The BPSP aims to strengthen the capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity. The web site provides an overview of the programme activities: information, tools, training, and communication.

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.

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.

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.

Sustainable development articles about West Africa, with specific reports addressing the countries of Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Congo, Niger, and Togo.