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Sustainable Finance for Protected Areas in Sierra Leone

Grantee Name: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Hotspot
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Location
Sierra Leone
Amount
$192,475
Dates
Dec 2008 – Feb 2012
Keywords
Capacity building, Conservation finance

Contribute to ensuring the long-term sustainability of the 75,000-hectare Gola Forest Reserves, a priority site for conservation within the Upper Guinea Forest, with support from carbon finance. The project team will achieve its goals by developing a carbon project, developing carbon agreements with local communities, building understanding of and capacity to implement carbon projects and enabling the incorporation of carbon financing into national laws.

Strategic Direction :

6 Consolidation

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