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This report highlights CEPF results from fiscal year 2005 (July
2004–June 2005) in some of Earth’s biologically richest yet most
threatened regions, many of which are also home to some of
its poorest people.
CEPF also expanded its global portfolio significantly during the Leonard Good
year, committing $23.3 million in new grants and bringing its Chairman and CEO, Global Environment Facility
total portfolio to $67.8 million. These investments have lever-
aged more than $100 million in additional funds for conserving
Koichi Hasegawa
the hotspots.
Director, Development Institutions Division, International
Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan
Among the new grants is renewed support to enable the Ama-
zon Conservation Association to more than double the number
of small-scale Brazil nut producers it works with in the Tropical Ian Johnson
Andes Hotspot. As part of CEPF’s initial support, the association Vice President, Environmentally & Socially Sustainable
helped 130 producers win formal concessions from the Peru- Development, The World Bank Group
vian government, effectively ensuring protection for 225,000
hectares of primary tropical forest in tandem with the produc- Peter A. Seligmann
ers’ own sustainable livelihoods. Chairman and CEO, Conservation International
We talk of the groups we support as “partners.” While we are This year, the Australian government’s Regional Natural Heritage
their partners in a joint mission, we often stand behind rather Program invested approximately $1 million to enable us to launch
than alongside the many groups we fund, inspired by their inspi- an invasive species program in the Polynesia-Micronesia Hotspot
ration and guided by their local knowledge and vision. Our sup- as a first step toward implementing our full strategy for the region.
port is enabling hundreds of local people to turn our blueprint into In Colombia, our focus on helping local groups conserve the
tangible outcomes and a model for others. Chocó-Manabi conservation corridor prompted a local foundation
to begin matching up to $1 million for CEPF-supported initiatives.
In the Mesoamerica Hotspot, Centro Científico Tropical led a
coalition of 20 NGOs working together with local municipalities Our donor partners also held a unique retreat this year, contem-
and government agencies to design a new wildlife reserve cover- plating how CEPF could be strengthened even more. Special
ing 60,000 hectares of forest. The reserve, declared by the Costa participants included the executive director and chief economist
Rican government in 2005, includes both strict conservation and the head of the Environment and Natural Resources at the
areas and zones allowing multiple uses. French Development Agency (AFD), which expressed its interest
in strengthening the links between CEPF and AFD.
In Armenia, a coalition of groups helped the government bridge
the gap between development and conservation. Their joint We’re enormously excited by these developments, and while
effort resulted in the government’s 2005 decision to redirect part proud of our own small role in them, we recognize the vital
of a transnational highway originally planned to cut through the achievements of all those we support. Together, we are indeed
nation’s Shikahogh Reserve, a promising sign of the changes changing the course of history.
now afoot in the eastern region of the Caucasus Hotspot.
Jorgen B. Thomsen
The collaboration itself is a milestone in a field where so Executive Director, CEPF, and Senior Vice President,
many groups, both burgeoning and established, traditionally Conservation International
Q Helped local communities and private landowners develop Q Won approval from the CEPF Donor Council to expand invest-
and benefit from natural resource management programs in ments to the Eastern Himalayas Region, a biologically rich area
multiple hotspots, such as the Atlantic Forest, Cape Floristic encompassing Bhutan, parts of India, and eastern Nepal. The
Region, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, Mesoamerica, move brought the total number of active funding regions to 15
Philippines, and Tropical Andes. in 16 hotspots where CEPF supported civil society conserva-
tion initiatives during the year.
Atlantic Forest
Caucasus
Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal
Forests of Tanzania and Kenya
Eastern Himalayas Region
Total Committed
Guinean Forests of West Africa Total Investment Planned
Mesoamerica (Northern)
Mesoamerica (Southern)
Philippines
Succulent Karoo
Sundaland
Tropical Andes
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Millions 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Hotspots Revisited
A hotspots reappraisal released in 2005 identified nine
1 Atlantic Forest
new hotspots, bringing the number of global biodiversity
2 Cape Floristic Region hotspots to 34. Combined, the hotspots harbor 75 per-
cent of the planet’s most threatened mammals, birds, and
3 Caucasus amphibians within habitat covering just 2.3 percent of the
4 Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Earth’s surface.
5 Eastern Afromontane
The new data also resulted in the reclassification of one
6 Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot where CEPF invested—the Eastern Arc Moun-
tains and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Hotspot—
7 Himalaya
as part of two new hotspots: Coastal Forests of Eastern
8 Indo-Burma Africa and Eastern Afromontane. Similarly, the Eastern
Himalayas Region, where CEPF began preparing to launch
9 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands investments in the Indo-Burma Hotspot, became part of
10 Mesoamerica both the new Himalaya and Indo-Burma hotspots. The
analysis, which drew together the work of more than 400
11 Mountains of Southwest China specialists over four years, also resulted in the renaming
12 Philippines of the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador Hotspot as the
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Hotspot.
13 Succulent Karoo
14 Sundaland While recognizing these important changes, CEPF contin-
ues to invest in the original focal areas within the hotspots
15 Tropical Andes as agreed by stakeholders and approved by the CEPF
16 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Donor Council.
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grants and bringing its total Africa portfolio to $22.1 million in committed 1
grants. Their achievements include a program benefiting the urban poor and
tools enabling farmers to more effectively manage their land. In addition, they 1 Cape Floristic Region
2 Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
formed a partnership with the Malagasy government engaging communities in 3 Eastern Afromontane
4 Guinean Forests of West Africa
the management of a new conservation site, creating a replicable model to help 5 Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands
the nation realize its goal of tripling its protected area network by 2008. 6 Succulent Karoo
The forests are also the only area “Although it may not be a huge expan-
where the golden-crowned sifaka, sion in area, we’re very excited with
one of the world’s most imperiled pri- the model we’ve developed as it also
mates, is found. draws in local communities,” Associa-
tion Fanamby Secretary General Serge
In May 2005, the Malagasy government Rajaobelina said. “Used elsewhere, it
designated the forests and their surround- can hopefully give a (continued on next page) The Manambato River borders Daraina’s fragmented forests.
For example, landowners can now look their habitat types are globally threat- Metropolitan University and a scientific
at a map of their land online and see ened. The maps are also central tools adviser to SKEP.
the location and condition of different for the Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Pro-
vegetation types on it. They can also gram (SKEP) and the Gouritz Initiative, Work on the maps also spawned a net-
retrieve additional information on which key components of CEPF’s strategic work of local researchers. Known as the
vegetation types are most appropriate approach to retain and restore critical Little Karoo Study Group, they meet reg-
for different domestic animals, such as biodiversity in areas under the greatest ularly to share their findings and views on
ostrich, goats, and sheep, and assess land-use pressure. conservation priorities in the area. Mem-
whether livestock numbers are at the bers include the South African National
right level to avoid overgrazing. “They capture the kaleidoscopically Biodiversity Institute, the Council for Sci-
changing biodiversity patterns in the entific and Industrial Research in South
Enabling easy access to such a tool is Little Karoo with breathtaking accu- Africa, and the Nelson Mandela Metropoli-
pivotal—indeed urgent—in this region racy,” said Professor Richard Cowling, tan University, as well as a number of grad-
where many of the plant species and professor of botany at Nelson Mandela uate researchers working in the region. Q
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year, awarding $11.3 million in new grants and bringing its overall Asia 5
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vation. Yet even initial identification of The alliance also gained agreement from
biodiversity threats can be seriously ham- 37 groups and individuals to contribute
pered by a lack of coordination between to the database. Local stakeholders,
the major players in a given region. such as protected area managers,
ecotourism developers, and regional
In the Mountains of Southwest China planning authorities, will perform a vital
Hotspot, CEPF funding helped more role in expanding the online database
than 20 nongovernmental organizations, with site-specific data and will be able
academic institutions, and government to use the wealth of information to
agencies create an unprecedented alli- make informed decisions that favor
ance to counter this trend. Across the biodiversity conservation.
hotspot, the alliance is developing a sys-
tematic approach to defining and mon- “Cooperation is truly critical for the suc-
itoring conservation outcomes and cess of our work,” said Ling Lin, head of
interventions, one of CEPF’s strategic WWF’s Chengdu office. “Thankfully, we
priorities for the region. have a shared understanding and aim,
and now we have found partners for
The alliance, Eco-Partners, first identi- future cooperation.”
fied more than 500 species of globally
threatened animals and plants from the CEPF is supporting similar projects in
region to monitor. Led by Conservation The Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) is the other hotspots as part of a wider
International’s China Program, the alli- one of the Endangered species that will benefit from the Conservation International initiative to
ance gathered 80,000 pieces of pub- new collaboration. create a shared global database. The ap-
lished data relating to species such as proach is part of a commitment to use
the Endangered Yunnan snub-nosed Eco-Partners then established quantifi- conservation outcomes—targets against
monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti), fewer than able, transparent, and globally consis- which the success of conservation ef-
2,000 of which are thought to survive in tent conservation targets covering 49 forts can be measured—as the scientific
isolated populations. key biodiversity areas and set up an underpinning for CEPF investments. Q
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In stepped the Palawan Conservation With funds from an initial CEPF grant, the
Corps (PCC). The group provided hands- youths built an open-air information cen- Youths put their new carpentry skills to the test as part
on carpentry and biodiversity restora- ter and a 10,000-square-foot nursery for of the project.
tion training to 60 youths whose parents seedlings of endemic hardwood species
could not afford to keep sending them such as narra (Pterocarpus dalbergioides) the Philippine Technical Education and
to school or who, in many cases, were and the globally threatened kamagong Skills Development Authority. Without
asked to leave school. (Diospyros philippinensis) and apitong all these different partners, we wouldn’t
(Dipterocarpus grandiflorus) trees. have done it.”
The nursery has already contributed to A follow-on CEPF grant has enabled
replanting 5,000 native trees and is sup- youths who participated in the course to
plying seedlings to nearby villages for take their new skills out to neighboring
reforestation projects. communities, working on watershed res-
toration and reforestation projects that
PCC also garnered support from govern- also serve to further raise awareness of
mental, nonprofit, and private partners the need for sustainable use of natural
for the project. resources.
“The City Agriculture Office lent us the “The response from the people was fan-
use of their tractor and got us hardwood tastic,” Galido said. “We had more volun-
seedlings,” PCC Director Erwin Galido teers than we needed and finished the
said. “We had volunteers from Earth- work in half the time. In Lucbuan and
A participant in the Palawan Conservation Corps’ project Corps, help from the Consuelo Foun- Bahile, the villagers are now going out
helps create a nursery to house hardwood seedlings. dation, a local educational charity, and to do these things on their own.” Q
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Save The Tiger Fund Feasibility Study for Establishing Panda Legal Initiative for Resource Managing CEPF’s Small Grants Fund
$500,000 Corridors in Min Mountain Management and Livelihood to Safeguard Endangered Species and
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $150,541 Development for Jisha Village Habitats in Southwest China
World Wide Fund for Nature $20,000 $296,000
Mountains of Southwest China Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous World Wide Fund for Nature
Hotspot Integrating a Range-wide Conservation Knowledge
Strategy for the Yunnan Snub-nosed Philippines Hotspot
Monkey Make a Difference in 10 Days:
Strategic Direction 1: Develop and oper- $517,540 International Conference on Nature
ationalize hotspot-wide monitoring and Strategic Direction 1: Improve linkage be-
The Nature Conservancy Reserve’s Scientific Exchange and
evaluation projects tween conservation investments to mul-
Capacity Building
tiply and scale up benefits on a corridor
Motivating Governments to Address $19,960
Applied Ethnoecology for Biodiversity scale in Sierra Madre, Eastern Mindanao,
Illegal Wildlife in Southeast Asia Chen Youping
Assessment, Monitoring and and Palawan
$5,000
Management in Northwest Yunnan Conservation International Monthly Conservation Forum among
$167,904 This is a multiregional project covering three hotspots; Defining and Monitoring Conservation
Chengdu-Kunming College Student
The Chinese Academy of Sciences the total grant amount is $15,000. Outcomes for the Philippines
Conservation Organizations
$382,336
$10,230
Assessment on Resource and Natural Resources Protection and Conservation International
Green Student Organizations Society
Environment of Sichuan Partridge in Community Development in Tuogushui
Panzhihua Area Village, China Eastern Mindanao Corridor Facilitation
Outdoor Preliminary School Environment
$19,555 $10,043 for the Philippines
Education Program—“Happy Nature”
Sichuan Normal University Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve $290,000
$16,446
Management Office Conservation International
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda
Establishing Effective Conservation Breeding Center
Information Service for Saving China’s Population Survey on Cedar Species Palawan Biodiversity Corridor
Biodiversity (Sabia Pingii) in Yele Nature Reserve Facilitation
$120,000 $19,751 $200,000
Chinese Academy of Sciences Yele Nature Reserve Management Office, Conservation International
Sichuan
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year, awarding $6.5 million in new grants and bringing its total portfolio to
$21.5 million in committed grants. These groups worked with landowners
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to create a 60,000-hectare national wildlife refuge. Containing strict con- 1
servation areas and multi-use zones for ecotourism and agroforestry, the
Costa Rican park has been dubbed a “laboratory for sustainable develop-
ment.” In the Atlantic Forest Hotspot, a small grants program helped more
than double the number of Private Natural Heritage Reserves. The CEPF 1 Atlantic Forest Hotspot
2 Mesoamerica
focus on building civil society capacity to conserve the hotspots also helped 3 Tropical Andes
leverage significant additional funds for conservation in Colombia. 4 Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
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est routes across the isthmus of Central A three-year CEPF grant supported devel-
America. In 2005, it was finally time for opment of key documents required to
the region’s remarkable biodiversity to be obtain the legal protection of Maquenque,
recognized with the government of Costa as well as land tenure surveys and initial
Rica’s declaration of the Maquenque steps toward development of a manage-
National Wildlife Refuge. ment plan.
Covering nearly 60,000 hectares of forest, Uniquely for Costa Rica, the refuge’s
the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge establishment was based on extensive
will help ensure the survival of the great community outreach to achieve consensus
green macaw (Ara ambigua) and many with local communities and landowners.
other globally threatened species, as Initially, many landowners were opposed
well as provide sustainable development to the idea of a national park. Instead,
opportunities. they successfully proposed establishing a
National Wildlife Refuge that contains both
Establishing the refuge has been an strict conservation areas and multi-use
investment priority for CEPF in the Meso- areas for environmentally friendly activi-
america Hotspot. Since 2003, CEPF has ties, such as ecotourism, agroforestry, and
supported a coalition of 20 NGOs that is sustainable agriculture.
led by the Centro Científico Tropical (CCT,
or the Tropical Science Center) and is Benefits for landowners include access to
working with local municipalities and gov- Costa Rica’s innovative system of paying
ernment agencies in preparations for the for environmental services to maintain
new protected area. land under forest cover.
“CEPF’s funding and the assistance we Beyond Maquenque’s borders, the refuge
received from their local coordination acts as a critical part of the Mesoamerican
unit was pivotal in getting the area recog- Biological Corridor along the San Juan River
nized,” said Guisselle Monge, coordinator The great green macaw (Ara ambigua) is one of the between the Atlantic forests of Costa Rica
of the San Juan–La Selva Biological Cor- many species found in the new Maquenque National with southeast Nicaragua and the larger
ridor, where the new refuge is located. Wildlife Refuge. Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. Q
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tion of the Cutivireni Patrimony) helped “We are very happy about the establish-
make possible one of the largest com- ment of the park and communal reserve
bined indigenous reserves and protected because it will let our communities bet-
areas in the world. ter manage our territories in a way that
respects the traditions of our ancestors,”
The 2.7-million-hectare Alto-Purús National said Fredy Lopez Tranbeca, community
Park and Purús Communal Reserve chief of the 180-member Gasta Bala, one
combines a traditional national park, a com- of the many other indigenous groups that
munal reserve that will be jointly managed live around the protected area. The national park shelters globally threatened species such
as the Endangered giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis).
by indigenous communities and the state,
and a territorial reserve for the indigenous The remote area in the Tropical Andes
Hotspot contains enormous expanses The group contributed to the creation of
of lowland tropical moist forests, unique a participatory management committee
flooded savannas dotted with palm trees, that draws together indigenous groups
and extensive bamboo-dominated forests. and regional governments as well as other
Home to Endangered species such as the important civil society institutions in the
giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), it is Inuya and Sepahua watersheds. Together
also one of the last refuges for large popu- these stakeholders are developing sustain-
lations of globally threatened big-leafed able forestry projects as part of a wider strat-
mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla). egy to curtail threats.
By engaging local people in the man- The support to ACPC is part of a 2003
agement of forest resources along the debt-for-nature swap between the U.S. and
southwestern border of the national park, Peruvian governments. As part of the deal,
ACPC helped strengthen management Peru will save an estimated $14 million in
of the area, a key CEPF strategy for the debt payments, and civil society groups
Illegal mahogany extraction poses a big threat to the com- hotspot’s key biodiversity areas. Funding will receive an estimated $10.6 million for
munities, fauna, and flora of Amazonian Peru. from CEPF through WWF also enabled the conservation projects. Q
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The national organizations have Participants help survey the biodiversity of a Guinean
since employed 15 of the participants Forest site as part of their training.
who benefited from the various training
courses. In addition, 25 graduates were sites, revealing the rediscovery of the
recruited and trained and 20 volunteers white -necked picathartes ( Picathar-
were involved at other stages of the tes gymnocephalus) in Ghana 40 years
project, increasing the pool of conserva- after it was last seen in the country. In
tionists from which the NGOs and addition, BirdLife leveraged more than
others can draw. $1.8 million in additional funding for con-
servation during the course of the proj-
Unexpected results also proved ect, a sum more than three times the
significant. Participants helped survey 56 project’s total budget. Q
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FY 01/02 (18 months) FY 03 FY 04 FY 05
Total Africa
Total Latin America
Total Asia-Pacific
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Grants
Atlantic Forest $ 2,381,356
Cape Floristic Region 382,780
Caucasus 2,688,891
Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests of Tanzania & Kenya 3,094,919
Eastern Himalayas Region 500,000
Guinean Forests of West Africa 394,338
Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands (201,306)*
Mesoamerica (Northern) 1,980,938
Mesoamerica (Southern) 823,731
Mountains of Southwest China 2,677,404
Philippines 2,602,472
Succulent Karoo 1,839,160
Sundaland 2,872,033
Tropical Andes 303,596
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 995,388
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Total Grants 23,335,700
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Leonard Good
Chairman and CEO, The Global
Environment Facility
Koichi Hasegawa
Director, Development Institutions
Division, International Bureau, Ministry of
Finance, Government of Japan
Ian Johnson
Vice President, Environmentally & Socially
Sustainable Development, The World
Bank Group
Peter A. Seligmann
Chairman and CEO, Conservation
International
Paul Wolfowitz
President, The World Bank Group, and
Chairman, CEPF Donor Council
Working Group
Gonzalo Castro
Team Leader, Biodiversity, The Global
Environment Facility
Claude Gascon
Senior Vice President, Regional Programs
Division, Conservation International
Senior Staff
Kathy MacKinnon Kristanne Cornell Nina Marshall
Lead Biodiversity Specialist, Environment Director for Grant Enterprise Systems Grant Director
Department, The World Bank
Lisa Dean Dan Martin
Wataru Suzuki Senior Director for Financial and Senior Managing Director
Special Policy Coordinator, Biodiversity Information Management
Policy Division, Nature Conservation Jorgen Thomsen
Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Christopher Holtz Executive Director, CEPF, and Senior Vice
Government of Japan Grant Director President, Conservation International
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Swift support from CEPF, how- The national park contains Cen-
ever, enabled local fire brigades tral America’s largest area of wet-
to ensure the safety of 40,000 lands, which are important for
hectares of the park’s most vital many resident and migratory bird
habitat. The area contains the species. It also forms a vital part
nesting sites of more than half of of the greater Selva Maya Forest,
Guatemala’s 300 scarlet macaws a key biodiversity area within the
(Ara macau) in the wild, as well northern part of the Mesoamer-
as globally threatened species ica Hotspot.
such as the Central American
river turtle (Dermatemys mawii), Recognizing how halting further
Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii), and agricultural encroachment and col-
Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus onization in Laguna del Tigre has
moreletii). much wider implications for the
Fire sweeps through Laguna del Tigre National Park’s lush forests. integrity and connectivity of the
The Wildlife Conservation Society entire region, CEPF grants to WCS
(WCS) and Alianza Kanteel, an alli- park guards, and mobilized commu- have also supported work to upgrade
ance of local environmental NGOs, nity fire brigades to develop preven- the management plan for the park in
undertook the emergency action in tative fire lines around intact areas, consultation with local communities
partnership with the Guatemalan park among other activities. and Alianza Kanteel. Q
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