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| Title: | Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests Of Tanzania & Kenya Biodiversity Hotspot |
| ASFA Terms: | Ecology
Biodiversity |
| Issue Date: | 31-Jul-2003 |
| Publisher: | Conservation InternationalInternational Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology |
| Citation: | Critical ecosystel partnership fund. Ecosystem Profile |
| Abstract: | The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is designed to safeguard the world's threatened
biodiversity hotspots in developing countries. It is a joint initiative of Conservation International
(CI), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Japan, the MacArthur
Foundation and the World Bank. CEPF supports projects in hotspots, areas with more than 60 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial species in just 1.4 percent of its land surface.
A fundamental purpose of CEPF is to ensure that civil society is engaged in efforts to conserve biodiversity in the hotspots. An additional purpose is to ensure that those efforts complement
existing strategies and frameworks established by local, regional and national governments.
CEPF aims to promote working alliances among community groups, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), government, academic institutions and the private sector, combining
unique capacities and eliminating duplication of efforts for a comprehensive approach to
conservation. CEPF is unique among funding mechanisms in that it focuses on biological areas
rather than political boundaries and examines conservation threats on a corridor-wide basis to
identify and support a regional, rather than a national, approach to achieving conservation
outcomes. Corridors are determined through a process of identifying important species, site and
corridor-level conservation outcomes for the hotspot. CEPF targets transboundary cooperation
when areas rich in biological value straddle national borders, or in areas where a regional
approach will be more effective than a national approach. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/370 |
| Appears in Collections: | Miscellaneous
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