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Mexico
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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37,223.25
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MEX/OP3/Y2/06/35 |
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Reunir y analizar datos biológicos, económicos y sociales para la elaboración de un documento en donde se plasme el conocimiento actual de la Biodiversidad del Estado de Quintana Roo, asà como las amenazas que existen para la preservación de ( ... )
riqueza. Este análisis será de carácter propositivo para la solución de los principales problemas que obstaculizan la conservación de la Biodiversidad en el Estado e incluirá estudios de caso que ejemplificarán los temas
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Micronesia
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MSP/OP3/02/06/14 |
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Namdrik pearl oyster is genetically distinct from other pearl oyster population in the RMI and the rest of the pacific. This project is to protect and hopefully restore this unique population of pearl oysters for the sake of preserving biodiversity ( ... )
abling Namdrik Islanders to establish a pearl farm as an alternative to over-exploiting fisheries and to provide economic alternatives to bolster efforts to protect other key species such as turtles. This project proposes to begin a community based, participatory process to develop a lagoon management which will include revitalization the old Namdrik pearl farm as part of the livelihood
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Fiji
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Biodiversity
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2007
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37,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: FJI/OP3/2/07/03 |
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The Project's main objective is to enhance communtiy based environmental awareness and education on the adverse impacts of climate change as well as to identify and implement best practices that will build a community's resilience to these inpacts ( ... )
munity
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Uganda
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Biodiversity
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2007
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39,010.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: UGA/06/79 |
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RPWRD Conserving Medicinal Plants will focus on strengthening traditional medicinal practices by establishing a self-dependant income generating network of local communities of traditional healers that will conserve bioiversity of medicinal value ( ... )
prove the healthcare and livelihood status in the project area by sharing ethnobotanical knowledge; promoting low-cost propagation methods for medicinal plant species; improving healers? remedies production (processing, packaging, labelling); and increasing market opportunities through remedies registration with the National Drug Authority;
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Benin
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Biodiversity
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2007
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49,998.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BEN/ OP3/ 02/ 07/ 03 |
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L?un des défis pour un développement durable est la protection de la diversité biologique et sa gestion rationnelle. De nos jours plusieurs espèces animales et de plantes sont en danger de disparition. Les tortues marines sont particulièrement ( ... )
©es au Bénin pour diverses raisons dont la pauvreté et la pollution marine.
La volonté de la plupart des pays côtiers Africains tels que le Bénin à contribuer à la sauvegarde des espèces migratrices comme les tortues marines s?est manifestée par leur adhésion à diverses conventions internationales telles que la CMS, la CDB, la CITES et la signature du Mémorandum d?Accord sur les
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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23,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/13 |
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The project aims to create a "Seed Network" which will bring together people related to seeds in Turkey, with a view to find and protect the local seeds that have been selected by farmers for generations all through the country. The seed network ( ... )
ecome an important forum for seed-related people to share information and exchange of experiences. It will also be a tool for identifying and conserving local agrobiodiversity and as a powerful advocacy tool regarding the new Seed Law of Turkey, which can have a negative influence on local seed production and
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Mauritius
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Biodiversity
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2007
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35,175.62
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MAR/SGP/OP3/25 |
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The proposed action is concerned with a semi-industrialised outer lagoon fishing project. 20 dedicated and committed artisanal fishermen grouped under the Innovative Fishermen Association (IFA), a registered association from Grand Riviere Sud Est ( ... )
village, have decided to embark on this challenging project as beneficiaries. This project is in line with government policy to encourage artisanal fishermen to explore offshore capture fisheries which should provide them major economic benefits. Relocating fishing efforts to offshore areas should be translated through financial assistance and capacity building to artisanal fishermen as
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Chile
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Biodiversity
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2007
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10,117.31
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: CHI/06/21 |
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Esta comunidad indÃgena quiere relevar el tema del turismo, como una forma de integrar la biodiverisdad con la genrecaión de nuevas oportunidades a las comunidades. |
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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10,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/10 |
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The Custodians Association intends to be the custodians of seeds for the next generations. They aim to give increasingly improverished small producer a new sense of hope and responsibility towards our eroding agrobiodiversity as a basis for ( ... )
ful, tasty, and low-cost (low-input) food production that, in addition, protects both local economies and the environment. Their project supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) relies on taking out inventories of landraces cultivated in 8 villages of the Balıkesir Ivrindi and Savastepe regions, encouraging a new appreciation for traditional farming practices, including seed
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Mauritius
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: MAR/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/03 |
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The aim of this project is to provide an alternative source of income for the fishing community in Rivière Banane and to develop a demonstration project for sustainable land-use and integrated watershed management in Rodrigues. The project will ( ... )
arine biodiversity by reducing fishing pressure in the lagoon, allowing fish stocks and degraded habitats to recover, while preserving popular diving and snorkelling sites which have healthy coral cover and are home to endemic species of coral and fish. It will also benefit the community in Rivière Banane by improving their income, providing a better standard of living for the fishers and their
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Namibia
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Biodiversity
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2007
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2,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: NAM/SGP/OP4/RAF/07/07 |
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The goal is to promote access of orphans and vulnerable children to holiday camps on Farm Nooitgedach, to learn the importance of local environments and how to protect, promote and utilize Namibia?s natural resources sustainably. The mission is to ( ... )
s the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in their distress and preserve the plants and animals that represent the biological diversity of life in Namibia. This will be achieved through partnerships with churches, government ministries, family units, orphanages, corporations, organizations and individuals.
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Mozambique
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Biodiversity
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2007
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23,700.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MOZ/SGP/OP3/Y2/CORE/BD/2006/16 |
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A project that aims to promote soil, water, and wildlife resources conservation in Costa do Sol area within the north-east parts of Maputo Municipality. The project will involve groups of small farmers in conservation of coastal vegetation, control ( ... )
l erosion, conservation of water streams, and protection of birdlife. It will promote farming for subsistence and livelihood support, and income generation activities for community groups to reduce pressure over natural resources. Part of the project benefits of noticeable impacts will be at the level of awareness raising at community level on the need to protect the environment, conservation of
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2007
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13,780.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BHU/OP3/Y2/06/07 |
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The goal of the project is to institutionalize and decentralize forest fire management at village level to ensure that forest resources are managed by community's own principles and values. This would ultimately enhance the group to maintain social ( ... )
within the communities. The outcomes from the project will also be used as a basis for development of community-based forest fire management and prevention, identified as one of the priority projects on climate change under the Bhutan National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA).
The objective of the project are as follows:
1. To reduce threat to human life and community property from
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India
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Biodiversity
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2007
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17,728.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: SGP/GEF/IND/OP3/03/07/MP 11 |
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The goal of the project is to strengthen livelihoods of tribal communities through conservation of biodiversity in 5 GPs of Uchera block of Satna District in Madhya Pradesh. The project will facilitate the establishing of a model of institutional ( ... )
age for strengthening wild biodiversity based livelihood in 3 GPs (Gudah, Devguna, Bichawa). In-situ conservation initiative of 35 local rice varieties will be up scaled to 5 Gram Panchayats in the area.
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Viet nam
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: VN/06/013 |
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Marketing chances are created all over the world when the trend of economic liberalization and government decentralizing process are creating new markets and strengthening the locals? decision-making powers in managing biodiversity resources. ( ... )
he local communities have more and more opportunities of having benefits from those resources. However, the increasing demand of the biodiversity resources? products may lead to over-exploitation. As a result, there comes the decline of resources and the continuous poverty of the exploiters. Consequently, the biodiversity resources? products need to be traded stably.
GEF SGP Vietnam,
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Cameroon
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Biodiversity
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2007
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27,858.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: CMR/OP3/Y2/CORE/07/03 |
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The project on strengthening wetland management through community organisation and prioritised sustainable livelihood options in the Lake Ossa Complex seeks to address threats on Freshwater ecosystems linked to community organisation and ( ... )
ipation, unsustainable exploitation of wildlife and fisheries resources.
Wetland resources users including women some of whom have already received training from previous projects will be involved in alternative livelihood activities like, cane rat domestication, aquaculture, fish preservation, eco-tourism and counter season farming with the aim of increasing the availability of proteins and
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Palestine, State of
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Biodiversity
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2007
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43,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: PAL/06/94 |
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Project on supporting schools? students? role in conserving biodiversity in Jenin governorate. The project will contribute to advocate environmental awareness at the schools? students. The projects will also contribute to building capacity of ( ... )
s teachers as well as students to identify environmental problems in their local communities and to learn how to interfere positively in order to enhance their local environment. The project comprises implementation of 40 pilot projects at 40 selected schools in Jenin Governorates. Projects design and preparation of work-plan is expected to be produced by students? projects groups. Furthermore
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Mongolia
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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9,200.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MON/06/42 |
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Intends to assist local communities alone with the Buffer Zone Council of Eej Khairkhan protected area in promoting tourism activities around protected area to support local administration conservation efforts and livelihoods of the local community ( ... )
ping them establish a community camp.
June 29, 2007
One more community-based tourist camp was opened at the foot of the Eej Khairkhan mountain, a place of outstanding natural beauty and a local sacred spot in Gobi Altai province. In Mongolia, tourism is becoming a valuable new income-generating alternative for herders highly dependent on their livestock, the main source of livelihood.
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Mongolia
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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13,047.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MON/06/41 |
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Intends to facilitate communities in identifying good grant ideas and proposals as well as in developing project proposals and to assist the SGP office in organizing two exchange visits among local grantees and in facilitating the formation of GEF ( ... )
mmunity tourism network.
This grant conducted a number of training sessions in several soums of Selenge, Hentii, Arkhangai provinces and assisted the SGP Mongolia office in creating two networks namely, Tree planting and Fruit Cultivation Network and Bee Keepers' Network.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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14,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/02 |
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Frequently places that are rich in biodiversity are located in remote areas and host human communities that have very low incomes and are marginalized from the opportunities offered to other communities living in less remote areas. Poor communities ( ... )
eavily on ecosystem services and as the demand for these services increases due to changes in the lifestyles induced by expansion of tourism so does the risk of damage to the biodiversity. In this situation it is necessary to intervene quickly at the onset of tourism so that the right patterns are presented and installed into the hosting community. It is essential that the promotion of these
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