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Gray monkey with white around eyes sits in tree.
Newly discovered Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) in Myanmar.
© Aung Ko Lin/FFI

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With financial and technical support from CEPF, civil society organizations around the globe are delivering innovative solutions that conserve biodiversity and help communities thrive. Find out what they're doing by clicking on biodiversity hotspots highlighted on the map.

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Dirt road, large boabab trees on either side.
Baobab trees in Madagascar.
© Conservation International/photo by Russell A. Mittermeier

Island Biodiversity & Conservation
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Nahnoo
Brightly colored canoe on lake with two people, headed toward several floating buildings.
Village of the middle of Tonle Sap in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.
© Kristin Harrison & Jeremy Ginsberg
Evaluating Cambodian Freshwater Conservation Projects in the Lower Mekong
FISHBIO
Green forest, misty clouds.
East Nimba Nature Reserve, Liberia.
© Conservation International/photo by Bailey Evans

CILTAD/COASTAL TV
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Environment For Life (EFL)
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Regionalni Resursni Centar
Fisherman on water in small boat, lush island in the background.
Fisherman in the East Melanesian Islands Biodiversity Hotspot.
© John Slaney/Flickr Creative Commons

Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc.
Flat orange landscape, small body of water, vast sky.
Lake and palm swamps on the upper Peruaçu River in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© Guilherme B. Ferreira

Instituto Cerrados
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Tariq Ben Younis
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Bethlehem University
Lagoon with green, rolling hills in background and blue sky.
Orikum Lagoon and Karaburun Peninsula, Albania.
© Mirjan Topi/PPNEA

Khaled Ben Othmen
Flat orange landscape, small body of water, vast sky.
Lake and palm swamps on the upper Peruaçu River in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil.
© Guilherme B. Ferreira

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Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

PA "Center for civil initiatives "LEADER"
Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

PA "NOOSFERA"
Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

Public Association "Orchun"
Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

PO "Youth Group for Environmental Protection"
Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

PA "Mountain Club "Jabagly-Manas"
Glacial lake surrounded by snowy mountains.
A view of a glacial lake with a retreating glacier in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range.
© Conservation International/photo by Michele Zador

Resguardo Palmar Imbi
Stream running through mountains.
Ile-Alatau National Park, Kazakhstan.
© O. Langrand

PA "Biogen"
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