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Applying hazard risk assessment and spatial planning tools to sargassum inundations in the Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States as a basis for improving response
(2022)
This technical report is an output of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) project 'Adapting to a new reality: managing responses to influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean' (SargAdapt), cofinanced by the ...
Caribbean corals : large-scale, long-term reef conservation
(2021)
The Caribbean is home to some of the planet’s most magnificent coral reef ecosystems. These coral habitats are essential—they harbor abundant ocean life, help protect communities from coastal flooding and erosion, and ...
Climate change and small island developing states
(2020)
Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United Nations recognizes them as a special ...
Land restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean : an overview of recent, ongoing and planned restoration initiatives and their potential for climate change mitigation
(2019)
Land degradation is a globally recognized problem and restoration of degraded land is currently high on the international agenda. Forest landscape restoration and other restorative ecosystem management activities are ...
What is out there? A typology of land restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019)
Restoring degraded lands is high on the international agenda and the number of restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased considerably over the past decades. However, the variety of approaches ...
Global Nature Fund Annual Report 2022
(2022)
Many NGOs – also the Global Nature Fund –show with their projects that sustainable development is possible, that takes into account the limits of growth, which our planet shows us. Since the Club of Rome first reported on ...
Análisis económico de proyectos para protección costera y restauración de ecosistemas en el Gran Caribe : métodos, desafíos e innovaciones
(2020)
La población costera es una de las más vulnerables a desastres naturales. El reciente reconocimiento del papel de los ecosistemas marino-costeros para reducir su vulnerabilidad ha llevado a ejecutar inversiones directas ...
Establishing a marine conservation baseline for the insular Caribbean
(2015)
Highlights: • A single insular Caribbean protected area dataset with accurate boundary information was developed. • MPA coverage across the insular Caribbean is not far behind global reference values. • The insular Caribbean ...
Nuevos espacios para la conservación de la biodiversidad : establecimiento de la reserva privada El Zorzal, República Dominicana
(2014)
En el año 2012 inició el programa de conservación «Dos mundos, un ave», cuyo nombre alude a los dos hábitats del Zorzal Migratorio, y que pretende contribuir a la conservación y conectividad del hábitat de esta especie ...
Programa regional REDD CCAD/GIZ : desarrollando acciones de protección del clima a través de un manejo sustentable de los bosques en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana
(2014)
La Cooperación Alemana está presente en Centroamérica y en la República Dominicana con diferentes programas nacionales, regionales y proyectos sectoriales, acompañando procesos y participando activamente en la discusión ...