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Central Africa | 12 links in this category | | | The web-site provides an overview of the NGO's approach and work in agriculture and natural resource management in developing countries. Provides some public awareness/environmental education material for schools on NRM. | | more information ›
| | | | A consortium of conservation organizations and scientists dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations threatened by commercial hunting of wildlife for sale as meat. The site contains a bushmeat research archive, containing bibliographical listings of peer-reviewed publications, media pieces, project reports, and other publications for documents regarding or related to the bushmeat issue. | | more information ›
| | | | USA organisation campaigning against hunting great apes for bushmeat. Includes an extensive bushmeat bibliography. | | more information ›
| | | | An initiative by USAID to address the issue of deforestation in the Congo Basin forest zone, and build local capacity to sustainably manage forest resources. CARPE Themes are:
(a) Logging Policies and Practices
(b) Protected Areas With a Live-In Landscape
(c) Environmental Governance
(d) Feasibility of Household Level Interventions
(e) Monitoring of Forest Resources
(f) Building Environmental Information Analysis and Strategic Planning Capacity
(g) Global Climate Change
The web site includes newsletters, downloadable reports, abstracts, briefing sheets and GIS datasets. | | more information ›
| | | | ECOFAC is an EU programme for sustainable forest management in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, CAR, Sao Tome & Principe. The site also contains an overview of the programme, key issues and methodologies. | | more information ›
| | | | Conservation International (CI) aims to preserve threatened ecosystems in over 30 countries across four continents. CI initiatives focus on biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, key marine areas, and select major wetlands. These areas are rich in biodiversity but severely threatened by human activities. CI works closely with local people in biodiversity-rich areas to develop alternatives to destructive land-use practices, and to educate communities, businesses, and government leaders about the need to protect their natural resources. CI also builds upon its successes to influence the way governments and corporations make decisions. | | more information ›
| | | | This page describes Conservation International’s activities in Africain West Africa it works to increase scientific understanding of biodiversity, strengthen capacity for biodiversity conservation, reduce the bushmeat trade, provide connectivity to fragmented forests, raise public awareness about threats to biodiversity conservation, and create necessary political and financial frameworks for sustainable conservation. In Central Africa Conservation International works with ECOFAC, a forest conservation and utilisation programme, sponsored by the European Union. In Southern Africa it works to conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable management of the Cape Floristic Province, Succulent Karoo, and the Okavango Delta. CI’s activities in Madagascar concentrate on developing better park and forest management, protecting endangered species and working with the private sector to establish biodiversity-sensitive practices. | | more information ›
| | | | The EIS-SSA (Environment Information Systems Program in Sub-Saharan Africa) program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The program supports African countries as they assess their priority needs in terms of environment and land information systems, and analyze the technical, institutional, legal and economic issues hampering their possibilities of meeting these needs. It assists them in finding adequate, sustainable and long-term solutions to deal with these issues. | | more information ›
| | | | Environmental Aspects of the African Great Lakes Region, compiled by UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assessment. Data includes: land cover characterization, Landsat images of Lac Kivu, drainage basins, elevation, human population growth, and monthly changes in vegetation. | | more information ›
| | | | Information about the biodiversity, and its conservation, of the four Gulf of Guinea islands of Bioko, Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón. The network distributes news of research, scientific and conservation developments and initiatives, environmental issues, publications andweb resources that are relevant to the Gulf of Guinea islands and is also provides a forum for networking. | | more information ›
| | | | SIR-C coverage map of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Zaire. The project uses high resolution satellite imagery has to map areas of forest clearing and general land cover types for the entire Central African tropical region. Images acquired by JERS-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument during its global rain forest mapping (GRFM) phase are the main source of data for this study. | | more information ›
| | | | An interdisciplinary network promoting natural, social, and policy science-related issues concerning the Sangha River Region of central Africa where Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Republic of Congo meet. The resources section contains published literature and project documents, website links for other networks and resources, details about conducting research in the Sangha River Region, and maps. | | more information ›
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