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The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) invites its grantees to enter our 2017 Digital Photo Contest.
Before submitting photos, you must read the following rules and legal conditions (“Official Rules”). By submitting an entry, you agree to the Official Rules and warrant that your entry complies with all requirements set out in the Official Rules. This is a skill-based contest and chance plays no part in the determination of winners.
1. This is the percentage of Madagascar’s plant species found nowhere else on Earth.
A. 60%
B. 70%
C. 80%
D. 90%
2. To qualify as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, a region must contain at least 1,500 endemic species of vascular plants and have lost at least 70 percent of its original habitat.
A. True
B. False
3. The only primate species found in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot is:
The preservation of the bird sanctuary Prek Toal Core Area, found in the remote northwestern floodplain of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, has been a slow and hard-earned process.
In the mid-1990s, conservationists discovered that the area, covered in seasonally inundated forest, was home to Southeast Asia’s largest waterbird colony. The spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis), grey-headed fish eagle(Icthyophaga ichthyaetus) and Endangered milky stork (Mycteria cinerea) are all found here, to name a few.
To celebrate International Day for Biological Diversity—along with our grantees and the biodiversity they work to protect—we recently held our fourth annual photo contest. Congratulations to the contest winners, and thank you to the CEPF grantees worldwide who participated. Visit our Facebook page to see all of the entries.