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Art of Conservation

Creating a Healthful Connection between People and Mountain Gorillas

In 2007, Art of Conservation was launched by Julie Ghrist, in partnership with Dr. Lucy Spelman and the staff of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, Inc. Julie designed this outreach program to encourage artistic expression as a form of communication. The target audience for Art of Conservation is the community …


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ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is working to raise productivity and income of rural households in the humid tropics without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services. ASB is a consortium of over 90 international and national-level partners with an ecoregional focus on the forest-agriculture margins in …


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Bale Eco-Region Sustainable Management Programme

Building on the experiences of the Participatory Forest Management Programme, FARM-Africa and SOS Sahel are running a program in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia on sustainable natural resource management: the Bale Eco-Region Sustainable Management Programme. The programme has been operating in the Bale Massif since the end of 2006 and …


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CARE projects in the Horn of Africa

In the Horn of Africa, CARE has programmes in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland. Some of the activities specifically related to environmental security are: - in Sudan: natural resource management as a tool for conflict mitigation; agricultural support to returnees and vulnerable households (North and South …


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CARPE Mapper

an interactive web GIS for the Congo Basin

The Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) has set up a web-GIS, CARPE Mapper. This tool helps to monitor the environmental threats in the Congo Basin. CARPE Mapper assists conservation efforts by providing a focal point for CARPE partners to provide and share spatial information on both land …


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Catalyze Accelerated Agricultural Intensification for Social and Environmental Stability (CATALIST)

The CATALIST project focuses on agricultural intensification in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. The project is particularly important for the Albertine Rift and the Kagera Basin, where social and environmental stability are most lacking. CATALIST will contribute to peace, and will help create conditions to halt environmental degradation and …


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Caucasus Initiative

The Caucasus Initiative was launched by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ) in 2001, and focuses particularly on the field of nature protection and biodiversity conservation to promote regional cooperation through cross-border projects. The BMZ Caucasus Initiative supports the political and economic cooperation activities of the …


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Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)

The Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative aimed at promoting sustainable natural resource management in the Congo Basin. The Congo Basin forest is the second largest contiguous moist tropical forest in the world and plays a key role …


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Central Kalimantan Peatlands Project (CKPP)

The Central Kalimantan Peatlands Project (CKPP) is dedicated to maintain the great natural and economic values of Kalimantan ' s tropical peatlands and intends to demonstrate the huge problems in these areas and options to solve them. The CKPP is a consortium of five project partners, CARE International-Indonesia, WWF-Indonesia, BOS-Mawas, the …


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CITES - The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) aims to ensure that international trade of species of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. The text of the Convention was signed in 1973 and it entered in force in 1975. CITES compliance …