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Promoting and Supporting Conservation Action in the Sperrgebiet Priority Area and Namibia’s Succulent Karoo Ecosystem

Grantee Name: Namibia Nature Foundation

Hotspot
Succulent Karoo
Location
Namibia
Amount
$850,700
Dates
Jan 2005 – Feb 2009
Keywords
Awareness, Biodiversity mainstreaming, Capacity building

Coordinate the SKEP program in Namibia. Establish a functional project management mechanism and develop an implementation plan. Support the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to plan and implement activities in the Sperrgebiet National Park and the immediate buffer zones. Support civil society to implement priority conservation actions via a small grants facility. Develop and promote best practice guidelines in the Namibian portion of the Succulent Karoo, and share these more widely throughout the entire hotspot.

Strategic Direction :

1 Expand protected area corridors through public-private-communal partnerships in the priority areas of Bushmanland-Inselbergs, Central Namaqualand Coast, Namaqualand Uplands, Knersvlakte, Hantam-Roggeveld, Central Little

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