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Area Of Work
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/18 |
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Use and management of medicinal plants as a strategy for Cerrado sustainability is sought, due to the threat posed by the expanding agricultural frontier and agribusiness monocultures for export. Production of medicine and medicinal plants, ( ... )
tion of regional criteria for self-regulation of popular medicinal plant pharmacies, construction of a permanent learning center (Cerrado Popular School) with infra-structure, equipment and basic technical references for management and manipulation of medicinal plants, development of a pilot experience for manipulation of cosmetics from Cerrado medicinal plants, in the persepctive of developing a
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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25,948.56
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/35 |
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This project seeks to promote knowledge interchange among traditional populations and migrating ones, about strategies for amplification of the environmental knowledge base in these communities regarding management and conservation of native Cerrado ( ... )
iodiversity. In addition, qualification of marketing of production from wild collection in existence and expanded babassu flesh from the Margarida Alves Women?s Group is
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Thailand
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International Waters
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2005
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18,414.32
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/04/30 |
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Formerly known as one of the richest spots in the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, the Chao Lao bay now is facing with dwindling amount of water species. The most outstanding threat has been over-fishing by large-scale entrepreneurs who ( ... )
ly technology such as tempting lights.The practice has tremendously reduced number of fishes in the area and rendered damage to the coral reef. Evidently and easy to understand, it directly adversely affects livelihood of small scale fishermen in the area who has been practicing traditional small scale fishery for generation.
Two years back , target communities had launched rehabilitating
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Tanzania
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Land Degradation
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2005
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22,354.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: TAN/NBI-NTEAP/05/08 |
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The project aims at conducting environmental conservation awareness and environmental planning training to stakeholders (Village Government, WDC, Primary School, Farmers Groups, Charcoal makers, sand miners, Tarime District Council).
The project ( ... )
lso conserve the environment of the catchment area of Chereche Irrigation dam in Nyathorogo ward. The project will also improve agricultural practices, restore vegetative cover and improve land and water conservation measures. The project will target 8,000 people in Nyathorogo ward in Tarime District in Mara Region. The Rorya Farmers Group will work very close to TAHEA to restore the degrading
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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2005
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4,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: ZIM/SGP/OP3/Y1/CORE/2005/09 |
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The Great Limpopo Trans-Frontier Park GLTP) is arguably the world's greatest animal kingdom which covers 35000 square kilometers. The Park was created through the signing of the Great Limpopo Trans-Frontier Park Treaty by three heads of States that ( ... )
e Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. The GLTP offers very good opportunities for having a strategic project that is also trans-boundary.
The land adjacent to the GLTP, forms the Trans-frontier Conservation Area (TFCA) and includes private properties and communal land areas. The local communities derive their livelihoods from a diversity of forest and wildlife resources. The communities
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Zimbabwe
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Land Degradation
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2005
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30,934.67
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: ZIM/SGP/OP3/Y1/CORE/2005/03 |
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Chitate village has an estimated total population of 480 people drawn from 56 households. The area has a mountainous terrain and is located 8.3 km from Muhume Business centre. Within Chitate, one of the major problems that was identified is ( ... )
ive land degradation manifested by the presence of deep gullies. To date not much work has been done to avert the situation to the extent that the gullies have become a hazard not only for the livestock but are also threatening some fields and households. The community therefore requested for funds to reclaim two of the major gullies.
PROJECT GOAL
Reversal of land degradation through gully
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Thailand
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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19,172.11
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: THA/05/08 |
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Target Population / Location of project:
93 households in two villages in Mae Ramard and Tha Song Yang District of Tak Province, all ethnic
minority, the Kareni depending for living upon farming and provisions of ecosystem of Salawin ( ... )
an ecological portion of the Sea of Bengal and situated in the Indo-Chinese Sub-region Unit of the Biogeography
Environment Problems and Livelihood:
Target population earn their living through agricultural practice- paddy plantation as main, corn as
supplementary. A five-year rotation crops are traditional practice. Lighting is from solar energy. However, community lacks knowledge and
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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22,621.40
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/01 |
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Implementation of the ?Clearing Without Burning? system in three indigenous villages (Rio do Ouro, Tubarão, Latundê). The objective is to develop sustainable agroforestry management. A reduction in the negative environmental impact caused by the ( ... )
fire in conventional indigenous family farming techniques is
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Dominican republic
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Multifocal Area
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2005
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25,666.67
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: DOM/05/23 |
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Este proyecto tiene el propósito de proveer opciones para que la juventud dominicana aumente sus condiciones y acciones ambientales y realización de subproyecto que impacten positivamente a 4 mil personas en 7 regiones del país. |
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2005
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1,500.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: JAM/05/01 |
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Capacity building for possible future Biodiversity Conservation project. Project seeks to identify capacity building interventions for the community and ensure that the community is empowered to develop strategies for the protection of rivers and ( ... )
s, their major source of water supply. Project also supports the implementation of a comprehensive environmental health (water & sanitation) programme.
CO-FINANCING NOT REQUIRED
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Dominican republic
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Biodiversity
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2005
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21,666.67
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: DOM/05/18 |
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Fortalecimiento del proceso de cogestión y consolidación de las actividades realizadas en la primera etapa del proyecto, validando el modelo para conservación de la flora y la fauna en la reserva Los Quemados, en Azua,
Los resultados esperados ( ... )
e proyecto son :
El fortalecimiento la estructura oranizativa y educación para la conservación de de los recursos naturales a miembros de los grupos comunitarios.
Ccosntrucción cabanas con capacidad para alojar 40 personas
Establecimiento de una parcela para la producción de varios rubros agrícolas orgánicos y reciclar los nutrientes.
Crear la primera área piloto de investigación del
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Mongolia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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15,734.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/04/30 |
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Application of renewable energy sources is essential for Mongolia as the country possesses potential sources of renewable energy. The central grid can not cover each and every community as many of them are semi-nomadic, shifting from one place to ( ... )
r at least twice a year. The Government of Mongolia has being promoting renewable energy application since many years ago by adopting 100,000 solar gers/national houses in 1996 and Law of Renewable Energy in April 2005. The grant is given to experiment manufacture of a number of coiled pumps (rotating with water flow with nothing used), solar concentrators and solar cookers and to assist in
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South africa
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Land Degradation
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2005
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41,173.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: SAF/05/03 |
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Combating land Degradation and Enhancing Livelihoods in the Suid Bokkeveld |
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South africa
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Land Degradation
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2005
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43,680.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: SAF/05/02 |
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The project aims to develop the capacity of the decision makers and land users of Wupperthal to effectively conserve soil, water and other resources. Practical measures are implemented to reduce soil erosion and promote the sustainable production ( ... )
ibos
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Albania
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Land Degradation
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2005
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15,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y1/05/10 |
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This project aims at introducing and testing community based methods of forest and pasture management in the Karaburuni peninsula in Albania.
Karaburuni peninsula forms the western part of the Vlora bay and together with Sazani Island has been ( ... )
fied as a priority action by many recent environmental policy documents of the Government of Albania. At the present the area has been given the status of the protected area. Today, mainly the oaks grow in valleys and in dry river canyons. The most important vestiges of the wind-sculpted maquis forests still flourish on Sazani Island and along the Karaburuni Peninsula. As a restricted area for
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Uganda
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Land Degradation
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2005
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40,410.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: UGA/05/52 |
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Through initial project funding from the UNDP-GEF/SGP, and additional funding from the Canadian Fund, NWESE initiated a model project on community-based cultivation of lemongrass to control land degradation while at the same time adding value to it ( ... )
cessing into commercial products. NWESE through this project now seeks to complete the commercialization of the cultivation and processing of the lemongrass so as to make the model project sustainable. To achieve this, the project will improve on its facilities for commercial processing of the lemongrass, complete the development of lemongrass-based commercial products and build the capacity of
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/24 |
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The Small Eco-Social Grants Program (PPP-ECOS) was the pioneer and remains as the only program with exclusive attention to the Cerrado, a rich and globally significant biome due to its extension, ecological and socio-cultural diversity. However, it ( ... )
hly threatened by the expanding agricultural frontier and still neglected by government and international organizations.
A great number of projects approved and monitored by the PPP-ECOS is aimed at conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, integrating activities such as native fruit and flower wild collection, medicinal plants, wild animal breeding, beekeeping and native beekeeping,
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Nepal
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2005
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39,914.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: NEP/05/03 |
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The project is in continuum of Community Briquette Project (NEP/03/12) after its initial success in propagating the old technology of briquette making. Banespati Gueetha is a Nepali name for beehive bio-briquette made from biomass. The briquette has ( ... )
d value as it is produced from the noxious forest killer weeds-Eupatorium Adenophorum that has not only invaded the forest land but also the agriculture land. The resulting briquettes are light and burn for over an hour with little smoke. The residue is also good manure for the farm yards. The project will help to protect forest by eradication of Eupatorium through briquette making, which serves
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Pakistan
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Biodiversity
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2005
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49,921.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: PAK/04/69 |
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The project aims to set the frameworks, institutions and systems in place for protection and management of key species of wildlife in an extended corridor, starting from Gumot National Park and the adjacent Surgun Valley in the Muzaffarbad District ( ... )
ding at the Deosai National Park and the Nanga Parbat Conservancy in the Northern Areas. The corridor will span over Neelam valley past Sharda town, extend westwards to Shontar valley, Gurez area, Dudgai valley, passing over the Kamri top to the Minimarg valley, and then northwards to Chilam village. The project area is bound on the north by Dudupat National Park in the NWFP, and towards south
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Mongolia
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Biodiversity
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2005
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8,986.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/04/33 |
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This is a replication of MON/03/14 project. The number of individual tourists and eco-tourists coming to Mongolia every year has been increasing more rapidly than that of collective tourist groups. In this situation, some herder families set up ( ... )
gers during tourist season in summer in addition to their own and receive individual tourists at lower prices and costs. They often ask the Government for support, the government can not support at the current stage of transition. The grant is given to a local community group to fulfill their request that addresses conservation of two lakes and habitats of thousands of migratory birds by
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