Our Planet's Future Depends on Biodiversity

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) enables civil society to protect the world’s biodiversity hotspots—biologically rich ecosystems that are essential to humanity, yet highly threatened.
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Bat hanging upside down, looking at camera.
Seychelles fruit bat (Pteropus seychellensis).
© O. Langrand

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With financial and technical support from CEPF, civil society organizations around the globe are delivering innovative solutions that conserve biodiversity and help communities thrive. Find out what they're doing by clicking on biodiversity hotspots highlighted on the map.

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Three sarus cranes depicted on frieze.
Sarus crane depicted on Angkorian frieze, Cambodia.
© Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff
Establishing Sustainable Management at Key Wetlands for Sarus Crane in the Cambodian Lower Mekong
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Man takes clipping of plant while other man writes on notepad.
Hassan Rankou and Rachid Aitbabahmad collecting plant samples for population studies and as herbarium specimens.
© Inanc Tekguc, for Global Diversity Foundation​
Integrated River Basin Management in Ait M’hamed and Imegdale Rural Communes
Global Diversity Foundation
High-up view of lush forest and river.
Phou Sithone Endangered Species Conservation Area, Lao PDR
© Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff
Protection of a Priority Population of Saola: Flagship Species of the Indo-Burma Hotspot
Wildlife Conservation Society
Woman holds sign with flowers, speaks to small group of men.
During the inauguration of the natural reserve of El-Dichar in Ehmej, Magda Bou Dagher, project manager, presents to Ministry of Environment, elected deputies of Jbeil region and Ehmej mayor.
© University Saint-Joseph/Image by Ramy Sakr
Determining Important Areas for Plants and Creating Micro-Reserves to Conserve Rare or Endemic Species in Lebanon
Université Saint-Joseph
A man in an wooded area in Tafea Province, Vanuatu, uses a water spigot.
The New York Botanical Garden worked with communities to survey biodiversity and protect forests that provide fresh water.
© Conservation International/photo by Michele Zador
Plants and People: Baseline Floristic and Ethnobotanical Surveys in Tafea Province, Vanuatu
The New York Botanical Garden
Large group of people meeting outside
Community meeting in Bechi village about conserving biodiversity in Sheka Forest, Key Biodiversity Area.
© God for People Relief and Development Organization
Scaling up Alternative Livelihoods and Forest Development and Protection Approaches in Bechi Peasant Association, Sheka Forest, Ethiopia
God for People Relief and Development Organisation
Group of about 10 standing with certificates, giving thumb's up to camera.
Namuli community members, Legado/LUPA field team and members of the Gurue agricultural school with their certificates after participating in the Permagarden Training of the Trainers in Gurue, 2016.
© Grant Bemis for Legado
Legado: Phase IV - Survey and Stakeholder Analysis at Mt Namuli KBA, Mozambique
LUPA
Group of men pose in a heavily vegetated area on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
Participants in a survey of natural areas on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
© Anon
Participatory Rural Appraisal and Rapid Biodiversity Assessments of Manus and Mussau Islands
Wildlife Conservation Society
Terrapin underwater, peaking out from sea grass.
The Police Bay wetland is refuge for threatened species, including Critically Endangered freshwater terrapins.
© Inga Petelski
Protection of KBA Biodiversity in Grand Police Wetland
MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY SEYCHELLES
Dirt road, large boabab trees on either side.
Baobab trees in Madagascar.
© Conservation International/photo by Russell A. Mittermeier
Developing the Vision for Conservation of Saint Brandon
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
Woman stands, presenting to small group.
MIHARI conducts community leader training.
© MIHARI Network/Dina Ramarozatovo
Strengthening the MIHARI Network to Support Community Management of Marine and Coastal Resources in Madagascar
Blue Ventures Conservation
Close-up of black frog with bright orange markings.
Harlequin mantella (Mantella cowani). Restricted to a few deforested and degraded sites of the high plateau of Madagascar, the species may be one of the most threatened on the island.
© Franco Andreone
Building a Future for the Amphibians of Madagascar
Global Wildlife Conservation
Close-up of small, delicate red flowers with large, deep-green leaves.
Newly discovered species of Tococa found near Calima River.
© John Alexander Vargas-Figueroa
Establishing a Protected Area in Alto y Bajo Calima Key Biodiversity Area in the Cauca Valley of Colombia
FUNDACIÓN TRÓPICO
Woman pointing to colorful notes on a wall.
A workshop participant ponders over her community action plan to improve its resilience toward climate change.
© Resilience Now – Claire Galvez-Wagler
Civil Society Engagement in and around Cyamudongo Forest and Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda
Resilience Now
Group of people standing along shore, bending down to release sea turtle hatchlings.
Volunteers from Kaiely Eco-Group release turtle hatchlings. This group continue turtle conservation efforts in Kaiely Village, after Yayasan Wallacea's project is completed.
© Aditya S. Retraubun/Yayasan Wallacea
Community Capacity Building to Protect Turtle Population through Ecotourism in Buru, Indonesia
Yayasan Wallacea
Arial view of Rennell Island surrounded by blue ocean in the Solomon Islands.
Rennell Island, Solomon Islands.
© Conservation International/photo by Russell A. Mittermeier
Strengthening Governance and Management Needs of Communities in East Rennell
Live & Learn Solomon Islands
Close-up of orange frog.
Endangered Yunganastes bisignatu​.
© Mauricio Ocampo​ for BIOTA
Assessing the Status of the Endemic Amphibian P. bisignatus in Cotapata and Coroico Key Biodiversity Areas of Bolivia
Centro de Estudios en Biología Teórica y Aplicada
Person with NAP IBITY written on shirt looking up, through binoculars.
An eco-tourism guide for the New Protected Area of Ibity looks for bats.
© Conservation International/photo by Pierre Carret
Starting Ecotourism for the Ibity New Protected Area
Missouri Botanical Garden
Small group of people hiking amid large, jagged ricks and, in the background, hills.
Working to develop a baseline botanical survey of the Chimanimani Mountains.
© Jonathan Timberlake
In From the Cold: Providing The Knowledge Base For Comprehensive Biodiversity Conservation in the Chimanimani Mountains, Mozambique
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Two men standing by dark-green body of water.
Indo-Myanmar Conservation staff at Binh Son Key Biodiversity Area, Vietnam.
© Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff
Securing Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles in the Indo-Burma Region
Indo-Myanmar Conservation
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Visitor with guide in a protected area in the Campesino community of Corosha, Amazonas, Peru, part of the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot.
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