Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests

Top Stories

February 14, 2011
Reinforcing Conservation Gains in Tanzania and Kenya
In every region where CEPF invests there is an overall strategy behind the grants.

May 28, 2009
Gerard Hertel: Saving Forests from the Ground Up
From the time he was in high school, all Gerry Hertel ever wanted to do with his life was to be a forester.

May 20, 2009
Rare Primate Puts Spotlight on Mountains That Are Key Source of Water, Power
The Sanje mangabey helped put Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains on the biology research map in the 1980s.

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Press Releases

February 4, 2011
New Report: Bushmeat Hunting Driving Tanzanian Forests to Crisis
The populations of several animal species in southern Tanzania are suffering alarming declines due to bushmeat hunting and habitat degradation...

January 31, 2008
Scientists Discover New Species of Giant Elephant-Shrew
A small, furry mammal with an elephant-like snout and distinctive gray face was discovered by a team of scientists from Italy’s Trento Museum of Natural Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences.

July 29, 2007
Tanzania Government Tackles Forestry Corruption
An African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption meeting today will discuss corruption in Tanzania’s forestry sector.

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Regional Resources

Regional Overview
Program for Consolidation in the Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests
January, 2011
Ecosystem profile, July 2003
Eastern Arc Projects
Regional Documents
Project Final Reports: Project leaders detail results and lessons learned