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Commitment is the watchword for the many organizations at the heart of the Critical Ecosystem
Partnership Fund (CEPF). In concert with our partners around the globe, CEPF maintains a
steadfast focus on our purpose to provide strategic assistance to nongovernmental and private
sector organizations for the protection of vital ecosystems.
One way in which the CEPF partners have demonstrated that integrity of vision has been
through new pledges of support for the global program.
This year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation pledged $12 million in new
funding, thus raising its investment in CEPF to $37 million. The Global Environment Facility
committed $20 million in new funds, bringing its total support to $45 million. Just as the year
ended, the World Bank also pledged to mobilize $25 million in new resources for the program,
which would bring its total commitment for CEPF to $50 million.
Helping us guide these investments will be James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank
president and one of the founding leaders of CEPF whom we welcomed back as chairman of
our program’s governing body. He returns at a momentous time made possible by these new
commitments and those of our other partners. This year, we embarked on a consolidation
program to sustain the gains made in selected hotspots. We also launched a major
expansion to provide support to hundreds of civil society groups in additional hotspots, with
new investment programs in Indochina, Polynesia-Micronesia and the Western Ghats region
of southwestern India.
Our support gives our many dedicated civil society partners in the field the tools they
need to continue building a brighter and sustainable future for the plants, animals and
communities that comprise some of the most threatened yet wondrous corners of the
world.
Jørgen B. Thomsen
Executive Director, CEPF
Senior Vice President, Conservation International
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L’Agence Française de Développement, the French Development Agency, is a
financial institution that is at the heart of France’s Development Assistance Policy. It
supports a wide range of social and economic projects in more than 60 countries.
www.afd.fr
www.conservation.org
The Global Environment Facility is the world’s largest source of funding for the
global environment. It brings 178 member governments together with leading
development institutions and others in support of a common global environmental
agenda.
www.thegef.org
www.env.go.jp/en/
www.macfound.org
The World Bank is the world’s largest source of development assistance. It works
in more than 100 developing economies to fight poverty and to help people help
themselves and their environment.
www.worldbank.org
The CEPF strategy continues to produce critical dividends. With our support, the fund
has invested nearly $101 million in helping more than 1,300 nongovernmental partners
protect many thousands of hectares of biologically rich land that shelters water and
other natural resources key to the well-being of humanity.
This report, covering fiscal year 2008 (July 2007—June 2008) features some of the
latest results. In South Africa, for example, CEPF grant recipients helped potato
farmers devise agriculture guidelines that will aid a critical ecosystem and improve
the farmers’ bottom lines. In Costa Rica, our partners helped lay the foundation for a
debt-for-nature swap that will free the government to invest $26 million in tropical
forest preservation. And in the Republic of Georgia, a new management plan for a
park’s buffer zone now maps out a path to sustainable livelihoods for the community
and better cross-border cooperation between Georgia and Turkey.
These examples illustrate how the convergence of our resources and commitment
to civil society can help achieve important conservation outcomes through a
stronger voice, influence and action by civil societies—vital steps toward a healthy,
productive future for all life.
The convergence of critical areas for conservation with millions of people who are living
in poverty and are highly dependent on healthy ecosystems for their survival is also
more evident in these biodiversity hotspots than anywhere else. The benefits of a healthy
environment extend well beyond biodiversity, contributing to stable and thriving societies.
A strategic framework sets the five-year strategy for our global program for 2008—2012.
At the hotspot level, the program first works with experts and stakeholders to create an
ecosystem profile identifying the highest priorities for conservation and an investment
strategy that can provide the greatest value.
Every grant awarded helps implement a specific strategic direction from the investment
strategy, further enabling the program to act as a catalyst in aligning and coordinating
conservation efforts. In some hotspots where five years of CEPF investment has been
reached, we design and implement a targeted program to further advance and sustain
the gains made.
CEPF relies on regional teams of civil society groups to lead implementation in the
hotspots. These teams identify potential partners, help local groups design effective
projects and convert the plans in the ecosystem profiles into powerful portfolios.
In new regions approved for investment, these teams will directly award a significant share
of grants and will help make sound decisions on all other applications.
The organizations we support are fundamental to the program’s results. They lead
innovative projects and engage others to increase the results per dollar spent. Our grant
recipients range from farming cooperatives, community groups and the private sector to
local and international NGOs, all working to conserve our global environment.
5. Eastern Afromontane
7. Himalaya
8. Indo-Burma
10. Mesoamerica
12. Philippines
13. Polynesia-Micronesia
15. Sundaland
17. Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
2008
South African partners cultivate a better future
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Years of field study, strategic planning and community outreach by Costa Rican NGOs and
community groups yielded dividends for the entire country in 2007, providing the foundation
for a landmark debt-for-nature deal signed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Conservation
International (CI), and the governments of Costa Rica and the United States.
CEPF grants played a supporting role, funding local conservation efforts over the past five
years to establish protected areas, enable stakeholder participation and assemble vital
technical information that contributed to swap design and negotiations.
The agreement, which forgives $26 million of Costa Rica’s debt, requires the country to invest
that amount into tropical forest conservation measures over the next 16 years. Anchoring the
swap is $12.6 million from the U.S. government, and $1.26 million each from CI and TNC.
CEPF support for this achievement in the Mesoamerica Hotspot came in multiple forms.
On the Osa Peninsula, a 2004 CEPF grant to the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)
funded the identification of conservation priorities and development of a zoning plan for
connectivity between two national parks. That framework was also used in defining swap
investments. INBio used a 2006 grant to help develop a biodiversity gap analysis process
that swap negotiators used to define priority sites and activities.
“The work done to effectively prioritize conservation sites across the country was critical,”
said Vilma Obando, head of INBio’s Conservation Unit. “It was science-based, key
government agencies participated, and stakeholders were actively involved to demonstrate
where and why an area should be protected.”
Among the areas to benefit is the 60,000-hectare Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge,
where a 2003 CEPF grant to Centro Científico Tropical helped a partnership of 20 NGOs
and government agencies to create the protected area.
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A plan to save the sand fields, or Sandveld, of South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region Hotspot
is transforming potato growers into guardians of the area’s biologically diverse yet fragile
environment.
With financial support from CEPF and the potato industry, a team of farmers, retailers,
conservationists and scientists developed and are implementing far-reaching farming
guidelines. These efforts aim to reverse the tide of unsustainable agricultural practices,
protect the environment and improve farmers’ economic viability.
Regional conservation institution CapeNature and Potatoes South Africa, a group representing
the industry, led the creation of the guidelines, which instruct farmers on subjects ranging from
environmental planning and natural resource management to environmental protection.
The guidelines come at a critical time. Half of the semi-arid Sandveld has been converted
to agriculture. The core of the production overlaps with the crucial Greater Cederberg
Biodiversity Corridor, which links the Cederberg Wilderness Area, a World Heritage Site, to
the lowlands and the coast. Unsustainable use of groundwater is increasing the potential for
desertification, degrading groundwater quality and reducing water flows to wetlands critical
for bird migration. The toll on the ecosystem threatens more than 65 rare and endangered
plant and other species, including the endemic speckled padloper (Homopus signatus), the
world’s smallest tortoise.
“The guidelines are essential to prevent further environmental degradation in the area,” said
Project Manager Sean Ranger. “They provide critical planning, conservation and biodiversity
management tools that are compliant with existing regulations and exceed them in terms of
best practices.”
CapeNature is working with the potato industry, which employs about 3,250 people,
to implement the guidelines. Half the farms in the region have expressed interest in
participating, and pilot phase results include the land use mapped and individual
environmental management plans developed for 24 farms.
The core potato production area coincides with the Greater
Cederberg Biodiversity Corridor, an important ecological
corridor in the heart of the Cape Floristic Region Hotspot.
The area is home to more than 50 rare and threatened plant
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An innovative fund designed to support conservation and sustainable development across the
Mountains of Southwest China Hotspot has helped spark a revival in traditional practices and
recognition of community-based conservation.
Every Tibetan community in China has its own sacred areas that are protected by strict rules.
Economic development needs and societal changes, however, are weakening these cultural
safeguards, resulting in increased threats to biodiversity.
“Rapid economic development and other outside influences are eroding the tradition of
sacred lands,” explains CI-China’s Technical Director Li Zhang. “We designed the CCF as a
mechanism to help communities reverse this trend.”
With additional support from the EU-China Biodiversity Programme and CI Indigenous and
Traditional Peoples Program, the CCF to date has made 70 grants to support community
conservation initiatives, covering 80 percent of the hotspot.
Grants have supported a range of projects including patrolling, rural environmental education
and sustainable resource management. Recipients have included Buddhist monks and
school teachers. A monk concerned about overharvesting of Tibetan herbs on a sacred
mountain next to his village, for instance, used a CCF grant to survey local plant species
and then publish an environmental handbook, which is now used in the local school. The
monk is also working with herdsmen in the area to protect the mountain.
Zhang said community conservation has proven to be a highly effective tool, and this has
enabled CI-China to convince provincial officials and leaders in the People’s Congress
of the need for legislation recognizing community conservation sites as official protected
areas. Such laws will give community members the legal authority to patrol these areas
and enforce conservation practices.
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A conservation group in the Republic of Georgia has realized a milestone for the Caucasus
Hotspot with a landmark management plan balancing sustainability and development while
opening the door for transboundary cooperation along the West Lesser Caucasus biodiversity
conservation corridor.
With CEPF support and input from all stakeholders, the Association for Nature Protection and
Sustainable Development (Mta-Bari) has developed the management blueprint for the buffer
zone surrounding Mtirala National Park. Roughly 20,000 hectares of mostly pristine mountain
forest fall under the purview of the document, which identifies areas for intervention and lays
the groundwork for careful land use.
“The plan contains needed guidelines for sustainable use of natural resources and generation
of alternative livelihoods, such as beekeeping, grape cultivation and small-scale tourism,”
explained Zurab Manvelidze, project coordinator and Mta-Bari chairman. “It is the first of its
kind in the hotspot and should serve as an important template for work in other protected
areas of the Caucasus.”
Unique geology, terrain and climate have made the Caucasus among the most biologically
diverse regions in the temperate world. A quarter of its 6,500 species of vascular plants
are found nowhere else on Earth – the highest level of endemism in the temperate zone.
However, unsustainable use of forests, poaching and overharvesting of decorative plants
are major threats to the buffer zone and the park.
Beyond establishing a framework to counter these threats, the management plan, which
has been approved by the Georgian government, has also served as a launch point for
discussions on transboundary cooperation with Turkey. Its Jamili Biosphere Reserve is
a short distance from the Mtirala buffer zone and borders a proposed protected area in
Georgia’s Machakhela region. Close cooperation between the countries would strengthen
conservation in the region while promoting tourism and other economic opportunities for
communities.
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In a region of South Africa known as much for its daisies as for its diamonds, a small business is
an important part of a local conservation group’s big plans to revitalize the environment.
NM Restoration is the brainchild of the Namaqualand Restoration Initiative (NRI), a CEPF- and
DeBeers-funded project in the heavily mined Namaqualand region of the Succulent Karoo
Hotspot. The business brings together advanced mine restoration techniques—developed
during three years of scientific research led by NRI—with an NRI plan to replace dwindling local
mining jobs with restoration opportunities.
NRI selected three Namaqualanders to lead the company. Qualifications, said Krüger, were
business skills and a passion for the environment. After choosing the leadership team, NRI
invited 47 community members to a five-day restoration training course. NM Restoration then
hired 15 of the participants.
The task ahead is staggering. Over the past 100 years, more than 20,000 hectares in
Namaqualand, known for its rich array of endemic species and its spring explosion of
colorful wildflowers, have been stripped for diamonds. Legislation passed in 1992 required
mining companies to rehabilitate old mines, but enforcement has been spotty.
In addition, NM Restoration is only part of the NRI approach. Project leaders are teaching
their methodology to restoration teams across Namaqualand with the aim of developing a
restoration and biodiversity-based economy in the region.
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sustain the conservation gains achieved $19,210 Tanzania and Kenya
as a result of CEPF investment in the initial Development of the Buffer Zone of Wildlife Conservation Society $125,000
five-year investment period for the region Mtirala National Park: Initiation of World Wide Fund for Nature
Sustainable Resource Use Activities Forest Conservation in the Matumbi
Support the Sharing of Lessons $95,000 Hills, Rufiji District Promoting Conservation through
Learned Across and Beyond Corridors Association for Nature Protection and $175,000 Trees for Carbon Sequestration and
within the Cape Floristic Region Sustainable Use “Mta-Bari” World Wide Fund for Nature Livelihoods Improvement in Madunguni
$150,000 Forest Reserve, Malindi District, Kenya
South African National Biodiversity Institute Promoting Sustainable Resource Strategic Direction 4: Establish a small $50,000
Use Among Local Communities Near grants program in the hotspot that focuses East Africa Natural History Society
Caucasus Hotspot Protected Areas in Southern Armenia on Critically Endangered species and small-
$199,700 scale efforts to increase connectivity of Technical Backstopping of Sustainable
Strategic Direction 1: Support civil
Fund for Biodiversity Conservation of biologically important habitat patches Finance and Final Reporting Processes
society efforts to promote transboundary
Armenian Highland $20,000
cooperation and improve protected area A Bilingual Field Guide to the Amphibians World Wide Fund for Nature - UK
systems in five target corridors Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal of the Eastern Arc Mountains and
Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya Eastern Himalayas Region
Creation of the System of Protected
$19,540
Areas of the North Caucasus (Green Strategic Direction 1: Increase the ability Strategic Direction 1: Build on existing
The Research Institute of the State University
Corridor of the North Caucasus) - Phase II of local populations to benefit from and landscape conservation initiatives to maintain
of New York
$125,948 contribute to biodiversity conservation and restore connectivity and to protect
Vsemirnyi Fond Prirody Capacity Development for Conservation wide-ranging threatened species in priority
The Change from Central to Community- in Africa corridors with a particular emphasis on the
Development of the Econet Scheme Based Forest Management in a $19,041 Bhutan Biological Conservation Complex,
of the North Caucasus on the Basis Biodiversity Hotspot in Tanzania: BirdLife International Kangchenjunga-Singalila Complex and North
of Analysis of Satellite Images and Evaluating the Effect on Conservation Bank Landscape
Topographical Maps - Phase II and Poverty Alleviation Strategic Direction 5: Develop and support
$28,194 $37,620 efforts for further fundraising for the hotspot Advocacy and Awareness Campaign on
Vsemirnyi Fond Prirody Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Biodiversity in Bhutan
Planning, University of Copenhagen Convening the CEPF Eastern Arc & $79,947
Supporting the Institutional Development Coastal Forests Assessment Workshop Kuensel Corporation Limited
of the Caucasus Protected Areas Fund Kachororoni Saintpaulia Conservation $109,539
$500,000 Project Tanzania Forest Conservation Group Identification and Strengthening of Key
Caucasus Protected Areas Fund $10,000 Habitat Linkages in Manas Tiger Reserve
National Museums of Kenya Hotspot Butterflies: Making the Butterfly Using Geo-spatial Technology and Policy
Strategic Direction 2: Strengthen mechanisms Exhibit Industry Work for Conservation Advocacy
to conserve biodiversity of the Caucasus Mrimazo Forest Conservation and $15,565 $79,980
Hotspot with emphasis on species, site and Rehabilitation Project International Centre of Insect Physiology and AARANYAK
corridor outcomes $10,000 Ecology
National Museums of Kenya Maintain and Restore Habitat
Site Network for Birds and Wetlands: Improving Rewards for Environmental Connectivity and Reduce Human-Animal
Inventory, Protection and Community Strategic Direction 2: Restore and increase Stewards in Equitable Payment for Conflict in the North Bank Landscape
Management - Phase II connectivity among fragmented forest Watershed Service Scheme $80,776
$54,688 patches $56,200 World Wide Fund for Nature – India
Vsemirnyi Fond Prirody CARE International
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Biodiversity Area $92,600 Conservation International
$20,000 Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Zamorano Actions for Improved Vegetation
Ecobiosfera El Triunfo, Sociedad Civil Succulent Karoo Hotspot Management on the Bokkeveld Plateau
Enhancing the Site-Specific and National $20,000
Strengthening the Multisectoral Round Population Viability of Threatened Upper Strategic Direction 2: Engage key industrial Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Table of the Natural and Cultural Zone Elevation Amphibian Species of the sectors in meeting conservation objectives
of Mirador/Río Azul: A Tool for the Maya Mountain Massif in Belize identified by SKEP Developing a Strategic Plan for the
Protection and Conservation of the $51,524 Community Conservation Section in the
Gouritz Corridor: Biodiversity Tourism Department of Tourism, Environment
Selva Maya Wildtracks
Route (Off-the-Beaten Track) and Conservation
$20,000
Evaluating the Conservation Status of $59,414 $37,200
Asociación Balam para la Conservación
Critically Endangered Amphibians in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Botanical Society of South Africa
de los Recursos Naturales y Culturales
Integrados Eight Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites in
Land Stewardship and Acquisition Investigate Innovative Mechanisms
Guatemala
within the Central Little Karoo Based to Restore and Retain High Priority
Support for the Declaration of the Visis $44,635
on a Private-Public Partnership, Fine- Succulent Karoo in the Cederberg
Caba Protected Area as a Community Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y la
Scale Cost-Effective Assessment and Conservancy
Reserve Conservación
Connectivity Analysis $114,250
$20,000
Exchange and Consolidation of $36,402 Western Cape Nature Conservation Board
Asociación Centro de Acción Legal-Ambiental
Information on Regional Research Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
y Social de Guatemala
on Critically Endangered Species in Land Conservation Facilitation for Leslie
Making Business Part of the Solution: Hill Succulent Karoo Trust
Strategic Direction 3: Support priority Northern Mesoamerica AZE Sites
Engaging Corporate Support in $60,390
conservation actions in three priority key $16,972
Sustaining Conservation in the Succulent World Wide Fund for Nature - South Africa
biodiversity areas Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y
Karoo
la Conservación y su Capítulo México, A.C.
Protecting Biodiversity in the Selva Maya $157,513 Landscapes and Livelihoods: Strategic
Corridor through the Aerial Perspective A Risk Assessment of the Bats of the Conservation International Ecological Advice, Mentoring, and
$20,000 Greater Maya Mountains of Belize Support for Biodiversity-Based
Ostrich Industry Biodiversity Livelihoods in Namaqualand
LightHawk $33,900
Management Project $109,100
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
Strategic Direction 4: Support efforts $120,185 Peter Carrick
University
to prevent the extinction of Northern South African Ostrich Business Chamber
Mesoamerica’s 106 Critically Endangered Surveying Sites Containing Highly The Namaqualand Uplands Cape
Preparing for Conservation and Leopard Trust Conservancy Project:
species Threatened and Data-Deficient Species
Sustainable Land Use of the Succulent Using Leopards to Unite Farmers in
in Southern Mexico
Biogeographical Patterns of Freshwater Karoo in Namibia Conservation
$19,989
Fishes in Honduras $202,402 $110,459
John Lamoreux
$38,533 Namibia Nature Foundation The Cape Leopard Trust
The University of Southern Mississippi Polynesia-Micronesia Hotspot
Understanding the Koue Bokkeveld Restoration of the Nieuwoudtville Wild
Countrywide Conservation and Management Strategic Direction 4: Provide strategic Geophytes Flower Reserve
Assessment of Critically Endangered leadership and effective coordination of CEPF $12,000 $35,860
Amphibians in Honduras investment through a regional implementation University of Cape Town Indigo Development and Change
$44,544 team
University of Florida
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Vulnerability of a Key Iconic Species, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Hotspot
Aloe Dichotoma, to Past and Future
Climate Change Western Ghats Region
$36,160
Strategic Direction 3: Provide strategic
University of Cape Town
leadership and effective coordination of CEPF
Strategic Direction 4: Mainstream investment through a regional implementation
conservation priorities into land-use planning team
and policymaking
CEPF Regional Implementation Team in
Climate Change Communication the Western Ghats
Campaign $400,000
$91,567 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and
The Green Connection Environment
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Also this fiscal year, the Global Environment Facility
and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
committed new funds to enable consolidation and
further expansion of the program.
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Monique Barbut Irène Alvarez Jørgen Thomsen Caucasus
Chairperson and CEO, The Global CEPF Task Manager, L’Agence Française Executive Director, CEPF and Nugzar Zazanashvili
Environment Facility de Développement Senior Vice President, WWF Caucasus Programme Office
Conservation International
Jonathan F. Fanton Stephen Cornelius Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal
President, The John D. and Catherine T. Acting Director, Conservation and Lisa Dean Forests of Tanzania and Kenya
MacArthur Foundation Sustainable Development Program Area, Senior Director for Finance and Ian Gordon
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Information Management International Centre of Insect Physiology
Pierre Jacquet Foundation and Ecology
Executive Director, L’Agence Française Bobbie Jo Kelso
de Développement Warren Evans Senior Director for External Affairs Eastern Himalayas
Sector Director, Environment, The World Sarala Khaling
Hiroshi Naka Bank Nina Marshall WWF Nepal Program Office
Director for Development Policy Division, Acting Managing Director
International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Frank Hawkins Indochina
Government of Japan Vice President, Africa and Madagascar Christine Potochny John Pilgrim
Division, Conservation International Online Content Director BirdLife International in Indochina
Peter A. Seligmann
Chairman and CEO, Conservation Masashi Nakayama Deborah Spayd Northern Mesoamerica
International Section Chief, Development Policy Division, Director, Grants Management Unit Carlos Rodriguez
International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, John Watkin Conservation International, Mexico and
Katherine Sierra Government of Japan Central America Center for Biodiversity
Vice President, Sustainable Development, Grant Director
Conservation
The World Bank Hisae Tokumaru Michele Zador
Director, Global Biodiversity Strategy Grant Director Polynesia-Micronesia
James D. Wolfensohn Office, Nature Conservation Bureau, Leilani Duffy
Chairperson, CEPF Donor Council Ministry of the Environment, Government Conservation International Pacific Islands
of Japan Program
Western Ghats
Bhaskar Acharya
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology
and the Environment
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CEPF has supported more than Asociación de Organizaciones del Corredor Bird Conservation Nepal Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei
Biológico Talamanca Caribe BirdLife International Popoli
1,300 nongovernmental and private
Asociación de Practicantes de Medicina Black Sea Eco Academy Community and Biodiversity Conservation
sector partners in conserving
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Tradicional Naso Research Center of Lanzhou University
Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University
biodiversity hotspots. Asociación de Profesionales y Técnicos Concerned Environmentalists for the
Ngöbe Bugle Bombay Natural History Society Enhancement of Biodiversity
Asociación de Turismo de Tres Colinas Botanical Society of South Africa Conservação Internacional do Brasil
Aaranyak
Asociación Ecuatoriana de Ecoturismo Brown Hyena Research Project Conservation International
Adansonia Consulting
Asociación IXACAVAA de Desarrollo e Cagayan Valley Partners in People Development Conservation Management Ltd.
AfriBugs CC
Información Indígena Calbitz Holdings
Africa Conservation Fund Conservation Management Services
Asociación Mejorando al Desarrollo Rural de la The Cape Leopard Trust
Africa Environmental News Service Region a Traves de la Conservación de la Vida Conservation Strategy Fund
Silvestre (formerly Asociación Meralvis) Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve Company Conserve Africa Foundation
African Butterfly Research Institute
Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la CARE Bolivia Construction Planning Office of Shangri-la Alpine
African Rainforest Conservancy
Naturaleza CARE International Botanic Garden
Afrique Nature International
Asociación para la Conservación, Investigación Carrick, Peter Cooperativa AMBIO Sociedad Cooperativa de
AGORO Centre for Intercultural Learning and de la Biodiversidad y el Desarrollo Sustentable Responsabilidad Limitada
Talent Development Caucasus Environmental NGO Network
Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Caucasus Protected Areas Fund Cooperativa do Produtores Orgânicos do Sul
Agricultural Research Counci—Range and Naturaleza da Bahia
Forage Institute Cecchi, Susie Lee
Asociación Red Colombiana de Reservas Cornell University
Alianza para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Naturales de la Sociedad Civil Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous
Knowledge Corporación Oro Verde
Amani Nature Reserve Asociación Trópico Verde/ParksWatch
Center for Russian Nature Conservation Corporación para la Investigación, Capacitación
Amazon Conservation Association Guatemala y Apoyo Técnico para el Manejo Sustentable de
American Bird Conservancy Associação Dos Pescadores e Amigos Do Rio Central de Pueblos Indigenas de La Paz los Ecosistemas Tropicales
Amigos del Museo de Historia Natural Noel Paraiba Do Sul Central Mindanao University Corporación Serraniagua
Kempff Mercado Associação dos Proprietários de Reservas Centre Ecologique de Libanona Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Anglia Ruskin University Particulares do Estado da Bahia
Centre National des Sciences Halieutiques de Counterpart International
Angweng Reincarnated Buddha Associação Flora Brasil Boussoura
Cowling, Shirley Pierce
Anti Illegal Logging Institute Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y
Enseñanza Crescente Fértil–Projetos Ambientais Culturais e
Arid Zone Ecology Forum Associação Super Eco de Integração Ambiental de Comunicação
e Desenvolvimento da Criança Centro Científico Tropical
Arizona State University Curtis, Odette
Association Fanamby Centro de Estudios y Acción Social Panameño
Armenian Assembly of America, Inc. Danish Zoological Society
Association for Nature Protection and Centro de Investigación y Estudios en
Armenian Forests NGO Sustainable Use “Mta-Bari” Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos Darmanto
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, Desmet, Philip
ASEAN Focus Group Pty. Ltd. Association pour la Gestion Intégrée et Durable Asociación Civil Deutsches Primatenzentrum
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and de l’Environnement Centro para la Investigación en Sistemas Development Bank of Southern Africa
the Environment Aurora Resource Development Initiatives Sostenibles de Producción Agropecuaria Djogo, Antonius
Asociación Balam para la Conservación de los Association, Inc. Chen, Youping Doga Dernegi
Recursos Naturales y Culturales Integrados Baimaxueshan National Nature Reserve Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda
Management Office Dolphin Foundation
Asociación Centro de Acción Legal-Ambiental y Breeding Center
Social de Guatemala Baviaans Conservancy Duineveld Coastal Association
China Institute of Water Resources and
Asociación Comercial y Agropecuaria de Chiriquì Beijing Normal University Hydropower Research Durban Botanic Gardens
Grande China Youth Daily–Green Island East Africa Natural History Society
Beijing Shanmo Investment Consultancy Co.
Asociación de Amigos y Vecinos de la Costa y la The Chinese Academy of Sciences The East African Wild Life Society
Naturaleza Belize Association of Private Protected Areas
Belize Foundation for Research and COLUFIFA-GUINEE EcoAfrica Environmental Consultants
Asociación de Desarrollo y Promoción Humana de la Eco-Security Task Force of China Council
Costa Atlántica Environmental Education Colville, Jonathan
Belize Tropical Forest Studies for International Cooperation on Environment
and Development
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Li, Xiaohong Costa Caribe Nicaragüense, Recinto de
PeaceWork Sichuan Wildlife Resource Survey and Bluefields-Raas
LightHawk Peking University Conservation Management Station
Universidades de las Regiones de la Costa
Livelihood Enhancement in Agro-forestry Peng, Jitai Skills and Agriculture Development Caribe Nicaragüense
Foundation, Inc. Services, Inc.
The Peregrine Fund Universitas Syiah Kuala
Living Earth Foundation Smithsonian Institution
Perkumpulan Generasi Untuk Rehabilitasi University of Calgary
Mabuwani Women Group Keseimbangan Hidup dan Alam Snowland Great Rivers Environmental Protection
Association University of Cape Town
Mabuwaya Foundation Inc. Perkumpulan Uma Mentawai
Sociedad Audubon de Panamá University of Copenhagen
Masibambane Multi-Purpose Community Philippine Business for Social Progress
Centre Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la University of Dar es Salaam
Philippine Eagle Conservation Program Conservación y su Capítulo México, A.C. University of Florida
MATEZA Foundation, Inc.
Measey, G. John Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental University of Louisiana at Monroe
Probioma
Miami University Sociedade de Estudos dos Ecossistemas e University of Pretoria
Process Luzon Association, Inc. Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Bahia
Mindanao Environment Forum University of Southern Mississippi
Professional and Entrepreneurial Orientation The Society for Environmental Exploration
Miriam-Public Education and Awareness Union University of Stellenbosch
Campaign for the Environment Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia University of Vermont
Programme for Belize
Missouri Botanical Garden Socorro Empowered Peoples Cooperative University of Western Ontario
Pronatura Chiapas, A.C.
Modelo de Comunidad Ecológica Los Valles Soebatsfontein Tourism Forum University of York
Protea Permaculture
Mülleriana: Sociedade Fritz Müller de Ciências SOS Pro Mata Atlântica Valor Natural
Rainforest Alliance
Naturais SOS-FORETS Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Rare
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali South African National Biodiversity Institute Voluntary Health Association of Sikkim
Rawsonville Wine & Tourism
NACLO South African National Parks Vsemirnyi Fond Prirody
Rede Nacional de Combate ao Tráfico de
Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust Animais Silvestres South African Ostrich Business Chamber Wakuluzu: Friends of the Colobus Trust Ltd.
Namibia Nature Foundation Regalis Environmental Services CC South African Protea Producers and Exporters Walk With Me/Hamba Nam
Namprocon CC Association
Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus Wang, Nan
Namsaling Community Development Centre The South African Wine & Brandy Company
The Research Institute of the State University of Wanglang Nature Reserve
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation New York Southern Ambition 112
West Chester University
National Museums of Kenya Riau Mandiri Southwest Forestry College
Western Baviaanskloof Initiative
The Nature Conservancy The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Sumgayit Center for Environmental
Rehabilitation Western Cape Animal Production Research Trust
Nature Conservation Centre Environment
Surigao Economic Development Western Cape Conservation Stewardship
Nature Kenya Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Association
Foundation, Inc.
Nature’s Valley Trust Royal Institute of Management Western Cape International Youth Festival
Sutherland Unemployment Forum
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Royal Society for the Protection of Nature Western Cape Nature Conservation Board
Tanzania Forest Conservation Group
Newmark, William D. Sanbona Game Reserve Pty Ltd. Western Philippines University Puerto Princesa
Tereviva Associação De Fomento Turístico e
NGO Arboretum d’Antsokay Sano y Salvo Desenvolvimento Sustentável Campus
Noah’s Arc Centre for the Recovery of Endangered Save My Future Foundation Terra Viva Centro de Desenvolvimento Wild Chimpanzee Foundation
Species Schöning, Caspar Agroecológico do Extremo Sul da Bahia WildAid
Norden Pines Sekretariat Kerjasama Pelestarian Hutan TRAFFIC International Wilderness Action Group
Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park Development Indonesia TRÓPICO Wilderness Foundation
Foundation, Inc. Seleksi Penerimaan Mahasiswa Baru Unidad Indígena del Pueblo Awá Wilderness Foundation–South Africa
Organización para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Selva Reps S.A.C. Unilever Tanzania Limited Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa
Pueblo Naso Sichuan Academy of Forestry United Nations Foundation Wildlife Conservation Society
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Barkinkhoeva, Rosa Cámara Nacional de la Producción y el Chapembe Kajiweni De Jaar, Jan
Barnett, Mandy Emprendimiento Charitable Fund for Protection of Natural and De Kock, Gary
Canongia, Paulo Marcio Goulart Cultural Value in the Nature Reserves of Armenia
Barodien, Glynnis De Leon, Josefina L.
Cape Leopard Trust Chengdu Bird Watching Society
Barrie, Abdulai Delahunt, Kerry Jo
CapeStorm Outdoor Apparel (Pty) Ltd. Chengdu Institute of Biology
Becker, Vitor Osmar Deyang Wildlife Conservation Association
Cardoso, Luis Nelson Faria Chengdu Urban Rivers Association
Behr, Walter Dhamala, Man Kumar
Cáritas del Perú Chikira, Hassan Senkondo
Beijing Forestry University Dimalibot-Concepcion, Judeline M.
Carlse, Alberto Frederick Chilikin, Vitalii
Bekker, Karin Dimas, Jennifer C.
Carlse, Carol Leigh China Academy of Social Sciences
Belik, Victor Dingani, July
Carolus, Berenice China Society of Territory Economics
Benetti, Amilcar Dinkevich, Mikhail
Carolusberg Garden of Hope China West Normal University
Bengjinmeiduo Women’s Group Driver, Amanda
Caspian Institute of Biological Resources, Chinese Academy of Forestry
Benny, John Du Toit, Dominique
Dagestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy Clanwilliam Living Landscape
Benzilan Village of Sciences Dzhamirzoev, Gadzhibek
Clanwilliam News Agency
Berbert, Henrique Castro, Aristides de Oliveira East China Normal University
Cleaver, Gail
Besten, Sheila Caucasian Eco-house Association of Scientists Ebrahim, Ismail
Coalición para la Conservación de la Biosfera
The Bigger Picture TV Production CC and Ecologists del Sureste Ecology and Conservation of Birds NGO
Binhi Sang Kausawagan Foundation, Inc. Caucasian Endemics Research Centre Coelho, João Lopes Ecolur NGO
Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Union Caucasus Center for Ethological Research Collège d’Enseignement Général Daraina Ecopulse Association
BioResource Conservation Trust for the Caucasus Wild Plants Certification Centre Coller, Terence Edu Ventures
Philippines, Inc. Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc. Eduarte, Medaro Medel P.
Commanditaire Vennootschop Way Mengaku
Bird Conservation Nepal Centre for Environmental Education Indah Egan, Lorraine
Blagovidov, Aleksei Centre for International Forestry Research Community Aid for Rehabilitation and Eland, Samuel
Blanchard, Ryan Centre for Policy and Law, Yunnan Forestry Development
Eldridge, Anne Claire
Blankenberg, George Bureau Community Development Resource Association
Ellman, Roleen
Blumeris, Hilton Centre for Protection of Natural and Cultural Comunidad Nativa de Infierno
Heritage Entrepreneurship Development Foundation
Booth, Pam Conrado, Maria da Conceição Carvalho
Centro Comunitário Rural da Colina Environmental Foundation International
Booyse, Pieter Eric Correa, Angelo Pio Mendes Jr.
Centro de Desenvolvimento Agroecológico do Ernstzen, Roy
Booysen, Dennis Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center
Extremo Sul da Bahia Terra Viva Erzi State Reserve
Botha, Pierre Craft South Africa
Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Esau, Jacobus Phillipus
Boyana, Nondumiso Faith Guaçu-Virá Crouse, Annelize
Escola Superior São Francisco de Assis
Bratkov, Vitalii Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas para o Cumming, Tracey
Espanola, Carmela P.
Breganza, Edwin Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul da Bahia Cuochi Wild Yak Conservation Association
Euro Caucasian Ecological Initiative Public Union
Briel, Philip Centro de Estudos Ecológicos e Educação Cupido, Christopher
Ambiental European Herpetological Society
Brink, William Dafengding Nature Reserve
Centro de Estudos para Conservação da Ferraz, Deise Maria Cardoso
Bucol, Abner Natureza Daleprani, Martha Penitente
Flora and Fauna Georgia
Bukreev, Sergey Centro Guatemalteco de Producción Más Dalko Progressive Group
Florindo, Pollyane
Burger, Elzanne Limpia Damasceno, Sandra Souza
Floris, Morris
Burrows, Hendrik Jakobus Centro para el Desarrollo del Indígena Damons, Monique
Amazónico Follmann, Eugênio Victor
Daocheng Zhujie Monastery
Fono-Rozani, Thisiwe Glory
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Kaya Likunda Drama Group Lembaga Studi Pelayanan dan Penyuluhan Mamabolo, Tshepo Menabe
Kayster, Glenda Masyarakat Mamize Nature Reserve Mentoor, Joel
Kelly, Ralph Lembethe, Zithobele Mammalogists of Azerbaijan Mevanarivo, Zo Elia
Khadga, Mahesh Lemke, Huarley Pratte Management Bureau, Baodinggou Meyer, Patrick
Khan, Asieff Lemke, Nair Pratte Nature Reserve Mhlongo, Bongani
Kharkams Technology Crafters Lewis, Graham Management Bureau, Mangkang National Mianyang Normal College Biological Sciences
Liangshan Prefecture Wildlife Conservation Nature Reserve and Engineering
Khohlov, Alexander
Association Management Bureau, Tianchi Provincial Mianyang Normal University
Khunou, Angeline Nature Reserve
de Lima, Luci Ramos Michael Succow Foundation for the Protection
Kihale Wildlife Conservation Farm Management Bureau, Yunling Provincial
de Lima, Sérgio of Nature
Kikundi cha Mazingira Kifinga Nature Reserve
Lindani, Sabelo Micheals, Stacey-Anne
Kikundi cha Mazingira Mwaya Mandlake, Jerret
Lipkovich, Alexander Mikhail, Soloviev
Kikundi cha Wakulima na Uhifadhi wa Mazingira Mangala, Nonthuthuzelo Veronica
Liu, Guanyuan Miles, Melvyn
Kilibasi Youth Group Mantadia Zahamena Corridor
Liu Hule Law Firm Minaar, Charles
Kilio Cha Haki Manuel, Jeffrey
Livesey-Goldblatt, Ruth Minnaar, Elana
Kilwala Nature Group Mao County Association of Friends of Wildlife
Loader, Simon Minnesota Zoo Foundation
Kimanzichana Environment and Poverty Mao, Tianxue
Alleviation Lokhman, Yuriy Minoranskiy, Victor
Mapukata, Sivuyile Oscar
Kivedo, Mary Lolwana, Goodwill Miritini Environmental Development Group
Marafa Group
Koali, Nneheleng Lombo, Amos Mischenko, Alexhander
Marilele, Tinyiko
Kolby, Jonathan London Zoological Society Mitchell, Petrus
Marini, Claudia Chaves Gaudino
Komarov, Euvgeniy Lore Eco Club NGO Mkefe, Thanduxola
Marinus, Eugene
Koops, Kathelijne Lorica, Renee Ma. P. Mkhulise, Sizwe Stevenson
Marsh, Carol
Kormos, Rebecca Loureiro, Eduardo Luis Mkosana, Joram
Martin, Marilyn
Kragh, Vibeke Lourens, John Eben Mkwemeni Progressive Association
Masande Self Help Group
Krasnova, Elena Louw, Rhoda Mligo, Cosmas
Mashologu, Noluvuyo
Krokhmal, Dmitrii Luderitz Secondary School Mnatsekanov, Roman
Mater Natura—Instituto de Estudos Ambientais
Kubayi, Rhulani Lugandu, Simon Deus Mnisi, Bongani
Matillano, Joie D.
Kulmiye Youth Group Luhuo Rainbow Grassland Ecological Molobi, Cornelius
Conservation Association Matjuda, Donald
Kunming Institute of Zoology, China Academy of Monte, Nietta Linderberg
Luoxu White-lipped Deer Nature Reserve Matoti, Ayanda
Science Montebello Craft and Design Centre
Lyubimova, Kseniya Matsha, Themba
Kunming University of Science and Technology Monteiro, Carlos Alberto
Maarman, Richard May, Daniel
Kwale Wildlife Clubs Patrons Action Group Morkel, Augustine
Maciel, Gilda Arantes Mazingira na Maendeleo
Kwale Youth Action Plan Group Morris, Clive
Madruga, Alice Mbambazeli, Ntsikelelo Giles
Lafuge, Jean Claude Mountain Club of South Africa
Madureira, João Luiz Jr. McGregor, Eleanor
Laubser, Maryke Movimento Ambiental Pingo D’Água
Magasela, Bongiwe McKeith, Donovan
Law School, Kunming University of Science and Movimento Ecológico de Rio das Ostras
Technology Magomedov, Suleiman McKie, Charline
Mpambani, Ayanda
Law School of Zhejiang University Magubane, Sanele Mdala, Mandisa
Mruki Economic Dev Group
Law School, Zhongnan University of Law and Mairie de Nosibe Mdalase, Ntombizikhona
Msabaha Neem and Mango Growers
Economics Makhado, Azwianewi Mdlazi, Thumeka Association
Media and Training Centre for Health Msengi, Bulelwa
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Sangco, Edelito Prof. Melo Leitão Titus, Shamely Willemans, Janine
de Santana, Eduardo Augusto Alves Sociedade Nordestina de Ecologia Titus, Ursula Williams, Bronwen
Santana, Ronaldo de Jesus Sociedade Visconde de São Leopoldo Tsaruk, Oleg Williams, Lesley-Anne
Sauls, Clifford Society of Green Artvin Tsechoeva, Maret Wilman, Victoria
Serikali ya Kijiji cha Utete Mashariki Soi, Bernard Cheruiyot Tsinghua University Biodiversity Conservation Wilson, Natasha
Shangri-La Highland Plant Park Song, Zhaobin Association
Winter, Sue
Shenguozhuang Nature Reserve Sotomi, Athena Turi, Daniel
Wood, Julia
Shikaadabu Union Development Programme South African Astronomical Observatory Uchozini Cooperative Ufugaji na Uhifadhi
Mazingira World Wildlife Fund Central America Program
Shilubane, William Mbhahleni South African Rooibos Council
Uithaler, Eldrid Xaba, Antonia
Shuonong Village South African Route Owners and
Operators Forum Ulayat Xaba, Phakamani
Sichuan Agricultural University Dujiangyan Yan, Taiming
School Southwest Forestry College Una Nas Águas
de Souza, Max Carmo Union – “DURUJIS MADLI” Yasadhana
Sichuan Forestry Science Institute
Steenkamp, Koos Union for Sustainable Development “ECO-VIEW” Yayasan Bina Wana Sejahtara
Sichuan Sr. Scientists & Researchers
Technology Association Sterling, Ivo Universidade Católica de Santos Yayasan Lembaga Pembelajaran Konservasi
Indonesia
Sichuan University Stishov, Mikhail Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Yongzhongzuoqinling Monastery of
Sichuan Wildlife Resources Investigation and Stoffels, Barry Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo Dingguoshan
Protection Management Workstation Sukhanova, Olga University of Minnesota Youth Ecotourism Eco-educational Public
Sidina, Ellen Surplus People Project University of Southern Mississippi Organization “Pilgrim”
Sikhakhane, Lungile Sustainable Development Institute University of Western Cape Yu, Zhixiu/Yu, Shuying
Silliman University Sustainable Environment and Livelihood Limited University of Witwatersrand Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences
da Silva, Irimar José Sviridova, Tatiana University of Würzburg Yunnan Huawei Law Firm
da Silva, João Emidio Lima Swartland, Donovan Valentina, Mamataeva Yunnan Lingyun Law Firm
Simas, Carlos Alberto Bello Swarts, Katriena Van der Vyver, Janet Yunnan Ruixiang Law Firm
Simas, Felipe Nogueira Bello Sylvatrop Van der Vyver, Lourentia Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkey Conservation
Simon, Gabriel Tabata, Wilken Van Heerden, Marie Association
Singo, Christopher Tacheng Gedeng Women’s Association Van Noie, Arnelle Zamorano Biodiversity Center
Siyaya, Jabulani Tao Philippines Van Rooi, Jacques Zanzibar Butterfly Center
Siyu Development Self Help Group Tapan Eco-Club NGO Van Ross, Granville Zemva, Sylvia
Smith, Peter Taut, Peter Vedzizheva, Zaira Zhao, Lianjun
Snyman, Cornelius Taylor, Sue Verwey, Susan Zhaxi Lapu Monastery
Snyman, Quinten Tcapko, Nikolai Veterinarian Sanitary and Nature Protection Zhongnan University of Law and Economics
Sociedade Amigos da Reserva Biológica Teberdinskii State Reserve Vilkov, Evgeniy Zikishe, Vathiswa
Augusto Ruschi Ziliotti, Bernadete
Teixeira, Christiane Voigt, Werner
Sociedade Angrense de Proteção Ecológica Zimri, Jona
Teixeira, Fernando Walters, Lewine
Sociedade Civil dos Bombeiros Voluntários de
Santa Teresa Teriological Society under the Russian Wang, Yu
Academy of Sciences, Russia Wanglang Nature Reserve
Sociedade de Amigos do Parque de Itaúnas
Tertitskii, Grigorii Warnick, Joslyn
Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e
Educação Ambiental Thanyani, Jimmy Watala
Thiago, Carlos Roberto Lima Wetlands International
Tianze Institute of Economy
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