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Marine Biodiversity and Wetlands Conservation in Viet Nam - Experiences from GEF small projects
This paper of lessons learnt depicts results gathered from several GEF SGP funded projects on marine and wetlands ecosystem conservation implemented in localities in Viet Nam.
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Making Waves: Community Solutions, Sustainable Oceans
“The struggle of poor and vulnerable communities against poverty, biodiversity depletion, environmental degradation, climate change devastation and poor governance may be slow and protracted, but their local solutions and innovations guarantee the future of the present and the next generation […]…
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Silent Roar
A half century after Rachel Carson brought us Silent Spring, a lot of voices in the natural world are still falling silent. But in the world’s high places, there remains an animal rarely seen and almost never heard. This is the story of one of the world’s great cats, noteworthy for…
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Burning Bright: UNDP and GEF in the Tiger Landscape
This publication highlights the unique contribution of 10 GEF-financed, UNDP-supported projects in six tiger range countries (Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand), demonstrating how conservation activities in tiger habitat can accomplish more than the preservation of one…
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Conservation of fruit tree diversity in Central Asia: Policy options and challenges
Central Asia is one of the most important centres of origin for temperate fruit species, and enjoys very rich specific and intraspecific diversity of fruit trees. Apple, apricot, peach, pear, plum, grape, almond, pistachio, pomegranate, and fig are among the best known crops cultivated in the…
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GEF Investments on Payments for Ecosystem Services Schemes
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has engaged in pioneering development of mechanisms that reward good stewardship of natural resources, including the structuring of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes. For the GEF, the concept of PES includes a variety of arrangements through which…