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Improve Livelihoods of Gola Rainforest Communities Using Apiculture, Sierra Leone
Grantee Name: 
Greening Economies, Environments and Lives in Fifteen States of West Africa-Sierra Leone
HOTSPOT
Guinean Forests of West Africa
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$24,996
DATES
Sep 2021
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Apr 2022
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Guinean Forests of West Africa
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$24,996
DATES
Sep 2021
-
Apr 2022

Increase the use of apiculture (beekeeping) around the Gola Forest Reserve and the Gola Rainforest National Park to support biodiversity and improve local livelihoods. Build beekeeping capacity in two local communities and further promote the benefits to the broader community through engagement meetings and radio broadcasts.

Strategic Direction: 1 Empower local communities to engage in sustainable management of 40 priority sites and consolidate ecological connectivity at the landscape scale