CEPF is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Canada, the Government of Japan and the World Bank. A fundamental goal is to ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation.
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In 2006, Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD) in Belize consisted of a handful of volunteers implementing a few isolated environmental activities like tree planting and clean-up campaigns. But when the organization applied for CEPF funding to improve management of the Chiquibul-Maya Mountains in the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot, Grant Director Michele Zador saw potential.
CEPF held its second Regional Implementation Team (RIT) Exchange last month in Athens, Greece. Twenty-eight RIT members, along with six Secretariat staff, came together for three days to share ideas, challenges and solutions. All nine active biodiversity hotspots were represented.
The CEPF model works, in large part, because of these teams, which are located in or near each active biodiversity hotspot at host organizations. They work on the ground directly with CEPF’s grantees, helping to build local capacity and implement CEPF’s strategy in the hotspot.
The new ecosystem profile was recently completed in preparation for CEPF’s second investment in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot. Some 500 experts and stakeholders were consulted during the profiling process, which was led by BirdLife International.
The next installment of our occasional blog series, “Celebrating Biodiversity,” in which we highlight the conservation stories of specific species.
The Asian crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) is a bird so fundamental to Japan that it is mentioned in the country’s second oldest history book, Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan) written in 720. The beautiful bird species, known in Japanese as the toki, used to live across the entire country as well as in southeastern Siberia, central-eastern China and on the Korean Peninsula.
Though new species are regularly discovered around the world, the discovery of a mammal species that is new to science doesn’t happen very often.
