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Enhancing leadership in organisational development among conservation organisations globally

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There is growing recognition that sustained conservation impact requires effective leadership from local and national organisations in biodiversity-rich countries. Strengthening the institutional capacity of these organisations is crucial to ensuring they can survive and deliver effective, locally-tailored conservation action. By building collaborative support to tackle common organisational development needs, this project aims to enhance leadership…

17th January 2014

Attaining Aichi Target 11: How well are marine ecosystem services secured by protected areas?

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have long been seen as one of the key tools in marine conservation. Policy and planning efforts, including international conservation agreements have, in turn, used measures of protected areas coverage as a means to set targets and assess progress. This project will investigate an important new component of global protected areas…

10th October 2013

Can land sparing mitigate climate change?

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Agriculture for crops and livestock occupies around 40% of terrestrial land area, is responsible for around a quarter of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and is the primary driver of global declines in biodiversity. Land sparing, which seeks to couple increased yields on farmland with the conservation of natural vegetation cover, has been suggested as…

30th July 2013

Mediterranean wood pastures for biodiversity – making the lynx

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This project aims to develop new tools to help conserve biodiversity in the emblematic wood pasture landscapes of southern Portugal. These areas are undergoing major change because of rural depopulation, land abandonment and other pressures. There is serious concern – but little evidence – about what this all means for the rich fauna and flora.…

29th July 2013

How key should “Key Biodiversity Areas” be?

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Governments from 193 countries have committed, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, to expanding the global protected area network to cover 17% of the earth’s terrestrial surface and 10% of marine areas, with a particular emphasis on areas of importance for biodiversity… but where are these areas? To date a variety of approaches have been developed…

26th July 2013

Eco-certification of tropical crops

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Eco-certification of crops such as coffee, oil palm and soybeans is changing the way these crops are grown across large parts of the tropics. Certification bodies reward farmers, co-operatives and companies for farming in an ecologically and socially responsible way, such as by avoiding deforestation, using fewer pesticides and treating workers fairly. However, the benefits…

24th July 2013

Applications of airborne remote sensing to the conservation management of a West African National Park

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Reducing emissions from tropical forest deforestation and degradation (REDD+) is regarded by some leading economists as a cost-effective means of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. In terms of conservation, REDD+ is often regarded as a win-win-win opportunity: climate change will be mitigated, biodiverse forests protected and local communities rewarded. Yet, the…

25th October 2012

Developing a framework to inform climate change adaptation for global biodiversity

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This workshop brought together a multi-disciplinary selection of researchers from CCI and beyond to identify the range of mechanisms by which climate change will impact on species and to determine potential adaptation interventions for each mechanism. This project was funded by the CCI Strategic Initiative Workshop Fund. This fund provides seed grants for participatory workshops…

23rd October 2012

Gaming and biodiversity conservation: assessing the potential

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Video games have become a vast industry (worth $29 billion worldwide in 2005, $42 billion in 2010), and gaming plays an important part of the lives of significant numbers of people across the world.  In recent years, new trends in the gaming industry have emerged. These include the development of a large industry of ‘serious…

22nd October 2012

How can incentives for soil carbon management contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation?

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Management of soil carbon may offer potential for improving agricultural practice and productivity whilst providing co-benefits in terms of climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Agricultural productivity in Africa has remained stagnant over recent decades, and this is generally attributed to a loss of soil fertility and of soil carbon. Increasing soil carbon is thought to…

22nd October 2012

Building a network of institutional NGO capacity to support sustainable conservation

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National and local conservation organisations in biodiversity-rich developing countries require institutional capacity in conservation leadership and systemic organisation. This includes areas such as strategic planning, governance, fundraising, monitoring and evaluation and financial management. To provide the affordable self–sustained institutional capacity development needed, this collaborative project will: Assess organisational capacity gaps in a trial group of…

17th October 2012

Assessing conservation costs in support of the CBD Strategic Plan

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Implementing the newly agreed Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 will require substantial mobilization of financial resources, but inadequate information on the scale of both current (baseline) spending and unmet needs is seen as considerable impediment. Under the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), world governments have committed to halting human-induced extinctions and…

17th October 2012