Protecting Nature's Hotspots for People and Prosperity

ANNUAL REPORT 2005

Protecting Nature’s Hotspots for People and Prosperity

A joint initiative of Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank

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999436mvpCover.indd9436mvpCover.indd 1 112/21/20052/21/2005 99:22:01:22:01 PPMM About the Critical Ecosystem Publication Credits Page 14 This report was produced by CEPF External Lu Zhi Partnership Fund Affairs and CI Communications, with the help of Photo courtesy of WWF-Indonesia many CEPF grantees and partners. Page 15 Bobbie Jo Kelso Russell A. Mittermeier CEPF Senior Director for External Affairs Photo courtesy of Palawan Conservation Corps. he Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) provides stra- Ben Jolliffe Photo courtesy of Palawan Conservation Corps. Ttegic assistance to engage nongovernmental organizations, CEPF Communications Ofﬁ cer Page 17 community groups, and other civil society partners in conserv- Sarah Smith Haroldo Castro ing the most biodiverse yet most threatened regions. CEPF Assistant for External Affairs Page 18 Scott Fearheiley Haroldo Castro These biodiversity hotspots are Earth’s biologically richest CI Graphic Designer Page 19 places. They hold especially high numbers of species found Christian Heltne Haroldo Castro nowhere else but face extreme threats: Each hotspot has already CI Director of Publications and Graphic Design Page 20 lost at least 70 percent of its original natural vegetation. Sterling Zumbrunn © Peter Oxford/naturepl.com CI Visual Resources Manager Evy Wilkins The convergence of critical areas for conservation with mil- Gege Poggi Page 21 lions of people who are impoverished and highly dependent CI Photo Coordinator Evy Wilkins on healthy ecosystems for their survival is more evident in the John Martin hotspots than anywhere else. Photography Photo courtesy of WWF-Peru/Linda Norgrove All photos copyright CI unless otherwise Page 23 CEPF focuses on hotspots in developing countries, providing indicated (listed left to right and top to bottom) Haroldo Castro funding and technical assistance to civil society groups to help © 2005 Conservation International Page 24 preserve the diversity of life and healthy ecosystems as essen- Haroldo Castro tial components of stable and thriving societies. Front cover Page 25 © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre Photo courtesy WWF-Indonesia The program capitalizes on the rise in civil society taking place © Piotr Naskrecki Page 26 around the globe and nurtures it, building the capacity of local © Donovan Kirkwood Viviane Junqueira people to take part in decisions that affect their lives and liveli- Haroldo Castro Daniela Lerda Klohck hoods and, ultimately, our global environment. © Jeff Gale Page 27 © Konrad Worthe/Minden Pictures © Saliou Diallo, Guinea Ecologie. Haroldo Castro © Saliou Diallo, Guinea Ecologie Haroldo Castro Haroldo Castro © Piotr Naskrecki Page 28 Contents Haroldo Castro © Sterling Zumbrunn Russell A. Mittermeier Page 30 Inside front cover Haroldo Castro © Pete Oxford Page 31 Message from the Partners...... 1 Page 1 © Roan Balas McNab, WCS Haroldo Castro Page 32 Message from the Executive Director ...... 2 Page 2 Photo courtesy of Sonny Martires/Yakap Haroldo Castro Kalikasan Th e Partnership ...... 3 Page 3 Page 34 © Patricio Robles Gil © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre FY 05 Global Overview ...... 4 Page 6 Page 35 Hotspots Where CEPF Supported Civil Society, FY 05. . 5 Haroldo Castro Evy Wilkins Page 7 Page 36 Africa & Madagascar ...... 7 © Tania Jordaan © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre Page 8 Asia-Paciﬁ c...... 13 Photo courtesy of East African Wild Life Society Photo courtesy of Jery & Louis, Association Latin America ...... 19 Fanamby Page 9 Expanding Horizons...... 25 Photo courtesy of Jery & Louis, Association Fanamby Financial Summary ...... 28 Page 12 Th e CEPF Community ...... 30 © Cristina Mittermeier Page 13 Grantee Partners ...... 31 Photo courtesy of WWF Caucasus Regranting in the Field ...... 34

999436mvpCoverR1.indd9436mvpCoverR1.indd IIII 112/28/20052/28/2005 44:48:13:48:13 PPMM Message from the Partners

landmark study by 1,360 experts, released in March 2005, Afound that humans have changed Earth’s natural ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the past 50 years than in any comparable period of time.

The authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment said the transformation has resulted in substantial net gains, but “not all regions and groups of people have beneﬁ ted from this process—in fact, many have been harmed. Moreover, the full costs associated with these gains are only now becoming apparent.”

Can the course of history detailed in the study be changed? We believe it can by building a global constituency for biodiversity conservation, from governments to ordinary citizens taking actions that beneﬁ t both nature and people.

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)—our joint initiative—is enabling nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and other civil society partners to participate in this vital global effort from the ground up.

This report highlights CEPF results from ﬁ scal year 2005 (July 2004–June 2005) in some of Earth’s biologically richest yet most threatened regions, many of which are also home to some of its poorest people.

In South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region Hotspot, a South African National Biodiversity Institute program spurred 15 community groups to help conserve four pilot sites in the Cape Flats townships and created more than 80 income-generating opportuni- Many of the results showcased in these pages exemplify how ties, becoming a model for how to effectively engage the urban CEPF is extending our reach to civil society and how that con- poor in conservation. The program proved so successful that stituency, given the right resources, can achieve conservation Cape Town councilors recently voted to replicate it in other sites outcomes and further expand the global community of envi- in the city’s biodiversity network. ronmental stewards for the beneﬁ t of all. It’s about securing a future for life. In the Philippines Hotspot, a Palawan Conservation Corps initiative equipped marginalized youths with new carpentry and bio- We invite you to join this partnership effort. diversity restoration skills, lifetime assets that can provide their families income and that they have since shared with commu- Jonathan F. Fanton, nities near a nature park they helped create. President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

CEPF also expanded its global portfolio signiﬁ cantly during the Leonard Good year, committing $23.3 million in new grants and bringing its Chairman and CEO, Global Environment Facility total portfolio to $67.8 million. These investments have leveraged more than $100 million in additional funds for conserving Koichi Hasegawa the hotspots. Director, Development Institutions Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan Among the new grants is renewed support to enable the Ama- zon Conservation Association to more than double the number of small-scale Brazil nut producers it works with in the Tropical Ian Johnson Andes Hotspot. As part of CEPF’s initial support, the association Vice President, Environmentally & Socially Sustainable helped 130 producers win formal concessions from the Peru- Development, The World Bank Group vian government, effectively ensuring protection for 225,000 hectares of primary tropical forest in tandem with the produc- Peter A. Seligmann ers’ own sustainable livelihoods. Chairman and CEO, Conservation International

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:04:54:04 PPMM Message from the Executive Director

hen we launched CEPF ﬁ ve years ago, it marked a new and designed and implemented efforts solo. United, their new Wdifferent blueprint for conservation. Today, enabling non- voices and growing strength are creating more of an impact governmental organizations (NGOs) and community groups to than ever before, with results at home and stretching beyond help conserve and beneﬁ t from their natural wealth has become to our global environment. a clarion call. The CEPF approach and results are also inspiring other important It’s a welcome evolution long in coming. donors to join us.

We talk of the groups we support as “partners.” While we are This year, the Australian government’s Regional Natural Heritage their partners in a joint mission, we often stand behind rather Program invested approximately $1 million to enable us to launch than alongside the many groups we fund, inspired by their inspi- an invasive species program in the Polynesia-Micronesia Hotspot ration and guided by their local knowledge and vision. Our sup- as a fi rst step toward implementing our full strategy for the region. port is enabling hundreds of local people to turn our blueprint into In Colombia, our focus on helping local groups conserve the tangible outcomes and a model for others. Chocó-Manabi conservation corridor prompted a local foundation to begin matching up to $1 million for CEPF-supported initiatives. In the Mesoamerica Hotspot, Centro Científi co Tropical led a coalition of 20 NGOs working together with local municipalities Our donor partners also held a unique retreat this year, contem- and government agencies to design a new wildlife reserve cover- plating how CEPF could be strengthened even more. Special ing 60,000 hectares of forest. The reserve, declared by the Costa participants included the executive director and chief economist Rican government in 2005, includes both strict conservation and the head of the Environment and Natural Resources at the areas and zones allowing multiple uses. French Development Agency (AFD), which expressed its interest in strengthening the links between CEPF and AFD. In Armenia, a coalition of groups helped the government bridge the gap between development and conservation. Their joint We’re enormously excited by these developments, and while effort resulted in the government’s 2005 decision to redirect part proud of our own small role in them, we recognize the vital of a transnational highway originally planned to cut through the achievements of all those we support. Together, we are indeed nation’s Shikahogh Reserve, a promising sign of the changes changing the course of history. now afoot in the eastern region of the Caucasus Hotspot. Jorgen B. Thomsen The collaboration itself is a milestone in a fi eld where so Executive Director, CEPF, and Senior Vice President, many groups, both burgeoning and established, traditionally Conservation International

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:11:54:11 PPMM Th e Partnership

Conservation International is a leader and catalyst in biodiversity conservation, engaging partners in more than 40 countries on four continents to preserve threatened ecosystems. Th e organization administers CEPF. www.conservation.org

Th e Global Environment Facility is the largest source of funding for the global environment. It brings member governments together with leading development institutions and others in support of a common global environmental agenda. www.gefweb.org

Th e Government of Japan is one of the world’s largest providers of development assistance for the environment. Japan seeks constructive measures and concrete programs to preserve unique ecosystems that provide people with important beneﬁ ts and help reduce poverty. www.env.go.jp/en/

Th e John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant-making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. www.macfound.org

Th e World Bank is the world’s largest source of development assistance. It works in more than 100 developing economies to ﬁ ght poverty and to help people help themselves and their environment. www.worldbank.org

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:15:54:15 PPMM FY 05 Global Overview

Q Approved $23.3 million in new grants during FY 05, up nearly Q Increased the number of groups working to conserve the $8 million from the previous year and bringing the global CEPF hotspots with CEPF support to more than 550. grant portfolio to $67.8 million. Q Supported the creation of new protected areas safeguard- Q Enabled local groups to manage small grants programs tar- ing biologically rich land covering more than 170,000 hect- geting speciﬁ c components of our regional strategies in nine ares, bringing the total coverage of protected areas created or hotspots. expanded with CEPF support to more than 7 million hectares.

Q Helped local communities and private landowners develop Q Won approval from the CEPF Donor Council to expand invest- and beneﬁ t from natural resource management programs in ments to the Eastern Himalayas Region, a biologically rich area multiple hotspots, such as the Atlantic Forest, Cape Floristic encompassing Bhutan, parts of India, and eastern Nepal. The Region, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, Mesoamerica, move brought the total number of active funding regions to 15 Philippines, and Tropical Andes. in 16 hotspots where CEPF supported civil society conservation initiatives during the year.

CEPF Investments in Civil Society as of June 2005

Atlantic Forest

Cape Floristic Region

Caucasus Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Eastern Himalayas Region Total Committed Guinean Forests of West Africa Total Investment Planned

Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands

Mesoamerica (Northern)

Mesoamerica (Southern)

Mountains of Southwest China

Philippines

Succulent Karoo

Sundaland

Tropical Andes

Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

Millions 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 4 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:24:54:24 PPMM Hotspots Where CEPF Supported Civil Society, FY 05

The designation of geographic entities on this map does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of the authority or legitimacy of any delineation of frontiers or boundaries and may not be used in support of any political claim or position.

Hotspots Revisited A hotspots reappraisal released in 2005 identiﬁ ed nine 1 Atlantic Forest new hotspots, bringing the number of global biodiversity 2 Cape Floristic Region hotspots to 34. Combined, the hotspots harbor 75 percent of the planet’s most threatened mammals, birds, and 3 Caucasus amphibians within habitat covering just 2.3 percent of the 4 Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Earth’s surface. 5 Eastern Afromontane The new data also resulted in the reclassiﬁ cation of one 6 Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot where CEPF invested—the Eastern Arc Moun- tains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Hotspot— 7 Himalaya as part of two new hotspots: Coastal Forests of Eastern 8 Indo-Burma Africa and Eastern Afromontane. Similarly, the Eastern Himalayas Region, where CEPF began preparing to launch 9 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands investments in the Indo-Burma Hotspot, became part of 10 Mesoamerica both the new Himalaya and Indo-Burma hotspots. The analysis, which drew together the work of more than 400 11 Mountains of Southwest China specialists over four years, also resulted in the renaming 12 Philippines of the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador Hotspot as the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Hotspot. 13 Succulent Karoo 14 Sundaland While recognizing these important changes, CEPF contin- ues to invest in the original focal areas within the hotspots 15 Tropical Andes as agreed by stakeholders and approved by the CEPF 16 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Donor Council.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 5 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:32:54:32 PPMM The golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli), one of the world’s 25 most endangered primates, is found only in forest patches in northeastern Madagascar.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 6 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:42:54:42 PPMM Africa & Madagascar

Th e Critically Endangered Kihansi spray toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) is found in only 2 hectares around the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, and the golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) is found only in fragmented forest patches in northeast Madagascar. Some of the world’s most 3 4 extraordinary species have evolved amid Africa’s ecosystems, many of which 2 are among the most imperiled. CEPF supported civil society groups in six of Africa’s biodiversity hotspots during the year, awarding $5.5 million in new 5 6 grants and bringing its total Africa portfolio to $22.1 million in committed 1 grants. Th eir achievements include a program beneﬁ ting the urban poor and tools enabling farmers to more eﬀ ectively manage their land. In addition, they 1 Cape Floristic Region 2 Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa formed a partnership with the Malagasy government engaging communities in 3 Eastern Afromontane the management of a new conservation site, creating a replicable model to help 4 Guinean Forests of West Africa 5 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands the nation realize its goal of tripling its protected area network by 2008. 6 Succulent Karoo Cape Flats Project Becomes Model for Urban Conservation

any sites in the South African city of Town city councilors approved a resolu- community organizations in supporting MCape Town’s offi cial biodiversity con- tion supporting its rollout to other sites in and implementing conservation action at servation network are in heavily deprived the city’s network. the sites. urban areas where people have histori- cally had little awareness about conser- The project focuses on four pilot sites “I wanted to bring something positive vation or benefi ts from it. The species-rich located in densely populated townships back to my community, but it’s not easy,” lowland areas in the Cape Flats were no that are home to the city’s poorest peo- said Charline McKie, conservation man- exception until recently. ple. They range from the Wolfgat Nature ager at Wolfgat Nature Reserve and one Reserve to Macassar Dunes, a surviving of the new managers. A partnership initiative introduced many section of the city’s coastal dune system of the Cape Flats’ residents to con- supporting a spectacular array of Strand- “The reserve is still a dangerous place— servation for the fi rst time. The effort, veld vegetation. we have no fence, and people use it to designed and led by the South African deal in stolen goods. Bodies have even National Biodiversity Institute’s Urban Each area now has an on-site nature been found here. But we’re building an Conservation Program with CEPF sup- conservation manager, and together the environmental education center, and port, has proven so successful that Cape managers have attracted more than 15 local people have been involved in it from the start.”

The project also created more than 80 income-generating opportunities at the sites, such as projects to clear alien species and veld restoration poverty relief, bringing tangible and immediate bene- ﬁ ts to the communities. It further bene- ﬁ ts the communities through education: More than 8,000 youths participated in educational projects and 150 educators received training.

While the challenge of achieving conservation in the midst of the urban poor has rarely been addressed, this project has the potential to demonstrate that urban con- Youths from the Cape Flats unite to clean and help preserve Wolfgat Nature Reserve. servation is indeed possible in the Cape Floristic Region Hotspot and beyond. Q 7

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 7 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:54:54:54:54 PPMM Coordination Proves Key to Consensus in Taita Hills

he Kenyan Taita Hills are home to the TCritically Endangered Taita thrush (Turdus helleri) and 31 other globally threatened species that survive in just tiny fragmented patches of forest. With only 2 percent of the original forest cover still intact, isolation poses a grave threat to these species as well as major challenges for conservationists.

This year, representatives of local and international organizations, 16 community groups, and the government developed a common vision and action plan for the area that also helped prioritize signifi cant CEPF investments there. The participants’ aim: to restore and enhance connectivity among the forest patches in ways that will also benefi t people. The Critically Endangered Taita thrush (Turdus helleri) will benefi t from increased connectivity between the isolated forest patches of Kenya’s Taita Hills. Chege Mwangi, the district commission- er for Taita Taveta District, characterized However, they often refl ected business for fruit, fi rewood, building materials, the effort as one of very few “where as usual, with groups planning separate and animal fodder. both communities and top-notch scien- and even similar or confl icting action. tists sit around one table and reason out “Easy availability of information for a common problem together.” Using the new consensus, CEPF award- the local community-based organiza- ed support to fi ve organizations for pri- tions will play a big part in ensuring The participants not only identifi ed ority projects that will enable the com- sustained commitment and interest common priorities, such as develop- munities of Taita Hills to conserve their by the people themselves,” said Ali ment of livelihood options and partici- natural heritage more effectively. Kaka, the director of the East African patory forest management plans. They Wild Life Society. also identifi ed the groups best placed The projects include setting up a re- to address threats. source and coordination center to en- The participants also agreed to base sure that research fi ndings and tech- future efforts on the recommenda- Prior to the action planning led by the East nical advice are readily available in the tions of a scientifi c model for increas- African Wild Life Society and supported area; identifying exotic tree plantations ing forest connectivity, which is being by CEPF, the availability of CEPF grants suitable for restoring to indigenous for- developed by the University of Ghent prompted a large number of proposals. est; and restoration to address needs with CEPF support. Q Fanamby and Malagasy Government Take Steps to Increase Protected Areas

tretching between the Loky and ing area as the Loky-Manambato Forest SManambato rivers in northeastern Station in a ﬁ rst step toward its commit- Madagascar, the fragmented forests of ment to triple the nation’s protected area Daraina hold an extraordinary diversity of network by 2008. It also appointed the habitat in which plants and animals from local organization Association Fanamby different biogeographic regions coexist as the station manager for the 72,000- within a few square kilometers. hectare area.

The forests are also the only area “Although it may not be a huge expan- where the golden-crowned sifaka, sion in area, we’re very excited with one of the world’s most imperiled pri- the model we’ve developed as it also mates, is found. draws in local communities,” Associa- tion Fanamby Secretary General Serge In May 2005, the Malagasy government Rajaobelina said. “Used elsewhere, it designated the forests and their surround- can hopefully give a (continued on next page) The Manambato River borders Daraina’s fragmented forests.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 8 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:02:55:02 PPMM tremendous boost to reaching the Intermediary forest station status pre- 6-million-hectare target (for the national cedes classiﬁ cation as a full Conserva- protected-area system).” tion Site. As such, the forest will beneﬁ t with protection from commercial logging, The forest station encompasses the slash-and-burn cultivation, and hunting, Ambohitsitondroina-Antsahabe-Binara, while local communities will be able to use Ampondrabe-Antsaharaingy, Bobankora, its natural wealth under a special manage- Bekaraoka, and Sahaka forests—the ment plan for their basic needs such as most important spots for conservation construction wood or medicinal plants. in the area. As station manager, Association Fanamby It’s the result of efforts by the Malagasy will oversee implementation of the man- Ministry of Environment, Water, and agement plan for the area and will also Forests; local authorities and commu- offer the communities training in estab- nities; and Association Fanamby with lishing sustainable private businesses in support from CEPF and other donors, ecotourism and sustainable agriculture or such as the Global Environment Facil- forestry, further strengthening the poten- ity and the Global Conservation Fund at tial of conservation success by improving Fanamby staff members help local villagers learn about Conservation International. livelihoods. Q sustainable livelihoods, such as melon farming.

Online Maps Put Landowners in Sync with Biodiversity

espite the magniﬁ cence of many Dof the Little Karoo’s plant species, few farmers or ranchers in this area of the Succulent Karoo Hotspot have been aware of their biological value or know how to farm in a sustainable way alongside them.

However, detailed mapping of the Little Karoo’s vegetation recently completed with CEPF support is enabling landowners, land managers, environmental conservation agencies, and regional plan- ners to better understand the complex and numerous vegetation types in the area and to make more effective land- use decisions.

In two related mapping projects, Rega- lis Environmental Services and Geo Terra Image captured and disseminated data on biodiversity patterns in the Lit- tle Karoo to help inform a pragmatic conservation plan for the region. Maps at www.elsenburg.com/resources.htm are an important new resource for landowners in the Succulent Karoo Hotspot.

For example, landowners can now look their habitat types are globally threat- Metropolitan University and a scientifi c at a map of their land online and see ened. The maps are also central tools adviser to SKEP. the location and condition of different for the Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Pro- vegetation types on it. They can also gram (SKEP) and the Gouritz Initiative, Work on the maps also spawned a net- retrieve additional information on which key components of CEPF’s strategic work of local researchers. Known as the vegetation types are most appropriate approach to retain and restore critical Little Karoo Study Group, they meet reg- for different domestic animals, such as biodiversity in areas under the greatest ularly to share their fi ndings and views on ostrich, goats, and sheep, and assess land-use pressure. conservation priorities in the area. Mem- whether livestock numbers are at the bers include the South African National right level to avoid overgrazing. “They capture the kaleidoscopically Biodiversity Institute, the Council for Sci- changing biodiversity patterns in the entifi c and Industrial Research in South Enabling easy access to such a tool is Little Karoo with breathtaking accu- Africa, and the Nelson Mandela Metropoli- pivotal—indeed urgent—in this region racy,” said Professor Richard Cowling, tan University, as well as a number of grad- where many of the plant species and professor of botany at Nelson Mandela uate researchers working in the region. Q

999436mvpR2.indd9436mvpR2.indd 9 112/28/20052/28/2005 99:38:31:38:31 PPMM Africa & Madagascar FY 05 Approved Grants

Cape Floristic Region Hotspot Eastern Arc Mountains & Kaya Kinondo Community Ecotourism Restoration and Increase of Connectivity Coastal Forests of Tanzania Project among Fragmented Forest Patches in the Strategic Direction 1: Support civil soci- $19,915 Taita Hills, Southeast Kenya ety involvement in the establishment of & Kenya Kaya Kinondo Conservation and Development $105,203 protected areas and management plans in Group and Coastal Forest Conservation Unit Ghent University : Increase the ability CFR biodiversity corridors Strategic Direction 1 of local populations to beneﬁ t from and Promotion of Nature-Based, Sustainable Restoration and Increase of Connectivity contribute to biodiversity conservation Co-authorship of a Book entitled Businesses for Forest-Adjacent in Taita Hills Forests: Survey and East of the Cape—Conserving Eden Communities in the East-Usambara- Suitability Assessment of Exotic Aerial Monitoring of Vegetation Quality, $3,300 Tanga, Taita Hills, and Lower Tana River Plantations Cover, and Threats of the Forests of the Shirley Pierce Cowling Forests $20,000 This is a multiregional project covering two hotspots; Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania $500,000 East African Wild Life Society the total grant amount is $6,600. $147,000 International Centre of Insect Physiology and Wildlife Conservation Society Ecology Standardizing Forest Change Die Oog Rehabilitation and Improvement Methodologies between Sokoine Project Agroforestry Activities around Arabuko Strategic Direction 2: Restore and increase University and CABS to Assist in $3,500 Sokoke connectivity among fragmented forest Identifying Connectivity Priorities across Friends of Die Oog $10,300 patches in the hotspot the Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests Mabuwani Women Group $7,203 Van der Kempskloof/Parsonsvlei Army Ants in the Fragmented Forests of Conservation International Management Plan Baseline Carbon Storage Assessment Taita Hills and Lower Tana River $10,000 of Kenya’s Coastal Forests $10,000 Strategic Direction 3: Improve biological Wildlife and Environment Society of South $19,500 Caspar Schöning knowledge Africa: Eastern Province Region International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Facilitating a Process of Stakeholders Assessment of the Conservation Status Strategic Direction 2: Promote innovative Consultations on the Interventions of the Newly Discovered Mangabey private sector and community involvement Business-Oriented Conservation and Required to Restore and Increase the Lophocebus sp. in the Udzungwa in conservation in landscapes surrounding Agroforestry Initiatives in Muheza Connectivity of Forest Patches in Taita Mountains of Tanzania CFR biodiversity corridors District, Tanzania Hills $18,692 $19,822 $17,905 Trevor P. Jones Baviaans Conservancy: Feasibility Study JPFirst East African Wild Life Society to Investigate the Conversion of Land Use Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring from Small Stock Farming to Sustainable Capacity Building to Empower Facilitating the Process of Designing of the Insect Fauna in the Eastern Arc Biodiversity-Based Ventures Community Conservation CEPF/GCF Connectivity Interventions in Mountains and Coastal Forests Using $37,300 $11,285 the Udzungwa Mountains Ground-Dwelling Ants and Beetles as Baviaans Conservancy Kasigau Conservation Trust $20,000 Indicator Groups World Wide Fund for Nature $212,628 The Biodiversity & Wine Initiative Conservation and Management Policy AfriBugs CC $100,000 Development Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment The South African Wine & Brandy Company $19,383 of the Rehabilitation of the Tana Delta Conservation Ecology of the Endangered Kaya Muhaka Forest Conservation Irrigation Project with Design of Critical Endemic Sanje Mangabey (Cercocebus Development of a Business Plan for a Organization Primate Habitat Improvement, Increased sanjei) of the Udzungwa Mountains, Donkey Trekking Route in the Northern Indigenous Forest Connectivity and Tanzania Cederberg Conserving Coastal and Eastern Arc Community $13,000 $485 Forests through Community Access to $19,500 Carolyn L. Ehardt The Wupperthal Conservancy in partnership Retail Markets for Good Wood Wood National Museums of Kenya with the Pakhuis Conservancy Carvings on the South Coast of Kenya Conservation of Indigenous Forest and $19,999 Rehabilitation and Restoration of Endemic Species on Pemba Island The Gouritz Initiative: Securing Wakuluzu: Friends of the Colobus Trust Ltd. Mwambirwa Forest $49,000 Biodiversity and Harnessing Social and $19,409 Fauna & Flora International Economic Opportunities in Key Corridors Do Payments for Environmental Services East African Wild Life Society $237,489.50 Offer the Potential for Long-Term Coordination, Facilitation, and Western Cape Nature Conservation Board Sustainable Financing? Rehabilitation of Chawia Forest for the Dissemination of Research Works This is a multiregional project covering two hotspots; $19,800 Conservation of Its Flora and Fauna within the Critical Ecosystem Priority the total grant amount is $474,979. World Wide Fund for Nature $18,990 Sites, Tanzania Western Baviaanskloof Initiative East African Wild Life Society $20,000 Evaluation of Tanzania Forest Community Planning Process Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania Conservation Group’s Participatory $3,500 Resource Center for the Provision of Forest Management Initiatives in the Western Baviaanskloof Initiative Information and Technical Advice to Documenting Four Thematic Issues of the Eastern Arc Local Stakeholders in Forest Restoration Journal of East African Natural History $33,910 Strategic Direction 3: Support civil soci- Work in Taita Hills $120,000 Tanzania Forest Conservation Group ety efforts to create an institutional envi- $19,988 East Africa Natural History Society ronment that enables effective conserva- East African Wild Life Society Instituting a Standardized Sustainable tion action Ethnobotanical Knowledge for Adaptive Biodiversity Monitoring System in the Collaborative Management at Mt. Eastern Arc/Coastal Forests of Tanzania Production of a Research Strategy to Kasigau, Kenya and Kenya Support CFR Conservation $19,900 $425,409 $8,500 Miami University BirdLife International ($351,947) and Fynbos Forum Conservation International ($73,462)

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1100 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:08:55:08 PPMM Field Guide to the Moist Forest Trees of Guinean Forests of West Africa Madagascar & Indian Ocean Impacts of Herbivores on the Succulent Tanzania Hotspot Islands Hotspot Karoo Vegetation of Anysberg Nature $19,697 Reserve Upper Guinean Forest Madagascar University of York $3,100 University of Cape Town Strategic Direction 1: Strengthen institu- Strategic Direction 1: Integrate local Filling the Knowledge Gap: Surveys of tional capacities for conservation groups and individuals in the management Poorly Known Sites and Species in the Restoring the Biodiversity of the of protected areas and reserves Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests Roggeveld-Renosterveld: Evaluation, Biological Inventory and Ecological $237,870 Multiplication, and Establishment Study of the Southern Dassioko and The Manambolomaty Conservation Tanzania Forest Conservation Group of Indigenous Plant Species on Old Monogaga Forests (Southwest Coast of Project Agricultural Fields Côte d’Ivoire) $10,000 The Forgotten Coastal Forests of $20,000 $27,125 The Peregrine Fund Mtwara: A Reconnaissance to Prioritize Western Cape Animal Production Research SOS-FORETS Biological Knowledge for Community Trust Strategic Direction 3: Biodiversity conser- Conservation Initiatives Building Capacity for Conservation in vation and management training $69,037 Sharing Lessons from the Succulent Liberia The Society for Environmental Exploration Karoo on Conservation Assessment and $135,550 Core Support to WWF-Madagascar’s Planning Conservation International Ecology Training Program Making Data Available on the Species $2,800 $20,000 and Sites of the Eastern Arc and Coastal Philip Desmet Bushmeat Hunting and Trade in the World Wide Fund for Nature–Madagascar Forest Hotspot in Tanzania Nimba Mountains $75,000 Vegetation Classifi cation, Mapping, $49,946 Developing the Antsokay Arboretum University of Dar es Salaam Condition Assessment, and Monitoring of Fauna & Flora International as a Center for Biodiversity Study and Sanbona Wildlife Reserve with Specifi c Ecotourism in Southwest Madagascar Overview of Butterfl y Faunas of Eastern Emphasis on the Impact of the Mega Status of White-Necked Picathartes $113,848 Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests: Herbivores (Picathartes gymnocephalus) in Ghana NGO Arboretum d’Antsokay Biodiversity, Endemism, Conservation $11,539 $19,320 $19,700 Sanbona Game Reserve Pty Ltd. Ghana Wildlife Society African Butterfl y Research Institute Succulent Karoo Hotspot Strategic Direction 4: Mainstream conser- Stimulating a Coordinated and Informed Plant Conservation Assessment in the Strategic Direction 1: Expand protected vation priorities into land-use planning and Approach to Biodiversity Conservation in Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal area corridors through public-private- policymaking Sierra Leone through Capacity Building Forests Mosaic of Kenya and Tanzania communal partnerships in the priority of EFA and the Forum for Environmental $410,001 areas of Bushmanland Inselbergs, Central Developing a Fine-Scale Conservation Action Missouri Botanical Garden ($318,001) Namaqualand Coast, Namaqualand Plan for the Kamiesberg Uplands $96,700 and IUCN-The World Conservation Union Uplands, Knersvlakte, Hantam-Roggeveld, $19,870 Environmental Foundation for Africa-Sierra ($92,000) Central Little Karoo, and Sperrgebiet Philip Desmet Leone “Scientifi c Adviser” for the Eastern A Feasibility Study for the Establishment An Inventory of the Rare and Endemic Strategic Direction 2: Establish a hotspot Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Plants and Habitats of the Kamiesberg biodiversity monitoring system of a Succulent Karoo Biodiversity Tanzania and Kenya Resource and Conservation Center with Uplands $90,400 Satellite Information Centers $18,695 West African Vulture Survey Conservation International $5,500 Nick Helme $13,642 Western Cape Nature Conservation Board Afrique Nature International Small Mammal Studies in Three Strategic Direction 5: Increase awareness Important Eastern Arc Mountains The Gouritz Initiative: Securing of the Succulent Karoo Hotspot Strategic Direction 4: Public awareness Sites for the Creation of Innovative Biodiversity and Harnessing Social and Educational, Scientifi c, and Conservation Economic Opportunities in Key Corridors Co-authorship of a Book entitled Echoes of the Rain Forest Project— Tools $237,489.50 East of the Cape—Conserving Eden Second Phase $150,000 Western Cape Nature Conservation Board $3,300 $44,958 The Field Museum of Natural History This is a multiregional project covering two hotspots; Shirley Pierce Cowling AGORO Centre for Intercultural Learning and the total grant amount is $474,979. This is a multiregional project covering two hotspots; Talent Development The Forgotten Coastal Forests of the total grant amount is $6,600. Mtwara: A Reconnaissance to Prioritize Promoting and Supporting Conservation Support for the Africa Biodiversity Biological Knowledge for Community Action in the Sperrgebiet Priority Knersvlakte Biodiversity Awareness Collaborative Group Conservation Initiatives Area and Namibia’s Succulent Karoo Raising Project $12,807 $69,037 Ecosystem $111,844 World Wildlife Fund, Inc. The Society for Environmental Exploration $850,700 Masibambane Multi-Purpose Community Namibia Nature Foundation Centre Strategic Direction 5: Biodiversity Action Trends in the Health of Selected Forests Fund in the Eastern Arc and Coastal Forest Strategic Direction 2: Engage key industrial Raising Awareness of the Unique $45,519 sectors in meeting conservation objectives Biodiversity of the Tanqua Karoo and Capacity Building of Local Riverine West Chester University identifi ed by SKEP Roggeveld Priority Region Communities for Biodiversity $50,000 Conservation of Two Important Bird Strategic Direction 4: Establish a small Aus Tourist Information Centre South African National Parks Areas: the Grande Chutes Forest at grants program in the hotspot that fo cuses $97,350 Kindia and the Kounoukan Forest at on Critically Endangered species and Namibia Nature Foundation Strategic Direction 6: Create the capacity Forécariah (Guinea) small-scale efforts to increase connec- to catalyze the SKEP program $19,605 tivity of biologically important habitat Namaqualand Restoration Initiative: Guinee-Ecologie Bringing Mining, Biodiversity, and Local Environmental Education Program for Survey of Microchiropteran Bats of Communities Together the Succulent Karoo Hotspot in Namibia: Primate and Birds Diversity in the Fazao- Mafi a, Pemba, and Unguja and the $200,000 Phase 1–Program Development Malfacassa National Park, Togo Subsequent Creation of Educational, University of Cape Town $9,730 $6,110 Scientifi c, and Conservation Tools Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust University of Calgary $19,954 Strategic Direction 3: Retain and restore The Field Museum of Natural History critical biodiversity in areas under greatest Supporting Innovation and Sustainable land-use pressure Financing of the SKEP Bioregional Program $112,153 Conservation International

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1111 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:09:55:09 PPMM In addition to its high biological diversity, the Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot features rich cultural diversity. The hotspot is home to 16 ethnic groups.

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From the emerging nongovernmental groups in the Caucasus and the Mountains of Southwest China hotspots to the community groups of 1 Sumatra’s Aceh province, buﬀ eted by the tragedy of the tsunami, CEPF’s 2 4 partners across Asia are as varied and unique as the region’s biodiversity. CEPF supported civil society partners in six of Asia’s hotspots during the 3 year, awarding $11.3 million in new grants and bringing its overall Asia 5 portfolio to $24.2 million in committed grants. Th ese groups helped a 6 coalition of more than 20 local NGOs secure 38,000 hectares of lowland forest on Sumatra while also engaging global business partners of Indonesian pulp and paper companies to take up sustainable purchas- 1 Caucasus 2 Himalaya ing and production policies. Others gained agreement from 37 groups to 3 Indo-Burma contribute to an ambitious monitoring and evaluation program to track 4 Mountains of Southwest China 5 Philippines conservation progress in China. 6 Sundaland Closer Collaboration with Civil Society Emerges in Armenia

ridging the gap between civil soci- CEPF in the hotspot, it pulled together “We also strengthened ties with local Bety and government on the complex a coalition of local NGOs, such as the NGOs and with the Armenian diaspora issues of development and conservation Armenia Tree Project, the Armenian For- in the U.S., which will be very important is one of the most difﬁ cult tasks. High- ests, and the Armenian Society for the for our future development and activi- way construction and other large-scale Protection of Birds, to help. CEPF also ties. The campaign can hopefully also be development projects in particular can awarded a small emergency grant to used as a model for countries that are cut across many different jurisdictions, help with the costs. in a transitional period with newly estab- affecting both people and wildlife. lished processes of democratization.” “It was certainly tough going, but we The Armenian government’s 2005 deci- made great collaborative ground with The result was a historic shift in gov- sion to redirect part of a transnational high- the government, especially with the ernmental perspectives, which not only way originally planned to cut through the Ministry of Nature Protection and with averted a direct threat to a key biodiver- nation’s Shikahogh Reserve was there- regional authorities in the Syunik region, sity area but also illustrated the important fore a promising sign of the changes now where most of our projects are focused,” contribution that civil society can make to afoot in the eastern region of the Cauca- said Karen Manvelyan, director of the conservation through coordinated action sus Hotspot. Armenia ofﬁ ce. and sharing of information. Q

Although the 10,330-hectare reserve’s biodiversity has yet to be comprehen- sively catalogued because of its isolated location and mountainous terrain, the reserve shelters Armenia’s only pristine oak forest. Experts believe it is home to more than 1,000 plant species, including many unique to the country. The reserve also has important populations of the globally threatened Mouﬂ on (Ovis orien- talis) and bezoar goat (Capra aegagrus).

The WWF Caucasus Program’s Armenia ofﬁ ce led a series of efforts to engage the government in looking at alternative routes for the highway. Building on its Public concern at a proposed highway through the Shikahogh Reserve found an effective voice through a coalition of role as part of the coordination team for conservation NGOs.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1133 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:26:55:26 PPMM Data Sharing Brings Together New Partners for Conservation

ew would dispute that scientifi cally online database (www.ecopartners.cn) to Fsound monitoring and evaluation are enable public access to the information. vital cornerstones for effective conservation. Yet even initial identifi cation of The alliance also gained agreement from biodiversity threats can be seriously ham- 37 groups and individuals to contribute pered by a lack of coordination between to the database. Local stakeholders, the major players in a given region. such as protected area managers, ecotourism developers, and regional In the Mountains of Southwest China planning authorities, will perform a vital Hotspot, CEPF funding helped more role in expanding the online database than 20 nongovernmental organizations, with site-specifi c data and will be able academic institutions, and government to use the wealth of information to agencies create an unprecedented alli- make informed decisions that favor ance to counter this trend. Across the biodiversity conservation. hotspot, the alliance is developing a sys- tematic approach to defi ning and mon- “Cooperation is truly critical for the suc- itoring conservation outcomes and cess of our work,” said Ling Lin, head of interventions, one of CEPF’s strategic WWF’s Chengdu offi ce. “Thankfully, we priorities for the region. have a shared understanding and aim, and now we have found partners for The alliance, Eco-Partners, fi rst identi- future cooperation.” fi ed more than 500 species of globally threatened animals and plants from the CEPF is supporting similar projects in region to monitor. Led by Conservation The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) is the other hotspots as part of a wider International’s China Program, the alli- one of the Endangered species that will benefi t from the Conservation International initiative to ance gathered 80,000 pieces of pub- new collaboration. create a shared global database. The ap- lished data relating to species such as proach is part of a commitment to use the Endangered Yunnan snub-nosed Eco-Partners then established quantifi - conservation outcomes—targets against monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), fewer than able, transparent, and globally consis- which the success of conservation ef- 2,000 of which are thought to survive in tent conservation targets covering 49 forts can be measured—as the scientifi c isolated populations. key biodiversity areas and set up an underpinning for CEPF investments. Q

Local-to-Global Coordination Secures Critical Landscape

esso Nilo Forest on the Indonesian Tisland of Sumatra is one of the last havens for Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris) and elephants (Elephas maximus). It also harbors one of the highest levels of lowland forest plant biodiversity known to science.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry declared 38,576 hectares of the forest as a national park in July 2004 as a result of a CEPF-supported program by WWF- Indonesia and Jikalahari, an alliance of 28 local groups.

Tesso Nilo and neighboring Bukit Tigapuluh National Park contain the largest patches of the island’s remaining lowland forests and, together, are one of four focal areas for CEPF investment in Sumatra.

At the village level, Jikalahari and WWF worked together in (continued on next page) Camera traps provide valuable data for monitoring species, such as the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris) caught on ﬁ lm here.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1144 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:37:55:37 PPMM monitoring logging activities and gain- ing support for conservation from local communities. At the district and provin- cial levels, they work with government ofﬁ cials to ensure that land-use planning offers adequate protection.

At the national and international levels, WWF worked with its global network to engage business partners of Indonesian pulp and paper companies in Japan, Europe, and North America to help protect the area’s biodiversity.

The new protected area and new sustainable purchasing and production policies show how successful WWF’s local-to-global conservation approach in Tesso Nilo has been in implementing Sumatra’s forests are among the biologically richest yet most threatened in the Sundaland Hotspot. CEPF’s strategy of nurturing alliances between conservation-minded groups director of WWF-Indonesia’s Species increase the size of the newly declared and the private sector. Program. “It’s particularly exciting to see protected area nearly ﬁ vefold. The gov- how a project like this brings so many ernment of Indonesia is expected to “Our Tesso Nilo experiences have encour- groups together, right across the world.” soon expand the park by another 60,000 aged us to apply similar approaches in hectares, bringing the goal to create a other areas where the WWF network is WWF has also leveraged more than 120,000-hectare protected area embed- active, sometimes engaging the same $1 million in additional funds for the Tesso ded in a sustainably managed conserva- global corporations,” said Nazir Foead, Nilo program and hopes to ultimately tion landscape signiﬁ cantly closer. Q

Marginalized Youths Learn as Th ey Build

otivation and opportunity are The result is a successful nature park Min short supply for marginalized on the grounds of the Rural Agricultural youths in the rural villages around Center, as well as new vocational skills Puerto Princesa City on the Philippine for the youths that can provide income island of Palawan. for years to come.

In stepped the Palawan Conservation With funds from an initial CEPF grant, the Corps (PCC). The group provided hands- youths built an open-air information cen- Youths put their new carpentry skills to the test as part on carpentry and biodiversity restora- ter and a 10,000-square-foot nursery for of the project. tion training to 60 youths whose parents seedlings of endemic hardwood species could not afford to keep sending them such as narra (Pterocarpus dalbergioides) the Philippine Technical Education and to school or who, in many cases, were and the globally threatened kamagong Skills Development Authority. Without asked to leave school. (Diospyros philippinensis) and apitong all these different partners, we wouldn’t (Dipterocarpus grandiﬂ orus) trees. have done it.”

The nursery has already contributed to A follow-on CEPF grant has enabled replanting 5,000 native trees and is sup- youths who participated in the course to plying seedlings to nearby villages for take their new skills out to neighboring reforestation projects. communities, working on watershed restoration and reforestation projects that PCC also garnered support from govern- also serve to further raise awareness of mental, nonproﬁ t, and private partners the need for sustainable use of natural for the project. resources.

“The City Agriculture Ofﬁ ce lent us the “The response from the people was fan- use of their tractor and got us hardwood tastic,” Galido said. “We had more volun- seedlings,” PCC Director Erwin Galido teers than we needed and ﬁ nished the said. “We had volunteers from Earth- work in half the time. In Lucbuan and A participant in the Palawan Conservation Corps’ project Corps, help from the Consuelo Foun- Bahile, the villagers are now going out helps create a nursery to house hardwood seedlings. dation, a local educational charity, and to do these things on their own.” Q

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Caucasus Hotspot The Inspection of Three Rivers’ Promote Public Participation in Promoting Bird Watching in Chengdu City Communication of Upper Reaches of Conserving Nu River $9,744 Strategic Direction 1: Support civil society Changjiang River $16,800 Green Student Organizations Society efforts to promote transboundary cooper- $8,985 Green Watershed ation and improve protected area systems Environmental Volunteer Association of Voice of Deqin—Dynamics in in fi ve target corridors Sichuan University A Study of Feasibility and Effects of Environment and Society through Local Ecotourism at Baoshan Gushi Cheng, Peoples’ Eyes Building Capacity to Strengthen Using Galliformes to Monitor Yunnan $6,000 Conservation Alliances through CEPF Biodiversity in Southwest China $20,000 Zeren Pingcuo Coordination and Grantmaking in the $105,340 Susie Lee Cecchi Caucasus World Pheasant Association Strategic Direction 4: Integrate biodi- $2,470,000 The Conceptual Master Planning of versity conservation concerns and ben- World Wide Fund for Nature Strategic Direction 2: Support site-related Ecotourism for Baimaxueshan Nature efi ts into the implementation of policies projects led by civil society to mitigate Reserve and programs at local, regional, and na- Strategic Direction 2: Strengthen mech- key threats to natural areas and species $20,000 tional levels anisms to conserve biodiversity of the populations Southwest Forestry College Caucasus Hotspot with emphasis on Feasibility Study for the Implementation species, site, and corridor outcomes Develop Conservation Strategies to Strategic Direction 3: Build capacity of of Forestry Conservation Concessions Eliminate Yew Trade in Mountains of civil society to implement conservation ef- and Sustainable Regional Council for Biodiversity Southwest China forts at a site and regionally $20,000 Conservation and Sustainable Resource $60,000 Global Environmental Institute Use in the Caucasus TRAFFIC International Building Conservation Alliance through $200,000 Coordinating CEPF in the Mountains of Linking Tourism to Biodiversity World Wide Fund for Nature Ecotourism Demonstration Project in Southwest China Hotspot Conservation in Southwest China— Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province $854,100 Khampa International Ecotourism Strategic Direction 4: Increase the aware- $50,000 Conservation International $42,000 ness and commitment of decisionmakers Beijing Shanmo Investment Consultancy Co. Conservation International to biodiversity conservation in fi ve target Capacity Building for Yunnan Shangri-la corridors Effective Public Evaluation on the County Alpine Botanic Garden One World, One Health: The Threat of Conservation Areas and Natural $20,000 Emerging Diseases to Human Security Conservation in the Caucasus: Reports Heritages in China Construction Planning Offi ce of Shangri-la and Conservation and the Implications from the Field $20,000 Alpine Botanic Garden for Public Policy $20,000 Friends of Nature, China $20,000 Center for Russian Nature Conservation Establishing Ecotourism Guidelines Wildlife Conservation Society Establishing White Pagodas as for Nature Reserves in South Ganzi Eastern Himalayas Region Landmarks of Critical Ecological Sites Prefecture Strategic Direction 5: Develop and opera- in Xiaozhongdian Town $20,000 tionalize a small grants program focusing Strategic Direction 1: Restore connectivity $11,464 Sichuan Wildlife Resource Survey and on conservation capacity-building and re- and protect species in priority corridors Angweng Reincarnated Buddha Conservation Management Station search projects

Save The Tiger Fund Feasibility Study for Establishing Panda Legal Initiative for Resource Managing CEPF’s Small Grants Fund $500,000 Corridors in Min Mountain Management and Livelihood to Safeguard Endangered Species and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $150,541 Development for Jisha Village Habitats in Southwest China World Wide Fund for Nature $20,000 $296,000 Mountains of Southwest China Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous World Wide Fund for Nature Hotspot Integrating a Range-wide Conservation Knowledge Strategy for the Yunnan Snub-nosed Philippines Hotspot Monkey Make a Difference in 10 Days: Strategic Direction 1: Develop and oper- $517,540 International Conference on Nature Strategic Direction 1: Improve linkage be- ationalize hotspot-wide monitoring and The Nature Conservancy Reserve’s Scientifi c Exchange and tween conservation investments to mul- evaluation projects Capacity Building tiply and scale up benefi ts on a corridor Motivating Governments to Address $19,960 scale in Sierra Madre, Eastern Mindanao, Applied Ethnoecology for Biodiversity Illegal Wildlife in Southeast Asia Chen Youping and Palawan Assessment, Monitoring and $5,000 Management in Northwest Yunnan Conservation International Monthly Conservation Forum among Defi ning and Monitoring Conservation $167,904 This is a multiregional project covering three hotspots; Chengdu-Kunming College Student Outcomes for the Philippines The Chinese Academy of Sciences the total grant amount is $15,000. Conservation Organizations $382,336 $10,230 Natural Resources Protection and Conservation International Assessment on Resource and Green Student Organizations Society Environment of Sichuan Partridge in Community Development in Tuogushui Village, China Eastern Mindanao Corridor Facilitation Panzhihua Area Outdoor Preliminary School Environment $10,043 for the Philippines $19,555 Education Program—“Happy Nature” Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve $290,000 Sichuan Normal University $16,446 Management Offi ce Conservation International Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Establishing Effective Conservation Breeding Center Information Service for Saving China’s Population Survey on Cedar Species Palawan Biodiversity Corridor Biodiversity (Sabia Pingii) in Yele Nature Reserve Facilitation $120,000 $19,751 $200,000 Chinese Academy of Sciences Yele Nature Reserve Management Offi ce, Conservation International Sichuan

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1166 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:45:55:45 PPMM Strategic Direction 2: Build civil society’s Design and Management of the Strategic Direction 4: Establish an emer- Expansion of Bukit Tigapuluh National awareness of the myriad beneﬁ ts of con- Northeastern Cagayan Conservation gency response mechanism to help save Park and Protection of Its Wider serving corridors of biodiversity Corridor Critically Endangered species Ecosystem $108,812 $199,547 Enhancement of Educational Park as Cagayan Valley Partners in People Building Conservation Capacity through Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia WARSI Reforestation Training Center (Phase II) Development Research of Threats to Key Birds in the $10,240 Palawan Corridor First Anniversary Celebration for Batang Palawan Conservation Corps Empowering the Manobos of Mt. $154,346 Gadis National Park Magdiwata Forest Reserve Area to World Pheasant Association $13,210 Strategic Direction 3: Build capacity Effectively Manage Their Ancestral Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Gerakan of civil society to advocate for better Domain Claim Enlarged Scales: Strengthening Masyarakat Madina Pemantau Apatur Negara corridor and protected area management $10,000 Philippine Crocodile Conservation in the and against development harmful Livelihood Enhancement in Agro-forestry Sierra Madre Corridor Strengthening Community Commitment to conservation Foundation, Inc. $13,765 to Protect Batang Gadis National Park Mabuwaya Foundation Inc. $6,519 A 10–Year Framework Plan for Mobilizing Business Sector Resources to Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Harapan Ecohistorical Tourism in the Sierra Support Watershed Management Motivating Governments to Address Madina Madre Biodiversity Corridor, Philippines $20,000 Illegal Wildlife in Southeast Asia $20,000 Philippine Business for Social Progress $5,000 Studying and Preserving the Peleonan Miriam–Public Education and Awareness Conservation International Forest as a Means of Safeguarding Campaign for the Environment Participatory Biodiversity Assessment This is a multiregional project covering three hotspots; Siberut’s Ecosystem and Conservation of Mt. Hamiguitan the total grant amount is $15,000. $107,000 Building Civil Society’s Capacity for Range, Davao Oriental and Its Environs Deutsches Primatenzentrum Conserving Eastern Mindanao’s Priority for Development Southern Palawan Anti-Poaching Sites $20,000 Initiative Strategic Direction 2: Empower civil $20,000 Central Mindanao University $50,000 society to organize in favor of conserving Mindanao Environment Forum Katala Foundation, Inc. biodiversity Project MAMBOOGOOK: Research and Building Critical Stakeholder Support Conservation of Philippine Eagles in Sundaland Hotspot Empowering Local People and Local for Conservation of the Philippine Eagle Central and Eastern Mindanao Sumatra Government to Support Batang Gadis (Pithecophaga jefferyi) Population along $250,000 National Park the Sierra Madre Mountain Range Philippine Eagle Conservation Program Strategic Direction 1: Enhance steward- $260,000 $121,058 Foundation, Inc. ship of forest resources at district level Yayasan Bina Ketrampilan Desa Conservation International and below Sierra Madre Forest Gardens Program Motivating Governments to Address Corridor Facilitation and Protected Area $149,540 Enhance Community Capacity through Illegal Wildlife in Southeast Asia Management of Core Nuclei within the Counterpart International Rattan Product Development in Northern $5,000 Sierra Madre Biodiversity Siberut Conservation International $300,000 Toward Biodiversity Conservation within $14,913 This is a multiregional project covering three hotspots; Conservation International the Eastern Mindanao Corridor: Biodiversity Perkumpulan Uma Mentawai the total grant amount is $15,000. Archiving and Assessment Project $200,675 Partnership for the Conservation of Philippine Eagle Conservation Program Sumatran Natural Heritage Foundation, Inc. $900,000 United Nations Foundation

Rapid Response Team for Conservation Investment in Sumatra $156,752 Conservation International

Strategic Direction 3: Build alliances among conservation-minded groups in civil society and the private sector

Batang Gadis National Park Development and Management Support $482,500 Conservation International

Strategic Direction 4: Assess impact of conservation interventions at the district level and below

Annual Forest Cover Change Analysis and Change Detection Map for Sumatra $50,000 Wildlife Conservation Society

Deﬁ ning, Reﬁ ning, and Monitoring Outcomes for Sumatra $300,000 Conservation International

Grantmaking and Partnerships on the Ground in Sumatra $307,077 The Sierra Madre landscape is one of four focal areas for CEPF investment in The Philippines Hotspot. Conservation International

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 1177 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:55:46:55:46 PPMM The Atlantic Forest Hotspot harbors an estimated 20,000 species of plants, 40 percent of which are thought to be unique to the hotspot.

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Th e tropical forests of Latin America contain much of the globe’s plant and animal biodiversity. Th ey provide important natural wealth to indigenous peoples and harbor key ingredients for tomorrow’s medicines. CEPF sup- 2 ported civil society organizations in four of the region’s hotspots during the 4 year, awarding $6.5 million in new grants and bringing its total portfolio to $21.5 million in committed grants. Th ese groups worked with landowners 3 to create a 60,000-hectare national wildlife refuge. Containing strict con- 1 servation areas and multi-use zones for ecotourism and agroforestry, the Costa Rican park has been dubbed a “laboratory for sustainable development.” In the Atlantic Forest Hotspot, a small grants program helped more

than double the number of Private Natural Heritage Reserves. Th e CEPF 1 Atlantic Forest Hotspot focus on building civil society capacity to conserve the hotspots also helped 2 Mesoamerica 3 Tropical Andes leverage signiﬁ cant additional funds for conservation in Colombia. 4 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Deal for $1 Million Match Beneﬁ ts Colombian Groups

he ecosystem profi le developed for match up to $1 million in funding for In 2005, FPAA matched CEPF invest- Teach region before CEPF investment CEPF-supported initiatives. ments in six select projects by local begins guides CEPF in its grantmaking organizations, enabling CEPF to lever- and civil society groups in applying for The deal includes up to a $100,000 age signifi cant funds while supporting funds. In a number of cases, other donors FPAA match for each CEPF grant a wider variety of partners and projects are also using the profi les to determine awarded to local groups working on the with its existing funds under the CEPF how best to invest themselves. Colombian side of the corridor, which strategy. Other matches are in the stretches from the peaks of Colom- pipeline as part of the new agreement In Colombia, the CEPF focus on building bia’s western Andean cordillera to the through 2008. the capacity of local groups to help con- Pacifi c Ocean. “The framework relationship with CI and CEPF goes from strength to strength,” FPAA Executive Secretary José Luis “The framework relationship with CI and Gómez said. “Not only do we share conservation objectives, but in the corridor CEPF goes from strength to strength. strategy, we are both using the same path to get there.”

Not only do we share conservation objec- The groups receiving FPAA matches are helping to implement each of CEPF’s tives, but in the corridor strategy, we are three strategic directions for the corridor. Their projects range from work with both using the same path to get there.” small-scale gold miners around Colom- bia’s protected areas to improve the ways they make their livelihood, to test- –José Luis Gómez, executive secretary, Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez ing models of payment for environmental services among landowners in the Valle de Cauca region. serve the Chocó-Manabi biodiversity A partnership between FPAA and conservation corridor helped spur the Conservation International’s Colombia Ultimately, the CEPF strategy is designed Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Program, which coordinates implemen- to attain greater harmony between devel- Niñez (FPAA, or the Fund for Environ- tation of the CEPF ecosystem proﬁ le for opment and conservation through decen- mental Action and Children), a Colom- the corridor in Colombia, laid the ground- tralized management of the region’s bian private foundation, to agree to work for the deal. biological resources. Q

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unning between Costa Rica and Nica- “Maquenque will truly be a great labora- Rragua, the San Juan River was prized tory for sustainable development.” in the 19th century as one of the quick- est routes across the isthmus of Central A three-year CEPF grant supported devel- America. In 2005, it was ﬁ nally time for opment of key documents required to the region’s remarkable biodiversity to be obtain the legal protection of Maquenque, recognized with the government of Costa as well as land tenure surveys and initial Rica’s declaration of the Maquenque steps toward development of a manage- National Wildlife Refuge. ment plan.

Covering nearly 60,000 hectares of forest, Uniquely for Costa Rica, the refuge’s the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge establishment was based on extensive will help ensure the survival of the great community outreach to achieve consensus green macaw (Ara ambigua) and many with local communities and landowners. other globally threatened species, as Initially, many landowners were opposed well as provide sustainable development to the idea of a national park. Instead, opportunities. they successfully proposed establishing a National Wildlife Refuge that contains both Establishing the refuge has been an strict conservation areas and multi-use investment priority for CEPF in the Meso- areas for environmentally friendly activi- america Hotspot. Since 2003, CEPF has ties, such as ecotourism, agroforestry, and supported a coalition of 20 NGOs that is sustainable agriculture. led by the Centro Cientíﬁ co Tropical (CCT, or the Tropical Science Center) and is Beneﬁ ts for landowners include access to working with local municipalities and gov- Costa Rica’s innovative system of paying ernment agencies in preparations for the for environmental services to maintain new protected area. land under forest cover.

“CEPF’s funding and the assistance we Beyond Maquenque’s borders, the refuge received from their local coordination acts as a critical part of the Mesoamerican unit was pivotal in getting the area recog- Biological Corridor along the San Juan River nized,” said Guisselle Monge, coordinator The great green macaw (Ara ambigua) is one of the between the Atlantic forests of Costa Rica of the San Juan–La Selva Biological Cor- many species found in the new Maquenque National with southeast Nicaragua and the larger ridor, where the new refuge is located. Wildlife Refuge. Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. Q

Grants Enable 50 Percent Increase in Private Reserves

s much of the land in the Atlantic Forest areas system by connecting small and AHotspot is privately owned, increas- fragmented forest blocks and bringing ing the number of private protected areas additional priority areas into the network. through civil society efforts is an important part of the CEPF strategy in the Brazilian The small grants program, managed by part of the hotspot, where investments the Aliança para a Conservação da Mata are focused in two conservation corridors. Atlântica of Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica and Conservação Internacional do Brasil, A CEPF-supported small grants program is a core part of the CEPF strategy imple- helped more than 50 landowners estab- mentation in this hotspot. lished private natural heritage reserves (Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio Natu- The alliance’s approach is fundamental to ral, or RPPNs) on their land, increasing the the small grants program’s success as it number of these reserves in the Central helps the landowners follow all the neces- and Serra do Mar corridors by 50 percent sary steps required by the government for and bringing the total land under private RPPN designation. protection to more than 18,000 hectares. Luiz Nelson was one of the ﬁ rst landown- Recognized as ofﬁ cial protected areas ers to create a private reserve in the early under Brazilian law, the RPPNs comple- 1990s. He made it a personal mission to ment the country’s public protected protect 494 biologically (continued on next page) Landowner Luiz Nelson.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2200 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:56:39:56:39 PPMM rich hectares of his 556-hectare holding. The process was not an easy one, and at one point his environmental activism at home and beyond led to death threats that received national press coverage.

“Every time something happened like this, something good would happen just after- ward, and I took this as a sign that I had to go ahead,” Nelson said.

In addition to the newly created reserves, the program helped Nelson and other landowners improve the management of 29 existing reserves. Nelson’s RPPN, Fazenda Bom Retiro, now attracts about 2,000 visitors annually, who come to watch the more than 120 bird species and other wildlife, and to participate in environmental education programs.

The program has also become a model. It’s being replicated in a new Incentives Program for the Creation of RPPNs in the Pantanal region. Q Luiz Nelson’s private reserve attracts 2,000 visitors annually.

organization to provide essential resources Indigenous Peoples and Th reatened to sustain the effort for the area’s new status and to push against illegal logging Species Find Security within Alto-Purús of mahogany, often referred to as the “red gold” of the Amazon. eruvian NGO Asociación para la Con- group Mashco-Piro, which lives in volun- Pservación del Patrimonio Cutivireni tary isolation from modern society. (ACPC, or Association for the Conserva- tion of the Cutivireni Patrimony) helped “We are very happy about the establish- make possible one of the largest com- ment of the park and communal reserve bined indigenous reserves and protected because it will let our communities bet- areas in the world. ter manage our territories in a way that respects the traditions of our ancestors,” The 2.7-million-hectare Alto-Purús National said Fredy Lopez Tranbeca, community Park and Purús Communal Reserve chief of the 180-member Gasta Bala, one combines a traditional national park, a com- of the many other indigenous groups that munal reserve that will be jointly managed live around the protected area. The national park shelters globally threatened species such by indigenous communities and the state, as the Endangered giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis). and a territorial reserve for the indigenous The remote area in the Tropical Andes Hotspot contains enormous expanses The group contributed to the creation of of lowland tropical moist forests, unique a participatory management committee ﬂ ooded savannas dotted with palm trees, that draws together indigenous groups and extensive bamboo-dominated forests. and regional governments as well as other Home to Endangered species such as the important civil society institutions in the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), it is Inuya and Sepahua watersheds. Together also one of the last refuges for large popu- these stakeholders are developing sustain- lations of globally threatened big-leafed able forestry projects as part of a wider strat- mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla). egy to curtail threats.

By engaging local people in the man- The support to ACPC is part of a 2003 agement of forest resources along the debt-for-nature swap between the U.S. and southwestern border of the national park, Peruvian governments. As part of the deal, ACPC helped strengthen management Peru will save an estimated $14 million in of the area, a key CEPF strategy for the debt payments, and civil society groups Illegal mahogany extraction poses a big threat to the com- hotspot’s key biodiversity areas. Funding will receive an estimated $10.6 million for munities, fauna, and ﬂ ora of Amazonian Peru. from CEPF through WWF also enabled the conservation projects. Q

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2211 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:56:50:56:50 PPMM Latin America FY 05 Approved Grants

Atlantic Forest Hotspot Strategies and Actions for the Sharing Experiences and Lessons Infrastructure Integration and Brazil Conservation of Biodiversity in the Learned in Mesoamerica via the Biodiversity Conservation in Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro Eco-Index Mesoamerica Strategic Direction 1: Stimulate land- $360,432 $49,769 $75,000 scape management initiatives led by Instituto de Pesquisas e Conservação da Rainforest Alliance Conservation Strategy Fund civil society in Central and Serra do Mar Biodiversidade dos Biomas Brasileiros This is a multiregional project covering Northern and Southern Mesoamerica; the total grant amount corridors Sustainable Alternatives and Study of Wildlife Animal Traffi c in the is $97,769. Environmental Restoration and Atlantic Forest and Its Implications for Protection of the Three Hills Quetzal Biodiversity Conservation of the Strategic Direction 3: Support priority Restingas in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Conservation conservation actions in three priority key Biological Corridor Brazil $174,829 biodiversity areas $15,742 $14,537 Rede Nacional de Combate ao Tráfi co de Asociación de Turismo de Tres Colinas Animais Silvestres Instituto de Pesquisas e Conservação da Implementation of a Special Protection Strategic Direction 3: Promote aware- Biodiversidade dos Biomas Brasileiros System Based on Strategic Alliances Strategic Direction 2: Improve manage- ness and conservation of fl agship species with Civil Society and Organizations ment of existing and future public pro- Consolidation of the Cabruca in the Eastern Sector of Laguna del tected areas through targeted civil soci- Raising Awareness of Conservation of Commercialization Area—Cooperative Tigre National Park and Its Surrounding ety efforts the Natural Ecosystems of Manatees of the Organic Producers of Southern Biological Corridor (Trichechus manatus) through Bahia (CABRUCA) $68,715 Biodiversity Corridor of the Costa do Environmental Monitoring in Local $19,900 Wildlife Conservation Society Cooperativa do Produtores Orgânicos do Sul Cacau Communities $250,000 $20,000 da Bahia Needs Assessment for Conserving the Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais do Asociación de Amigos y Vecinos de la Costa Key Biodiversity Areas of Laguna del Sul da Bahia y la Naturaleza Coordination of CEPF in the Atlantic Tigre National Park and Chiquibul-

Forest (Phase II) Montañas Mayas Increasing the Network of Protected Sharing Experiences and Lessons $885,490 $37,524 Areas in the Bahian Portion of the Learned in Mesoamerica via the Conservação Internacional do Brasil Asociación Trópico Verde/ParksWatch Central Corridor of the Atlantic Eco-Index Guatemala Determination of Genetic Variables $20,000 $48,000 Associação Flora Brasil Rainforest Alliance in Macaco-Prego-do-Peito-Amarelo Updating the Master Plan for Laguna del This is a multiregional project covering Northern (Cebus xanthosternos) for Their Tigre National Park: Defi nition of a New Protecting and Restoring the Três Picos and Southern Mesoamerica; the total grant amount Management and Conservation Model for Internal Zoning Buffer Zone: A Corridor Approach to is $97,769. $20,000 $40,000 Conserving Forest-Based Services and Mülleriana: Sociedade Fritz Müller de Wildlife Conservation Society Strategic Direction 4: Support improved Ciências Naturais Biodiversity management of key protected areas $175,476 Mesoamerica Hotspot Ecological Corridor of the South of Instituto Rede Brasileira Agrofl orestal Southern Mesoamerica Community Consultation and Minas Institutional Strengthening for the Socioenvironmental Management Plan $225,270 Sustainable Management of the Rama for the Protected Areas of Mantiqueira Strategic Direction 1: Strengthen key Valor Natural Indigenous Territory Protected Area $94,934 conservation alliances and networks $5,000 Crescente Fértil—Projetos Ambientais within integral corridors Ecology of Cave-Dwelling Invertebrates Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de in the Atlantic Forest Culturais e de Comunicação Capacity Building for Local la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense, Recinto de $10,000 Management of the Naso-Teribe Region Bluefi elds-Raas Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa, Mesoamerica Hotspot $5,000 Departamento de Biologia Geral Northern Mesoamerica Alianza para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Conserving Biodiversity in Damani Wetlands Reserve, Ngobe Buglé Economics of the Conservation of Strategic Direction 2: Collaborate Consolidation of the Protected Area Indigenous Territory Corridors in the Atlantic Forest with other donor-funded projects to System of Costa Rica $80,000 $50,000 facilitate and operationalize successful $55,000 Centro de Estudios y Acción Social Panameño Conservation Strategy Fund conservation activities in Northern The Leatherback Trust Mesoamerica’s eight most important Institutional Support to the Osa Protected Areas as Centers for key biodiversity areas Strategic Direction 2: Integrate connec- Conservation Area Environmental Awareness in the tivity among key, critical areas through $19,956 Central Corridor of the Atlantic Forest CEPF Coordination to Promote economic alternatives Fundación Corcovado Lon Willing Ramsey Jr. $49,906 Development Policies, Investments, Associação dos Proprietários de Reservas and Institutional Collaboration for Conserving the Forests of La Amistad Mitigating Environmental Threats to La Particulares do Estado da Bahia Biodiversity Conservation in Northern International Park through the Amistad International Park (Costa Rica) Mesoamerica Promotion of Traditional Medicine in by Strengthening Park Protection Recuperation of the Atlantic Forest in $1,549,644 Three Communities of Naso Ethnicity $159,656 the Watershed of Rio Caraiva Conservation International $19,364 Fundación de Parques Nacionales $194,267 Asociación de Practicantes de Medicina Instituto Cidade Infrastructure Integration and Tradicional Naso Strengthening Biodiversity Biodiversity Conservation in Conservation in Ecologically Sensitive Socioenvironmental Restoration of Mesoamerica Establishing the Biological Boundaries Areas of La Amistad International Park– the Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais, $235,286 of the Osa Biological Corridor through Panama Brazil—Education, Research, and Conservation Strategy Fund Data Compilation and Analysis— $193,040 Environmental Restoration Phase II Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de $159,822 $100,000 la Naturaleza Instituto Terra Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2222 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:56:59:56:59 PPMM Effects of the Fragmentation of the Landscape and Indicators for the State of Biodiversity Conservation in the Chocó Ecoregional Complex $170,000 Fundación Ecotrópico Colombia

Pilot Experiences in Conservation Management of the Humid Coastal Forests of Punta Galeras, Southeastern Chocó, Ecuador $20,000 Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos

Southern Preparation Phase: Development of Latin American Proposals for the 2005 Forest Stewardship Council Assembly $10,000 Grupo de Trabajo sobre Certiﬁ cación Forestal Voluntaria en Ecuador

Strategic Direction 2: Bring selected protected areas and species under improved management

Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Territorial Lands of the Awá Indigenous Community of Ecuador $116,575 Federación de Centros Awá del Ecuador

Biological Monitoring of the Great Chachi Reserve, Esmeraldas, Ecuador $20,000 Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos

Community Management Plan for the Protected Area Refugio de Vida Silvestre $59,996 Fundación de Defensa Ecológica The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) is among the globally threatened species found only in the Atlantic Forest Hotspot. Conservation and Integrated Management of Golondrinas Protected Forest Support to the Volunteer Park Guards of Strategic Direction 5: Strengthen envi- Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena $24,000 Mahogany Ecological Wetlands Park, ronmental policy and legal frameworks Hotspot Fundación Altropico Nicaragua to mitigate the impacts of extraction Chocó-Manabí Conservation Corridor $10,000 industries, transportation and infrastruc- Consolidation of Territories, Blueﬁ elds Indian & Caribbean University ture projects, and large-scale tourism Strategic Direction 1: Establish/strengthen Establishment of Legal Jurisdiction, and local and regional mechanisms to foster Social Organization of the Ancestral Comparing Methodologies for Improved Tropical Andes Hotspot corridor-level conservation Lands of the Chachi Nation within the Vilcabamba-Amboró Conservation Corridor Protected Area Evaluation in the Mache Chindul Ecological Reserve Vilcabamba-Amboró Corridor Communication Strategy for the Chocó- $60,763 $20,000 Strategic Direction 3: Encourage community- Manabi Conservation Corridor (Phase 2) Corporación para la Investigación, ParksWatch based biodiversity conservation and $111,734 Capacitación y Apoyo Técnico para el Manejo natural resource management Conservation International Sustentable de los Ecosistemas Tropicales Updating and Republication of Manual of Legal Tools for Private Conservation Formalizing Forest Access and Connectivity of the Golondrinas Strengthening Sustainable Tourism in Perú Implementing Sustainable Brazil Nut Protected Forest and the Awa in the Protected Areas of the Chocó- $3,800 Management in Madre de Dios, Peru: Indigenous Territories of Northern Manabi Machalilla National Park, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental Bridging Phase Ecuador: Preparatory Phase Ecuador $200,000 $9,000 $61,666 Strategic Direction 6: Establish an elec- Amazon Conservation Association Fundación Altropico Asociación Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo tronic information exchange and coordinated information and data-gathering Small Grants Program for Species of Development of the Payment of Strategic Direction 3: Identify and mechanism the Vilcabamba-Amboró Conservation Environmental Services for the promote sustainable development Corridor Conservation and Restoration of the practices in communities near selected Implementing Basic Infrastructure for $99,999 Biological and Multicultural Corridor of protected areas Local Area Networks (LAN), Internal Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de the Munchique-Pinche National Park Telephone Communications, and a la Naturaleza $200,000 Green Gold Sustainable Production WAN Network between the National Centro para la Investigación en Sistemas Alternatives: Analog Forestry for the Herbarium of Bolivia and the Bolivian Sostenibles de Producción Agropecuaria Conservation of Choco, Colombia Fauna Collection $99,979 $9,831 Corporación Oro Verde Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ecología

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2323 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:00:57:00 PPMM Flagship plant species that demonstrate the diversity of plants found in the Cape Floristic Region Hotspot include the king protea, South Africa’s national ﬂ ower.

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Sharing knowledge and hands-on skills is a powerful tool in the conservation toolkit, enabling others to avoid duplication of eff ort, make informed decisions, and help both themselves and their communities. Online, the CEPF newsletter readership grew by 62 percent, and visitors to CEPF’s Web site accessed fi les in record numbers from the ever-growing library of resources available during the year. In the fi eld, CEPF support to Rare enabled the organization to equip partners who shared its conservation marketing approach with more people than in its entire 18-year history. In multiple hotspots, targeted programs to improve the technical ability and management skills of conservation groups and communities also paved the way for more eff ective, Researchers set up an infrared camera to capture replicable, and sustainable conservation outcomes in the long term. noctural wildlife activity.

Communications for Conservation

ommunications are pivotal in the Cglobal CEPF program, helping to reach, grow, and connect the CEPF community in diverse and distant locations on a regular basis.

This year, CEPF surpassed its goal to increase by 25 percent the number of subscribers to its newsletter and visitors to its Web site. Subscribers to CEPF E-News increased by 62 percent, while the number of visitors to www.cepf.net grew by 42 percent. The number of pages viewed on the site jumped by 78 percent.

Backed by a diversity of communications approaches in the ﬁ eld, these tools play a prominent role in meeting the CEPF goal to disseminate results, lessons learned, and best practices.

Signifi cantly expanded News and Resource Center sections on the Web site attracted The number of visitors to www.cepf.net grew by 42 percent during the year. a record number of visitors. The center’s publications proved to be the most popu- servation in Peru, created by Sociedad critical time for the global environment lar resources, particularly the fi nal reports Peruana de Derecho Ambiental. and to place a stronger emphasis on compiled by project leaders and detailing the conservation and sustainable use both results and lessons learned. Offl ine, CEPF joined fi ve leading con- of plants by people in both traditional servation and botanical organizations in and modern societies. The other part- Among the other resources are a new a new initiative to support Plant Talk. The ners are ArtDatabanken (Swedish Spe- booklet of best practice guidelines on min- magazine, which specializes in grass- cies Information Centre); the Eden Proj- imizing impacts on the fl ora of the South- roots conservation coverage, has sub- ect; Plantlife International; the Royal ern Namib, produced by EnviroScience; a scribers in 120 countries. Botanic Gardens, Kew; and the Smith- bimonthly newsletter put out by the coor- sonian Institution’s National Museum dination team in the Caucasus Hotspot; Key aims for the new partnership are to of Natural History and the United States and a guide to legal tools for private con- convey the need for joint efforts at this Botanic Garden. Q

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ig grants can prompt big reactions. BCEPF’s $1.3 million grant to Rare equipped local leaders to develop and implement 13 environmental awareness campaigns in nine hotspots across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also inspired other donors and groups to commit nearly $10 million for the organization to support more than 40 additional campaigns.

This year saw the organization’s operations expand to a global scale with the CEPF-supported campaigns implemented in partnership with Conservation International. Each campaign focused on a Critically Endangered species. Together, they reached nearly one million people.

“CEPF’s was the largest grant for multiple campaigns we’d ever had,” said Paul Butler, Rare’s vice president of programs. Pride campaign leaders use puppets like these and many other tools to engage target audiences. “With it, we could show other potential partners the power of pride.” surpassing the total number of cam- in Rare’s highly successful “Pride” campaigns it has supported during its entire paigns, which inspire residents in envi- The Nature Conservancy responded 18-year history. ronmentally threatened areas to become with a $3 million pledge in October 2004 conservationists in their communities. for 30 campaigns in its sites around The leveraging also enabled Rare to meet Each individual develops a yearlong the world. In addition, USAID pledged key deliverables in the original CEPF campaign with stakeholders and imple- $1.3 million for 12 campaigns in Indonesia, grant agreement to implement 15 addi- ments it. the Wildlife Conservation Society commit- tional campaigns alongside the CEPF ted funds for three campaigns, and most campaigns, and to create a foundation for CEPF support enabled Rare to expand not recently the Grantham Foundation agreed its long-term operations. only its own horizons but also those of to provide $5 million toward grants over the individuals and the many local groups the next fi ve years. Rare’s fl agship approach includes a 12- they represent. In addition, an important week diploma course in conservation part of the project post-campaigns is With the new funds raised, Rare has education, producing local campaign development of a learning portfolio for the resources to launch 70 campaigns— leaders with marketing skills employed analyzing results and sharing lessons. Q “The campaign left me very fulfi lled and refreshed. I feel great pride in my ability to bring conservation messages to my people, especially after our many years of struggle in Sierra Leone. The experience and lessons learned during the campaign will help me keep the momentum for change moving forward.”

Edward Sesay. —Edward Sesay, Pride campaign manager, Environmental Foundation for Africa, Sierra Leone

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2266 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:24:57:24 PPMM BirdLife Strengthens NGOs across Upper Guinean Forest

he remnants of the Upper Guinean Bird Area methodology to foster needed TForest of West Africa stretch across skills and a scientiﬁ cally based stan- six nations. Fostering regional conser- dard of conservation across the region. vation efforts across them is extremely Courses also covered project proposal complex, a situation made worse by war, writing, communication, participatory poverty, and the simple fact that, until appraisal, database management, and recently, there was severe shortage of fundraising. people and institutions to do the work. “Most capacity-building projects focus purely on technical ability, yet the tech- The globally threatened white-necked picathartes nical achievements of most (Picathartes gymnocephalus) was rediscovered during site surveys in Ghana, 40 years after it was institutions are a direct last seen in the country. reﬂ ection of the level of their internal organization and management,” said Paulinus Ngeh, BirdLife’s West Africa coordinator, based in Ghana. “To get results, you must focus on both.”

The national organizations have Participants help survey the biodiversity of a Guinean since employed 15 of the participants Forest site as part of their training. who beneﬁ ted from the various training courses. In addition, 25 graduates were sites, revealing the rediscovery of the recruited and trained and 20 volunteers white-necked picathartes (Picathar- were involved at other stages of the tes gymnocephalus) in Ghana 40 years project, increasing the pool of conserva- after it was last seen in the country. In tionists from which the NGOs and addition, BirdLife leveraged more than others can draw. $1.8 million in additional funding for conservation during the course of the proj- Unexpected results also proved ect, a sum more than three times the signiﬁ cant. Participants helped survey 56 project’s total budget. Q

However, work made possible by a three-year grant to BirdLife International signiﬁ cantly strengthened the hand of BirdLife partner organizations in Ghana and Sierra Leone and developed biodiversity conservation programs with SOS-FORETS in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée Ecologie in Guinea, and the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia.

Support for the program helped implement the CEPF investment priority to raise the capacity of civil society groups for conservation in the Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot.

Each organization now has biodiversity conservation programs that include components such as doing wildlife invento- ries, monitoring, establishing support groups in local communities, and helping develop national biodiversity strategies and action plans.

Seventy nationals in the ﬁ ve countries received training in BirdLife’s Important Aerial view of forest and landscape, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2277 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:29:57:29 PPMM July 2004–June 2005 Financial Summary

FY 05 was a year of continuing robust growth, with CEPF committing $23.3 million in new grants. With these new grants, the number of civil society partners CEPF has supported grew to more than 550, and its global portfolio increased to $67.8 million.

CEPF investments in these groups—to develop, fund, and implement innovative conservation initiatives in step with its consensus-based regional strategies—now stretches across 15 active funding regions in the places where it matters most.

ANNUAL CEPF GRANT ACTIVITY

25 $ Millions

0 FY 01/02 (18 months) FY 03 FY 04 FY 05

Total Africa Total Latin America Total Asia-Paciﬁ c

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2288 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:42:57:42 PPMM Statement of Activities FY 05

REVENUE

Funds received $ 29,452,947 Pledges receivable activity (1,452,947) Interest earned 197,175 ______Total revenue 28,197,175

EXPENSES AND COMMITTED FUNDING

Grants Atlantic Forest $ 2,381,356 Cape Floristic Region 382,780 Caucasus 2,688,891 Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests of Tanzania & Kenya 3,094,919 Eastern Himalayas Region 500,000 Guinean Forests of West Africa 394,338 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands (201,306)* Mesoamerica (Northern) 1,980,938 Mesoamerica (Southern) 823,731 Mountains of Southwest China 2,677,404 Philippines 2,602,472 Succulent Karoo 1,839,160 Sundaland 2,872,033 Tropical Andes 303,596 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 995,388 ______Total Grants 23,335,700

Ecosystem proﬁ le preparation 772,413 Business development, grantmaking, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge management 2,987,584 ______Total Expenses 27,095,697**

Excess of revenue over expenses 1,101,478 Fund balance as of June 30, 2004 13,994,633 ______FUND BALANCE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD 15,096,111

FUND BALANCE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD CONSISTED OF: Cash 13,184,739 Pledges receivable 23,194,506 Grants payable (balance due on awarded grants) (21,283,134) Fund balance as of June 30, 2005 15,096,111

* Negative amounts in grants represent return of unspent grant funds. ** The total grant expenses include new grants approved in FY 05 as well as ﬁ nancial amendments to grants committed in previous years.

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 2299 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:52:57:52 PPMM Th e CEPF Community

Donor Council

Jonathan F. Fanton President, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Leonard Good Chairman and CEO, The Global Environment Facility

Koichi Hasegawa Director, Development Institutions Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan

Ian Johnson Vice President, Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development, The World Bank Group

Peter A. Seligmann Chairman and CEO, Conservation International

Paul Wolfowitz President, The World Bank Group, and Chairman, CEPF Donor Council

Working Group

Gonzalo Castro Team Leader, Biodiversity, The Global Environment Facility

Claude Gascon Senior Vice President, Regional Programs Division, Conservation International Senior Staﬀ

Kathy MacKinnon Kristanne Cornell Nina Marshall Lead Biodiversity Specialist, Environment Director for Grant Enterprise Systems Grant Director Department, The World Bank Lisa Dean Dan Martin Wataru Suzuki Senior Director for Financial and Senior Managing Director Special Policy Coordinator, Biodiversity Information Management Policy Division, Nature Conservation Jorgen Thomsen Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Christopher Holtz Executive Director, CEPF, and Senior Vice Government of Japan Grant Director President, Conservation International

Michael Wright Bobbie Jo Kelso John Watkin Conservation and Sustainable Senior Director for External Affairs Grant Director Development Program Area Director, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Daniela Lerda Klohck Michele Zador Foundation Grant Director Grant Director

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Africa Environmental News Service Asociación de Practicantes de Medicina Association pour la Gestion Intégrée et African Butterfl y Research Institute Tradicional Naso Durable de l’Environnement AfriBugs CC Asociación de Turismo de Tres Colinas Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve Afrique Nature International Asociación Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo Management Offi ce AGORO Centre for Intercultural Learning Asociación IXACAVAA de Desarrollo e Baviaans Conservancy and Talent Development Información Indígena Beijing Shanmo Investment Consultancy Alianza para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Asociación Meralvis Co. Amazon Conservation Association Asociación Nacional para la Conservación BirdLife International American Bird Conservancy de la Naturaleza Bluefi elds Indian & Caribbean University Amigos del Museo de Historia Natural Asociación Peruana para la Conservación Botanical Society of South Africa Noel Kempff Mercado de la Naturaleza Brown Hyena Research Project Angweng Reincarnated Buddha Asociación Trópico Verde/ParksWatch Cagayan Valley Partners in People Asociación Comercial y Agropecuaria de Guatemala Development Chiriquì Grande Associação dos Proprietários de Reservas CARE Bolivia Asociación de Amigos y Vecinos de la Particulares do Estado da Bahia Susie Lee Cecchi Costa y la Naturaleza Associação Flora Brasil Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Asociación de Desarrollo y Promoción Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado Knowledge Humana de la Costa Atlántica Association Fanamby Center for Russian Nature Conservation Asociación de Organizaciones del Corredor Association of Environmental Lawyers of Central de Pueblos Indigenas de La Paz Biológico Talamanca Caribe Liberia Central Mindanao University Centre Ecologique de Libanona

Emergency Funds Help Save Vital Habitat

evere droughts in one of Guate- service and volunteers from local “We are working hard to prevent Smala’s most valuable protected communities. They constructed four continued loss in the area, but the areas this year allowed isolated ﬁ res guard posts, organized permanent best hope for the future is closer started to clear land and regenerate patrols by natural resource police and cooperation between all the differ- grassland pasture to spread out of ent agencies here—government, control and sweep through nearly NGOs, and community groups,” 50 percent of Laguna del Tigre WCS Project Manager Roan Balas National Park. McNab said.

Swift support from CEPF, how- The national park contains Cen- ever, enabled local fi re brigades tral America’s largest area of wet- to ensure the safety of 40,000 lands, which are important for hectares of the park’s most vital many resident and migratory bird habitat. The area contains the species. It also forms a vital part nesting sites of more than half of of the greater Selva Maya Forest, Guatemala’s 300 scarlet macaws a key biodiversity area within the (Ara macau) in the wild, as well northern part of the Mesoamer- as globally threatened species ica Hotspot. such as the Central American river turtle (Dermatemys mawii), Recognizing how halting further Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii ), and agricultural encroachment and col- Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus onization in Laguna del Tigre has moreletii). much wider implications for the Fire sweeps through Laguna del Tigre National Park’s lush forests. integrity and connectivity of the The Wildlife Conservation Society entire region, CEPF grants to WCS (WCS) and Alianza Kanteel, an alli- park guards, and mobilized commu- have also supported work to upgrade ance of local environmental NGOs, nity fi re brigades to develop preven- the management plan for the park in undertook the emergency action in tative fi re lines around intact areas, consultation with local communities partnership with the Guatemalan park among other activities. and Alianza Kanteel. Q

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3311 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:57:59:57:59 PPMM Fundación Altropico Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza “Up until now our partners have Fundación Amigos del Río San Juan Fundación Corcovado Lon Willing come from the public sector, but Ramsey Jr. Fundación de Defensa Ecológica we have been introduced to a Fundación de Parques Nacionales number of business networks Fundación Ecotrópico Colombia Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios and foundations through our work Ecológicos with CEPF. In fact, some of these Fundación Jatun Sacha Fundación Neotropica partners are now seeking our help Fundación para el Desarrollo Académico de in implementing their social and la Universidad Nacional Fundación para el Desarrollo Agrario environmental programs.” Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ecología Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral del —Sonny Martires, executive director of Yakap Kalikasan, a Philippine NGO working with Corregimiento de Cerro Punta Philippine Businesses for Social Progress to engage the private sector in supporting Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible watershed conservation in the Sierra Madre Conservation Corridor. Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Panamá Fundación para la Investigación y Conservación ProAves Centro Agronómico Tropical de East African Wild Life Society Fundación Rainforest Rescue Investigación y Enseñanza EcoAfrica Environmental Consultants Fundación San Marcos para el Desarrollo Centro Científi co Tropical Eco-Security Task Force of China de la Ciencia y la Cultura Centro de Estudios y Acción Social Council for International Cooperation on Fundación Universidad Nacional Panameño Environment and Development Fynbos Forum Centro para la Investigación en Sistemas Carolyn L. Ehardt Garden Route Botanical Garden Trust Sostenibles de Producción Agropecuaria Environmental Foundation for Africa Garden Route Enviro Services Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Environmental Foundation for Africa–Sierra Geo Terra Image (Pty) Ltd. Breeding Center Leone Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust China Youth Daily—Green Island Environmental Law Institute Ghana Wildlife Society Chinese Academy of Sciences Environmental Legal Assistance Center Ghent University Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Inc. Global Environmental Institute Popoli Environmental Volunteer Association of Global Village Beijing Concerned Environmentalists for the Sichuan University Grand Gedeh Community Servant Enhancement of Biodiversity EnviroScience Association Conservation Management Ltd. Equals Three Communications Green Earth Volunteers Conservation Strategy Fund Fan Enyuan Green Law Institute for Action Conserve Africa Foundation Fauna & Flora International Green Student Organizations Society Construction Planning Offi ce of Shangri-la Federación de Centros Awá del Ecuador Green Watershed Alpine Botanic Garden Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Greenomics Indonesia Cooperativa do Produtores Orgânicos do Colombia, Comité Departamental de Grupo de Trabajo sobre Certifi cación Sul da Bahia Cafeteros del Valle del Cauca Forestal Voluntaria en Ecuador Cornell University The Field Museum of Natural History Guinée-Ecologie Corporación Oro Verde First Philippine Conservation, Inc. Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Corporación para la Investigación, Flower Valley Conservation Trust Natural Resources Capacitación y Apoyo Técnico para el Fondo Ambiental Nacional Nick Helme Manejo Sustentable de los Ecosistemas Fopspeen Live Art The Human Footprint Tropicales Friends of Die Oog Indigo Development and Change Corporación Serraniagua Friends of Nature, China Indonesian Ecotourism Network Counterpart International Friends of the Environment for Institute for Tropical Ecology and Shirley Pierce Cowling Development and Sustainability, Inc. Conservation Crescente Fértil—Projetos Ambientais Friends of Tokai Forest Instituto BioAtlântica Culturais e de Comunicação Fundação Biodiversitas para Conservação Instituto Cidade Philip Desmet da Diversidade Biológica Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais do Deutsches Primatenzentrum Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Sul da Bahia Duineveld Coastal Association Pesquisa, Departamento de Biologia Geral Instituto de Pesquisa da Mata Atlântica Durban Botanic Gardens Fundación Agro Ecológica Cotobruseña– Instituto de Pesquisas e Conservação da East Africa Natural History Society Costa Rica Biodiversidade dos Biomas Brasileiros

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3322 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:58:01:58:01 PPMM Instituto Machu Picchu Organización para el Desarrollo Sostenible Universitas Syiah Kuala Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad del Pueblo Naso University of Calgary Instituto para la Conservación y la Palawan Conservation Corps University of Cape Town Investigación de la Biodiversidad ParksWatch University of Dar es Salaam Instituto Rede Brasileira Agrofl orestal Marcus Parren University of Louisiana at Monroe Instituto Terra PeaceWork University of Pretoria International Center for Journalists Peng Jitai University of Stellenbosch International Centre of Insect Physiology The Peregrine Fund University of Vermont and Ecology Perkumpulan Uma Mentawai University of Western Ontario International Fund for Animal Welfare Philippine Business for Social Progress University of York International Fund for China’s Environment Philippine Eagle Conservation Program Valor Natural International Rhino Foundation Foundation Inc. Wakuluzu: Friends of the Colobus Trust IUCN-The World Conservation Union Probioma Ltd. Trevor P. Jones Process Luzon Association Inc. Wang Nan JPFirst Rainforest Alliance Wanglang Nature Reserve Kasigau Conservation Trust Rare West Chester University Katala Foundation Inc. Rawsonville Wine & Tourism Western Baviaanskloof Initiative Kawagebo Culture Society Rede Nacional de Combate ao Tráfi co de Western Cape Animal Production Kaya Kinondo Conservation and Animais Silvestres Research Trust Development Group and Coastal Forest Regalis Environmental Services CC Western Cape International Youth Festival Conservation Unit Riau Mandiri Western Cape Nature Conservation Board Kaya Muhaka Forest Conservation Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Wild Chimpanzee Foundation Organization Sanbona Game Reserve Pty Ltd. WildAid Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia WARSI Sano y Salvo Wilderness Action Group Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union Save My Future Foundation Wilderness Foundation L.H. Jordaan Caspar Schöning Wildlife and Environment Society of South The Leatherback Trust Sekretariat Kerjasama Pelestarian Hutan Africa Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Gerakan Indonesia Wildlife Conservation Society Masyarakat Madina Pemantau Apatur Seleksi Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania Negara Selva Reps S A C World Pheasant Association Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Harapan Sichuan Academy of Forestry–Liu World Wide Fund for Nature Madina Shaoying World Wide Fund for Nature–Indonesia L’Homme et l’Environnement Sichuan Alpine Ecology Study Centre World Wide Fund for Nature–South Africa Li Xiaohong Sichuan Greenriver Environmental World Wildlife Fund Inc. Livelihood Enhancement in Agro-forestry Association Wupperthal Conservancy in partnership Foundation Inc. Sichuan Normal University with the Pakhuis Conservancy Living Earth Foundation Sichuan Wildlife Resource Survey and Yakap Kalikasan Tungo sa Kaunlaran ng Mabuwani Women Group Conservation Management Station Pilipinas Inc. Mabuwaya Foundation Inc. Snowland Great River Environmental Yayasan Alam Sumatera Masibambane Multi-Purpose Community Protection Association Yayasan Bina Ketrampilan Desa Centre Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental Yayasan Biota Lestari MATEZA Sociedade de Estudos dos Ecossistemas e Yayasan Cipta Citra Lestari Indonesia Miami University Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Bahia Yayasan Citra Mandiri Mindanao Environment Forum Society for Environmental Exploration Yayasan Ekologi Konservasi Nanggroe Miriam-Public Education and Awareness Society for the Conservation of Nature of Aceh Campaign for the Environment Liberia Yayasan Ekowisata Aceh Missouri Botanical Garden SOS Pro Mata Atlântica Yayasan Kaliptra Modelo de Comunidad Ecológica Los SOS-FORETS Yayasan Perlindungan Lingkungan Hidup Valles South African National Parks dan Pelestarian Alam Mülleriana: Sociedade Fritz Müller de South African Protea Producers and Yayasan Rumpun Bambu Indonesia Ciências Naturais Exporters Association Yayasan Sikap Tulus Untuk Sesama NACLO South African Wine & Brandy Company Yele Nature Reserve Management Offi ce, Namib Desert Environmental Education Southwest Forestry College Sichuan Trust Tanzania Forest Conservation Group Chen Youping Namibia Nature Foundation TRAFFIC International Youth Volunteers Association of Yunnan Namprocon CC TRÓPICO University National Botanical Institute Unidad Indígena del Pueblo Awá Yunnan Normal University National Fish and Wildlife Foundation United Nations Foundation Zeren Pingcuo National Museums of Kenya Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas Zhao Yao The Nature Conservancy de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense, Recinto Zoological Society of Philadelphia NGO Arboretum d’Antsokay de Bluefi elds-Raas

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CEPF has also enabled targeted Associação Baiana para Conservação dos Associação dos Agricultores Familiares de regranting programs and initiatives that Recursos Naturais Alto Santa Maria, Rio Lamêgo e Barra do it supports to directly provide funding to Associação Comunitária Alternativa Rio Claro more than 265 additional individuals and Associação de Apoio a Escola do Colegio Associação dos Amigos do Rio Piraquê- organizations, including: Estadual José Martins da Costa Açu em Defesa da Natureza e do Meio Associação de Certiﬁ cação de Produtos Associação dos Moradores do Vale do Rio Afrânio Silva Almeida Orgânicos do ES do Braço/Santana Esperanza Maribel G. Agoo Associação de Cultura e Educação Associação dos Pequenos Produtores Agroecologia Ambiental Rurais de Aruanda Agropecuária Teimoso Ltda. Associação de Defesa do Meio Ambiente Associação dos Proprietários de RPPN e Agulhas National Park Vale Verde Reservas Privadas de Minas Gerais Tamaryn Allan Associação de Fomento Turístico e Associação Pedagógica Dendê da Serra Ambiente Desenvolvimento Sustentavel Associação pelo Meio Ambiente de Juiz Valmor Amorim Associação de Moradores do Marimbu, de Fora Mbolatiana Andriamiarinosy Santo Antônio e Rio Negro Associação pró-Melhoramento Ambiental Aristides de Oliveira Castro Associação de Pescadores e Amigos do da Região do Caparaó Armenian Botanical Society Rio Paraíba do Sul Associação Protetora da Infância Provincia Armenian Tourist Association Associação de Programas em Tecnologias do Paraná Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Alternativas Associação Vila-velhense de Proteção the Environment Associação de Proprietários de Reservas Ambiental Darnicio Assis Particulares da Bahia Association Fanamby Associação Alerta Verde Association for Nature Protection and Sustainable Use—``Mta-Bari `` Association of Friends of Nature— “Tskhratskharo” Association of Scientists-Ecologists— “Caucasian Ecohouse” Association Journalists and the Society Autonomous Noncommercial Organization Institute of Environmental Economics and Nature Resources Account Roger Bailey Mandy Barnett Amilcar Benetti Binhi sang Kauswagan Foundation Inc. Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Union Biodiversity Conservation Center Biodiversity Conservation Foundation BioResource Conservation Trust for the Philippines Inc. BirdLife International Bontebok National Park Jannie Burrows Cape Flats Nature CapeNature (formerly Western Cape Nature Conservation Board) Luiz Nelson Faria Cardoso Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Dagestan Scientiﬁ c Centre at the Academy of Science of Russia Caucasus Center for Ethological Research Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Inc. Center for Biodiversity Centre for Environmental Education Centro Comunitário Rural da Colina Centro de Desenvolvimento Agroecológico do Extremo Sul da Bahia TERRA VIVA

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3344 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:58:03:58:03 PPMM Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Guaçu-Virá Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas para o Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul da “The results for the small NGOs Bahia are really signiﬁ cant. The money Centro de Estudos Ecológicos e Educação Ambiental is not that much, but for them it The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of represents a unique opportunity to the University of Oxford Charitable Foundation Biodiversity get things like equipment, improve Conservation Center Chengdu Institute of Biology their capacity to implement a José Antonio Costa Cintra program, and show people that Collège d’Enseignement Général de Daraina they are actually doing it.” Maria da Conceição Carvalho Conrado Marilda Cruz Lima da Silva —Denise Marçal Rambaldi of Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, which manages a CEPF Siân Davies small grants program for institutional strengthening in the Atlantic Forest Hotspot. Department of Economic Affairs, Environment & Tourism (Eastern Cape) Department of Environmental Planning & Development (Western Cape) Grupo de Proteção Ambiental da Serra da International Rhino Foundation Cynthia Dolino/Silliman University Concórdia Isa Maria Fontes de Willecot de Geng Dong Grupo Ecológico Rio das Contas Rincquesen Drakenstein Municipality Paula Hathorn IUCN-The World Conservation Union Mandy Driver Luzann Hendricks Chumisa Jackson Duiwenshoek Conservancy Institute of Biological Resources Phillip Godfrey Jakosalem/Cebu Ecology and Conservation of Birds Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Biodiversity Conservation Foundation “Ecolur” Informative NGO Sciences of Armenia Rene Jasson Environmental Foundation for Africa Instituto Altervita Peng Jitai EnviroSearch Instituto Ambiental de Desenvolvimento Julio and Florentina Ledesma Foundation Escola Superior São Francisco de Assis Social Sustentável Biocêntrica Inc. Carmela Española Instituto Ambiental Litoral Norte Kackar Rafting and Climbing Club European Herpetological Society Instituto Ambiental Ponto Azul Kadastr Fauna and Flora International Instituto Amigos da Reserva da Biosfera da Abigail Kamineth Fikambanana Miaro Kija sy Alan’I Mata Atlântica Katala Foundation Bobankora Instituto Baía de Guanabara Khayelitsha Environmental Resource & Flora Brasil Instituto de Biologia da Conservação Information Centre Eugenio Victor Follmann Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais do Knysna National Lake Area Céres Flávio Diniz Fontes Sul da Bahia Nneheleng Koali Mendonça Fontes Instituto de Permacultura e Ecovilas da Joseﬁ na L. Koos Steencamp de Leon Fundação Cearense de Pesquisa e Cultura Mata Atlântica Kouga Municipality Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa e Instituto de Pesquisas da Mata Atlântica Ikamva Labantwana Extensão Universitária Instituto de Pesquisas e Educação para o Landmark Foundation Fundação de Apoio da Universidade Desenvolvimento Sustentável Lazovsky State Nature Reserve Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas Renata Mellão Alves Lima Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Instituto de Proteção Ambiental e Sérgio de Lima Pesquisa Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural do Sul Sabelo Lindani Fundação de Estudos e Pesquisas em da Bahia Ma Renee Lorica/Philippine Endangered Agronomia, Medicina Veterinária e Instituto de Vivência Ambiental Species Conservation Project Zootecnia Instituto DRÍADES de Pesquisa e Mabuwaya Foundation Fundação Monteiro’s para Preservação da Conservação da Biodiversidade Bongiwe Magasela Vida e Meio Ambiente Instituto Eco-Solidário Azwianewi Makhado Fundación para el Desarollo Sustenible Instituto Pau Brasil de História Natural Malagasy Teknisiana Mivindrona ho Aro sy Garden Route Botanical Garden Instituto Sul Mineiro de Estudos e Tezan’ny Zahamena ary ny Ala Atsinanana Tanya Goldman Conservação da Natureza Tshepo Mamabolo Green Futures College Instituto Terra de Preservação Ambiental Jeff Manual Grupo Ambiental Natureza Bela Instituto Terra Brasilis Marine and Coastal Management Grupo Brasil Verde Instituto Tijuipe Eugene Marinus Grupo de Agricultura Ecológica Instituto Uiraçu Noluvuyo Mashologu KAPI’XAWA International Association of Ecology and Joie D Matillano Grupo de Educação e Preservação Tourism Ayanda Matoti Ambiental de Piracaia

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3355 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:58:07:58:07 PPMM Thumeka Mdlazi Joram Mkosana Nietta Lindenberg Monte Carlos Alberto Monteiro Augustine Morkel Movimento Ambiental Pingo D’Água Movimento Ecológico de Rio das Ostras Municipalidad del Canton de San Lorenzo del Pailon Eraldo de Oliveira Nascimento National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Institute of Zoology Nature Conservation Corporation Negros Economic Development Foundation Negros Forests and Ecological Foundation Inc. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality Nongovermental Conservational Organization “Khustup” Mairie de Nosibe/ESSA-Forêts Tampolo Nosso Vale Nossa Vida Ntsikelelo Giles Mbambezeli Núcleo de Ação em Ambiente Núcleo de Comunidades Agrícolas Saúde, Cultura e Educação Julia Nüscheler Antonio Raimundo Luedy Oliveira Organização Ambiental para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável Organização Bio-Brás Organização Consciência Ambiental Severino Righetti e Angela Bernadeth Union for Sustainable Development— Lisa Marie Paguntalan/Cebu Nunes Righetti “Ecoview” Partnership for Protected Areas Carlos Alberto Bello Simas Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Partnership for Zapovedniks Felipe Nogueira Bello Simas University of Cape Town, Institute of Deise Moreira Paulo Barry Stoffels Plant Ecology Penablanca National Landscape Park Sherwin Sobrevega/Philippine University of Cape Town, Leslie Hill Mzwandile Peter Endangered Species Conservation Institute for Plant Conservation Philippine Endangered Species Project University of Minnesota Conservation Project Silliman University Viva Lagoa Phoenix Fund Sociedade Angrense de Proteção Voluntários de Santa Teresa Preserva Associação de Proprietários Ecológica Lewine Walters de Reservas Particulares do Estado da Sociedade Civil dos Bombeiros West Coast Environmental Co-operative Bahia Sociedade de Amigos do Parque de Wetlands International Projeto Amiga Tartaruga Itaúnas Wild Aid Foundation of Thailand Projeto Araras Sociedade dos Amigos da Reserva Wilderness Foundation Projeto Mata Viva S/C Biológica Wilderness National Park Proteção Ambiental Sociedade Nordestina de Ecologia Wildlife Conservation Society Public Union Euro Caucasian Ecological Society of Green Artvin Wildlife and Environment Society of Initiative South African National Biodiversity South Africa Fetra Mihajamanana Rabenilalana Institute The Wildlife Foundation Radio Ravinala Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program Natasha Wilson Hariﬁ dy Rakoto Ratsimba Sumgayit Center for Environmental Susan Winter The Research Association of Rural Rehabilitation Working on Fire Environment and Forestry Table Mountain National Park World Wide Fund for Nature Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu Mkefe Thanduxolo World Wide Fund for Nature–Indonesia João Baptista Baldini Rizzieri and Romilda Jeff Thayani Zeekoevlei Environmental Education Gouveia Monteiro Rizzieri TRAFFIC International Project Roots and Shoots/Jane Goodall Tsitsikamma National Park Song Zhaobin Institute–China Una Nas Águas Sérgio Ramos dos Santos Union Ecopulse Association

999436mvpR1.indd9436mvpR1.indd 3366 112/28/20052/28/2005 66:58:08:58:08 PPMM About the Critical Ecosystem Publication Credits Page 14 This report was produced by CEPF External Lu Zhi Partnership Fund Affairs and CI Communications, with the help of Photo courtesy of WWF-Indonesia many CEPF grantees and partners. Page 15 Bobbie Jo Kelso Russell A. Mittermeier CEPF Senior Director for External Affairs Photo courtesy of Palawan Conservation Corps. he Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) provides stra- Ben Jolliffe Photo courtesy of Palawan Conservation Corps. Ttegic assistance to engage nongovernmental organizations, CEPF Communications Ofﬁ cer Page 17 community groups, and other civil society partners in conserv- Sarah Smith Haroldo Castro ing the most biodiverse yet most threatened regions. CEPF Assistant for External Affairs Page 18 Scott Fearheiley Haroldo Castro These biodiversity hotspots are Earth’s biologically richest CI Graphic Designer Page 19 places. They hold especially high numbers of species found Christian Heltne Haroldo Castro nowhere else but face extreme threats: Each hotspot has already CI Director of Publications and Graphic Design Page 20 lost at least 70 percent of its original natural vegetation. Sterling Zumbrunn © Peter Oxford/naturepl.com CI Visual Resources Manager Evy Wilkins The convergence of critical areas for conservation with mil- Gege Poggi Page 21 lions of people who are impoverished and highly dependent CI Photo Coordinator Evy Wilkins on healthy ecosystems for their survival is more evident in the John Martin hotspots than anywhere else. Photography Photo courtesy of WWF-Peru/Linda Norgrove All photos copyright CI unless otherwise Page 23 CEPF focuses on hotspots in developing countries, providing indicated (listed left to right and top to bottom) Haroldo Castro funding and technical assistance to civil society groups to help © 2005 Conservation International Page 24 preserve the diversity of life and healthy ecosystems as essen- Haroldo Castro tial components of stable and thriving societies. Front cover Page 25 © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre Photo courtesy WWF-Indonesia The program capitalizes on the rise in civil society taking place © Piotr Naskrecki Page 26 around the globe and nurtures it, building the capacity of local © Donovan Kirkwood Viviane Junqueira people to take part in decisions that affect their lives and liveli- Haroldo Castro Daniela Lerda Klohck hoods and, ultimately, our global environment. © Jeff Gale Page 27 © Konrad Worthe/Minden Pictures © Saliou Diallo, Guinea Ecologie. Haroldo Castro © Saliou Diallo, Guinea Ecologie Haroldo Castro Haroldo Castro © Piotr Naskrecki Page 28 Contents Haroldo Castro © Sterling Zumbrunn Russell A. Mittermeier Page 30 Inside front cover Haroldo Castro © Pete Oxford Page 31 Message from the Partners...... 1 Page 1 © Roan Balas McNab, WCS Haroldo Castro Page 32 Message from the Executive Director ...... 2 Page 2 Photo courtesy of Sonny Martires/Yakap Haroldo Castro Kalikasan Th e Partnership ...... 3 Page 3 Page 34 © Patricio Robles Gil © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre FY 05 Global Overview ...... 4 Page 6 Page 35 Hotspots Where CEPF Supported Civil Society, FY 05. . 5 Haroldo Castro Evy Wilkins Page 7 Page 36 Africa & Madagascar ...... 7 © Tania Jordaan © Patricio Robles Gil/Sierra Madre Page 8 Asia-Paciﬁ c...... 13 Photo courtesy of East African Wild Life Society Photo courtesy of Jery & Louis, Association Latin America ...... 19 Fanamby Page 9 Expanding Horizons...... 25 Photo courtesy of Jery & Louis, Association Fanamby Financial Summary ...... 28 Page 12 Th e CEPF Community ...... 30 © Cristina Mittermeier Page 13 Grantee Partners ...... 31 Photo courtesy of WWF Caucasus Regranting in the Field ...... 34

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