CEPF's investment in the Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot was guided by the following strategic directions as outlined in the ecosystem profile.
- Stimulate landscape management initiatives led by civil society in Central and Serra do Mar corridors.
- 1.1 Support civil society initiatives that evaluate spatial relationships in land use, local biodiversity, and the dynamics of fragments within a corridor context.
- 1.2 Support projects led by civil society that focus on low-impact land use, such as ecotourism.
- 1.3 Promote economic incentives that contribute to conservation.
- 1.4 Support efforts to disseminate and increase technical knowledge of innovative tools for reforestation through civil society and recuperation of degraded areas.
- 1.5 Compile and analyze biodiversity knowledge within and between forest fragments for conservation planning and management of biodiversity corridors.
- 1.6 Support civil society efforts to establish management strategies for endemic, endangered, and critically endangered species.
- 1.7 Support efforts to build institutional capacity of civil society.
- 1.8 Strengthen public awareness of biodiversity issues from a civil society perspective.
- 1.1 Support civil society initiatives that evaluate spatial relationships in land use, local biodiversity, and the dynamics of fragments within a corridor context.
- Improve management of existing and future public protected areas through targeted civil society efforts.
- 2.1 Support activities led by civil society participants that increase viability, connectivity and forest cover in buffer zones of protected areas.
- 2.2 Compile and analyze biodiversity knowledge in protected areas for conservation planning and management.
- 2.3 Support efforts to establish management strategies for endangered and critically endangered species in protected areas.
- 2.1 Support activities led by civil society participants that increase viability, connectivity and forest cover in buffer zones of protected areas.
- Increase the number of private protected areas through civil society efforts.
- 3.1 Stimulate the creation and implementation of RPPNs in the two biodiversity corridors.
- 3.2 Together with the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation and FUNBIO, catalyze and operationalize an “Action Plan and Alliance” to support management and administration of RPPNs.
- 3.1 Stimulate the creation and implementation of RPPNs in the two biodiversity corridors.
- Create an action fund to improve civil society identification and management of critical habitats.
- 4.1 Create action fund to build the capacity of nongovernmental organizations, grassroots initiatives, community outreach, and other small-scale efforts to improve management of critical habitats.
- 4.2 Provide small-scale support for projects and interventions in habitat of endangered and critically endangered species outside the two biodiversity corridors.
- 4.1 Create action fund to build the capacity of nongovernmental organizations, grassroots initiatives, community outreach, and other small-scale efforts to improve management of critical habitats.
- Reinforce and sustain the conservation gains achieved as a result of the initial five-year CEPF investment in this region.
- 5.1 Capacity building for local institutions in the biodiversity corridors.
- 5.2 Improve the management effectiveness of protected areas.
- 5.1 Capacity building for local institutions in the biodiversity corridors.
Read more about CEPF's strategy in the hotspot in our ecosystem profile (PDF - 1.6 MB), also available in Portuguese (PDF - 1.9 MB).