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During the first quarter of 2017, the work of the Executive Secretariat
of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) focused on the
following components of its sub-regional action plan: (i) planning,
monitoring and evaluation of implementation of the Convergence Plan 2... |
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Participants at the Second Regional Workshop on the ITTO Voluntary
Guidelines for the Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests,
held on 8–12 May 2017 in Cotonou, Benin, agreed there was a need to
revise the ATO/ITTO Principles, Criteria and Indicators for the
Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests in Africa.
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As part of efforts to implement its road
map, the Sub-Working Group on Protected Areas and Wildlife in Central
Africa (SGTAPFS) held its sixth meeting from 27 to 29 April 2017 in
Douala, Cameroon. At the close of the meeting, the
participants at the sixth meeting of the Sub-working Group on Protected
Areas and Wildlife... |
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The Central African Biodiversity Working Group (GTBAC) held its
twenty-fifth session from 24 to 26 April 2017 in Douala, Republic of
Cameroon. Organized by the COMIFAC Executive Secretariat with technical
and financial support from the COMIFAC support projects of the German
Cooperation (GIZ).. |
| | The book explores the development of public policy to combat climate
change in Cameroon by harnessing the REDD + process through a
combination of public multi-stakeholder and multi-level action. The aim
is to introduce some key insights which we hope will be enriched by your
comments to produce a genuine sociology of public action on climate
change in Africa.. |
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We are delighted to bring you this
annual report, which highlights the main achievements of the IUCN
Cameroon Program in 2016. 2016 was marked by a number of major events
including our successful participation in the Nature Congress in Hawaii
that saw the presence and outstanding participation of the National
Committee of members....
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The 6th CAFI Executive Board meeting, held 27-28 April 2017, was an
opportunity to exchange with government representatives of three
countries (CAR was unable to participate due to connectivity issues) in
the process of developing National REDD+ investment frameworks. |
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16 May 2017, Rome - FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism
(FLRM) and partners will today kick off the inaugural Forest and
Landscape Investment Forum (FLIF) in Kigali, Rwanda. Over 16 - 17 May,
this event will bring together project developers and business champions
from ten African countries and investors from all over the world in a
marketplace for effective forest and landscape investment opportunities....
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On Wednesday 03 May 2017, the conference
room of the Transcam Hotel in Ngaoundéré, hosted a national exchange
workshop to discuss the theme "Handover of management of forest reserves
and reforestation perimeters to the Councils in 2012 as part of the
decentralization policy: State of affairs, prospects and contribution to
the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)...
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Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners
mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), highlighting the health and additional
risks associated with tobacco use, and advocating for effective
policies to reduce tobacco consumption. In addition to saving lives and
reducing health inequalities, comprehensive tobacco control contains the
adverse environmental impact of tobacco growing, manufacturing, trade
and consumption. |
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Throughout the tropics, the wood sector provides hundreds of thousands
of people with jobs, including in artisanal operations that can go
unnoticed in official statistics but which are crucial employers in
rural areas. Also in this edition... |
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MorganWASHINGTON, D.C., USA, 15th May 2017—A new analysis of global
airport wildlife seizure and trafficking data reveals that wildlife
traffickers around the world are heavily exploiting the air transport
sector to smuggle protected and endangered animals and animal products
on commercial flights.
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Bonn, Germany, 1 June 2017- Once
abundant, these species are now threatened by unprecedented destruction
of their habitat, poaching, climate change and pollution. Proposals to
afford greater protection to 35 species will be made at what is expected
to be the largest wildlife conference of the year, CMS COP 12, which is
scheduled to take place 23-28 October 2017 in Manila, Philippines. |
| The Greening Consumption and Production Massive Open Online Course
(MOOC) runs from 31 May through 12 July 2017. It is a facilitated
course, with a certificate of completion provided by the United Nations
Development Programme, in partnership with the NBSAP Forum and The
Nature Conservancy. |
| 3 May 2017, Rome - FAO and partners have launched a new knowledge
sharing platform on forest and landscape restoration. The open-access
platform is the first virtual space to provide access to a comprehensive
database of key forest and landscape restoration resources aggregated
from around the globe. |
| The Permanent Missions of Qatar, Iceland and Namibia, in conjunction
with the office of the President of the General Assembly, organized a
High-Level Event on Land Degradation, Desertification and Drought at
United Nations headquarters on Monday, 1 May 2017.
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An intact forest landscape (IFL) is a seamless mosaic of forest and
naturally treeless ecosystems with no remotely detected signs of human
activity and a minimum area of 500 km2. IFLs are critical for
stabilizing terrestrial carbon storage, harboring biodiversity,
regulating hydrological regimes, and providing other ecosystem
functions. |
| | | | | "This was an extraordinary haul by the customs office of the Eastern
region," said Gregory Mvongo, the Governor of the region, who came to
gauge the size of the booty heaped in the yard of the Hotel des Finances
in Bertoua on Monday, 13 March 2017. Two days earlier, in the evening,
acting on a tip-off, agents of Célestin Bidjé...
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| Within the scientific literature we fail to find a single applied
example of the landscape approach in the tropics that adequatelythat is
with reliable, in depth collection and reporting of datademonstrated
the effective balancing of social and environmental trade-offs through
multi-scale processes of negotiation for enhanced outcomes. |
| The 6th meeting of the Executive Board last week was an opportunity for
Felicien Mulenda, of the DRC Ministry of Finance and co-cordinator of
the DRC National Fund Secretariat, to present highlights in programming,
portfolio status and the overall implementation of the country's REDD+
investment plan.... |
| The Vienna Energy Forum (VEF) 2017 themed ‘Sustainable Energy for the
Implementation of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement’ convened from 9-12
May 2017 in Vienna, Austria. The event brought together approximately
1,650 participants from 128 countries, including the Prime Minister of
Tuvalu, and several ministers from Egypt, India, Jordan...
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The number of international migrants worldwide has continued to grow
rapidly over the past fifteen years – reaching 244 million in 2015, up
from 222 million in 2010 and 173 million in 2000.[1] Behind these
numbers is the links between migration and development challenges, in
particular, the consequences of environmental degradation, political
instability, food insecurity and poverty.
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ZSL are seeking a Landscape Manager with
extensive and relevant management and technical experience, to ensure
the effective delivery of ZSL’s exciting and rapidly expanding programme
of work in and around the Dja Reserve. The post holder will be
responsible for the development and implementation the programme of
work, managing the associated human and financial resources, leading on
technical and scientific oversight and ensuring a continuity of delivery
of high quality outputs with significant conservation impacts.
Date of training: From 21 to 28 August
2017. Training venue: Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire. This course aims to
develop innovative approaches and sustainable solutions to hurdles in
supply chains of agricultural raw materials.
The course is suitable for professionals
who would want to deepen their understanding of the HCV Approach or be
part of HCV assessment teams. However, this is most suitable for those
who would want to achieve the HCVRN ALS Lead Assessor qualification
especially for the RSPO and FSC HCV assessments. Equally suitable are
auditors for the various agriculture and forest certification schemes
which HCVs are integrated into their requirements.
The Greening Consumption and Production
Massive Open Online Course runs from 31 May through 12 July 2017. This
FREE, trilingual, six-week facilitated course is hosted by UNDP, in
partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, the NBSAP Forum and The Nature Conservancy. Each week, the
course facilitators will guide you to take online lessons as well as to
read supplemental material, complete homework assignments, and engage
through webinars and online discussions. The course can be taken in
English, Spanish and French.
To support the delivery of its
programmes in West and Central Africa and Eastern and Southern Africa
Regions, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is
launching a new project entitled "Stabilizing Land Use: PA categories V
and VI as landscape mechanisms for enhancing biodiversity in
agricultural land, ecological connectivity and REDD+ implementation". To
enable successful delivery of the project in each of the target
countries, IUCN is seeking talented, motivated, experienced and
visionary persons to fill the position of Senior Programme Officers who
will serve as the National Coordinators.
The Business and Biodiversity Technical
Advisor will be responsible for the management, coordination and
delivery of the Programme's contribution to in-country Africa
conservation projects and grants. In particular, this includes
deliverables for landscape projects in Cameroon, with a focus on oil
palm, rubber, timber, and mining. The Technical Advisor provides
technical support on private sector engagement, industry best practice,
particularly environmental best practice for production, and represents
Zoological Society of London in its relationship with relevant industry
groups and companies.
African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is
seeking a qualified candidate to support its brand awareness efforts and
further AWF's position as Africa's conservation leader. The position
will play a key role in digital marketing efforts focusing on creating,
editing and optimizing compelling content to ensure the breadth of our
work is communicated across AWF's websites, blogs and marketing
campaigns.
World Wildlife Fund, the world's leading
conservation organization, seeks a Chief of Party candidate for the
USAID - funded Combatting Wildlife Crime Project (CWCP) in KAZA and
Namibia, a part of USAID's regional Combatting Wildlife Crime in
Southern Africa Program. The CWCP seeks to counter growing threats from
transnational wildlife crime to globally important populations of black
rhino and elephant in northwest Namibia and the Kavango Zambezi
Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), respectively.
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