CEPF Top Stories

CEPF grantee workshop: Sharing five years of results and lessons learned

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:36:03 GMT

BirdLife International, with support from CEPF, organized a grantee workshop following the first phase of CEPF's investment in the Indo-Burma Hotspot.

Discovery of the Clarke's weaver nesting site

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:14:12 GMT

The nesting site of the endangered Clarke's weaver, a bird found only in Kilifi County, Kenya, was recently discovered by a monitoring team.

Scripting an Avian Survival Story

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:54:11 GMT

The iziKhwenene Project, supported by CEPF, was launched by the Wild Bird Trust and several partner groups. The partnership's goal is to make the Cape parrot species a conservation success story.

Grantee works to return vultures to the sky in southern India

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:42:24 GMT

With a project created by CEPF, once dwindling vulture populations in the Western Ghats region of southern India are slowly starting to recover.

Sierra Leone sites added to World Heritage Tentative List

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:11:14 GMT

The Gola Rainforest National Park and Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, recipients of CEPF investment in the Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List for Sierra Leone.

Freshwater Habitat Protection Key to Poverty Alleviation

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:27:39 GMT

Poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation are inextricably linked in the Sekong Basin of Lao P.D.R., where freshwater fisheries are critical for ensuring food security and the economy.

Recruiting biodiversity stewards in South Africa

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:43:48 GMT

With the support of CEPF, WESSA and NMBM are priming individuals and community groups to stand up for Baakens Valley by grooming champions for community conservation.

Visit to India inspiring at grassroots and global levels as the European Commission joins CEPF

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:39:23 GMT

Patricia Zurita, executive director of CEPF, recently accompanied some of donor partners to the Shencottah Gap.

CEPF Welcomes the European Commission to the Partnership

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:43:58 GMT

In conjunction with the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CEPF held a reception October 15, 2012.

FERAL's project in the Western Ghats

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:47:56 GMT

CEPF grantee, the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), is developing and testing protocols for Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES).

Mao nest monitoring "Big Brother" style

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:23:46 GMT

Rats are likely to be the main reason chicks of the Mao bird, an endangered species endemic to the Samoan Islands, are not surviving.

Investors create Dominican Republic's first private reserve

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:10:30 GMT

Private investors have established the Dominican Republic's first private nature reserve with the assistance of CEPF grantees.

Saving a symbol of Polynesia

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:57:35 GMT

Local French-Polynesian nonprofit partners with CEPF, international experts, local organizations, local authorities and fishermen to protect endangered sea turtles.

Fijians Working With BirdLife and CEPF Win Equator Prize

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:08:34 GMT

Communities who are participating in a BirdLife Fiji project supported by CEPF—in the Natewa and Tunuloa districts of Vanua Levu Island, Fiji—have earned an Equator Prize.

Islands in the Sky – Conserving the Cloud Forests of Samoa

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:33:38 GMT

For the first time, the Savaii cloud forests' biodiversity will be properly surveyed with the Rapid Biological Survey.