There are 12,310 projects that match your search.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2009
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29,129.23
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BRA/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/09/09 |
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Remodeling of a communitarian kitchen and building of a shed to process baru to produce handicrafts and nuts; recovery of a Cerrado native species nursery, and institutional strengthening. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2009
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37,228.07
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BRA/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/09/07 |
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Organization of an incense sticks production based on Cerrado plants as a strategy to promote conservation through sustainable wild collection. |
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Uganda
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Biodiversity
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2009
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5,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: UGA/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/04 |
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To conduct environmental baseline study, conduct feedback meetings to share baseline findings, conduct participatory planning workshops, and develop a proposal for a full grant. |
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Indonesia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: INS/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/14 |
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Project Development Goals:
1. Community Bukit Duri and Kampong Pulo will be able to manage the environment independently;
2. Turning Rumah Kompos (Compost House) and verti-culture plant as community additional income;
3. Encouraging collaboration ( ... )
her communities working in similar area and issue to conduct collective activities in managing Ciliwung River as part of community living environment.
Project Development Objectives:
1. Shifting attitude in environmental management especially in waste management and medicinal plant cultivation;
2. Consistency in waste management and replanting activities;
3. Acknowledgement for wider
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Indonesia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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40,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: INS/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/09/09 |
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Ecological Threat :
1. Threat toward biodiversity in Agriculture and Foodstuff: The increase of population has change the agriculture system from conventional to intensive agriculture system. Climate change could contribute an impact in terms of ( ... )
owth of crops and it production including harvest failling, due to the growing of plant disease.
2. Threat for Wetland Ecosystem: Wetland is the largest carbon storage mechanism in the world. Especially peatland located in Taiga forest as well as marsh and tropical petland in Central Borneo,coastal area in South Sumatera, and major part of Papua. The drainange and destruction happened in the
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2009
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16,560.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/03 |
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Albania is a still an undeveloped source of indigenous and ancient grape varieties of which only a small number has been properly catalogued and identified.
This project will operate mostly in the south eastern part of the country and will ( ... )
bute in the establishment of 2 regional repositories for the local grape varieties. The project is expected to collect and place in the repositories about 30 traditional varieties. The varieties will be offered for recognition and registration by the National Authority for Plants and Seeds.
The project will also distribute among interested farmers about 2,000 cuttings (with Phylloxera resistant
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Dominican republic
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Biodiversity
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2009
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22,285.71
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: DOM/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/04 |
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Mejoramiento de la calidad pos cosecha del café de Solimán, mediante la instalación de un beneficiado húmedo , capacitación a los agricultores en la comunidad de Solimàn, Provincia Monte Cristi |
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Botswana
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Biodiversity
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BOT/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/12 |
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This project is about empowering local citizens, particularly members of rural communities, to make a contribution to biodiversity monitoring and thereby influence Botswana?s commitment towards meeting the obligations of the Convention on Biological ( ... )
ty. This will be achieved by building local capacity, through a series of training workshops, to enable ?ordinary? citizens to undertake bird counts along fixed transects, the results of which will be pooled to provide a Wild Bird Index (WBI). In time, this will provide a measure of the population trends of a representative suite of wild birds to act as a barometer of the general ?health? of the
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Lesotho
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Biodiversity
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2009
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23,622.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: LSO/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/05 |
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Purpose of the project is to conserve threatened species of aloes particulalry the spiral aloe (Aloe polyphilla) which and indigenous aloe found only in Lesotho. With the expanding market for aloe products, certain species of aloe are being ( ... )
rvested, for productionof cosmetics and herbal remedies. THe project intends to propagate the threatened species of aloe for sale as seedlings and for plantation and sale as mature plants. Both the nursery and the plantation will serve as demonstration sites for awareness raising about the economic value of these plants and it is envisaged that ecotourism will also be promoted. The project site
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2009
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26,358.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: TAN/SGP/OP4/CORE/Y3/09/02 |
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Context:
The project on community based environmental conservation for sustainable development will focus on Uchindile ward. This is a mountainous area located in Udzungwa mountain ranges in Mlimba Division, Kilombero District. The area is ( ... )
terized by land degradation and high rates of deforestation both of which have contributed to loss of wildlife habitat. The ward has a population of about 2000 people. Living conditions for people who live in this area fall below the poverty line. Lack of access to water is one of the social problems that affect livelihood.
Studies show that deforestation and forest degradation are brought
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Nepal
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Biodiversity
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2009
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49,955.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: NEP/SGP/OP4/03/CORE/09/05 |
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Rautahat possesses a diverse landscape of cultural and ecological importance. Communities neighbouring to this area rely on for a diversity of resources, including fuel-wood, timber, fodder, fibre and medicinal and aromatic plants, while the forest ( ... )
d grazing area for livestock during the dry season (RUUSEPS, 2009). Additionally, this forest eco-system is the major source of water for agricultural and domestic use in the surrounding communities, as well as the primary source-area for a number of local watersheds in southern area. The Chandi river and its river banks is one of important biological corridors in Rauthat districts. Although
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Sri lanka
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Biodiversity
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2009
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21,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: SRL/SGP/OP4Year2/RAF/09/13 |
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Kalpitiya is the largest lagoon in Sri Lanka and its mangroves were cut and destroyed decades ago for large scale shrimp cultivation. Although many initiatives have taken part to restore the situation still there are large barren stretches with no ( ... )
tion. This project aims systematic mangrove replanting and conservation in the effected area surrounding the lagoon. This is done with the participation of villages and other CBO, Awareness creation on conservation among communities and school children through school programs, publications, field visits with practical assignments, developing alternate livelihoods including ornamental fish
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Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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35,760.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ETH/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/05 |
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This project is geared towards the conservation and improvement of biological diversity through community environmental rehabilitation and sustainable development of the natural resource base with specific objectives of the project are: to halt the ( ... )
t level of land degradation and ecosystem resource devastation, to undertake afforestation and conserve the remaining natural resources, to promote the regeneration of vegetation cover and protect biodiversity resources, to introduce energy efficient /fuel saving technologies, to restore soil fertility, improve productivity and enhance food security and improve water resources and, to create
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Indonesia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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18,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: INS/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/24 |
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Project Development Goals:
To apply the balance of community?s livelihood with its environment in order to improve the quality of community life
Project Development Objectives:
1. Improving land condition in working site to be more ( ... )
tive
2. Available alternative economy activities to increase community income and to reduce deforestation by community
3. Available revolving fund scheme and savings in form of micro finance institution
Expected Outputs:
1. Established group for critical land conservation and recovery
2. Developed income generating activities based on local potency and culture
3. Established micro-finance
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Vanuatu
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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12,910.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: VUT/SGP/OP4/NZAID/09/02 |
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On smaller coralline islands in Vanuatu like Aniwa with the a population of 500 people living on the island had pressure on environmental resources. The increase harvesting of native forest vegetation for feul wood, ornamenta, settlement ( ... )
uction and clearance for subsistence farming and settlements has become a detriment to native forest to become shrubby low land vegetation. This had impacted the level of biodiversity of the small island terretrail fauna and flora that are not fully known. The sandal wood natural stock had been declined due to unsustainable harvest for market demand. Other local economic trees such as citrus
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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23,700.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/041 |
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3.1 PROBLEM
In most parts of the Upper West Region, forest cover, which serves as the habitat of wildlife and the source of other wood and non-wood forest products are increasingly lost. Thus, wildlife is depleted, reducing the income generation ( ... )
ial of the area as an eco-tourism site. In view of this the few remaining wild animals take solace in the reserve.
The increasing depletion of wildlife in Gilan and its environs is attributed to annual ritual wildfires, inappropriate farming practices and inappropriate fuel wood harvesting with their attendant destruction of vegetative cover and habitat loss which have resulted in erratic
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Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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27,327.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ETH/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/04 |
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The project will contribute towards global environmental benefits through enhanced biological biodiversity in the area. It will have a positive impact on the overall well-being of the people as well as on the general environmental conditions at ( ... )
national and global levels. Major outputs include improved soil and water conservation levels; improved supply of fruit seedlings; agro forestry plantation around homesteads, farm lands and bare lands; adoption of fuel saving technologies and increased income at household level due to modern bee keeping
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India
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Biodiversity
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2009
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32,484.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: IND/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/2009/45/KAR 15 |
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The project has set the following objectives:
? A well stocked gene-bank of local varieties of crops, vegetables is established
? The genebank is easily accessible to the farming community of the area
? Farmers grow and nurture local varieties ( ... )
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? Farmers are reintroduced to the benefits of growing crops adapted to the existing soil conditions and rainfall pattern
? Farmers realize the benefits of growing local varieties through savings in purchase of costly external inputs i.e. hybrid seeds, fertilizers, plant protection chemicals, etc.
? Farmers in peri-urban areas where the project is going to be grounded, will be linked
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2009
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21,277.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/05 |
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Normally seed exchange happens at individual levels within small social network. With this project initiative farmer seed bank will be established in three communities of Pemagatshel, Mongar and Samdrup Jongkhar.
Agricultural biodiversity is ( ... )
ial for sustainable production of food and the gains made in the modern world food production can be attributed to the availability of agricultural biodiversity that contributed the essential genes. Local knowledge and community participation therefore, is the primary requirement for effective and sustainable conservation of agricultural biodiversity.
It is a fact that most seeds are
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Iran
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Biodiversity
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2009
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15,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/Y2/09/01 (110) |
Project location:Qeshm (Lat/Long:26.965030-56.263390)
The project activities are:
? Coordination between ongoing projects for community conservation of Hawksbill Turtle Site: including the Zoning project, Public Conservation project, women?s ( ... )
vation handicraft project, Nourouz tourism vs. conservation project, documentation project and Hengam island turtle conservation project
? Support to local council for management of the community conserved site
? Establishing a local fund to help the turtle conservation effort to become self sufficient in years
? Production of advocacy material by the
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