There are 27,190 projects available.
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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18,500.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/2009/001 |
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The project seeks to reduce the effect of drought and combat desertification through sustainable and environmentally-friendly agroforestry as adaptation to and mitigation measures against climate change effect while enhancing community livelihood |
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Namibia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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48,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: NAM/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/05 |
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The project aims to combat land degradation and reduce poverty . Mara (a resettlement farm in the south) degraded soils is to be restored through soil rehabilitation processes and seed bank building. Prosopis species invasion will be controlled ( ... )
h harvesting and use the wood for charcoal making or as firewood. As the community is stricken by poverty and through the existing good water supply they could reduce e poverty by starting a Lucerne project to support their livestock and vegetable gardening to ensure sustainable food security.
The project is located in the Hardap region in the Mariental
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Gambia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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26,397.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: GMB/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/03 |
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The goal of the project was to address the issue of deforestation which is a precursor to land degradation in the region by establishing two school nurseries and two woodlots in two communities in the area. The school nurseries supplied seedlings ( ... )
er communities and schools in the area and shouldl be self sustaining in the long run through proceeds from the sale of the seedlings. The programme aimed to build the capacities of the participants in all aspects of tree planting and care for the
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Barbados
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Land Degradation
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2009
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30,088.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BAR/SGP/OP4/YEAR2/CORE/09/17 |
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This project will promote sustainable and organic agriculture practices by developing a community composting programme within a World Heritage Site. The goal of the proeject is to: "develop a viable communtiy composting industry which will reduce ( ... )
terioration in soil quality and the pollution of water bodies".
The specific objectives are to: (i) establish an efficient system for the colleciton of kitchen waste from area hotels and schools; (ii) construct 24 wind-row aerated compost pits between the grantee's organic farm, schools and area farms; (iii) train 30 farmers in aerated wind-row composting techniques; and (iv) to
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Albania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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6,200.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/08 |
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This is a demonstration project that aims at the demonstration and promotion of renewable technologies to the broad public. The system consists of a combined wind turbine and solar photo voltaic panels that provide electricity for the shelter and ( ... )
all resting platform.
The recently open ski enter has high visiting numbers from schools as well as families from Korca
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Dominican republic
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Biodiversity
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2009
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22,285.71
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: DOM/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/04 |
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Mejoramiento de la calidad pos cosecha del café de Solimán, mediante la instalación de un beneficiado húmedo , capacitación a los agricultores en la comunidad de Solimàn, Provincia Monte Cristi |
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Nicaragua
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Land Degradation
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2009
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10,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: NIC/SGP/OP4/CORE/Y3/09/10 |
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En una zona donde se cultivan pocas hortalizas, se busca aprender técnicas para enriquecer de nutrientes el suelo, que proviene de la implementación de humus de lombriz y de buenas prácticas agrícolas y que la comunidad sirva de ejemplo para que ( ... )
ás comunidades vecinas, implementen este tipo de
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Botswana
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Biodiversity
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BOT/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/12 |
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This project is about empowering local citizens, particularly members of rural communities, to make a contribution to biodiversity monitoring and thereby influence Botswana?s commitment towards meeting the obligations of the Convention on Biological ( ... )
ty. This will be achieved by building local capacity, through a series of training workshops, to enable ?ordinary? citizens to undertake bird counts along fixed transects, the results of which will be pooled to provide a Wild Bird Index (WBI). In time, this will provide a measure of the population trends of a representative suite of wild birds to act as a barometer of the general ?health? of the
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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39,895.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: KEN/COMPACT/OP4/YR2/RAF/09/02 |
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The community in South Western Mt Kenya has for long suffered from a lack of fuel wood since restrictions were put on wood harvesting in Mt Kenya and other localized forest groves. The community, through the local NGO- Mukurweini Development ( ... )
tive, have proposed to upscale use of biogas as a source of clean energy for households in the area. They will also pursue the carbon credit market with the hope of being able to trade the credits saved as a result of the project through a local credits trading company (CO2balance Ltd).
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Gambia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: GMB/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/11 |
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The project aims to restore the degraded environment of the area thereby increasing household incomes of the population. The project intends to implement forest improvement activities such as tree planting, woodlot establishment and capacity ( ... )
ng training programmes on sustainable forest management.
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Pakistan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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24,805.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/RAF/09/27 |
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The Dera Ghazi Khan is located in a strip between the river Indus and the Koh-Suleman range of mountains separating it from the Balochistan Province. It is surrounded by Dera Ismail Khan District on the North and the district of Rajanpur on its ( ... )
Indus River flows on the East across which lie the districts of Muzafargarh and Layyah. Loralai and Dera Bugti districts of Balochistan Province lie on the West separated by the Koh-Suleman range of mountains. The district is spread over an area of 11,294 Square Kilometres comprising of following two tehsils i.e Dera Ghazi Khan and Taunsa Sharif.
Poverty and resource degradation are
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Lesotho
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Biodiversity
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2009
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23,622.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: LSO/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/05 |
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Purpose of the project is to conserve threatened species of aloes particulalry the spiral aloe (Aloe polyphilla) which and indigenous aloe found only in Lesotho. With the expanding market for aloe products, certain species of aloe are being ( ... )
rvested, for productionof cosmetics and herbal remedies. THe project intends to propagate the threatened species of aloe for sale as seedlings and for plantation and sale as mature plants. Both the nursery and the plantation will serve as demonstration sites for awareness raising about the economic value of these plants and it is envisaged that ecotourism will also be promoted. The project site
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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49,478.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: KEN/COMPACT/OP4/YR3/RAF/09/07 |
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Community in semi-arid Umande location of Laikipia implementing a climate change mitigation project using renewable energy for water pumping and water purification while also utilizing runoff for biodiversity conservation and tree planting in small ( ... )
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Pakistan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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49,132.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/RAF/09/30 |
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Pakistan is faced multi-dimensional problems from worst form environmental degradation to ever rising poverty in the masses especially the rural areas where the livelihood largely connected with natural resources. Land degradation, deforestation due ( ... )
n activity as well as natural causes, increased pollution of lakes, sea and other sweet and brackish water are few to mention. The country is locked with the vicious circle of poverty and environmental degradation as the volume of the degradation of the natural resources increases as the poverty levels increase in Pakistan.
The proposed project activities are linked to the objectives of GEF SGP
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2009
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26,358.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: TAN/SGP/OP4/CORE/Y3/09/02 |
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Context:
The project on community based environmental conservation for sustainable development will focus on Uchindile ward. This is a mountainous area located in Udzungwa mountain ranges in Mlimba Division, Kilombero District. The area is ( ... )
terized by land degradation and high rates of deforestation both of which have contributed to loss of wildlife habitat. The ward has a population of about 2000 people. Living conditions for people who live in this area fall below the poverty line. Lack of access to water is one of the social problems that affect livelihood.
Studies show that deforestation and forest degradation are brought
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Nepal
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Biodiversity
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2009
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49,955.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: NEP/SGP/OP4/03/CORE/09/05 |
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Rautahat possesses a diverse landscape of cultural and ecological importance. Communities neighbouring to this area rely on for a diversity of resources, including fuel-wood, timber, fodder, fibre and medicinal and aromatic plants, while the forest ( ... )
d grazing area for livestock during the dry season (RUUSEPS, 2009). Additionally, this forest eco-system is the major source of water for agricultural and domestic use in the surrounding communities, as well as the primary source-area for a number of local watersheds in southern area. The Chandi river and its river banks is one of important biological corridors in Rauthat districts. Although
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Ethiopia
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2009
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25,178.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ETH/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/01 |
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The project is planning to reduce land degradation within the intervention area through controlling soil erosion, increasing soil fertility and adopting more sustainable farming systems. The project will contribute to conservation of famous ( ... )
nous trees of the region which are also the major natural resources in Ethiopia. It is anticipated that the increase in vegetation cover due to the establishment of wood lot and plantation of multipurpose Agro forestry trees, together with decreasing pressures on forest wood since the introduction of fuel wood saving stoves, will contribute to the global struggle against climate change, reducing
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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19,566.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/01 |
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Three villages such as Moshi, Tshogonpa, Khesing under Lumang Geog in Trashigang district face severe landslides. These villages are located on steep slopes and farming on the steep slopes have been difficult for them.
Through this project, the ( ... )
communities, aim to ensure soil conservation ad assist in preservation of the agricultural land from being washed away, and protect farmlands through restoration programs with suitable management interventions and techniques and be the future champions of soil conservation not only in the community, but also, in the neighboring geogs.
The objectives of the project are:
1. To mitigate
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Fiji
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Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
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2009
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2,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: FJI/SGP/OP4/Y1/NZAID/07/05 |
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Community Initiative to rehabiliate coastal shorelines degraded through coastal tidal activity over the years and encroaching high tides |
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Sri lanka
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Biodiversity
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2009
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21,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: SRL/SGP/OP4Year2/RAF/09/13 |
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Kalpitiya is the largest lagoon in Sri Lanka and its mangroves were cut and destroyed decades ago for large scale shrimp cultivation. Although many initiatives have taken part to restore the situation still there are large barren stretches with no ( ... )
tion. This project aims systematic mangrove replanting and conservation in the effected area surrounding the lagoon. This is done with the participation of villages and other CBO, Awareness creation on conservation among communities and school children through school programs, publications, field visits with practical assignments, developing alternate livelihoods including ornamental fish
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