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Mild solutions in the Saint Louis MPA
A summary of the implementation of soft coastal protection solutions and monitoring results in the Saint-Louis MPA: March 2019-December 2020 has just been produced. It reports on the work carried out...
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Discovering the Mangroves of West Africa: Environmental Education Manual
This Environmental Education Manual was produced as part of the “Rice and Mangrove” project implemented by the Guinea-Bissau Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (IBAP). It presents mangrove...
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The Mangroves Initiative at the World Conservation Congress (IUCN, 2021)
With a strong presence at the IUCN Congress, the Mangroves Initiative presented various results at three events:
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IUCN 2020 Congress: Mangroves Thematic Session
As part of the World Conservation Congress, the IUCN, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM), and the Research Institute for Development (IRD) are organizing a mangroves thematic session: “...
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Meeting days on the sidelines of the IUCN Congress
On the sidelines of the IUCN Congress to be held in Marseille from September 3 to 11, the FFEM is organizing two days dedicated to the Mangroves Initiative.
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Intersecting capitalisation of the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (Programme Petites Initiatives - PPIs) A...
Since 2006, the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (PPIs) have supported African civil society in conserving nature and improving local living conditions. Launched by the FFEM in 2006 and supervised b...
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Tropical Forest & Rural Development (TF-RD), a 2021 Equator Prize winner
Tropical Forest & Rural Development, a long-term partner of the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) supported by the FFEM, is one of the 10 winners of the 2021 Equator Prize. Organised by the Unit...
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The Shark Fin Bay project in Le petit journal: the Sulubaaï Foundation working to restore coral reefs
In an interview in the online Le petit journal, Frédéric Tardieu, founder of the Sulubaaï Foundation which is running the Shark Fin Bay initiative explains how the project, which is supported by the F...
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New videos about the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI)
For the last 15 years, the Small-scale Initiatives Programme (PPI) has been supporting African civil society organisations (CSO) acting to conserve nature. The programme has just released new videos b...
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Soft solutions for coastal risks
This study aims to analyse how soft solutions, which provide alternative and/or complementary responses to conventional solutions in addressing coastal erosion, are integrated into the NDCs (Nationall...
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The FoFauPopU project featured on “La Terre au Carré”
Broadcaster France Inter dedicated an entire programme on La Terre au Carré to the topic of imported deforestation, interviewing 2 FFEM partners: Sabrina Krief, primatologist at France’s Natural Histo...
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A forum for conservation of the great apes
In November 2020, the Alliance for the Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa (AGSAC) organised a forum around the topic of “Local initiatives to protect the great apes of the Cameroon forests a...
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Restoration of the Cuajiniquil and Terraba Sierpe Mangroves: Already Spectacular Results
These videos showcase the magnificent and impressive restoration work carried out in the Bahia Tomas mangrove (Cuajiniquil) and the Terraba Sierpe mangrove, together with the project teams and communi...
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Green and gray infrastructure in the Philippines
Implementation of Green and Grey Infrastructures In the Philippines, the project covers 4 sites in Iloilo province: Bagongon, Loong, Bacjawan Norte, and Tambaliza. At each site, several structures...
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Aristide Takoukam: “Beyond its technological innovation, the project has encouraged true environmental citizen...
Aristide Takoukam is president and founder of the NGO AMMCO (African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization) in Cameroon. He explains how AMMCO has launched apps to monitor and protect endangered mar...
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Interview on RFI: Costa Rica – Benin, a South-South mobilisation to save the mangroves
Janique Etienne, Head of marine and coastal ecosystems at the FFEM, was interviewed on “C’est pas du vent”, RFI’s environmental magazine, broadcast on 16 April.
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Costa Rica Benin Project: 2019 Activity Report
The fourth activity report of the Costa Rica Benin project presents the 2019 activities at the sites in Costa Rica (Cuajiniquil, Terraba Sierpe, and Puntarenas) and Benin (Ouidah). Significant progres...
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Publication of an ONERC report: “nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation”
The publisher Documentation française is today publishing an information and recommendations report from the French National Observatory on the Effects of Climate Change (ONERC) for France's Prime Min...
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Janique Etienne talks to the French National Assembly about nature-based solutions and climate change adaptat...
Janique Etienne, FFEM head of Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience projects, took part in the French parliamentary think-tank session “Combating climate change and its effects” on 12 December 2019. During the...
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