Community-Based Strategy to Conserve the Malaga Bay Region of the Pacific Coast of Colombia as a Contribution to Conserve the Choco - Manabi Coast
Grantee Name: Fundación Centro de Investigaciones del Pacifico
- Hotspot
- Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Location
- Colombia
- Amount
- $68,742
- Dates
- Jun 2005 – Jun 2006
- Keywords
- Community-based conservation, Policy/law, Protected Areas
Develop legal protection of the mangroves along the southern portion of Colombia’s Pacific coast, and the local community-based support to manage these important areas into the future. The project directly links to CEPF’s investments on the Ecuadorian coast supporting the improved protection of the Cayapas-Mataje Ecological Reserve, thus helping to create a bi-national corridor of coastal mangrove forests.
1 Establish/strengthen local and regional mechanisms to foster corridor-level conservation
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