Dec. 17, 2008

Namibia Seals the Deal Making Sperrgebiet a National Park

Namibians have made it to the end of the long journey to establish the Sperrgebiet National Park, a 2.6 million-hectare protected area that is the largest single-area proclamation in Africa in the past 20 years.

Dec. 1, 2008

Meet Our Western Ghats Team

Jagdish Krishnaswamy and Bhaskar Acharya of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment will lead the implementation strategy for CEPF’s investment in the Western Ghats & Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot.

Dec. 1, 2008

Western Ghats Region Launches

CEPF launched a major investment program in the Western Ghats region of India today to help conserve the rich, natural wealth of the area and its many benefits to people.

Nov. 19, 2008

News from the Cape Leopard Trust in Namaqualand

The Cape Leopard Trust project team in South Africa’s Namaqualand shares a report and photos of capturing the team’s most magnificent leopard photo to date and what happened next.

Nov. 19, 2008

Colombia Creates Three New Protected Areas

Colombian efforts to conserve some of the biologically richest land and water on Earth have resulted in three new protected areas.

Oct. 23, 2008

Kenya Eco-factory Rallies Residents Around Reforestation

In the biologically diverse but overtaxed lands of the Taita Hills in southeast Kenya, a clothing company is offering relief to the people, flora and fauna.

Oct. 21, 2008

New Consolidation Grants for Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot in tropical South America, which supports 20,000 plant species and more than two dozen Critically Endangered vertebrate species, will receive an additional $2.4 million in grant funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).

Oct. 8, 2008

Asia and Pacific Prepare for the 2010 Biodiversity Summit

The Environment Congress for Asia and the Pacific (ECO Asia 2008) held its 16th meeting on Sept. 13 and focused on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Oct. 6, 2008

Armenian Group Fights Large-Scale Disappearance of Forests

In response to the large-scale felling of trees that occurred during Armenia’s energy crisis in the 1990s, one local group has made reforestation and aggressive biodiversity awareness-raising its impassioned mission.

Sept. 24, 2008

Sustaining Conservation Gains

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is embarking on a major funding program designed to sustain and advance the conservation gains made possible by its previous investments in many of the biologically richest areas on Earth.

Sept. 24, 2008

New Grants in Cape Secure Conservation Gains

The Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, home to the greatest non-tropical concentration of higher plant species in the world, will receive an additional $1.68 million in grant funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).

Aug. 26, 2008

Fires Threaten Georgia’s Natural Resources

Included in the toll of the recent fighting between the Republic of Georgia and Russia are damages from forest fires in one of Europe’s largest national parks and the communities and natural areas surrounding it.

July 10, 2008

Ranchers Help Protect La Amistad Forest

The future of the Panamanian cloud forests has been anything but certain. However, an unprecedented agreement has brought together ranchers, nongovernmental groups, indigenous communities and government officials in a new way forward.

June 27, 2008

Partnership Launches Label for Green Wines

The Biodiversity & Wine Initiative, a pioneering partnership between the South African wine industry and the conservation sector, recently released its own label enabling consumers to identify wines produced in accordance with the initiative’s conservation requirements.

May 29, 2008

Training Journalists in the Caucasus

If the term “hotspot” comes up in the context of the former Soviet republics, many would likely associate it with their location on the geopolitical, not biological map. But journalists here are learning the art of telling a different story with help from the International Center for Journalists.

May 28, 2008

MacArthur Pledges New Support for CEPF

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently committed $12 million in new funds for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund to help conserve biodiversity hotspots, the most threatened and biologically rich areas on Earth.