PPI: a toolbox to protect biodiversity in Africa

The NGO AMMCO works to preserve manatees on Lake Ossa (Cameroon).

© Alice Milot / RFI

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

1 min

245 biodiversity protection projects in 33 countries: this is the result of the Small Initiatives Program (PPI) created in 2007. Managed by the French Committee of IUCN and financed by the FFEM, the French Environment Fund worldwide, this program supports associations involved in the management of community protected areas, the resolution of human / animal conflicts, the protection of marine and terrestrial biodiversity ... these projects are inspiring, replicable and now available on a website.

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The website of the Small Initiatives Program.

Guests:

Paul Estève, in

charge of the Small Initiatives Program at the French IUCN Committee

Constance Corbier-Barthaux,

responsible for biodiversity projects at FFEM.

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