CEPF is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan and the World Bank.
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The Drin River Basin, which connects Albania, Greece, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro, is an important habitat for myriad species, including the Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus), and is arguably one of the most important freshwater ecosystems in Europe. In 2014, the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) began a CEPF-funded project to protect the basin, as part of CEPF’s investment in the Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot.
If a project doesn’t achieve its objective, can it still be a success? Absolutely.
There are three species of giant rat (Uromys sp.) on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Or at least there were at one time—two of the species haven’t been seen since about 1888.
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Though a small country of 10,000 square kilometers, Lebanon’s numerous microclimates shelter some 3,000 different species of plants, many found nowhere else on Earth.
Unfortunately, according to Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, who led the CEPF-funded project, a “lack of awareness and the lucrative real estate development are destroying the last wild places in Lebanon.”
The university’s project had four components:
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