Umzimvubu Catchment Partnership Programme: Building Local Institutions, Innovative Strategies and Financial Sustainability for Restoration and Conservation of the Umzimvubu Catchment
Grantee Name: Conservation International
- Hotspot
- Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
- Location
- South Africa
- Amount
- $301,884
- Dates
- Sep 2012 – Jun 2015
- Keywords
- Biodiversity mainstreaming, Climate adaptation, Climate mitigation, Conservation planning, Erosion, Land use planning, Livelihoods, Networks, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem resilience, Landscape Resilience
Create a formally recognized Water Management Forum; improving knowledge of ecosystem values, restoration techniques, and climate vulnerability; promoting institutional alignment for formalizing and coordinating communal and commercial stewardship efforts outside the protected areas within the Umzimvubu Watershed; and establishing baseline monitoring information on the ecology, and social and economic development of the region.
3 Maintain and restore ecosystem function and integrity in the Highland Grasslands and Pondoland corridors
Project Resources:
You may also like:

Sustaining CEPF’s Investment in the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot
Tropical Biology Association


Promoting Management Effectiveness in Protected Areas in the Albany, Amathole-Sneeuberg and Pondoland Conservation Corridors
Wilderness Foundation
