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La RIT du CEPF dans le hotspot de biodiversité des forêts guinéennes de l’Afrique de l’ouest soutient le travail de conservation des ONG locales et internationales dans les pays que traverse le hotspot. Dans le cadre de notre engagement, nous responsabilisons les organisations de la société civile dans le hotspot en apportant l’appui technique qui les aidera à mettre en œuvre leurs projets de conservation du mieux qu’elles le peuvent.
The CEPF RIT in the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot supports the conservation work of local and international NGOs in countries across the hotspot. Part of our commitment is to empower civil society organizations in the hotspot by providing technical support to help them implement their conservation projects at best.
À Dubréka, en Guinée Conakry, la production de sel consistait à abattre les mangroves pour en faire du bois de chauffage. Aujourd'hui, un nouveau projet utilise la technologie solaire pour extraire le sel d'une manière plus sûre et plus durable qui permet déjà de regenerer les mangroves.
Sur la petite île de Príncipe dans le Golfe de Guinée, un projet communautaire d'apiculture permet aux communautés d'obtenir du miel d'une manière qui ne risque ni leur vie, ni celle des abeilles. Cette initiative permet de restaurer les forêts et diversifier les moyens de subsistence.
In Dubréka, Guinea, salt production used to involve cutting down mangroves to burn as fuelwood. Now, a new project is using solar technology to extract salt in a safer, more sustainable way that is already allowing mangroves to regrow.
On the small island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea, a community beekeeping project is empowering communities to obtain honey in a way that doesn't risk their lives. This initiative is already restoring forests and enriching livelihoods.
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It’s an unfortunate fact: people living near Important Biodiversity Areas are often very poor and depend solely on the exploitation of natural resources for their livelihoods. Now, a project is working to buck this trend, empowering communities to improve their lot by using resources sustainably.
A women-led civil society group in Nigeria is empowering women and the whole community to protect Nigeria’s extremely productive but disappearing mangrove forests, which provide abundant services to the marine environment and people.
The Western Area National Park is a forest reserve in Sierra Leone that still holds one of the last strongholds of pristine forest in the country and represents a significant portion of the remaining forest cover in the Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot.
As we are about to enter year two of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund’s investment in the Guinean Forests of West Africa (GFWA) Biodiversity hotspot, BirdLife International be