December 14, 2012
New video showcases community project in Fiji
BirdLife International
November 19, 2012
جمعية "حماية الطبيعة": للاستفادة من المنح الصغيرة للمجلس العالمي لحماية الطيور
Lebanon Files (in Arabic)
November 19, 2012
جمعية "حماية الطبيعة": للاستفادة من المنح الصغيرة للمجلس
NNA (in Arabic)
November 16, 2012
Konkurs za male grantove na temu zaštite životne sredine
Regionalni Info Centar (in Croatian)
November 16, 2012
Za skladnije i adekvatnije integrisanje prirode i turističkog sektora
PCNEN (in Croatian)
November 16, 2012
Konkurs za male grantove na temu zaštite životne sredine
Analitika (in Croatian)
November 7, 2012Workshop ushers in new collaboration for conservation in the Eastern Afromontane HotspotBirdLife International
"An inception workshop...brought together the members of the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot Regional Implementation Team (RIT), and representatives of the CEPF Secretariat."
November 6, 2012
Ecosystem conservation: Stop destruction and support protection (PDF - 187 KB)
By Akemi Kanda
Asahi Newspaper
October 29, 2012
Seed money available to protect Mediterranean Basin birds
By Laurie Balbo
Green Prophet
"BirdLife International has created a fund to underwrite environmental preservation projects in one of the world’s top biodiversity hotspots: the Mediterranean Basin."
October 18, 2012
Fund launched to protect biodiversity in Mediterranean Basin
By Hana Namrouqa
The Jordan Times
"CEPF Programme Leader at BirdLife International's Middle East Division Mohammed Yousef said that the grants awarded to civil society organisations will work towards safeguarding globally threatened species and critical sites in the Mediterranean Basin."
October 16, 2012
Quand le developpement se met au service de la biodiversite et vice-et-versa (PDF - 2.5 MB)
L’OISEAU Magazine (in French)
October 2012
CEPF invests in the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot
IUCN PAPACO News from African Protected Areas
"Over the next 5 years, the newly-appointed Regional Implementation Team will support civil society to apply innovative approaches to conservation in under-capacitated and underfunded protected areas, key biodiversity areas and priority corridors."
Autumn 2012
Le Bassin méditerranéen sous haute protection!
L’OISEAU Magazine (in French)
September 18, 2012
Launch of new funding opportunity for biodiversity hotspot
"At the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju last week, BirdLife International, IUCN and EWNHS (BirdLife in Ethiopia) launched a new funding opportunity for conservation in the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot, and...will coordinate a US$9.8 million investment by CEPF over the next five years."
September 2012
Making a case for the protection of grasslands
By Petro Kotze
SANParks Times (reposted on the Wilderness Foundation, a CEPF grantee, website)
"South Africa is blessed with exceptional biodiversity richness. World renowned fynbos, enigmatic indigenous forests and stretching savannah landscapes are but some of the sights that visitors to the country experience. Unfortunately, the continued survival of all of these forms of biodiversity is not yet guaranteed. In fact, in the realm of rampant development, economic pressure and changing climate, there is a real threat that some of it could disappear."
May 23, 2012
15 rocky plateaus identified for conservation, protection
By Dipannita Das
The Times of India
"Fifteen rocky plateau sites across the Sahyadri-Konkan corridor that are rich in flora and fauna but are facing several threats will now be conserved and protected...supported by the CEPF - Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (CEPF-ATREE) Western Ghats small grants program."
May 16, 2012
Press Release From the Pacific Invasives Initiative
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
"To support Pacific countries with managing the threat of invasive plants, the Pacific Invasives Initiative (PII) has worked...to develop an intensive training course. ... PII is grateful to the New Zealand Government's Aid Programme and CEPF for providing grant funding for the development of the training course and resource kit and the delivery of the course in Samoa."
May 12, 2012
Project bids to protect medicinal plants
Việt Nam News
"The nation's first project to protect plants that rural communities rely upon for traditional medicine is being implemented in the northern province of Bac Kan. ... The project has...support and funding from CEPF.
February 15, 2012
Communities active at the Baakens Champions Forum
Cape Action for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E.)
"The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM), in partnership with WESSA [a CEPF grantee], hosted the inaugural meeting of the Baakens Valley Community Partnership (BVCP) Champions Forum towards the end of 2011."
January, 2012
Le Monarque prend son envol
La Dépêche (in French)