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Strengthening Civil Society for Biodiversity Conservation Support Project
Grantee Name: 
Ilam Cooperation Council
HOTSPOT
Himalaya
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$60,165
DATES
Apr 2007
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Mar 2009
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Himalaya
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$60,165
DATES
Apr 2007
-
Mar 2009

Strengthen civil society participation in all stages of corridor management and incorporate conservation issues in community, private, and national forest management plans in selected sites in the Nepali sector of the Kangchenjunga-Singhalila Complex. Through the development of a multi-stakeholder civil society forum, this project will reduce threats to existing forests from encroachment, over-grazing, and unsustainable harvesting of forest resources.

Strategic Direction: 1 Build on existing landscape conservation initiatives to maintain and restore connectivity and to protect wide-ranging threatened species in priority corridors with a particular emphasis on the Bhutan Biological Conservat