmental organizations to establish guidelines for mangrove use and management.
Giraffes, Chyulu Hills, Kenya. © Charlie Shoemaker | Women planting mangrove trees, Bay of Assassins, Madagascar. © Velondriake 40 Approved Grants July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017
Grants are reported on the basis of Strengthen Local Conservation Strategic Direction 4. Increase the effective date of the agreement. Networks to Respond to Threats local, national and regional within the Santo Mountain Chain in capacity to conserve biodiversity Cerrado Vanuatu through catalyzing civil society US$19,990 partnerships. Strategic Direction 2. Support the Building the Capacity of Kwaio The Edenhope Foundation creation/expansion and effective Communities in the Solomon management of protected areas Strengthening Community Islands to Strengthen Indigenous in the priority corridors. Conservation Governance of Mount Knowledge and Conservation Strengthening the Integrated Tabuwamasana in Vanuatu Management Territorial Management for US$19,987 Protected Areas of the Mosaic US$86,222 James Cook University Sertão Veredas Peruaçu, Brazil Live & Learn Vanuatu
US$187,000 Supporting Innovative Financing for Organization and Management of World Wide Fund for Nature—Brazil Biodiversity Conservation through the Papua New Guinea Grantee Piloting Eco-Certification for Exchange Strategic Direction 3. Promote Tourism in Vanuatu US$20,000 and strengthen supply chains World Wide Fund for Nature— associated with the sustainable US$169,903 Pacific use of natural resources and Nakau Programme Ltd. ecological restoration in the Strategic Direction 2. Integrate Promoting Gender Equity hotspot. for Conservation Initiatives Cerrado Supply-Chain Innovation biodiversity conservation into local land-use and development Through Catalyzing a Women’s through Municipal-Scale Planning, Environmental Network Across Policy and Capacity Building planning. Scoping Legal Training Needs CEPF Priority Sites in Vanuatu US$288,793 in Priority Sites to Promote the US$19,960 World Wide Fund for Nature—Brazil Establishment of Protected Areas, Island Reach Committee Inc. Baining Mountains and Central Cerrado Waters Consortium: A Manus, Papua New Guinea Strengthening the Governance and Network for Ecosystem Services US$15,289 Capacity of Kahua Association for Provisioning and Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability Solomon Islands Community Inc. US$193,035 US$19,927 IMAFLORA—Instituto de Manejo e Strategic Direction 3. Safeguard Kahua Association Trust Board Inc. Certificação Florestal e Agrícola priority globally threatened species by addressing major threats and information gaps. Eastern Afromontane East Melanesian Islands Building Capacity in Monitoring and Management of the Leatherback Strategic Direction 1. Strategic Direction 1. Empower Turtles in ‘Are’are, Solomon Islands Mainstream biodiversity into local communities to protect US$19,885 wider development policies, and manage globally significant plans and projects to deliver Wai-Hau Conservation Foundation biodiversity at priority Key the co-benefits of biodiversity Registered Trust Board Inc. Biodiversity Areas underserved conservation, improved local by current conservation efforts. Conservation of the Endemic Flying livelihoods and economic Empowering the People of Pobuma development in priority corridors. to Design Conservation Actions on Foxes of Torba and Temotu in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands Conservation and Forest Manus Island, Papua New Guinea Management in the Mafinga Hills US$19,750 US$85,625 Priority Key Biodiversity Area of Tawi-Asi Resource Network Vanuatu Environmental Science Zambia Society US$130,000 Forest Conservation Through Wildlife and Environmental Payment for Environmental Conservation Society of Zambia Services (PES) on Three Sites in Choiseul, Solomon Islands US$19,550 Natural Resources Development Foundation Trust Board Inc.
41 Discovering the Hidden Treasure Rapid Faunal Assessment Identifying a New Eastern of Itombwe Natural Reserve in (Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Afromontane Key Biodiversity Area Democratic Republic of Congo Mammals) in the Nono-Sale and at Nou National Forest Reserve in US$20,000 Garba-Dima Forest Priority Areas, Tanzania World Wide Fund for Nature— Ilu-Ababor Zone, Southwestern US$19,983 Democratic Republic of Congo Ethiopia Missouri Botanical Garden US$18,901 Empowering Youth While Raising Mettu University, Ethiopia Promoting Energy-Efficient Stoves Awareness for Sustainable for Sustainable Conservation of Conservation of Gishwati Key Telling Pictures for the Eastern Rwanda’s Cyamudongo Forest, Biodiversity Area in Rwanda Afromontane Key Biodiversity Phase Two US$9,514 Areas US$40,000 Nature Rwanda US$20,000 Association Rwandaise des Pixels on Screen Ecologistes Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability of Zambia’s Nsumbu National Park ‘Touchwood’—Raising Global Strengthening the Capacity of and Tondwa Game Management Awareness of the Value of District Multi-Stakeholder Teams Area Key Biodiversity Area Through Tanzania’s Southern Key for Sustainability in Conservation Strengthening the Role of Village Biodiversity Areas of the Malagarasi River System in Action Groups US$19,888 Tanzania US$20,000 Wildlife Conservation Society US$10,000 Conservation Lake Tanganyika Nyakitonto Youth for Development Strategic Direction 2. Improve Tanzania Fish Inventory in Chimanimani the protection and management Mountains Key Biodiversity Area, of the Key Biodiversity Area Threatened Mammal and Bird Mozambique network throughout the hotspot. Species of Key Biodiversity US$20,000 Biological Surveys of the Gishwati Areas in the Central Highlands Museu de Historia Natural de Forest in Rwanda of Ethiopia: Biological Survey on Maputo US$14,880 Distribution and Conservation The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Status in Three CEPF Priority Key Implementing Adaptive International Biodiversity Areas (Aliyu-Amba, Conservation Strategies at Mount Ankober-Debresina and Guassa Chiperone Key Biodiversity Area, Enhancing Environmental Plateau) Mozambique Regulations in Safeguarding Lake US$19,877 US$15,664 Ol Bolossat Key Biodiversity Area Bees for Development Ethiopia Verde Azul Lda in Kenya US$10,000 Threatened Mammal and Bird Misuku Hills Art Challenge in East African Wildlife Society Species of Key Biodiversity Areas Malawi in the Central Highlands US$20,000 Enhancing the Understanding of Ethiopia: Biological Survey of the Gishwati Natural Forest on Distribution and Conservation Sustainable Rural Growth and Status in Three CEPF Priority Development Initiative Ecosystem and Local Support to its Conservation in Rwanda Key Biodiversity Areas (Aliyu-Amba, Ankober-Debresina and Guassa Producing Communication US$20,000 Plateau) Materials on Project Impacts, Forest of Hope Association Sheka Zone, Southern National, US$19,710 Nationalities and Peoples’ Region, Identify New Eastern Afromontane University of Gondar Ethiopia Key Biodiversity Area on the Njesi Plateau in Mozambique Updating Information on Trigger US$13,612 Species for Stapleford Forest God for People Relief and US$19,721 Biodiversity Area in Zimbabwe Development Organisation Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation US$20,000 BirdLife Zimbabwe
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Identify New Eastern Afromontane From Bee-Burners to Beekeepers: Promoting Endangered Primate Key Biodiversity Areas (Ribáuè and Supporting Community Beekeeping Conservation in Three Forest Inago) and Update Priority Status of Organization in Príncipe Reserves in Ghana Mount Chiperone Key Biodiversity US$199,249 US$44,259 Area in Mozambique Fauna & Flora International Presbyterian University College US$19,927 Ghana SANBI Mobilization of Local Communities for the Conservation of Biodiversity Strategic Direction 4. Build the Upgrade Biodiversity Importance in Touguissoury, Guinea capacity of local civil society Status of Dedza Forest Reserve US$41,800 organizations, including Key Biodiversity Area in Malawi Guinée Ecologie indigenous people’s, women’s US$18,779 and youth groups, to conserve Wildlife Action Group Ukpom-Okom Community and manage globally important Mangrove Restoration and Tree biodiversity. Upgrade Biodiversity Importance Planting Project, Nigeria Strengthening Capacity of Local Status of Sof Omar Key Biodiversity US$24,630 Communities to Sustainably Area in Ethiopia Manage Mount Nimba’s Natural Society for Women and Vulnerable Resources in Guinea US$16,178 Groups Empowerment Botanic Gardens Conservation US$24,968 International Strategic Direction 2. Mainstream Initiative de Base pour la Gestion biodiversity conservation into des Ressources Naturelles Upgrade Biodiversity Importance public policy and private sector Status of Zomba Mountains Key practice in the nine conservation Biodiversity Area in Malawi corridors, at local, subnational Indo-Burma US$20,000 and national levels. Mainstreaming Site-Scale Strategic Direction 4. Empower National Herbarium and Botanic Ecosystem Values into Local local communities to engage in Gardens Decision-Making in Ghana conservation and management of priority Key Biodiversity Areas. Using Biodiversity Surveys, US$96,324 Conserving the Biodiversity of Website and Film to Promote Ghana Wildlife Society the Smaller Indaw Lake, Sagaing the Value of the Kabobo Massif Region, Myanmar for Conservation Support in Strategic Direction 3. Safeguard Democratic Republic of Congo priority globally threatened US$19,999 species by identifying and Kadu Youth Development US$19,790 Association (KYDA) Museo delle Scienze di Trento (The addressing major threats and Science Museum of Trento) information gaps. Creation of First Marine Protected Environmental Education Program Area in Côte d’Ivoire in Floating Villages Around the Strategic Direction 3. Initiate and Prek Tonle Core Area of Tonle Sap support sustainable financing US$44,819 Biosphere Reserve, Cambodia and related actions for the Conservation des Espèces Marines conservation of priority Key US$19,981 Biodiversity Areas and corridors. Determining Distribution, Density OSMOSE Capacity-Building Workshops in and Connectivity of Threatened Ethiopia for CEPF Grantees Tortoises in Nigeria Phase II: Building Sustainability for the Mekong Turtle Conservation US$12,793 US$32,362 Project in Kratie, Cambodia ZESMAN Consultancy Biodiversity Preservation Centre US$44,584 National Herbarium of São Tomé: Wildlife Conservation Society Guinean Forests of Establishing a Reference for the Study and Conservation of Plants Pilot Dissemination of the Lao West Africa of São Tomé and Principe Biodiversity Conservation Law to Four Communities at Priority Site Strategic Direction 1. Empower US$45,460 Pakxan Wetland local communities to engage in University of Coimbra sustainable management of 40 US$17,286 priority sites and consolidate Association for Community Training ecological connectivity at the and Development landscape scale.
43 Piloting Community-Based Mainstreaming Karst Biodiversity Network Building for Community- Initiatives for Conservation of Conservation into Policies, Plans Based Approaches to Natural Hoolock Gibbon in the Indawgyi and Business Practices in the Resources Management in Trat Watershed, Myanmar Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar Province, Thailand US$55,970 US$190,000 US$20,000 The Northern Green Lights Fauna & Flora International Sustainable Development Foundation Securing Local Participation in Providing Incentives for Conservation of River Turtles in Conservation in Cambodia’s Tonle Strengthening the Capacity of Save Myanmar Sap Biosphere Reserve, and Stung Vietnam’s Wildlife US$95,368 Seng and Boeung Tonle Chhmar US$19,986 Turtle Survival Alliance Core Zones through Sustainable Save Vietnam’s Wildlife Livelihoods in Responsible Tourism Strategic Direction 6. Engage US$19,916 Strengthening Women Networks key actors in mainstreaming Wild Cambodia Organisation and Community for Biodiversity biodiversity, communities and Conservation in Thailand’s Trang livelihoods into development Strategic Direction 8. Strengthen Province planning in the priority corridors. the capacity of civil society US$20,000 Demonstration Project on the Eco- to work on biodiversity, Save Andaman Network Farming of Hele-Crab in Mangrove communities and livelihoods Foundation Forest in China at regional, national, local and US$19,940 grassroots levels. Capacity Building on Integrated Hainan Hele-crab Conservation Development Project for Madagascar and Indian Center Nongovernmental Organizations in Ocean Islands the Indo-Burma Hotspot Empowering Civil Society and Strategic Direction 1. Empower Governmental Agencies to US$19,934 local communities to protect and Mainstream Biodiversity and Yunnan Synetics Partnership for manage biodiversity in priority Ecosystem Service Values into Civil Organization Development Key Biodiversity Areas. Development Plans for the “My Lake Tseny, I Protect the Chindwin River Basin, Myanmar Enhancing Community Participation Damba,” Local Development and US$350,000 in Watershed Management and Protection of Endemic Fish in Stockholm Environment Institute Biodiversity Conservation in Four Madagascar’s Lake Tseny River Basins, Phang Nga Province, Thailand US$17,553 Madagasikara Voakajy Ensuring Better Biodiversity and US$20,000 Community Outcomes in the Nam Andaman Organization for Conservation and Integrated Ou, Lao PDR Participatory Restoration of Development Towards Sustainable US$20,000 National Resources Valorization of Endemic Fish in the International Rivers Network Complex of Wetlands of North- Hou Niao Volunteer Program— West Madagascar Promoting a Coastal Wetland Facilitating Civil Society US$19,427 Participation in the Implementation Volunteer Network in Guangxi, Association des Producteurs Privés of Cambodia’s Environmental Code China d’Alevins (APPA) US$120,000 US$19,923 Vishnu Law Group Guangxi Biodiversity Research and Conserving Biodiversity of Anjouan Conservation Association through a Landscape Development Mainstreaming Effective Model Indigenous Community Media in Conservation Models into US$140,000 Cambodia’s Environmental Code Cambodia Dahari US$79,997 US$19,968 Wildlife Conservation Society Conserve Indigenous Peoples Developing Community-Based Languages Conservation in Madagascar’s Ambato-Boeny-Maevatanana Forests and Wetlands US$218,090 The Aspinall Foundation
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Enhancing Local Management Sustainable Management of Lake Strengthening the System of and Biodiversity Conservation Ihotry Natural Resources, Part of Environmental Indicators for in Madagascar’s Tsimembo- the Mangoky-Ihotry Complex New Monitoring the Environment in Manambolomaty Protected Area Protected Area, Madagascar Madagascar and Updating the US$180,600 US$19,718 Environmental Dashboard of The Peregrine Fund Asity Madagascar Menabe Region US$19,982 Mauritian Fruit Bat—A Tool for Traditional Knowledge Valorization Office National pour l’Environnement Forest Regeneration and Restoration of Heritage US$143,630 Species in the Classified Forest of Testing Drone for High Resolution, Ecosystem Restoration Alliance Vohibola in Madagascar 3D Mapping of Silhouette Island, Indian Ocean US$19,427 Seychelles Groupe des Spécialistes des US$19,985 Preserving Fragile Ecosystems Plantes de Madagascar TFC International Through Community-Based Fire Management and Education Strategic Direction 2. Enable Strategic Direction 3. Strengthen Program in Ankarafantsika National civil society to mainstream civil society capacity at local Park, Northwest Madagascar biodiversity and conservation and regional levels through US$140,756 into political and economic training, exchanges and regional Planet Madagascar decision-making. cooperation. Advancing Ecosystem Restoration, Strengthening Civil Society Program of Action for a Sustainable Ecotourism and Threatened Organizations’ Capacity for Ylang-Ylang Industry in Comoros Species Recovery Through Improved Conservation and US$208,010 Nongovernmental Organization, Sustainability in the Hotspot University and Private Sector US$231,676 Association 2 Mains Partnerships in Seychelles Tropical Biology Association Starting Ecotourism for the Ibity US$113,000 New Protected Area in Madagascar Island Biodiversity & Conservation Tropical Andes US$19,947 Baseline Mapping of Plant Missouri Botanical Garden Diversity, Land Use and Fire Strategic Direction 1. Improve History, for Effective Management protection and management of Structuring and Strengthening the of Biodiversity in Itremo Massif 36 priority Key Biodiversity Areas Fikambanana Bongolava Maitso and Ambatofinandrahana, Central to create and maintain local Association for the Effective Highlands, Madagascar support for conservation and to Management of the New Protected US$19,404 mitigate key threats. Area of Bongolava in Madagascar Community Forest Conservation in Kew Madagascar Conservation the Northeast Biodiversity Corridor US$185,843 Centre Fikambanana Bongolava Maitso in Peru Green Accounting for the US$50,000 Supporting Association Sustainable Management of Yunkawasi Fikambanana Sakaizan-Ravelobe Madagascar’s Protected Areas for the Protection of Madagascar’s and Parks Earthquake Reconstruction Planning Lake Ravelobe US$19,866 for Three Chachi Indigenous Communities in the Mache-Chindul US$18,889.07 Institut et Observatoire de Ecological Reserve of Ecuador Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Géophysique d’Antananarivo (IOGA) US$23,000 Supporting Local Communities for Fundación para el Desarrollo de the Fight Against Deforestation of Setting up an Information System Alternativas Comunitarias de the Tsimembo Forest, Madagascar for the Madagascar Biodiversity Conservación del Trópico US$19,569 Hotspot The Peregrine Fund US$19,465 Fostering Altitudinal Connectivity and Conservation in the Cotacachi– Association du Réseau des Sustainable, Locally Led Mangrove Awa Conservation Corridor of Systèmes d’Information (ARSIE) Management and Restoration in Ecuador Madagascar’s Bay of Assassins US$140,900 US$19,583 Fundacion Altropico Velondriake Association
45 Management and Species Strengthening Community Strategic Direction 3. Promote Recovery Planning in the Serranía Management for the Sustainable local stakeholder engagement del Pinche Key Biodiversity Area of Development and Conservation of and the integration of social Colombia Intag Toisan Key Biodiversity Area and environmental safeguards US$55,600 of Ecuador into infrastructure, mining and Fundacion Ecohabitats US$107,015 agriculture projects to mitigate Fundacion Prodeci a Favor de los potential threats to the Key Management Planning and Derechos Ciudadanos Biodiversity Areas in the seven Protection for Biodiversity priority corridors. Conservation and Watershed Strengthening Community Mainstreaming Conservation Management of Cotapata Key Management of Yunguilla—Santa Strategies into Municipal Planning Biodiversity Area in Bolivia Lucia Conservation and for the Kosñipata-Carabaya Key Biodiversity Area in Peru US$140,000 Sustainable Use Area in Ecuador Mancomunidad de Municipios del US$44,999 US$131,493 Norte Paceño Tropical Corporación Microempresarial Fundación Peruana para la Yunguilla Conservación de la Naturaleza Multi-Stakeholder Management (PRONATURALEZA) Planning and Governance Strengthening Legal Protection Strengthening for the San Antonio and Connectivity for Paramo del Mitigating Pressure on Natural Key Biodiversity Area in Colombia Duende Key Biodiversity Area in Resources and Biodiversity in Colombia, Phase I Earthquake Reconstruction in US$75,000 Muisne, Ecuador Corporación para la Gestión US$35,683 Ambiental Biodiversa Fundación Ecológica Fenicia US$77,000 Defensa Natural Ecociencia Ecuador Preparation of a Management Plan for the Planada Nature Reserve Strengthening Management and Strategic Direction 4. Promote in the Pialapí Pueblo Indigenous Participatory Planning in Three Key and scale up opportunities to Reserve, Colombia Biodiversity Areas within the Quito foster private sector approaches Metropolitan District in Ecuador for biodiversity conservation to US$111,318 benefit priority Key Biodiversity Resguardo Pialapí Pueblo Viejo US$120,454 Areas in the seven corridors. Consorcio para el Desarrollo Promoting Nature-Based Tourism Preparation of a Participatory Sostenible de la Ecorregion in Kosñipata–Carabaya Key Management Plan for Río Ñambí Andina-Condesan Biodiversity Area of Peru Nature Reserve, Colombia US$92,234 US$98,000 Strengthening Protection and Improving Management in Shuar Ayuda para la Vida Silvestre Fundación Ecológica los Colibríes Amenazada Sociedad Zoológica de de Altaquer Arutam Territory in Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador Fráncfort Perú (AVISA SZF PERU)
Promoting the Protection of US$142,814 Strategic Direction 5. Safeguard Water Ecosystem Services in San Corporacion Ecopar globally threatened species. Lorenzo Municipality as a Vehicle Assessing the Risk of Extinction to Strengthen Legal Protection Strategic Direction 2. Mainstream of Plants and Updating Key and Multisectorial Collaboration biodiversity conservation Biodiversity Areas in the Tropical to Conserve Awacachi Key into public policies and Andes Biodiversity Area in Ecuador development plans in seven corridors to support sustainable US$249,955 US$140,824 International Union for the Fauna & Flora International development, with a focus on subnational governments. Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Securing Legal Protection of Alto Promoting Reciprocal Watershed Agreements for Biodiversity Conservation Assessment and Nangaritza Forest Reserve in Planning to Safeguard Globally Ecuador Conservation in 27 Communities of the Madidi-Pilón Lajas-Cotapata Threatened Birds in San José de US$113,254 Conservation Corridor of Bolivia Lourdes Key Biodiversity Area of Peru Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional US$170,074 Fundación Natura Bolivia US$25,445 Practical Actions Regional Office for Latin America
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Expansion of Community-Based Capacity Building for Communities Wallacea Protection of Habitat Project in Surrounding Indonesia’s Manusela Strategic Direction 1. Address Talaud, Indonesia National Park threats to high priority species. US$114,282 US$15,886 Photographs of Endemic and Yayasan IDEP Selaras Alam Yayasan Pengembangan dan Threatened Species to Improve Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (YPPM) Awareness of the Wallacea Hotspot Implementing Collaborative Maluku US$7,399 Management in Key Biodiversity Marlon, Riza Area Danau Poso, Indonesia Collaborative Management of the US$49,952 Bantimurung-Bulusaraung Key Protection of Halmahera Birds Perkumpulan Inovasi Komunitas Biodiversity Area in Indonesia Through Nature Campaign and Law US$14,636 Enforcement in Indonesia Improved Management of the Perkumpulan Jurnalis Advokasi US$94,684 Sahendarumang Forest in Sangihe, Lingkungan Celebes PROFAUNA Indonesia North Sulawesi, Indonesia US$15,125 Community-Based Protection of Red-and-Blue Lory Conservation in Perkumpulan Sampiri Kepulauan Endemic Fisheries in Lake Towuti, Sampiri, Indonesia Sangihe Sulawesi, Indonesia US$8,498 US$14,406 Yayasan IDEP Selaras Alam Species and Site Conservation Universitas Andi Jemma Fakultas in the Malili Lakes Complex of Perikanan Strategic Direction 2. Improve Sulawesi, Indonesia management of sites (Key US$15,905 Community Engagement for Better Management of Aketajawe National Biodiversity Areas) with and Universitas Andi Jemma Fakultas Park, Indonesia without official protection status. Kehutanan Community Awareness for US$13,194 Biodiversity Conservation around Sustainable Forest Management in Bidadari Halmahera the Togean Islands in Indonesia Western Flores, Indonesia US$10,634 US$16,275 Conservation, Agriculture and Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) Forum Peduli Kawasan Mbeliling Reforestation Training in Mundo Kota Gorontalo Perdido Key Biodiversity Area of Village Development Planning for Timor-Leste Community-Based Forest Sustainable Key Biodiversity Area US$40,747 Management in Ilo Wengot, Flores, Management in Central Sulawesi, Centro de Desenvolvimento Indonesia Indonesia Comunitario US$19,202 US$6,569 Yayasan Ayu Tani Mandiri Perkumpulan Sanggar Seni Maleo Bird Habitat Conservation in Lokal dan Pengiat Media Rakyat North Maluku, Indonesia Community-Based Natural (Salanggar) US$5,498 Resource Management and Yayasan Mia Wola Spatial Planning in the Malili Lakes Strategic Direction 3. Support Complex of Sulawesi sustainable natural resource Parrot Conservation and US$62,557 management by communities Community Awareness Perkumpulan Wahana Lingkungan in priority sites and corridors. Surrounding Indonesia’s Manusela Lestari Celebes Area (Wallacea) Alternative Livelihood Promotion National Park Kota Palopo and Sustainable Resource Use in US$14,158 the Bantimurung-Bulusaraung Key Perkumpulan Konservasi Kakatua Ensuring Conservation Attention to Biodiversity Area of Indonesia Indonesia Limestone-Specific Biodiversity in US$80,842 South Sulawesi, Indonesia Perkumpulan PAYO-PAYO Strengthening Biodiversity US$100,000 Conservation in Coffee and Cocoa Fauna & Flora International Production Systems in Bantaeng Regency, Indonesia US$105,329 Rainforest Alliance
47 Strengthening Ridge-to-Reef Revitalization of Local Wisdom Strategic Direction 5. Engage the Natural Resource Management in for Sustainable Management of private sector in conservation Seram-Buru Corridor in Indonesia Natural Resources in Buano Island, of priority sites and corridors, US$151,200 Indonesia in production landscapes, and Yayasan Tanah Air Beta US$58,407 throughout the hotspot. Private Sector’s Guideline for Lembaga Partisipasi Pembangunan Ecosystem Conservation and Strengthening the Role of Masyarakat (LPPM) Indigenous Peoples in Support Natural Infrastructure Protection in of Sustainable Natural Resource Sea Turtle Habitat Conservation in Indonesia Management in the Manusela North Sulawesi, Indonesia US$101,413 National Park Buffer Area, Maluku, US$16,667 Indonesia Business Council for Indonesia Yayasan Rumah Ganeca, Sulawesi Sustainable Development US$17,786 Utara Yayasan Sauwa Sejahtera Strategic Direction 6. Enhance Strengthening Community-Based civil society capacity for effective Sustainable Management of the Coastal and Marine Resources conservation action in Wallacea. Lake Poso Basin in Indonesia Management in Minahasa, North Revision of Conservation Law and Regulations in Indonesia US$10,646 Minahasa, and Talaud Districts of Yayasan Panorama Alam Lestari North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia US$159,034 (YPAL) Poso US$49,257 Yayasan Kehutanan Masyarakat Manengkel Solidaritas Indonesia Village-Level Capacity Building for Biodiversity Conservation in Strengthening the Protection Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Ruteng, Flores, Indonesia of a Site: Key Biodiversity Society Organizations for Effective Conservation Action in Indonesia US$11,912 Area Economic Empowerment Yayasan Tunas Jaya Through Regulations and Coastal US$320,000 Communities, Indonesia Penabulu Foundation Strategic Direction 4. Strengthen US$42,644 Workshop on Coastal and Marine community-based action to Lembaga Pengembangan Conservation in North Sulawesi, protect marine species and sites. Masyarakat Lembata (BARAKAT) Community-Based Mangrove and Indonesia Coastal Resource Management in Sustainable Mangrove Forest US$5,043 the Guruapin Village Management in North Maluku, YAPEKA US$12,630 Indonesia Lembaga Pesisir dan Lautan Kie US$16,667 Raha (eLSiL Kie Raha) Yayasan Studi Etnologi Masyarakat Multiple Hotspots Nelayan Kecil Community-Based Marine Collective Learning Toward Protected Area Management in The Preparation of the Community Achieving Shared Nature Banggai Laut, Sulawesi, Indonesia to Manage Mangrove and Coastal Conservation Goals US$16,532 Resources Sustainably in Central US$79,380 SIKAP Institute Sulawesi, Indonesia Mediterranean Information Office US$57,884 for Environment, Culture and Community-Based Protection of JAPESDA Gorontalo Sustainable Development the Balantak Coast, Sulawesi, Indonesia Traditional Marine Protected Area Saving Asia’s Bustards Through Sharing Knowledge Across Borders US$17,189 Management in Maluku, Indonesia Perkumpulan Relawan untuk Orang US$73,271 US$19,994 dan Alam (ROA) Baileo Maluku Foundation Wildlife Conservation Society
Establish and Scale-Up Atauro Island Marine Protected Area, Timor-Leste US$170,410 Coral Triangle Center Foundation
48 Financial Summary
49 Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana), Sulawesi, Indonesia. © Riza Marlon
50 Financial Summary During the 2017 fiscal year of July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, CEPF awarded US$10.3 million in new grants, bringing the amount it has invested in conserving critical ecosystems since 2000 to more than US$217.1 million. By the end of the fiscal year, 2,215 grantees had received support from the fund since its inception. The fund continued active granting in the East Melanesian Islands, Eastern Afromontane, Indo-Burma, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, Mediterranean Basin, Tropical Andes, and Wallacea biodiversity hotspots. CEPF also began new investments in the Guinean Forests of West Africa and Cerrado biodiversity hotspots. A team led by BirdLife International and IUCN completed an update of the ecosystem profile—the stakeholder-informed analysis of a biodiversity hotspot that includes development of our funding strategy—for the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot, laying the foundation for a reinvestment in the hotspot. Zoï Environment Network, a Switzerland-based nongovernmental organization, also finalized a draft of the ecosystem profile for the Mountains of Central Asia Biodiversity Hotspot, and work began on an update of the profile for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot, led by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI).
Grants by Region Grants by Region Local vs. International Inception through June 30, 2017 Awarded in Fiscal Year 2017 Grant funds awarded since 2007
67 Local
33 International
30% Africa 32% Africa 24% Asia (including Caucasus) 20% Asia 3% Caribbean 28% Pacific Islands 7% Central America 20% South America 5% Europe 16% Pacific Islands 15% South America
51 CEPF Statement of Activities For fiscal year ended June 30, 2017
REVENUE FY17 CUMULATIVE Grants and Contributions 2,602,098 286,073,763 Gain (Loss) in Foreign Exchange 54,111 (1,496,687) Interest Earned 147,465 3,237,335 TOTAL REVENUE (US$2,803,674) US$287,814,411 EXPENSES AND GRANTS AWARDED (Grants by Funding Region*) Atlantic Forest 0 10,010,403 Cape Floristic Region 0 7,551,147 Caribbean Islands (24,673) 6,879,511 Caucasus 0 9,288,219 Cerrado 668,828 1,968,828 East Melanesian Islands 609,696 5,963,032 Eastern Afromontane 760,621 10,362,975 Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests 0 8,789,550 Eastern Himalayas 0 4,882,859 Guinean Forests of West Africa 0 8,072,696 Guinean Forests of West Africa Reinvestment 295,572 2,095,572 Indo-Burma 0 9,656,797 Indo-Burma Reinvestment 1,992,085 14,264,369 Madagascar 0 5,555,602 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands 2,011,103 6,937,389 Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 0 6,647,323 Mediterranean Basin (159,684) 10,981,504 Mountains of Southwest China 0 7,886,147 Mulitple Hotspots 79,380 79,380 Northern Mesoamerica 0 7,079,430 The Philippines 0 6,970,399 Polynesia-Micronesia 0 6,828,576 Southern Mesoamerica 0 7,046,928 Succulent Karoo 0 9,220,999 Sundaland 0 9,901,465 Tropical Andes 0 8,287,386 Tropical Andes Reinvestment 2,145,119 5,748,391 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 0 6,797,978 Wallacea 2,032,396 5,376,381 Western Ghats & Sri Lanka (27,496) 6,027,573 TOTAL GRANTS US$10,382,947 US$217,158,809 Ecosystem Profile Preparation 621,798 11,445,518 Use of Interest: External Evaluations, Audit and Special Projects 274,921 2,703,363 Donor-Funded Nonrecurring Activities (GEF-PPG) 0 200,000 Operations 3,223,674 40,649,334 TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES US$4,120,393 US$54,998,216 TOTAL EXPENSES AND GRANTS AWARDED US$14,503,340 US$272,157,025 Revenue Less Expenses (11,699,666) 15,657,386 Fund Balance at Beginning of Period 27,397,626 Fund Balance at End of Period 15,697,960 FUND BALANCE AT END OF PERIOD CONSISTED OF: Cash & Interest Accrued, Net of Amount Due to or from Conservation International 27,319,607 Accounts Receivable 9,909,147 Grants Payable (21,530,794) Fund Balance at End of the Period (Fully Earmarked for Investments) 15,697,960
*The grant expenses include new grants awarded in FY17. Negative amounts represent deobligations.
52 Grantee Partners 2001 – June 30, 2017
Aaranyak Alicat Tours Arulagam Asociación para la Conservación, Associação dos Pescadores e Amigos Acharya, Pushpa Raj All Out Africa ASEAN Focus Group Pty. Ltd. Investigación de la Biodiversidad y el do Rio Paraiba do Sul Desarrollo Sustentable ACT India Foundation Allan, Tamryn Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology Associação dos Proprietários de Asociación para la Investigación y Reservas Particulares do Estado Alliance of Rural Communities and the Environment Action Ceinture Verte pour Desarrollo Integral da Bahia l’Environnement Almeida, Afrânio Silva Asia Biodiversity Conservation Trust Asociación Peruana para la Associação dos Proprietários de Asian Nature Conservation Action for Community Organization, AMAN Maluku Utara Conservación de la Naturaleza RPPN e Reservas Privadas de Minas Rehabilitation and Development Foundation AMAN Sinjai Asociación Red Colombiana de Gerais Action For Development (AFD) Asity Madagascar Amanagua Reservas Naturales de la Sociedad Associação Flora Brasil Action for Environmental Asociación Agricultura Ecológica Amani Nature Reserve Civil Associação KUWUKA – Juventude Sustainability Asociación Balam para la Amar Caparó Asociación Trópico Verde/ParksWatch Desenvolvimento e Advocacia Active Youth Community Initiative Conservación de los Recursos Guatemala Ambiental Amauri Range Post Level FECOFUN Naturales y Culturales Integrados Adams, Agnes Assis, Darnício Associação Macambira de Reservas Amazon Conservation Association Adams, Robin Asociación Beyond Light (The Living Associação Amigos de Iracambi Privadas American Bird Conservancy Med) Adams, Trevor Associação Amigos do Museu Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado American College of Traditional Asociación Caritas Madre de Dios Adansonia Consulting Nacional Associação para a Conservação das Chinese Medicine Asociación Centro de Acción Legal- ADDICT COM, Agence de Associação Baiana para Conservação Aves do Brasil American Museum of Natural History Ambiental y Social de Guatemala Communication dos Recursos Naturais Associação para a Proteção da Mata Amigos del Museo de Historia Natural Asociación Civil Armonía Addis Ababa University Associação Bombeiros Voluntários Atlântica do Nordeste (AMANE) Noel Kempff Mercado Asociación Comercial y Agropecuaria Additive Adventure Associação Civil Muriqui de Associação Patrimônio Natural (APN) Amil, Celso Miguez de Chiriquì Grande Adonis, Andries Desenvolvimento Sustentável Associação Pedagógica Dendê da Amjad and Majdi Salameh Company Asociación de Agricultura Ecológica Associação Comunitária Alternativa Serra AfriBugs CC (Enviromatics) del Perú para la Conservación del Associação Cunhambebe Associação pelo Meio Ambiente de Africa Conservation Fund Amorim, Valmor Medio Ambiente de la Amazonia Juiz de Fora Africa Environmental News Service Peruana Associação de Apoio à Escola do Anand, Gazmer Colégio Estadual José Martins da Associação Plantas do Nordeste Africa Insights Asociación de Amigos y Vecinos de la Anand, M.O. Costa y la Naturaleza Costa Associação Pró-Melhoramento Africa, Henry Ambiental da Região do Caparaó Andaman Organization for Asociación de Desarrollo y Promoción Associação de Certificação de African Butterfly Research Institute Participatory Restoration of National Humana de la Costa Atlántica Produtos Orgânicos do Espírito Santo Associação Protetora da Infância Resources Província Paraná African Conservation Trust Asociación de Ecosistemas Andinos Associação de Cultura e Educação African Rainforest Conservancy Aneri Vlok Ambiental Associação Super Eco de Integração Asociación de Moradores la Torre de Ambiental e Desenvolvimento da African Safari Lodge Foundation Angkor Center for Conservation of Uso Sostenible y Ecoturismo Associação de Defesa da Lagoa de Biodiversity Araruama Criança African Wildlife Foundation Asociación de Organizaciones del Anglia Ruskin University Associação de Defesa do Meio Associação Vila-Velhense de Afrique Nature International Corredor Biológico Talamanca Caribe Proteção Ambiental Angweng Reincarnated Buddha Ambiente Afya na Maendeleo Self Help Group Asociación de Practicantes de Association 2 Mains Ano & Vano Union NGO Medicina Tradicional Naso Associação de Estudos Costeiros e Agjencia Joniane e Mjedisit, Medias, Marinhos dos Abrolhos Association BBD Informacionit Another Way Trust Asociación de Profesionales y Associação de Fomento Turístico e Association Burundaise Pour la Anti Illegal Logging Institute Técnicos Ngöbe Bugle Agoo, Esperanza Maribel G. Desenvolvimento Sustentável Protection de la Nature Asociación de Reservas Naturales AGORO Centre for Intercultural Antique Outdoors Inc. Privadas de Guatemala Associação de Moradores do Association Burundaise Pour la Learning and Talent Development Appel, Alliston Marimbu, Santo Antônio e Rio Negro Protection des Oiseaux Asociación de Shiringueros Sector Agri-Kameelkrans Farmers Union Appel, Beverly Alerta Associação de Pescadores e Amigos Association Club Vintsy Ankomba Agricultural and Forestry Research Appels, Andrew do Rio Paraíba do Sul Asociación de Turismo de Tres Association de Gestion Intégrée des and Development Center for Northern Applied Environmental Research Colinas Associação de Programas em Ressources Mountainous Region of Vietnam Foundation Tecnologias Alternativas Asociación Económica de Association de la Protection de la Agricultural Research Council and Aquamedia Fund Productores y Acopiadores de Cacao Associação de Proprietários de Nature et de l’Environnement de Range and Forage Institute Reservas Particulares da Bahia Korba Arabuko Sokoke Guides Association Asociación Ecuatoriana de Agro-Environmental & Economic Arboretum d’Antsokay Ecoturismo Associação de Proprietários de Association de Protection de Management-Center (AEEM-Centre) Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio l’Environnement Hammem Ghezaz Arche aux Plantes Asociación Isuyama Bajo Tambopata Agro-Meslehet Non-Governmental Natural (RPPN) do Mato Grosso do (APEHG) Organization Arid Zone Ecology Forum Asociación IXACAVAA de Desarrollo e Sul – REPAMS Association de Réflexion, d’Échanges Información Indígena Ahmed Yehia Ali Arizona State University Associação de Proprietários em et d’Actions pour L’Environnment et Asociación Mejorando al Desarrollo Akatov, Valeriy Armenian Assembly of America, Inc. Reserva Ibirapitanga le Développement Rural de la Región a Traves de la Al-Shouf Cedar Society Armenian Forests NGO Associação de Proteção Ambiental do Association des Enseignants des Conservación de la Vida Silvestre Vale e da Serra das Garcias Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre Armenian National Academy of Alas Indonesia (formerly Asociación Meralvis) (AESVT-MAROC) Sciences, Institute of Zoology Associação do Patrimônio Natural Albanian Society for the Protection of Asociación Nacional para la Association des Fans de la Chebba Birds & Wild Fauna (Mammals) Armenian Nature Protectors Union Conservación de la Naturaleza Associação dos Agricultores Familiares de Alto Santa Maria, Rio (AFC) Armenian Society for the Protection Albertine Rift Conservation Society Asociación para el Desarrollo de San Lamego e Barra do Rio Claro Association des Footballeurs of Birds José de Ocoa (ADESJO) Albuquerque, Jorge Luiz Associação dos Amigos do Rio d’Antsahampano Armenian Tourism Association Algeria Community Asociación para el Desarrollo Piraquê-Açu em Defesa da Natureza Association des Producteurs Privés Arnavon Community Marine Económico y Social del Agro Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) Kota e do Meio Ambiente d’Alevins (APPA) Conservation Association Gorontalo Asociación para el Estudio y Associação dos Moradores do Vale Association du Réseau des Systèmes Arnold Arboretum of Harvard Conservación de las Aves Acuáticas Alianza para la Conservación y el do Rio do Braço/Santana d’Information (ARSIE) University en Colombia Desarrollo Associação dos Pequenos Produtores Association Economics for Coral Reef Arts, Sciences and Technology Asociación para la Conservación de Alianza para las Àreas Silvestres Rurais de Aruanda Ecosystems (ECRE) – Bluefinance University in Lebanon la Cuenca Amazónica
53 Association Fanamby Aurora Resource Development Bengjinmeiduo Women’s Group Brown Hyena Research Project Caucasus Center for Ethological Association Fikambanan’ny Tantsaha Initiatives Association Inc. Benny, John Bucol, Abner Research Miara-Mizotra Antsahampano Aus Community Conservation Trust Benzilan Village Buddhist Association for Caucasus Environmental NGO Network Association Fikambanana Miaro Ayuda para Vida Silvestre Amenazada Berbert, Henrique Environmental Development Kijaha sy Alan’I Bobankora Sociedad Zoológica de Fráncfort Perú Caucasus Nature Fund Besten, Sheila Bukreev, Sergey Association Flora and Fauna – (AVISA SZF PERU) Caucasus Wild Plants Certification Bhat, Ganapati Burger, Elzanne Georgia Azerbaijan Center for Biodiversity Centre Bidadari Halmahera Burrows, Hendrik Jakobus Association for Community Azerbaijan Ornithological Society Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Bigger Picture TV Production CC Burrows, Jannie Development (LUPA) Azerbaijan Society of Zoologists Foundation Inc. Binhi Sang Kausawagan Foundation Burundi Nature Action Association for Community Training Baatjies, Michelle Cecchi, Susie Lee and Development Inc. Burung Indonesia Bab Assalam Women’s Cooperative Cedarville Conservancy Association for Nature Protection and Biodiversity and Landscape Buthelezi, Siyabonga Baboo Ram Gurung Center for Biodiversity and Sustainable Use “Mta-Bari” Conservation Union Buzurtanova, Aza Indigenous Knowledge Bac Lieu University Association for Sustainable Human Biodiversity and Nature Conservation CAB International Center for Environmental and Rural Bachan, Amitha Association Development Cabinet Sami Ben Haj Development (CERD), Vinh University Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Biodiversity Conservation Center Association for the Protection and Cagayan Valley Partners in People Center for Karst and Speleology Preservation of Natural Environment Daerah, Lampung Barat Biodiversity Conservation Development Center for Legal Assistance to in Albania Badaró, Marama de Mello Madagascar Calbitz Holdings Pollution Victims Association Haute Moulouya pour Bahamas National Trust Biodiversity Inventory for California Academy of Sciences Center for Mountainous Resources l’Ecotourisme et la Protection de Conservation Bahir Dar University Madagascar and Environment la Nature Biodiversity Preservation Centre Baileo Maluku Foundation Calil, Nelson Antonio Center for People and Nature Association les Amis des Oiseaux Biome Conservation Foundation Bailey, Roger Cámara Nacional de la Producción y Reconciliation Association les Amis des Oiseaux BioResource Conservation Trust for Cap Bon Baimaxueshan National Nature el Emprendimiento Center for Protection and Research Reserve Management Office the Philippines Inc. of Birds of Montenegro Association les Amis des Oiseaux Cambodian Centre for Agricultural Baiposhan Nature Reserve BIOS.CV – Association for the Research and Development Center for Russian Nature Section de Sfax Conservation of the Environment and Baiyu Monastery Cambodian Community Development Conservation Association Marocaine pour Sustainable Development l’Ecotourisme et la Protection de Balang Institute Cambodian Institute for Research Center for Social, Economic and Biosfera 1 Environment Development la Nature Barabashin, Timofey and Rural Development (CIRD) Bird Conservation Nepal Center for Water Resources Association Nationale d’Actions Barbeiro, Heródoto Cambodian Organization for Women Environnementales (ANAE) Bird Conservation Society of Thailand Support Conservation and Development Barboza, Enoc dos Reis (BCST) Association of Ecology and Tourism Cambodian Rural Development Team Central de Pueblos Indígenas de Baricho Youth Group BirdLife International La Paz Association of Environmental Cambria, Patensi Barkinkhoev, Boris BirdLife South Africa Central Mindanao University Lawyers of Liberia Caminhos de Cunha Centro de Barkinkhoev, Murad Association of Friends of Nature BirdLife Zimbabwe Fomento Social e Cidadania Centre Ecologique de Libanona “Tskhratskharo” Barkinkhoeva, Lousa Bishop Museum Canal Studio Association Centre for Environment and Development (CED) Association of Journalists and the Barkinkhoeva, Rosa Bitterfontein Traditional Dancers Canongia, Paulo Marcio Goulart Society Centre for Environmental Education Barnett, Mandy Black Sea Eco Academy Capacity Building and Leadership Association of Natural Reserves and Barodien, Glynnis Blagovidov, Aleksei Institute Centre for Environmental Law and National Parks of the Caucasus Community Incorporated Barrie, Abdulai Blanchard, Ryan Cape Leopard Trust Association of Scientists- Centre for Forest Studies and Bat Conservation International Blankenberg, George Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve Ecologists—“Caucasian Eco-House” Consulting (Albaforest) Baviaans Conservancy Blue Ventures Conservation Company Association of Social Economic Centre for International Forestry CAPESTORM Outdoor Apparel Pty. Research Baviaanskloof Nature Awareness Bluefields Indian and Caribbean Research Group University Ltd. Association pour la Conservation de Centre for Natural Resources and Cardoso, Luis Nelson Faria la Nature au Rwanda Becker, Vitor Osmar Blumeris, Hilton Environmental Studies Care Earth Trust Association pour la Gestion Intégrée Bees for Development Ethiopia Bomani Women Group Centre for People and Nature et Durable de l’Environnement Behr, Walter Bombay Natural History Society CARE International Reconciliation Association pour la Promotion des Beihai Citizen Volunteer Association Booth, Pam Caribbean Coastal Area Management Centre for Plant Conservation Foundation Etudes d’Impacts Environnementaux Beijing Forestry University Booyse, Pieter Eric Centre for Policy and Law, Yunnan au Rwanda Caribbean Natural Resources Forestry Bureau Beijing Normal University Booysen, Dennis Association Promotion des Femmes Institute Beijing Shanmo Investment Centre for Protection of Natural and Rurales de Wilaya de Skikda Border Rural Committee Consultancy Co. Caribbean Wildlife Alliance Cultural Heritage Botanic Gardens Conservation Association Rwandaise des Caribsave Partnership Centre for Sustainable Water Beijing Shanshui Conservation Center International Ecologistes Cáritas del Perú Resources Development and Bekker, Karin Botanical Society of South Africa Adaptation to Climate Change Association “Synapse” Carlse, Alberto Frederick Belau Cares Botha, Pierre (CEWAREC) Association Tunisienne des Carlse, Carol Leigh Ingénieurs Agronomes Belau National Museum Boyana, Nondumiso Faith Centre for Wildlife Studies Carolus, Berenice Association Vahatra Belik, Victor Bratkov, Vitalii Centre National des Sciences Carolusberg Garden of Hope Association “Zekari” Belize Association of Private Breganza, Edwin Halieutiques de Boussoura Protected Areas Carrick, Peter Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Briel, Philip Centro Agronómico Tropical de Belize Foundation for Research and Castro, Aristides de Oliveira Investigación y Enseñanza Internazionale Bring the Elephant Home Foundation Environmental Education CATA Communal Property Association Centro Científico Tropical Auckland UniServices Limited Brink, William Belize Tropical Forest Studies Caucasian Endemics Research Centro Comunitário Rural da Colina Augustus, Delricia Bristol, Clifton and West of England Benetti, Amilcar Centre Auristela Toledo de Villafuerte Zoological Society Ltd.
54 Grantee Partners
Centro de Desenvolvimento Chinese Academy of Forestry Conservation Society of Pohnpei Cupido, Christopher Dogaˇ Dernegiˇ Agroecológico do Extremo Sul da Chinese Academy of Sciences Conservation Society of Sierra Leone Current Conservation Community Dolphin Foundation Bahia Terra Viva Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Conservation Strategy Fund Interest Company Dolphin Head Local Forestry Centro de Desenvolvimento Chitsanze Falls/Cheka Cheka Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico Curry, Neil Management Committee (LFMC) Comunitario Medicinal Woodland Group Conserve Africa Foundation Curtis, Odette Dorji, Rinchen Centro de Desenvolvimento Chumchon Thai Foundation da Silva, Irimar José Dorji, Wangchuk Sustentável Guaçu-Virá Conserve Indigenous Peoples Clanwilliam Living Landscape Languages da Silva, João Emidio Lima Dorji, Yeshey Centro de Estudios en Biología Teórica y Aplicada Clanwilliam News Agency Consorcio Ambiental Dominicano Dafengding Nature Reserve Douc Langur Foundation Centro de Estudios y Acción Social Clarendon Parish Development Consorcio Intermunicipal Lagos Dagestan Regional Social Driver, Amanda Panameño Committee Benevolent Society São João Organization “Agama” Društvo za Jamsko Biologijo – Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas para Cleaver, Gail Consorcio para el Desarrollo Dahari Society of Cave Biology (SCB) o Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul Cleveland Zoological Society Sostenible de la Ecorregion Daleprani, Martha Penitente Du Toit, Dominique Andina-Condesan da Bahia Cloete, Cindy-Lee Dalko Progressive Group Du Toit, Jeanette Construction Planning Office of Centro de Estudos Ecológicos e Coalición para la Conservación de la Damasceno, Sandra Souza Duineveld Coastal Association Educação Ambiental Shangri-La Alpine Botanic Garden Biosfera del Sureste Damons, Monique Durban Botanic Gardens Centro de Estudos para Conservação Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust Coast Farm Forest Association Damre Fishery Community Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust da Natureza Cooperativa AMBIO Sociedad COCOBA (Community Conservation Cooperativa de Responsabilidad Danish Zoological Society Duzi uMngeni Conservation Trust Centro de Investigación y Estudios en Bank) Tamburu Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos Limitada Daocheng Zhujie Monastery Dzhamirzoev, Gadzhibek COCOBA (Community Conservation Cooperativa do Produtores Orgânicos East Africa Natural History Society Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Bank) Tong’omba Daraina Cambiamenti Climatici S.c.a r.l. do Sul da Bahia East Africa Plant Red List Authority Coelho, João Lopes Dargle Conservancy Centro Experimental de Asistencia Cooperativa dos Agricultores Daries, Joan East African Wild Life Society Técnica Agropecuaria Collectif Developpement Familiares e Agroextrativistas do Vale Darjeeling Ladenla Road Prerna East China Normal University Centro Guatemalteco de Producción Collège d’Enseignement Général do Peruaçu Darmanto East Foundation Más Limpia Daraina Cooperativa dos Pequenos Das, K.S. Anoop Ebiil Society Inc. Centro Mexicano de Derecho Coller, Terence Produtores Agroextrativistas de Ambiental, Asociación Civil COLUFIFA-Guinée Pandeiros (COOPAE) David Butler Associates Ltd. Ebony Forest Ltd. Centro para el Desarrollo Colville, Jonathan Cooperativa Regional de Produtores Davids, Deon Ebrahim, Ismail Agrissilviextrativistas Sertão Veredas Agropecuario y forestal, Inc. (CEDAF) Comitato Internazionale per lo Davids, John ECNC Land & Sea Group Agrupación Coperative for Consulting and Centro para el Desarrollo del Sviluppo dei Popoli Davies, Sian Europea de Interés Económico Supporting Rural Development Ha Indígena Amazónico Eco Oceania Pty. Ltd. Commanditaire Vennootschop Way Hoa Day Ku Aphiwat Centro para la Investigación en Mengaku Indah Eco-Club Tapan Coral Reef Research Foundation Inc. De Jaar, Jan Sistemas Sostenibles de Producción Community Aid for Rehabilitation and Eco-Lifelihood Development Coral Triangle Center Foundation de Jong, Yvonne Agropecuaria Development Association Inc. Cornell University De Kock, Gary Centro Terra Viva – Estudos e Community and Biodiversity Eco-logic Consulting Advocacia Ambiental Corporación Ecopar De Leon, Josefina L. Conservation Research Center of Eco-Pulse Consulting Cesvi Onlus Lanzhou University Corporación Microempresarial de Lima, Luci Ramos Eco-Security Task Force of China Yunguilla de Lima, Sérgio Chamreourn Phal Community Community Development Resource Council for International Cooperation Chamroen Chiet Khmer Association Corporación Oro Verde de Nora, Gustavo Henrique Martins on Environment and Development Channing, Alan Community Economic Development Corporación para la Gestión de Rincquesen, Isa EcoAfrica Environmental Consultants Ambiental Biodiversa Chão Vivo Community Organisation Resource De Rust Koppie Ecobiosfera El Triunfo, Sociedad Civil Center Corporación para la Investigación, Chapembe Kajiweni Mikoko Group de Santana, Eduardo Augusto Alves Ecociencia Ecuador Comunidad Nativa de Infierno Capacitación y Apoyo Técnico Charitable Fund for Protection of de Souza, Max Carmo Ecological Solutions, Solomon Islands Concerned Environmentalists for the para el Manejo Sustentable de los Natural and Cultural Value in the Ecosistemas Tropicales Delahunt, Kerry Jo Ecology and Conservation of Birds Nature Reserves of Armenia Enhancement of Biodiversity Deqin Community Co-management NGO Confederation Regionale des Corporación Serraniagua Charles Darwin University Association Organisations du Sud-Est Correa, Angelo Pio Mendes Jr. Ecolur Informative NGO Chen, Youping Desmet, Philip Conrado, Maria da Conceição Costa Rican Amphibian Research ECOSOL GIS Chengdu Bird Watching Society Carvalho Center Deutsches Primatenzentrum Ecosure Pty. Ltd. Chengdu Institute of Biology Consejo Interinstitucional para el Council for Scientific and Industrial Development Bank of Southern Africa Ecotourism Association Public Chengdu Research Base of Giant Desarollo de Constanza, Inc. (CIDC) Research Development Impact Organization Panda Breeding Center Consejo Regional T’simane Counterpart International Deyang Wildlife Conservation Eden District Municipality Chengdu Urban Rivers Association Mosetenes Pilon Lajas Cowling, Shirley Pierce Association Eden to Addo Corridor Initiative Chettri, Basundhara Consejo Regional Tsimane Mosetén Craft South Africa Dhamala, Man Kumar Edgaonkar, Advait Chikira, Hassan Senkondo Conservación Ambiental y Desarrollo Crescente Fértil Diamond Village Community Heritage Edu Ventures en el Perú (CAMDE) Organisation Chilikin, Vitalii Crnogorsko Društvo Ekologa Eduardo Mondlane University Conservation des Espèces Marines Dimalibot-Concepcion, Judeline M. Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife [Montenegrin Ecologists Society Eduarte, Medaro Medel P. Conservation Trust Conservation et Restauration des Iles (MES)] Dimas, Jennifer C. Education for Nature-Vietnam China Institute of Water Resources de Polynésie Fa’a’ Api CROSE Dingani, July and Hydropower Research Eendekuil Community Conservation International Crouse, Annelize Dinkevich, Mikhail China Society of Territory Economics Eersterivier Projects Organization Conservation Lake Tanganyika Cumming, Tracey Dispersors China West Normal University Egan, Lorraine Conservation Management Ltd. Cuochi Wild Yak Conservation Dispute Resolution Foundation (DRF) China Youth Daily, Green Island Association Ehardt, Carolyn L. Conservation Management Services Djogo, Antonius El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
55 El Fondo Ambiental Nacional ETE+ Lagune de Maâmoura Fono-Rozani, Thisiwe Glory Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Fundación para el Desarrollo Eland, Samuel Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Fontes, Flavio Diniz Pesquisa, Departamento de Biologia Sostenible Geral Elandskloof Community Association Programme Foot, Erica Fundación para el Desarrollo Fundação Matutu Sostenible de Panamá Eld’s Deer Community Conservation Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal Fopspeen Live Art Fundação MICAIA Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y la Group Euro Caucasian Ecological Initiative Forest of Hope Association Public Union Fundação Universitária de Conservación Eldridge, Anne Claire Fortuin, Adrian EuroNatur Foundation Desenvolvimento de Extensão e Fundación para la Conservación de ElefantAsia Forum Burundais de la Societe Civilie Pesquisa los Recursos Naturales y Ambiente European Herpetological Society de Bassin du Nile Ellman, Roleen Fundação ZooBotânica do Rio en Guatemala Facultad Latino Americana de Enda Maghreb Forum Peduli Kawasan Mbeliling Grande do Sul Fundación para la Investigación y Ciencias Sociales Endangered Wildlife Trust Foster, Jodie Fundación Agroecológica Conservación ProAves Faculty of Forestry and Nature Cotobruseña Fundación Peruana para la Enendeni Women Group Conservation Consultancy Bureau at Foundation for Ecological Research, Entrepreneurship Development Advocacy and Learning (FERAL) Fundación Altropico Conservación de la Naturaleza Sokoine University of Agriculture (PRONATURALEZA) Foundation Fan, Enyuan Foundation for Endangered Wildlife Fundación Amigos del Río San Juan Enviromatics – Amjad and Majdi (Yemen) Fundacion Prodeci a Favor de los Farha Ally Fundación Centro de Investigaciones Derechos Ciudadanos Salameh Company Foundation for Integrative and del Pacifico Farmers Associated to Conserve the Environics Trust Development Studies Inc. Fundación Protección y Uso Environment Fundación Centro para la Sostenible del Medio Ambiente Environment For Life Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Investigación en Sistemas Fauna & Flora International Health Traditions Fundación Rainforest Rescue Environment Futures Centre, Griffith Sostenibles de Producción Federacao dos Cafeicultores do Foundation for Woman Development Agropecuaria Fundación Rio Guiza Colombia University Cerrado Environment Learning and Teaching Francois Leguat Ltd. Fundación Corcovado Lon Willing Fundación San Marcos para el Federación de Asociaciones Ramsey Jr. Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Cultura Environmental & Rural Solutions Municipales de Bolivia Frankfurt Zoological Society Fundación de Defensa Ecológica Fundación Servicio Ecuatoriano Environmental Action Group Federación de Centros Awá del Fray, Justine Fundación de Parques Nacionales para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Environmental and Health Education Ecuador Fredericks, Marthinus Sostenible Fundación Defensores de la Organisation (EHEO) Federación de Centros Chachis del FREELAND Foundation Naturaleza Fundación Sirua Environmental Awareness Group Esmeraldas French Ichthyological Society Fundación Ecohabitats Fundación Tropico Inc. (EAG) Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de French Institute of Pondicherry Fundación Ecológica Fenicia Defensa Fundación Universidad Nacional Environmental Camps for Colombia, Comité Departamental de Freshwater Consulting Group Conservation Awareness Cafeteros del Valle del Cauca Natural Fynbos Forum Friends for Conservation and Fundación Ecológica los Colibríes Gaduojuewu Conservation Society Environmental Citizens Association Fédération des Pêcheurs pour Development “Front 21/42” le Développement d’Activités de Altaquer “Gakhir” Charitable Organization Friends of Die Oog Environmental Conservation and Fédérales et l’Amélioration de la Fundación ECOTOP Game Rangers Association of Africa Communication Interne et Externe Friends of Nature Development Society Fundación Ecotrópico Colombia Gansu Baishuijiang National Nature Environmental Defenders Office FELCA Foundation Friends of Nature, China Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Reserve Limited Ferraz, Deise Maria Cardoso Friends of the Environment for Ecológicos Gansu Forestry Technical Science Environmental Development Group Field Museum of Natural History Development and Sustainability Inc. Fundación Internacional para la College Environmental Foundation for Africa Field Researchers’ Union Friends of the Swart Tobie Promocion del Desarrollo Sustentable Garcia, Harvey John D. Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA) Environmental Foundation “Campester” Friends of Tokai Forest Garden Route Botanical Garden Trust Fundación Jatun Sacha International FieldWork Friends of Wildlife Garden Route Enviro Services Fundación José Delio Guzmán Inc. Environmental Foundation of Jamaica Fiji Nature Conservation Trust Frontier-Cambodia Garies Secondary School (EFJ) Fundación Kukulkan Fikambanana Bongolava Maitso Fullard, Donovan Garman, Joy Environmental Law Centre “Ecolex” First Philippine Conservation, Inc. Fund for Biodiversity Conservation of Fundación Loma Quita Espuela (FLQE) Garuda, Sylva Environmental Law Institute FISHBIO Armenian Highland Fundación Natura Gaus Institut–Fondacija za novi Environmental Legal Assistance Fisheries Action Coalition Team Fundação Biodiversitas para tehnologii, inovacii i transfer na Conservação da Diversidade Fundación Natura Bolivia Center, Inc. Florindo, Pollyane znaenje Biológica Fundación Neotrópica Environmental Monitoring Group Floris, Morris Gazi Women’s Group Fundação Botânica Margaret Mee Fundación Nicaragüense para la Environmental Organization Flower Valley Conservation Trust Gede Cultural Conservation Group “Grashnica” Fundação Cearense de Pesquisa Conservación Follmann, Eugênio Victor e Cultura Geji Herdsmen Ecological Environmental Society “Lijepa Nasa” Fundación para el Desarrollo Agrario Conservation Association Fondation Macaya pour le Fundação Ceciliano Abel de Almeida Fundación para el Desarrollo de Environmental Watch on the North Développement Local Geland, Christabel West Caucasus Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa e Alternativas Comunitarias de Fondation Nouvelle Grand’Anse Geng, Dong EnviroScience Extensão Universitária Conservación del Trópico Fondation pour la Protection de la Georgian Center for the Conservation Equals Three Communications Fundação de Apoio ao Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Biodiversité Marine Desenvolvimento da Universidade Ecología of Wildlife Equitable Tourism Options Fondation Tany Meva Federal de Pernambuco Georgian Young Naturalists Society (EQUATIONS) Fundación para el Desarrollo Fondation Tour du Valat Fundação de Apoio da Universidade del Sistema Nacional de Áreas GeoTerra Image Pty. Ltd. Ernstzen, Roy Fondo Ambiental Nacional de Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Protegidas Gexigou Nature Reserve Erzi State Reserve Ecuador Fundação de Apoio e Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust Esau, Jacobus Phillipus Fondo de Conservación El Triunfo, Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Pesquisa del Corregimiento de Cerro Punta Ghana Wildlife Society Escola Superior São Francisco de e Extensão Asociación Civil Fundación para El Desarrollo Integral Ghent University Assis Fundação de Apoio Institucional del Hombre y Su Entorno Fondo de las Americas del Perú Ghimirey, Yadav Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral, Fondo Mexicano para la Tecnológico Gibji Nimachow Zamorano Conservación de la Naturaleza, A.C. Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá Gizatulin, Igor Española, Carmela P. Fondo Pronaturaleza, Inc.
56 Grantee Partners
Global Diversity Foundation Grupo Social Fondo Ecuatoriano Ihomboza Group Instituto Cidade International Center for Journalists Global Environmental Institute Populorum Progressio Ilam Cooperation Council Instituto de Biociências–Rio Claro, SP International Center for Living Aquatic Global Village Beijing Grzimek’s Help for Threatened IMAFLORA–Instituto de Manejo e Instituto de Biologia da Conservação Resources Management Wildlife, Inc. Global Wildlife Conservation Certificação Florestal e Agrícola Instituto de Conservação de International Centre for Gu, Xiaodong Environmental Management (ICEM) Gobierno Municipal del Cantón San Imperial, Marco Antonio Gracie Ambientes Litorâneos da Mata Lorenzo del Pailón Guangxi Biodiversity Research and Independent Producer Center, Yeni Atlântica International Centre of Insect Conservation Association Physiology and Ecology God for People Relief and Dalga Instituto de Ecología Development Organisation Guangxi Nanning Dipper Sports Indian Institute of Science Instituto de Estudos Sócio- International Fund for Animal Welfare Culture Co. Ltd. Goethe-Institute Tbilisi Indigenous Heartland Organization Ambientais do Sul da Bahia International Fund for China’s Guerrero, Antonio Fernandini Environment Gogoni Conservation Initiative Indigo Development and Change Instituto de Permacultura e Ecovilas Guides Association da Mata Atlântica International Gorilla Conservation Golden Rewards 1551 CC Indo-Myanmar Conservation Guinée Ecologie Instituto de Pesquisa da Mata Programme Goldman, Tanya Indonesia Business Council for Gullele Botanic Garden Atlântica International Iguana Foundation Gomes, Deniz Braz Pereira Sustainable Development Gulu University Instituto de Pesquisa e Conservação International Rhino Foundation Gomes, Fernando Lessa Indonesian Ecotourism Network da Natureza Gwele, Zwelithini International Rivers Network Gomes, João Batista de Oliveira Inhatus Instituto de Pesquisas e Conservação Hainan Gao11 culture transmission International Union for Conservation Iniciativa e Grave në Pun–The da Biodiversidade dos Biomas Gongga, Muya Ltd. of Nature (IUCN) Women at Work Initiative (TWAWI) Brasileiros Gordon, Ian Hainan Hele-crab Conservation International Union for Conservation Initiative de Base pour la Gestion des Instituto de Pesquisas e Conservação Gordon, Peter Juan Center of Nature Centre for Mediterranean Ressources Naturelles da Biodiversidade dos Ecossistemas Govender, Mishelle Cooperation Halmashauri ya Kijiji cha Njage Inka Terra S.A./Amarumayo Brasileiros Governance Links Tanzania Island Biodiversity & Conservation Han, Lianxian Insituto de Biologia UNAM Instituto de Pesquisas e Educação Grand Gedeh Community Servant Island Conservation Hanekom, Niklaas Institut et Observatoire de para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável Association Island Conservation Society Haribon Foundation for the Géophysique d’Antananarivo (IOGA) Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas Granier, Nicolas Island Knowledge Institute Conservation of Natural Resources Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Instituto de Vivência Ambiental Green Camel Association Harrington, Jayne Marines Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Island Reach Committee Inc. Green Connection Harrison Zoological Museum Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Integral, Inc. Ismailov, Khadzhaman Green Earth Volunteers (Harrison Institute) Reclamation Instituto Dríades de Pesquisa e Istituto Sindacale per la Cooperazione Green India Trust Hartmann, Ntombizanele Institute for Entrepreneurship and Conservação da Biodiversidade Allo Sviluppo Green Innovation and Development Hathorn, Paula Economic Development Instituto Eco-Solidário Jabur, Camila Centre Hegde, B.L. Institute for Tropical Ecology and Instituto Ecotuba Jack, Timothy Conservation Green Isaka Youth Nature Group Hegde, Narasimha Instituto Estadual do Ambiente Jackson, Chumisa Institute of Bio-Resources at Green Khampa Helme, Nick Instituto Floresta Viva Jacobs, Stephanus Nakhchivan Division of National Jamaica Conservation and Green Kunming Hendricks, Luzann Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Instituto IBA de Desenvolvimento Ambiental e Social Development Trust (JCDT) Green Law Institute for Action Henn, Edith Institute of Environment and Jamaica Environment Trust Green Laza Community Based Henry L. Stimson Center Resources Conservation Law, Wuhan Instituto Idéia Ambiental James Cook University Organization Hess, Harmut Herbert University Instituto Machu Picchu Jansen, Malton Alroy Green Student Organizations Society Hifadhi Mazingira Na Utalii Rungwe Institute of Environmental Economics Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad and Nature Resources–“KADASTR” Jansen, Neville Ivan Green Watershed Hifadhi Mazingira Tingi Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia e Institute of Natural Resources Uso Sustentável–INNATUS Januarie, Roland Greenomics Indonesia Highlanders Association Institute of Nature Conservation in Instituto para la Conservación y la JAPESDA Gorontalo GreenViet Biodiversity Conservation Hillers, Annika Center Albania Investigación de la Biodiversidad Jaringan Kerja Penyelamatan Hutan Himalayan Nature Grenada Dove Conservation Institute of Rural Economics, Sichuan Instituto para Preservação da Mata Riau Himisa Group Programme Academy of Social Science Atlântica Jasson, Rene Hlatywayo, Tsolofelo Grootbos Green Futures Foundation Institute of Social Sciences, Western Instituto Pau Brasil de História Jathanna, Devcharan Hlulani, Mawetu Development Research Center Natural Grootendorst, Petronella Jatobá, Lucia Institute of Zoology, Chinese Instituto Rede Brasileira Agroflorestal Groupe de Recherche pour la Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Academy of Sciences Jeevan Bikas Samaj Protection des Oiseaux au Maroc Hopefarm Instituto Seiva Advogados pela Instituti i Politikave Mjedisore (IEP) Natureza Jiabi Village Groupe des Spécialistes des Plantes Horizon Nature Jiaju Tibetan Village Tourism de Madagascar Instituto Altervita Instituto Sul Mineiro de Estudos e Horniman, Wentzel Management Association Instituto Ambiental de Conservação da Natureza Grupo Ambiental Natureza Bela Hotele, Ncamile Desenvolvimento Social Sustentável Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Jiaota Monastery of Kongse Grupo Brasil Verde Houston Zoo, Inc. Biocêntrica Domingo Jini, Antoinette Grupo de Agricultura Ecológica Howard, Esther Instituto Ambiental Litoral Norte Instituto Terra Jipe Moyo Mazingira Group Kapi’xawa Hrvatska Ekološka Udruga (BUNA) Instituto Ambiental Ponto Azul Instituto Terra Brasilis Jitegemee Group Grupo de Defesa da Naturaleza Hugo, Corlie Instituto Amigos da Reserva da Instituto Terra de Preservação Jiudingshan Friend of Wildlife Grupo de Educação e Preservação Human Footprint Biosfera da Mata Atlantica Ambiental Association Ambiental de Piracaia Humansdorp Tourism & Kouga Instituto Baía de Guanabara Instituto Tijuípe Jobe, Sizwe Xolani Grupo de Proteção Ambiental da Tourism Association Serra da Concórdia Instituto BioAtlântica Instituto Uiraçu Johnson, Norman Humboldt State University Sponsored Grupo de Trabajo sobre Certificación Instituto Chico Mendes de Integrated and Sustainable Upland Jonas, Zuziwe Programs Foundation Forestal Voluntaria en Ecuador Conservação da Biodiversidade – Community Development Foundation Jones, Trevor P. Humle, Tatyana ICMBio e a Cybermind Comunicação Grupo Ecológico Rio de Contas Interfaith Movement for Peace, Jongowe Environmental Management Identi’terre Interativa Empowerment and Development Grupo Jaragua Association
57 Jordaan, L. H. Kibuta Poverty Eradication Kuchile Kumekucha Lembaga Pesisir dan Lautan Kie Mabuwani Women Group Joumat, Wendy Kidau Group Kuendeleza Msitu Raha (eLSiL Kie Raha) Mabuwaya Foundation Inc. JPFirst Kihale Wildlife Conservation Farm Kuensel Corp. Ltd. Lembaga PPengembangan Macedonian Ecological Society Masyarakat Lembata (BARAKAT) Juhudi na Maarifa Group Kijabe Environment Volunteers Kufundisha Vikundi Juu ya Maciel, Gilda Arantes Lembaga Studi Pelayanan dan Julio and Florentina Ledesma (KENVO) Ujasiriamali (Income Generation Madagascar National Parks Activities) Penyuluhan Masyarakat Foundation Inc. Kikundi cha Juhudi na Maarifa Madagascar Wildlife Conservation Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Jullies, Meyer Kikundi cha Kujiendeleza Kujenga Uwezo wa Jamii Society Inayozunguka Hifadhi ya Taifa Gerakan Masyarakat Madina Justice, Peace and Integrity of Kikundi cha Mazingira Kifinga ya Jozani na Ghuba ya Chwaka Pemantau Apatur Negara Madagasikara Voakajy Creation (JPIC) SVD Kikundi cha Mazingira Mwaya Kuhusiana na Umuhimu wa Matumizi Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Madras Crocodile Bank Justicia Ambiental Kikundi cha Uhifadhi wa Kaya Fungo Endelevu ya Misitu Harapan Madina Madruga, Alice Kackar Rafting and Climbing Club Kikundi cha Uhifadhi wa Makaya Kukuza Uelewa wa Uhifadhi Lembethe, Zithobele Madureira, João Luiz Jr. Kaday Community & Cultural ya Rabai Mazingira Pugu Station Shule ya Lemke, Huarley Pratte Magasela, Bongiwe Development Organization Msingi Kikundi cha Wakulima na Uhifadhi Lemke, Nair Pratte Magomedov, Suleiman Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden wa Mazingira Kulkarni, Jayant Lewis, Graham Magubane, Sanele Corporation Kikundi cha Wanyumi Kulmiye Youth Group Li, Xiaohong Maingi, Kimuyu Duncan Kadu Youth Development Association Kilibasi Self Help Group Kumara, H.N. (KYDA) Liangshan Prefecture Wildlife Mairie de Nosibe Kilibasi Youth Group Kunming University of Science and Conservation Association Kahua Association Trust Board Inc. Makhado, Azwianewi Kilifi Green Town Environmental Technology Libyan Society for Birds (LSB) Malassele, Kgalalelo Kakati, Kashmira Initiative Kuotesha Miche ya Asili Kwa Ajili ya Libyan WildLife Trust (LWT) Malepe, Madire Kalloch, Horst Erhard Kilimo na Mazingira Muyombo Kuhifadhi Misitu Vijiji Vya Kizapala na Vianzi LightHawk Mallon, David Kalu Ram Khambu Rai Kilio cha Haki Youth Group Kuotesha Miti ya Asili na Matunda Lindani, Sabelo Malovichko, Lyubov Kalumanga, Elikana Kiluma, Linda Stephen Kurungurungu Group Lipkovich, Alexander Mama Graun Conservation Trust Kalumonan Kilwala Nature Group Kutunza na Kuendeleza Msitu wa Little Design Company Fund Ltd. Kamati ya Matumizi Bora ya Ardhi Kimanzichana Environment and Kijiji wa Katurukila Liu Hule Law Firm Kamerkloof Guesthouse CC Poverty Alleviation Mama Nyuki: Malkia wa Msitu Kuzuia Uchomaji Moto Vijiji Vya Liu, Guanyuan Mamabolo, Tshepo Kamfer, Christopher King Mongkut’s University of Magoza na Sunguvuni Mkuranga Technology Thonburi Liuzhou Bird Watching Society Mamize Nature Reserve Kampong Rotes Fishery Community Kwale Wildlife Action Patrons Group Kiruku Green Zone Live & Learn Environmental Mammalogists of Azerbaijan Kangxie Xuanzi Team Kwale Youth Action Plan Group Education KANOPEE SAS (Horwath) Kitalu cha Misitu na Kilimo cha Management Bureau, Baodinggou Mbogamboga KwaZulu-Natal Crane Foundation Live & Learn Vanuatu Nature Reserve Karavaev, Alexei Kitalu cha Upandaji Miti, Kijiji cha L’Homme et l’Environnement Livelihood Enhancement in Management Bureau, Mangkang Karsa Institute Mwaya, Mangula La Molina Agricultural University Agro-forestry Foundation Inc. National Nature Reserve Kashahu Nature Reserve Kiunzi–Gestión de proyectos de Conservation Data Center Livesey-Goldblatt, Ruth Management Bureau, Tianchi Kasigau Conservation Trust comunicación (KIUNZI) Laboratoire de Recherche “Ecologie Living Earth Foundation Provincial Nature Reserve Kasilak Kiunzi SRL des Systèmes Terrestres et Living Lands Management Bureau, Yunling Aquatiques” (EcoSTAq) Katala Foundation, Inc. Kivedo, Mary Living Planet Tunisia Provincial Nature Reserve Lafuge, Jean Claude Kawagebo Culture Society Koali, Nneheleng Living Plant Mancomunidad de Municipios del Lamoreux, John Norte Paceño Tropical Kawka Production Koh Chba Fishery Community Living River Siam Association Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Manda Wilderness Community Trust Kaya Jorore Group Koh Dambong Fishery Community Loader, Simon Landmark Foundation Mandlake, Jerret Kaya Kinondo Conservation and Koh Khne Fishery Community Lokhman, Yuriy Language of the Wilderness Manengkel Solidaritas Development Group and Coastal Kolby, Jonathan Lolwana, Goodwill Forest Conservation Unit Foundation Trust Mangala, Nonthuthuzelo Veronica Kolombangara Island Biodiversity Lombo, Amos Kaya Likunda Drama Group Lao Biodiversity Association Mantadia Zahamena Corridor Conservation Association London Zoological Society Kaya Muhaka Forest Conservation Lao Wildlife Conservation Association Manuel, Jeffrey Komarov, Euvgeniy (Lao WCA) Lore Eco Club NGO Organization Manus Environment Conservation Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia– Laubser, Maryke Lore of the Land Kayster, Glenda WARSI Communities Network Inc. Law School of Zhejiang University Lorica, Renee Ma. P. Kelly, Ralph Koops, Kathelijne Mao County Association of Friends Kenya Union of the Blind Shimba Hills Le Bien Etre de la Population au Loureiro, Eduardo Luis of Wildlife Kormos, Rebecca Burundi Kew Madagascar Conservation Lourens, John Eben Mao, Tianxue Kosrae Conservation and Safety Le Roux, Elton Rowland Centre Organization Louw, Rhoda Mapango Yetu Le’an Nature Reserve Keystone Foundation Kragh, Vibeke Lubombo Conservancy Mapukata, Sivuyile Oscar Leatherback Trust Khadga, Mahesh Krasnova, Elena Luderitz Secondary School Marafa Group Lebanese Environment Forum Khaiya Krokhmal, Dmitrii Lugandu, Simon Deus Marilele, Tinyiko Khan, Asieff Legal Initiative for Forest and Luhuo Rainbow Grassland Ecological Marine Conservation Society Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region Environment Kharkams Technology Crafters Non-profit Company Conservation Association Seychelles Leite, Antônio de Oliveira Khevsureti Center for Natural and Kuanzisha Kitalu cha Mitiya Misitu Luoxu White-lipped Deer Nature Marini, Claudia Chaves Gaudino Cultural Heritage “Sane” na Matunda Lem Ethiopia (The Environment & Reserve Marinus, Eugene Development Society of Ethiopia) Khohlov, Alexander Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union Lyubimova, Kseniya Marlon, Riza Lembaga Partisipasi Pembangunan Khunou, Angeline Maarman, Richard Marsh, Carol Kubayi, Rhulani Masyarakat (LPPM) Khustup Nature Protection NGO Maasai Wilderness Conservation Marshall Islands Conservation Kuboresha Mazingira Ili Kuondoa Lembaga Penelitian Universitas Trust Society !Khwa Ttu Umaskini Pattimura, Ambon (LEMLIT UNPATTI) Mabandla Community Trust
58 Grantee Partners
Martin, Marilyn Minnaar, Elana Msitu wa Lupondo Hazina yetu National Institute of Advanced Nipah Masande Self Help Group Minnesota Zoo Foundation Mtandao wa Ilondo Studies Nkili, Nzuzo Mashologu, Noluvuyo Minoranskiy, Victor Mtepeni Primary Infrastructure National Museums of Kenya Noah’s Arc Centre for the Recovery Masibambane Multi-Purpose Miriam-Public Education and Savings National Parks, Rivers and Beaches of Endangered Species Community Centre Awareness Campaign for the Mtepeni Primary School Authority Nodwala, Lungile Masifukulane Support Group Environment Mthiyane, Khethokuhle National Trust of Fiji Noe Conservation Mater Natura-Instituto de Estudos Miritini Environmental Development Mtike Wetu Group Natural Conservation Association Noffke, Mandy Group Pingbian Ambientais Mugasha, Wilson Ancelm Non-Timber Forest Products Mischenko, Alexhander Natural History Museum MATEZA Muller, Erna Nonkenge, Sanelisiwe Missouri Botanical Garden Natural History Museum of Matillano, Joie D. Mülleriana: Sociedade Fritz Müller de Norden Pines Misuku Beekepeers Association Zimbabwe Matjuda, Donald Ciências Naturais Noronha, Agenor Rivioli Natural Resources Development Mitchell, Petrus Muluguni Umoja Youth Group Matoti, Ayanda Foundation Trust Board Inc. North Osetian State Nature Reserve Mkefe, Thanduxola Mumbi, Cassian T. Matsha, Themba Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park Mkhulise, Sizwe Stevenson Development Foundation Inc. Matzikama Tourism Mungalova, Irina Naturaleza y Cultura Peru Mkosana, Joram Northwest Normal University Mauritian Wildlife Foundation Munsamey, Belinda Nature Conservancy Mkwalimija Group Nosivolo Marolambo May, Daniel Museo delle Scienze di Trento (The Nature Conservation and Sustainable Mkwemeni Progressive Association Mazingira na Maendeleo Science Museum of Trento) Conservation Trust Nosso Vale, Nossa Vida Mligo, Cosmas Mbambazeli, Ntsikelelo Giles Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali Nature Conservation Centre Notre Grand Bleu Mlokosievichi Society Mbega Group Museu de Historia Natural de Maputo Nature Conservation Committee of Ntene, Mosili Mboza Trust Mlup Baitong Museu Nacional Trashiyangtse Núcleo de Ação em Ambiente, Saúde, McGregor, Eleanor Mnatsekanov, Roman Musila, Simon Nganda Nature Conservation Foundation Cultura e Educação McKeith, Donovan Mnisi, Bongani Mwachambi Tree Nursery Nature Conservation Foundation Núcleo de Comunidades Agrícolas e Associação de Moradores do McKie, Charline Modelo de Comunidad Ecológica Mwanda Environment Conservation (India) los Valles Unit Marimbu, Santo Anônio e Rio Negro Mdala, Mandisa Nature Investment Molobi, Cornelius Mwangi, Kenneth Njoroge Nuru Njema Masenge Mdalase, Ntombizikhona Nature Kenya Monte, Nietta Linderberg Mwanikah, Mercy Nuscheler, Marc Mdlazi, Thumeka Nature Rights Protection NGO Montebello Craft and Design Centre Mwaura, Ann Njeri Nxesi, Funeka Measey, G. John Nature Rwanda Monteiro, Carlos Alberto Myanmar Environment Rehabilitation- Nature Uganda Nyakitonto Youth for Development Media and Training Centre for Health Tanzania Morkel, Augustine Conservation Network Mediterranean Information Office for Nature’s View Mzeru, Deogratias Paul Nyuki Upendo Environment, Culture and Sustainable Morreesburg Tourism Nature’s Valley Trust Nyuki Youth Group Development Morris, Clive N.M. Restoration CC NatureFiji-MareqetiVIti OceansWatch Mehta, Prachi Mother Nature (Meada Thoamajeat) NACLO Navadarsan Public Charitable Trust Ockhuis, Hennie Meister, José Renato Mountain Club of South Africa NACRES Foundation for Biodiversity NCT Forestry Co-operative Limited Conservation October, Heslene Mekong Community Institute Mountain Rescue Service of Ndalila, Mercy Nelima Herzegovina (Hercegovačka Gorska Nagan, Marx-Lenin Odendaal, Lawrence Association (MCI) Ndlumbini, Nolutando Sluzba Spasavanja) Nakau Programme Ltd. Odendal, Anton Mekong Delta Development Research Negros Economic and Development Movement for Ecological Learning Institute Namakwa National Park Foundation Inc. Office National pour l’Environnement Mekong Watch and Community Action (MELCA) – Namib Desert Environmental Ogoma, Maurice Ethiopia Negros Forests and Ecological MELCA-Ethiopia Education Trust Foundation, Inc. Okoth, Susan Sande Movimento Ambiental Pingo d’Água Mellão, Renata Namibia Nature Foundation Neijiang Normal College Oliveira, Antônio Raimundo Luedy Movimento Ecológico de Rio das Namibian Biodiversity Database Mellville, Hestelle Ostras Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Oliver-Rodel, Mark Namibian Development Trust University Menabe Mozambique Ornithological Society Olivier, Nico Namibian Environmental Education New England Aquarium Mentoor, Joel Mpambani, Ayanda Omardien, Aaniyah Network New York Botanical Garden MES Asmabi College Mpeketoni Imani Youth Group ONF Conosur S.A. Namprocon CC New Zealand Butterfly Enterprises Mettu University, Ethiopia Mpiri, Aloyce Oommen, Meera Anna Namsaling Community Development Ltd. Mevanarivo, Zo Elia Mradi wa Kuhifadhi Msitu wa ORAM-Associacao Rural de Centre Newcastle University Meyer, Patrick Mkamba Ajuda Mútua Nandini, R. Newman, Natalie Mhlongo, Bongani Mradi wa Msitu, Mlima wa Visiga Organe de Développement du Nanning Wildlife Conservation Newmark, William D. Diocèse de Toamasina Miami University Mradi wa Uhifadhi wa Bioanuai Association Organisation des Groupements pour Mianyang Normal University Ikolojia Kilwa Ngaruiya, Grace Wambui Narti Community Forest Coordination l’Avenir de Rossignol MICAIA Foundation Mradi wa Upandaji Miti Kijiji cha Committee Ngcakana, Sydney Vikindu NGO Fsovi Organisation des Paysans pour le Michael Succow Foundation for the Nascimento, Eraldo Oliveira Développement de l’Unité II de la Protection of Nature Mradi wa Upandaji Miti Rufiji Nashreen Williams NGO Green Home Forêt des Pins, Mare Rouge Micheals, Stacey-Anne Mradii wa Matumizi Endelevu ya Nath, Cheryl Dwarka NGO Journalists-Ecologists Organisation for Social Development, Misitu ya Vikindu Pwani MIDA Creek Conservation and National Botanical Research Institute NGO Orbi Ethiopia Awareness Group Mruki Economic Development Group of Namibia Ngosaquata Development Council Organisation pour la Défense de Mikhail, Soloviev Msabaha Neem and Mango Growers National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Nguku, Julius K. l’Environnement au Burundi Association Miles, Melvyn National Herbarium and Botanic Nguruka kwa Kulala Organisation pour la Rehabilitation Msambweni Beekeeping Association de l’Environnement (ORE) Minaar, Charles Gardens Nicholson, Jennifer Msengi, Bulelwa Mindanao Environment Forum Nieuwoudtville Publicity Association
59 Organização Ambiental para o Pereira Filho, Helvécio Rodrigues Pretorius, Abel Regional Environmental Centre for Safina akiba Group Desenvolvimento Sustentável Perkumpulan Celebes Biodiversity Pretorius, Adele the Caucasus Safina akiba na Mkopo Organização Bio Brás Perkumpulan Generasi Untuk Probioma Régua Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra Organização Consciência Ambiental Rehabilitasi Keseimbangan Hidup Process Luzon Association Inc. Reis, Brasília Marcarenhas Saikia, Bhaskar dan Alam Organização para a Conservação de Profauna Indonesia Renu-Karoo Veld Restoration CC Saint Lucia National Trust Terras do Baixo Sul da Bahia Perkumpulan Inovasi Komunitas Professional and Entrepreneurial Research and Action in Natural Saku Accountability Forum Organização Patrimonial, Turística e Perkumpulan Jurnalis Advokasi Wealth Administration Orientation Union Salaam, Wiesaal Ambiental Lingkungan Celebes Research Centre for Resources and Profonanpe-Fondo Nacional para Saldanha Community Organización para el Desarrollo Perkumpulan Kompak Talaud Areas Naturales Protegidas por el Rural Development (RECERD) Salvador, Assunta Sostenible del Pueblo Naso Perkumpulan Konservasi Kakatua Estado Reseau d’Enseignement Organization for Rehabilitation and Indonesia Programa de Implementación de Professionnel et d’Interventions Salve a Serra Development in Amhara Perkumpulan PAYO-PAYO Sistemas Agroforestales Ecologiques (REPIE) Sam Veasna Center for Wildlife Conservation (SVC) Ornithological Society “Nase Ptice” Perkumpulan Relawan untuk Orang Programme for Belize Reseau Enfant de la Terre (RET) Samahan ng Sablayenong Ornitološko društvo naše ptice dan Alam (ROA) Projeto Amiga Tartaruga Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu Mapgkalinga sa Kalikasan OSMOSE Perkumpulan Sampiri Kepulauan Projeto Araras Reserva Nativa Sangihe Samisha Pather Oxford University Projeto Onça–Núcleo de Resguardo Pialapí Pueblo Viejo Sampson, Tracey Oxygen Organisation for Perkumpulan Sanggar Seni Lokal dan Comunidades Agrícolas Resilience Now Pengiat Media Rakyat (Salanggar) Samvada Environmental Protection (Oxygen) Pronatura Chiapas, A.C. Rhoda, Linden Perkumpulan Uma Mentawai SANBI Oyster Bay Reserve Pronatura Península de Yucatán Riau Mandiri Perkumpulan Wahana Lingkungan Sanbona Game Reserve Pty. Ltd. P’yagobongan Asociación Civil Ribeiro Neto, George Lestari Celebes Area (Wallacea) Kota Sangco, Edelito Paadhai Trust Palopo Pronatura Veracruz Ribeiro, Gilberto Pereira Sankaran, Mahesh Paalan, Rene Peter, Mzwandile Leon Protea Park Primary Richtersveld Municipality Sano y Salvo Pacheco, Rediná de Almeida Petersen, Chantal Protea Permaculture Rico, Edmund Leo B. Sansom Mlup Prey Pacific Expeditions Ltd. Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden Public Institute of Regional Biological Rinchen Drakpa Researches Santana, Ronaldo de Jesus Pacific Invasives Learning Network Phantoms Rugby Club Ringuer, Dalva Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan SAS.H Ltd. Pagsandug Philippine Business for Social Rinijiao Village Sumberdaya Alam, Bengkulu Sauls, Clifford Paisley, Wendy Progress Rising Phoenix Co. Ltd. Qinghai Buddhism Cultural Service Palau Animal Welfare Society Philippine Eagle Conservation Rivers of Life Aquatic Health Services Sauti ya Nyikani FFS (Field Farm Center Scheme) Palau Conservation Society Program Foundation, Inc. Rizzieri, João Quang Tri Center of Education and Save Andaman Network Foundation Palawan Conservation Corps Philippine Endemic Species Consultancy on Agriculture and Rural Rockman, Natasha Conservation Project SAVE Brasil Palni Hills Conservation Council Development Rodel, Mark-Oliver Phillips, Mark Connel Save Cambodia’s Wildlife Pambaniso, Patricia Quma, Sakhumzi Rodrigues, Helvécio Phindile Mangwana Save My Future Foundation Paññasastra¯ ¯ University of Cambodia Quzika Community Roots and Shoots/Jane Goodall (PUC) Phoswayo, Vuyiswa Radio Ravinala Vohémar Institute–China Save Tanzania Forests Panos Institute Phumlani Shezi Raghavan, Rajeev Rose Foundation for Communities Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) Pantarotto, Flavio Pieterse, Deon Raimondo, Domitilla and the Environment Schöning, Caspar Pantsi, Melikhaya Pietersen, Allistair Rainforest Alliance Rotarian Martin “Ting” Matiao Schubert, Michele Foundation Inc. Papua New Guinea Institute of Pietersen, Eric Rajaonarivony Mbolatiana SEAWEB Biological Research Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Piligrim Studio Rajkamal Goswami Sebkhet Soliman: RET Parkar-Salie, Zohra Royal Institute of Management Pima, Nancy Eliad Rajoelison, Lalanirina Gabrielle Secretariat of the Pacific Regional ParksWatch Royal Society for the Conservation Environment Programme Pires, Ovídio Antônio Ralambomanana, Andriamahefa of Nature Parren, Marcus Pixels on Screen Andriamarohaja Section d’Ifrane de l’Association des Royal Society for the Protection of Enseignants des Sciences de la Vie Parry, Noel Plaatjies, Melile Ramayla, Sherry Birds et de la Terre au Maroc (AVEST) Partners with Melanesians Inc. Plaksa, Sergey Ramos, Sérgio Royal Society for the Protection of Sekretariat Kerjasama Pelestarian Partnership for Zapovedniks Planet Madagascar Ranjevasoa Mbolatiana Nature Hutan Indonesia Patrick, Charles POH KAO des Tigres et des Hommes Rare Royal University of Phnom Penh Seleksi Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru PATRIMONIO NATURAL Popova, Svetlana Rarivomanana, Hanitriniaina Tahiana Rural Agency for Social and Selva Reps S.A.C. Paulo Henrique de Figueiredo Soares Population Health and Environment Rawsonville Wine & Tourism Technological Advancement (RASTA) Serikali ya Kijiji cha Utete Mashariki Paulo, Deise Moreira Ethiopia Consortium Razafindramanga, Minoniaina Luce Rural Environment and Forestry Service d’Appui à la Gestion de Peace Parks Foundation Potatoes South Africa Razafy, Fara Lala Research Association l’Environnement PeaceWork Potgieter-Huang, Willa Red Asesora en Gestión Ambiental y Russian Academy of Sciences Sewefontein Youth Tourism Peixoto, Therezinha Silva Prado, Sérgio Desarrollo Local Russian Botanical Society, Dagestan Shan Shui Conservation Center Peking University Prasad, G. Krishna Reddy, Brian Branch Shangri-La Highland Plant Park Penabulu Foundation Pratala Rede Nacional de Combate ao Tráfico Russian Society for Conservation and Shangrila Yunnan Golden Monkey Studies of Birds (BirdsRussia) Peng, Jitai Presbyterian University College de Animais Silvestres Conservation Association Ghana Regalis Environmental Services CC Saamstaan Information and Shenguozhuang Nature Reserve Pengbuxi Development Centre Present, Gonald Regents of the University of Michigan Shikaadabu Union Development Pennsylvania State University Sabaki River Estuary Youth Group Preserva Regional Environmental Centre for Programme People Resources and Conservation Sabodien, Ishmael Foundation Preservation of the Mkondeni Central and Eastern Europe Shilubane, William Mbhahleni Sabuni, Christopher Peregrine Fund Mpushini Biodiversity
60 Grantee Partners
Shimba Hills Environmental Sociedad Para el Desarrollo Integral South African Ostrich Business Tao Philippines Tujiendeleze Group Community Conservation del Nordeste, Inc. (SODIN) Chamber Taut, Peter Tujitegemee Group Organisation Sociedad Peruana de Derecho South African Protea Producers and Tawatana Community Conservation Tumaini Jema Group Shimba Hills Forest Guides Ambiental Exporters Association Development Association Tumaini Vugiri–Korogwe Association Sociedade Amigos da Reserva South African Rooibos Council Tawi-Asi Resource Network Tumam Group Shiwagaya Group Biológica Augusto Ruschi South African Route Owners and Taylor, Sue Tumia Jana Namupa Lindi Shoo, Rehema A. Sociedade Angrense de Proteção Operators Forum Tcapko, Nikolai Tunza Mazingira Ambangulu Vugiri Shoqata e Bujqesise Organike Ecológica South African Wine & Brandy Tchanuganoo Farm, Baviaanskloof Turi, Daniel Shramik Sahayog Sociedade Civil dos Bombeiros Company Voluntários de Santa Teresa Te Ipukarea Society Turismo Ecológico Social Shrestha, Jiwan Southeast Asia Development Sociedade de Amigos do Parque de Program Te Mana o Te Moana Turtle Foundation Shule ya Msingi Iwemba Itaúnas Southeast Asian Nepenthes Study Te Rau Ati Ati a Tau a Hiti Noa Tu Turtle Survival Alliance Shule ya Msingi Mhovu Sociedade de Estudos dos and Research Foundation (SEANSRF) Teberdinskii State Reserve Uchozini Cooperative Ufugaji na Shule ya Msingi Msowero Ecossistemas e Desenvolvimento Southern African Wildlife College Technoserve Mozambique Uhifadhi Mazingira Shuonong Village Sustentável da Bahia Southern Ambition 112 Teixeira, Christiane Uendelezaji Nishati Asilia na Hifadhi Sichuan Academy of Forestry Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Southwest Forestry College Teixeira, Fernando ya Mazingira Rufiji (RUTEDECO) Sichuan Agricultural University Selvagem e Educação Ambiental Space for Elephants Foundation Temple University Ufugaji Nyuki Kwa Maendeleo Dujiangyan School Sociedade dos Amigos do Museu de Nauhifadhi wa Mazingira Biologia Prof. Mello Leitão Steenkamp, Koos Tereviva Associação de Fomento Sichuan Alpine Ecology Study Centre Ufugaji Nyuki wa Kisasa Kijiji cha Sociedade Nordestina de Ecologia Sterling, Ivo Turístico e Desenvolvimento Sichuan Forestry Science Institute Sustentável Njia Nne Stichting Moroccan Primate Sichuan Greenriver Environmental Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo Ufugaji wa Nyuki das Aves Conservation (MPC) Terra Viva Centro de Desenvolvimento Association Agroecológico do Extremo Sul da Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Stishov, Mikhail Sichuan Normal University Sociedade Visconde de São Leopoldo Bahia Conservation & Environment Stockholm Environment Institute Sichuan Sr. Scientists & Researchers Société Audubon Haiti Terrapi Farm, Langkloof Uhifadhi na Usimamizi wa Misitu ya Stoffels, Barry Technology Association Société d’Etudes Ornithologiques de Tertitskii, Grigorii Jamii Vijiji Vya Migeregere/Rukatwe, La Réunion Straightforward Development Kilwa Sichuan University Tetepare Descendants’ Association Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie Services Ltd. Uhifadhi wa Eneo La Muinuko La Sichuan Wildlife Association TFC International “Manu” Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Bubujiko Wete Pemba Sichuan Wildlife Resource Survey Thai Fund Foundation (TFF) and Conservation Management Society for Biological Research and Strydom Construction Uhifadhi wa Mlima wa Asili Magotwe Thai Wetlands Foundation Station Protection of Nature Subba, Bharat Raj Uhifadhi wa Vyanzo vya Maji na Thanyani, Jimmy Sichuan Wildlife Resources Society for Environmental Exploration Sukhanova, Olga Utunzaji wa Msitu The Aspinall Foundation Investigation and Protection Society for the Conservation and Sumgayit Center for Environmental Uithaler, Eldrid Management Workstation Study of Caribbean Birds Rehabilitation The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Ukalene Productions LLC International Sidina, Ellen Society for the Conservation of Sunrise Coast Ukizintambara, Tharcisse Nature of Liberia The Edenhope Foundation SIKAP Institute Surigao Economic Development Ulayat Sikhakhane, Lungile Society for the Protection of Nature Foundation Inc. The Kainake Project Inc. in Lebanon Umima Group Siliwal, Manju Surplus People Project The Learning Institute Society for Women and Vulnerable Umoja wa Vijana wa Sali The Network for the Affirmation of Silliman University Groups Empowerment Sustainability Forum Una Nas Águas NGO Sector Simas, Carlos Alberto Bello Society of Green Artvin Sustainable Development Institute União dos Camponeses e The Northern Green Lights Simas, Felipe Nogueira Bello Socorro Empowered People’s Sustainable Environment and Associações de Lichinga Thiago, Carlos Roberto Lima Simon Fraser University (SFU) Cooperative Livelihood Ltd. Unidad Indígena del Pueblo Awá 3S Rivers Protection Network Simon, Gabriel Soebatsfontein Tourism Forum Sustainable Natural Resource Unilever Tanzania Ltd. Management Association Tianze Institute of Economy Singo, Christopher Soi, Bernard Cheruiyot Union for Sustainable Development– Sustainable Rural Growth and Tibet Working Station of Minority Siyaya, Jabulani Sokoke Community Forest/Game “ECO-VIEW” Development Initiative Publishing House Siyu Economical & Development Self Scouts Association Union–“Durujis Madli” Sustainable Seas Trust Til’ba, Petr Help Group Solomon Ilsands Rangers Association United Nations Foundation Sustaining The Wild Coast Tissu Associatif de Développement Skills and Agriculture Development Trust Board Inc. United Society for Developing Water de la Province d’Azilal (TADA) Services Inc. Solomon Islands Community Sutherland Unemployment Forum Resources and Environment Titus, Shamely Smith, Peter Conservation Partnership Sviridova, Tatiana Universidad de las Regiones Titus, Ursula Smithsonian Institution Solomon Islands Environmental Swartland, Donovan Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Lawyers Association Toma Lestari Nicaragüense Snehakunja Trust Swarts, Katriena Solomon Islands Rangers Association Tonga Community Development Trust Universidad San Francisco de Quito Snowland Great Rivers Environmental Sweimeh Association Charity Trust Board Inc. Protection Association Sylvatrop Toroitich, Faith Jebet Universidade Católica de Santos Song, Zhaobin Snyman, Cornelius Tabata, Wilken TRAFFIC International Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz SOS Pro Mata Atlântica Snyman, Quinten Tacheng Gedeng Women’s Treverton Trust Universidade Federal do Espírito SOS-FORETS Santo Sochi Branch of Russian Geographic Association Tropical Biology Association Society Sotomi, Athena Taita Taveta Wildlife Forum TRÓPICO Universitas Andi Jemma Fakultas Kehutanan Sociedad Audubon de Panamá Souidi Zahira Takech Khlastos Community Tsaruk, Oleg Universitas Andi Jemma Fakultas Sociedad Mesoamericana para South African Association For Marine Takitumu Conservation Area Tsechoeva, Maret Biological Research (SAAMBR) Perikanan la Biología y la Conservación y su Tana Delta Conservation Organisation Tsinghua University Biodiversity Capítulo México, A.C. South African Astronomical Universitas Syiah Kuala Tandan, Pramod Conservation Association Sociedad Ornitológica de la Observatory Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth Tanzania Forest Conservation Group TSURO Trust Hispaniola Inc. South African National Parks Université Saint-Joseph
61 University of Adelaide Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Wildlife Action Group Yayasan Cipta Citra Lestari Indonesia Yunnan Huawei Law Firm University of Auckland State University Wildlife Alliance, Inc. Yayasan Citra Mandiri Yunnan Lingyun Law Firm University of Calgary Vishnu Law Group Wildlife and Environment Society of Yayasan Ekologi Konservasi Yunnan Normal University University of Canterbury VOI LOVA Ampanotoamaizina South Africa Nanggroe Aceh Yunnan Ruixiang Law Firm University of Cape Town Voigt, Werner Wildlife and Environmental Yayasan Ekowisata Aceh Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey Conservation Society of Zambia University of Coimbra Voluntariado International para o Yayasan IDEP Selaras Alam Conservation Association Desenvolvimento Africano (VIDA) Wildlife and Environmental Society of University of Copenhagen Yayasan Kaliptra Yunnan Synetics Partnership for Civil Voluntary Health Association of Malawi–Lilongwe Branch Organization Development University of Dar es Salaam Yayasan Kasih Mandiri Flores Sikkim Wildlife Conservation Association Lembata (SANDI FLORATA) Zaaimanshoek Primere Skool University of Delhi of Boertala Mongolia Autonomous Von Burick, Neil Yayasan Kehutanan Masyarakat Zamorano Biodiversity Center University of East Anglia Prefecture Vondrona Ivon’ny Fampandrosoana Indonesia Zanzibar Butterfly Center University of Florida (VIF) Wildlife Conservation Cambodia Yayasan Komodo Indonesia Lestari Zemva, Sylvia University of Gondar Vsemirnyi Fond Prirody Wildlife Conservation Nepal (YAKINES) Zeren, Pingcuo University of Kent VSF-CICDA/AVSF (Agronomes et Wildlife Conservation Society Yayasan Komodo Survival Program ZESMAN Consultancy University of Louisiana at Monroe Vétérinaires Sans Frontières) Wildlife Conservation Society–EAM Yayasan Lembaga Pembelajaran Zhao, Lianjun University of Minnesota Wai-Hau Conservation Foundation Wildlife Conservation Society of Konservasi Indonesia Zhao, Yao University of Natural Resources and Registered Trust Board Inc. Tanzania Yayasan Mia Wola Zhaxi Lapu Monastery Applied Life Sciences, Vienna Wakid, Abdul Wildlife Information Liaison Yayasan Panorama Alam Lestari University of Papua New Guinea Wakuluzu: Friends of the Colobus Development Society (YPAL) Poso Zhongnan University of Law and Economics University of Pretoria Trust Ltd. Wildlife Research and Conservation Yayasan Pengembangan dan Society Zikishe, Vathiswa University of Queensland Walk With Me/Hamba Nam Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Wildlife Trust of India Ziliotti, Bernadete University of Southern Mississippi Walters, Lewine Yayasan Pengembangan dan Wildlife Works EPZ Ltd. Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Zimri, Jona University of Stellenbosch Wambugu, Geoffrey Mwangi Wang, Nan WildReach Yayasan Pengkajian dan Zinkwazi-Blythedale Conservancy University of the South Pacific Pengembangan Sosial Wang, Yu Willemans, Janine Zoo Outreach Organization University of Vermont Yayasan Perguruan Kristen Wangchuk, Pelzang Williams, Bronwen Zoological Society of Philadelphia University of Western Cape Halmahera Wanglang Nature Reserve Williams, Lesley-Anne Zoological Society of Yunnan Province University of Western Ontario Yayasan Perlindungan Lingkungan Wilman, Victoria Zunckel Ecological + Environmental University of Witwatersrand Warnick, Joslyn Hidup dan Pelestarian Alam Wilson, Natasha Services University of Würzburg Watala Yayasan Rumah Ganeca, Sulawesi Windsor Research Centre Limited Utara University of York Watu na Nyuki Ruvu Kusini Winrock International Yayasan Rumpun Bambu Indonesia Upandaji Miti na Utunzaji Mazingira West Chester University Kihare Western Baviaanskloof Initiative Winter, Sue Yayasan Sauwa Sejahtera Upandaji Miti, Ufugaji Nyuki na Western Cape Animal Production Wood, Julia Yayasan Sikap Tulus Untuk Sesama Uhamasishaji Jamii Jinsi Kuendeleza Research Trust World Pheasant Association Yayasan Studi Etnologi Masyarakat Uhifadhi wa Misitu ya Asili Western Cape Conservation World Resources Institute Nelayan Kecil Urban Research Institute Stewardship Association World Wide Fund for Nature Yayasan Tanah Air Beta Ushirikishwaji Wananchi Juu ya Western Cape International Youth World Wide Fund for Nature, Yayasan Tananua Flores Festival Uhifadhi Usimamizi na Utawala wa Democratic Republic of Congo Yayasan Tunas Jaya Misitu ya Pugu na Kazimzumbwi Western Cape Nature Conservation World Wide Fund for Nature, Brazil Yayasan Wahana Tani Mandiri Uviwata (Wawata na Viwawa) Group Board (CapeNature) World Wide Fund for Nature, Greece Yayasan Wallacea Valentina, Mamataeva Western Philippines University Puerto World Wide Fund for Nature, India Yela Environment Landowners Valor Natural Princesa Campus World Wide Fund for Nature, Pacific Authority Van der Vyver, Janet Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten Münster GmbH Wupperthal Conservancy Yele Nature Reserve Management Van der Vyver, Lourentia Office, Sichuan Wete Environmental Conservation Xaba, Antonia Van Heerden, Marie Club Xaba, Phakamani Yi Tai Rui Wo Environmental Van Noie, Arnelle Consulting Company Limited Wetlands International -- Kenya Xishuangbanna National Nature Yongzhongzuoqinling Monastery of Van Rooi, Jacques Whistler, Art Reserve Dingguoshan Van Ross, Granville Wild Bird Trust Xishuangbanna Tropical Rain Forest Youth Ecotourism Eco-educational Vanuatu Environment Advocacy Conservation Foundation Wild Cambodia Organisation Public Organization “Pilgrim” Network Yadav Ghimirey Wild Chimpanzee Foundation Youth Environment & Sustainable Vanuatu Environmental Science Wild Plants Conservation Association Yakap Kalikasan Tungo sa Kaunlaran Development Organization Society ng Pilipinas Inc. Wild Side Environmental Services Youth for Peace and Development Vedzizheva, Zaira Yan, Taiming (Pty) Ltd. Youth Volunteers Association of Velondriake Association WildAid Yang, Yong Yunnan University Verde Azul WildAid Foundation of Thailand YAPEKA Yulong County Wildlife Conservation Verwey, Susan Wilderness Action Group Yasadhana Association Veterinarian Sanitary and Nature Yayasan Alam Sumatera Yunkawasi Protection Wilderness Foundation Yayasan Ayu Tani Mandiri Yunnan Academy of Arts Vijayan, Robin Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Yayasan Bina Ketrampilan Desa Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences Vilkov, Evgeniy Wildlands Conservation Trust Wildlife Act Fund Yayasan Bina Wana Sejahtara Yunnan Green Environment Yayasan Biota Lestari Development Foundation
62 DONOR COUNCIL Working Group
CHAIRPERSON Tiphaine Leménager Project Manager Agriculture, Rural Julia Marton-Lefèvre Development, Biodiversity Sustainable Development L’Agence Française de Développement DONOR COUNCIL MEMBERS Sébastien Chatelus Julia Bucknall Policy Officer – Biodiversity Director, Environment and Natural Directorate-General for International Resources Global Practice Cooperation and Development The World Bank European Commission Humberto Delgado Rosa Andrea Kutter Director for Natural Capital Directorate- Sr. Natural Resources Management General for Environment Specialist European Commission Environment & Natural Resources South Jean-Luc François Asia Region Director, Ecological Transition and The World Bank Natural Resources Kenji Nakajima L’Agence Française de Développement Deputy Director, Biodiversity Naoko Ishii Strategy Office Chairperson and CEO Nature Conservation Bureau Ministry The Global Environment Facility of the Environment Government of Japan Chantal Marijnissen Yves Pinsonneault Head of Unit, Environment, Natural Vice President, Global Program Support Resources and Water – DEVCO Conservation International European Commission Anne-Theo Seinen Jennifer Morris Policy Officer President Directorate General for Environment Conservation International European Commission Munenari Nomura Sachin Shahria Director of Development Issues Environmental Specialist International Bureau, Ministry of Finance The World Bank Government of Japan Sarah Wyatt Jørgen Thomsen, on behalf of Biodiversity Analyst, Programs Unit the President The Global Environment Facility Director, Climate Solutions John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
63 CEPF Secretariat Regional Implementation Team (RIT) Contacts
Olivier Langrand Cerrado Executive Director Michael Becker, Team Leader Priscila Borba Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil (IEB) Grants Manager Brasília, Brazil Caroline Borek Grant Coordinator East Melanesian Islands Pierre Carret Helen Pippard, RIT Manager Grant Director IUCN Oceania Bradford Castro Suva, Fiji Senior Finance Manager Antonia Cermak-Terzian Eastern Afromontane Director of Grants Management Maaike Manten, RIT Manager BirdLife International Céline Desbrosses Nairobi, Kenya Executive Assistant Nina Marshall Guinean Forests of West Africa Senior Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Outreach Mariana Carvalho, Team Leader BirdLife International Kevin McNulty Accra, Ghana Senior Director, Finance and Operations Indo-Burma Deborah Miller Alessandro Badalotti, Team Leader Grants Manager IUCN Asia Regional Office Marsea Nelson Bangkok, Thailand Senior Manager, Communications Eric Ramarijaona Madagascar and Grants Manager Indian Ocean Islands Peggy Poncelet Tany Meva Foundation Grant Director Antananarivo, Madagascar Florencia Renedo Grants Manager Mediterranean Basin Daniel Rothberg Liz Smith, RIT Manager Grant Director BirdLife International Julie Shaw Cambridge, England, UK Communications Director Jack Tordoff Tropical Andes Managing Director Imke Oetting, RIT Manager Monique Vieille Foundation for the Development of the National Grant Director System of Protected Areas (Fundesnap) La Paz, Bolivia Nicole Zach Finance Coordinator Wallacea Michele Zador Adi Widyanto, RIT Manager Grant Director Burung Indonesia West Java, Indonesia
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