Conserving the Yawri Bay Ecosystem in Sierra Leone's Coastal Corridor
Grantee Name: Conservation Society of Sierra Leone
- Hotspot
- Guinean Forests of West Africa
- Location
- Sierra Leone
- Amount
- $169,590
- Dates
- Feb 2021 – Jun 2022
- Keywords
- Biodiversity mainstreaming, Freshwater, Habitat conservation and management, Policy/law, Private sector, Protected Areas, Ramsar site
Strengthen the management of Yawri Bay in Sierra Leone by increasing its protection status through nomination as a Ramsar Site and initiation of the protected area gazettal process. Design a state-of-the-art management plan with a detailed and budgeted action plan; raise funds to implement the plan, and promote compliance with the plan by local communities and private companies in the fisheries and salt production sectors.
2 Mainstream biodiversity conservation into public policy and private sector practice in the nine conservation corridors, at local, sub-national and national levels
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