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The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint program of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.
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 Evaluating A Decade of Conservation
In Focus - CEPF Fact Sheets
Publications - Field Guide
Striving for Human-Elephant Peace
Lesson Learned: Enabling Access of Pertinent Publications to a Target Audience
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Evaluating A Decade of Conservation
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A new report is available from an independent evaluator assessing results of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) supporting civil society to participate in and influence conservation of the world's most biologically rich yet threatened areas.
"The last decade of work by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) represents the most significant response of our species to date to stop the hemorrhaging of our planet's biodiversity," the evaluator concludes.
According to the report, CEPF's single most significant contribution has been to provide much-needed conservation attention to these hotspots, areas of high biodiversity and extreme development pressure that for various reasons would otherwise be unlikely to gain the support needed to jump start meaningful local conservation efforts.
As part of CEPF's 10th anniversary observance, it engaged independent consultant David Olson of Conservation Earth Consulting to conduct the analysis.
To put together the evaluation, Olson studied a wide range of CEPF hotspot ecosystem profiles, regional assessments of CEPF investment performance and final reports from grant recipients.
Previous program evaluations and other relevant documents were also consulted for this evaluation. He interviewed conservation specialists and practitioners outside CEPF who are familiar with global conservation programs and CEPF and its impacts. He also visited the Succulent Karoo region of southern Africa and southern Mesoamerica.
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A Decade of Conservation by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, 2001-2010
- Full report, English (PDF - 1.6 MB)
- Summary, English (PDF - 1.4 MB)
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in focus
CEPF Fact Sheets
- Global Overview, English (PDF - 824 KB)
- Strengthening Civil Society, English (PDF - 458 KB)
- Achievements, English (PDF - 638 KB) | |
publications
Field Guide
Field Guide to Amphibians of the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya, English & Kiswahili (PDF – 7.7MB) | |
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Northeast India
Striving for Human-Elephant Peace
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For the people and wildlife found in the North Bank Landscape in Northeast India, struggle is a constant.
In this area — the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River to the foothills of the eastern Himalayas — nature has provided an impressive wealth of resources including bountiful fresh water, forests and grasslands. But the bounty has its limits, and wildlife and the ever-growing human population are scrambling to get what they need.
Competition for resources has fed intense, often violent political and ethnic conflict. And human population growth and development have pushed wildlife, particularly the region’s elephants, to human settlements in search of food. What they find sometimes is deadly confrontation with farmers who depend on the crops being raided.
It’s a challenging situation for agents of environmental conservation in the region, as the people working on WWF India’s North Bank Landscape project can attest. But the importance of the natural resources to all parties living there, and to the region, keeps their focus on re-establishing balance in the ecosystem.
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Tanzania & Kenya
Lesson Learned: Enabling Access of Pertinent Publications to a Target Audience
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CEPF recently supported a project to expand the coverage of a Web-based field guide of the amphibians of the East Usambara Mountains to cover a larger geographic area and to make this information readily accessible to a broad audience by including text in both English and Kiswahili.
Elizabeth Harper, a post-doctoral fellow at the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, shares her lesson with us: “Finding the right publisher is a crucial factor in making a book accessible to your target audience.”
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New Resources
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Final Project Completion Reports
- Small Grants for Global Conservation of Amphibian Diversity within Hotspots, Arizona State University, English (PDF – 25 KB)
- The following final reports are from projects supported through small grants under the Arizona State University project entitled Small Grants for Global Conservation of Amphibian Diversity within Hotspots.
- Assessment of endangered and endemic amphibians in the forests of southern Ghana, Annika Hillers, Caleb Ofori Boateng, Alex Cudjoe Agyei & Mark-Oliver Rödel, English (PDF - 808 KB)
- Conservation of Caecilians in the Eastern Himalayas Region, Sathyabhama Das Biju, Rachunliu G Kamei, David Gower & Mark Wilkinson, English (PDF - 6.72 MB)
- Conservation Status of Chinese Giant Salamander, Dai Qiang, Wang Yuezhao, Liang Gang, translated by Wang Yi, English (PDF - 2.53 MB)
- Establishing a regional framework for amphibian monitoring and conservation in Mesoamerica, José M. Mora & Ileana Luque, English (PDF - 108 KB)
- Threatened amphibians in the Succulent Karoo Hotspot: An integrated approach to their conservation, Alan Channing, English (PDF – 32 KB)
- Restoration of Sagalla Hill with a View to Creating a Sustainable Future for the Critically Endangered Caecilian Boulengerula Niedeni, John Measey, James Mwang’ombe, Mwangi Githiru, Petri Pellikka, Dorine Mkaluma Ngeti & Helen Meredith, English (PDF - 7.76 MB)
- Riqueza, Diversidad y Estatus de los Anfibios Amenazados en el Sureste de Mexico; una Evaluacion para Determinar las Posibles Causas de la Declinacion de Sus Poblaciones, Luís Antonio Muñoz Alonso, Español (PDF - 3.71 MB)
Grantee Publications and Newsletters
- Newsletters
- Newsletter: BirdLife International Pacific Partnership e-bulletin, April – June 2010, No.1, English (PDF – 457 KB)
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Photo Credits: Indian forest stream and river at sunset: Photos courtesy of Samuel Thomas - ATREE; Elizabeth Harper: Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Harper
Header Photo: Tim Fitzharris / Minden Pictures
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