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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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Ecuador cochran frog (Nymphargus griffithsi).
© Víctor Eduardo Obando Clavijo

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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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Flat landscape dotted with palm trees.
© Aryanne Amaral

Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil
Man standing in front of beach with area fenced off.
A protected nesting beach for the Burmese roofed turtle.
© Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff
Securing Local Participation in Conservation of River Turtles in Myanmar
Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)
Group of 10 men and women, wearing white hard hats and matching green jackets.
Kadu Village gibbon patrol group.
© The Northern Green Lights
Piloting Community-based Initiatives for Conservation of Hoolock Gibbon in the Indawgyi Watershed
The Northern Green Lights
Fisherman on water in small boat, lush island in the background.
Fisherman in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
© John Slaney/Flickr Creative Commons

The University of the South Pacific
Fisherman on water in small boat, lush island in the background.
Fisherman in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
© John Slaney/Flickr Creative Commons

BirdLife International
About a dozen people standing outside next to banner, smiling at camera and holding certificates.
Participants of the biosecurity training on Silhouette Island.
© Island Conservation Society

Island Conservation Society
Fisherman on water in small boat, lush island in the background.
Fisherman in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
© John Slaney/Flickr Creative Commons

Ecological Solutions, Solomon Islands
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
Stung Treng Ramsar Site in Cambodia: Integrating Fisheries Management and Wetlands Conservation (Phase II)
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM)
Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii).
© Conservation International/photo by Jack Tordoff
Giant Soft Shell Turtle Protection in the Kratie Region, Cambodia
Conservation International Foundation
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
Development of a Holistic Approach to the Conservation of the Cat Ba Langur
Fauna and Flora International
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
Embedding Sustainable Community Management Practices at Key Sarus Crane Wetlands in the Cambodian Lower Mekong
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
Building Sustainability for the Mekong Turtle Conservation Project in Kratie, Cambodia
Conservation International Foundation
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
iTHINK: a Joint Campaign Platform to Tackle Wildlife Consumption
FREELAND Foundation
Five people wearing helmets and orange vests in cave, waist-height in water, smiling, waving at camera.
Training on the cave system.
© Dr. Joerg Dreybrodt
Mainstreaming Karst Biodiversity Conservation into Policies, Plans and Business Practices in the Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar
Fauna & Flora International
Fisherman on water in small boat, lush island in the background.
Fisherman in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
© John Slaney/Flickr Creative Commons

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
White bird with black markings mid-flight over brown river.
Great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris), Sekong River, Cambodia.
© O. Langrand
Strengthening Community Based Bird Biodiversity Conservation and Monitoring through Local Livelihood Improvement and Capacity Building in 3S River Basin, Cambodia
Royal University of Phnom Penh
A handful of people looking up through binoculars.
© Bob Hasenick

Asociación para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves Acuáticas en Colombia
Chameleon amongst yellow grass.
© Conservation International/Pierre Carret

Fikambanana Bongolava Maitso
Landscape, water in foreground and green mountains in background.
A view from Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
© Burung Indonesia/photo by Tri Susanti

Penabulu Foundation
Misty stream with lush foliage.
Most of the freshwater primary catchment areas in the Western Ghats are still unexplored, haven’t been studied and, although rich in endemic species, are rapidly vanishing.
© Unmesh Katwate

University of Delhi
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Delivery of supplies to the Agroecological Producers Association Buenos Aires del Parcos.
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A gray and red bird perches on tree branches filled with berries.
A Seychelles blue pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrimus).
© O. Langrand
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