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Subject: CEPF E-News, October 2006
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:01:00 -0400
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>CEPF E-News
>An Update from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (http://www.cepf.net)
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>The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank. A fundamental goal is to engage nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and other sectors of civil society in conserving Earth's biodiversity hotspots. Visit http://www.cepf.net to learn more.
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>October 2006
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>* Conservation First for Bushmanland
>* Award for Legal Pioneers in the Tropical Andes
>* In Focus: Time for Tea!
>* Lesson Learned: Jill Key, coordinator, Pacific Invasives Learning Network
>* New Resources
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>Conservation First for Bushmanland
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>After two years of careful planning and negotiation, Anglo Base Metals has strengthened its initial conservation commitment in South Africa, agreeing to manage almost 25,000 hectares of highly threatened, unique habitat as a conservation management area in the Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot.
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>With its high levels of plant endemism and significant zinc ore reserves, the land owned by Anglo around Black Mountain and the Gamsberg area in South Africas Bushmanland region is vital both for biodiversity and the mining industry.
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>Anglo, the Botanical Society of South Africa, and the Northern Cape Department of Tourism, Environment, and Conservation (DTEC) have been working to protect the area through a partnership known as the Bushmanland Conservation Initiative (BCI), (http://www.botanicalsociety.org.za/default.php?pageID=ccu/ccu_projects.htm#Bushmanland) which was established in 2004 with support from CEPF under its strategic direction (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/where_we_work/succulent_karoo/investment_priorities.xml) of expanding protected area corridors through public-private-communal partnerships in the nine priority areas of the hotspot.
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>Anglo committed funds and personnel to maintain the area during BCIs two-year initial phase while continuing negotiations to establish a regulatory framework for a formal protected area.
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>"The initiative is an excellent way for us to work together and forge a sustainable future for business, biodiversity, and local communities," said Torsten Halbich, Anglos environmental and sustainable development coordinator.
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>BCI creates innovative mechanisms for local landowners to develop stewardship of the land with a long-term aim of bringing 60,000 hectares of unique habitat under protection.
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> Anglo is a key landowner in the area, and can act as a hub around which stewardship can expand, said Mark Botha, director of the Conservation Unit at the Botanical Society. It is important for us to engage the key industries in this impoverished part of the region and ensure that, wherever possible, an acceptable solution for maintaining internationally important biodiversity is found.
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>Other important BCI partners include Conservation Internationals Center for Environmental Leadership in Business http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/ and the WWF-South Africa Leslie Hill Succulent Karoo Trust.
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>For more information:
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>Read the related article from our archives about BCIs beginnings, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/in_focus/2004/may_feature.xml
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>Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Programs Bushmanland Priority Area:
>http://www.skep.org/bushmanland_inselbergs.html
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>Contact:
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>Mark Botha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), director, Conservation Unit, Botanical Society of South Africa
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>Torsten Halbich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), environmental and sustainable development coordinator, Anglo Base Metals
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>Visit the archive of top news stories, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/newsletter/
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>Award for Legal Pioneers in the Tropical Andes
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>Environmental law group Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA) (http://www.spda.org.pe/) recently won one of the first annual MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions for its pioneering work in establishing environmental laws and policies to protect Perus remarkable natural heritage.
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>The awards, given by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (http://www.macfound.org), one of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Funds (CEPF) five donor partners, recognize small nonprofit organizations that help address some of the worlds most challenging problems.
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>MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton characterized SPDA and the eight other winners as extraordinary organizations. He said the awards, up to $500,000 for each group, are hoped to allow the organizations to unleash their inspiration and impact on a larger scale in the future.
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>Founded in 1986, SPDA has consulted with regional and central government to design legal foundations for environmental governance. With support from CEPF since 2002, SPDA helped Perus government develop 10 new laws that have enabled landowners and other civil society groups to create private nature reserves.
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>Thanks in large part to SPDAs efforts, Perus first private reserve known as a servidumbre in Spanish was recently created in Cuzco by conservation group Asociación Santa María. (http://www.cuscoecologico.com/espanol/quienes_acerca_nosotros.htm)
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>SPDAs work has been supported by CEPF under its strategic direction (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/where_we_work/tropical_andes/investment_priorities.xml) of strengthening environmental and legal policy frameworks in the Tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot.
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>The organization is now helping 15 other civil society groups create private reserves that will improve connectivity in the buffer zone of the Reserva Nacional Tambopata and in the Madre de Dios region of Peru.
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>Read more about the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions,
>http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2026921/k.297B/MacArthur_Award_for_Creative_and_Effective_Institutions.htm.
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>Related resources:
>* Read José Luis Capellas firsthand experience (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/resources/lessons_learned/spda.xml) as a senior attorney at SPDA.
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>* With support from CEPF, SPDA produced a printed publication titled Manual de Instrumentos legales para la conservación privada en el Perú, which is available for download as a PDF. (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/SPDA.legaltools.full_publication.pdf)
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>Final completion reports from SPDAs projects are also available:
>* Disseminating and Implementing Legal Tools for Conservation in the Private Sector in the Vilcabamba-Amboró Corridor (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/Final.SPDA.LegalTools.pdf) (PDF)
>* Updating and Republication of Manual of Legal Tools for Private Conservation in Peru
>(http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/Final.SPDA.LegalTools2.pdf) (Español) (PDF)
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>In Focus: Time for Tea!
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>Rooibos tea grows only in a small area of the Cape Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot. Increased demand is threatening the areas unique flora and fauna as tea cultivation expands. Three projects are helping local communities work with the rooibos industry to create a sustainable future for the region.
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>Read the full story, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/in_focus/2006/october_feature.xml
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>Visit the In Focus feature archive, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/in_focus/
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>Lesson Learned
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>Jill Key, coordinator, Pacific Invasives Learning Network, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Proactive follow-up after meetings and other events has a huge positive impact on participants enthusiasm and success in achieving their objectives. http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/resources/lessons_learned/jillkey.xml
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>More lessons learned, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/resources/lessons_learned/
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>For More News
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>Want to know what's happening in other regions where CEPF invests? Visit the News & Features by Hotspot (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/news/) section of the Web site for more stories.
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>New Resources
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>* Digital satellite imagery of the Eastern and Western Cape is now available on the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)s Biodiversity GIS Web site (http://bgis.sanbi.org/index.asp). Managed by SANBI and other conservation partners, the site features a comprehensive online collection of spatial biodiversity planning information. Satellite imagery has proven to be particularly useful in monitoring and mapping land use changes.
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>* A Web site featuring detailed biodiversity information on the conservation corridors in the Atlantic Forest Hotspot is now available, thanks to the Aliança para a Conservação da Mata Atlântica, CEPFs coordination team in the hotspot. Corredores de Biodiversidade da Mata Atlântica (http://www.corredores.org.br/) contains useful information such as news, a calendar of events, and discussion forums, as well as corridor-specific interactive maps and background information.
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>* CEPF grantees in the Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests of Tanzania and Kenya region gathered for a workshop to share experiences and document lessons learned during the implementation of their projects. The workshop focused specifically on CEPFs strategic direction in the region of improving biological knowledge in the hotspot. Workshop proceedings (xp/cepf/static/pdfs/CEPF_SFD3_WorkshopReportFINAL.pdf) are now available to download from the CEPF Web site. Workshops will also be held on each of the four other strategic directions in this region throughout the coming year.
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>* Small grants of up to $5,000 are available from the Great Ape Emergency Conservation Fund to provide urgently needed support for the conservation and protection of great apes in emergency situations. The fund is administered by Conservaion Internationals Center for Applied Biodiversity Science in support of the Section on Great Apes of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. For more information, including application forms and guidelines, visit the Fund's Web site (http://www.primate-sg.org/gaecf.htm).
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>CEPF Grantee Publications:
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>Biodiversity & Wine Initiative Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 1, September 2006, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/BWI_newsletter.Vol.1.Issue.1.pdf (PDF)
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>CAPE Environment Newsletter, Vol. 3, July September 2006, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/CEnewsletter.2006_03.pdf (PDF), Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, Western Cape Region
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>The Golden Mole Newsletter, Volume 4, September 2006, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/NaDeet.GoldenMolenewsletter.Vol4.1.Sept06.pdf (PDF), Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust
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>SCARCE Talk Newsletter, August 2006, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/ScarceTalk_August.2006.pdf (PDF), Survey of Cederberg Amphibians and Reptiles for Conservation and Ecotourism project
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>For more resources, including a complete list of CEPF final project reports, visit the Resource Center (http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/resources/).
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>Copyright © 2006 Conservation International (http://www.conservation.org)
>Conservation International (CI) administers the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. CI is a leader and catalyst in biodiversity conservation, engaging partners in more than 40 countries on four continents to preserve threatened ecosystems. Learn more about the CEPF donor partners, http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/about_cepf/investors.xml.
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