Mekong Biodiversity Protection Project
Grantee Name: Community Economic Development
- Hotspot
- Indo-Burma
- Location
- Cambodia
- Amount
- $199,878
- Dates
- Aug 2010 – Jul 2013
- Keywords
- Community-based conservation, Freshwater, Habitat conservation and management, Indigenous People, Land tenure, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Species Conservation
Strengthen community conservation of forests and sustainable management of natural resources along the 'Central Section' of the Mekong mainstream in Cambodia by facilitating the establishment of community-based organizations, helping local people to secure land tenure, and helping them and value to non-timber forest products. Strengthen communities' capacity to engage in biodiversity conservation through training in advocacy, protection and environmental education.
3 Engage key actors in reconciling biodiversity conservation and development objectives, with a particular emphasis on the Northern Limestone Highlands and Mekong River and its major tributaries
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