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Close-up of pink-red flowers on branch, light illuminating them from behind. — Bottlebrush tree, Rwanda.

© Fabian Haas/Pixels on Screen

Telling Pictures for the Eastern Afromontane Key Biodiversity Areas

Grantee Name: Pixels on Screen

Hotspot: Eastern Afromontane
Location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda
Amount: $20,000
Dates: Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
Keywords: Awareness, Communication, Education, Journalism/media

To celebrate "the small 5000" by producing photographs and videos at selected KBAs across the hotspot, focusing on plants, insects, amphibian and other "not so charismatic" species. Together with interviews with CEPF grantees at these KBAs, this will lead to short but innovative "snapshots" of the beauty and value of these KBAs.

Strategic Direction : 1 Mainstream biodiversity into wider development policies, plans and projects to deliver the co-benefits of biodiversity conservation, improved local livelihoods and economic development in priority corridors.

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Telling Pictures for the Eastern Afromontane Key Biodiversity Areas

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