Global Wildlife Conservation
Global Wildlife Conservation trained indigenous forest rangers to plan patrol routes using GFW data and present evidence to local authorities, which resulted in eviction of perpetrators of illegal deforestation.
Grants & Fellowships
The Small Grants Fund and Tech Fellowship support civil society organizations and individuals around the world to use Global Forest Watch in their advocacy, research, and field work.
MEET THE GRANTEES AND FELLOWS
With financial and technical support from GFW, organizations and individuals around the world are using Global Forest Watch to monitor large-scale land-use projects, enforce community land rights, defend critical habitat, and influence forest policy.
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Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA)
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental developed an early warning alert system, based on GFW data, for managers of private protected areas in the Amazonas region of Peru.
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Amazon Conservation Association (ACA)
Amazon Conservation Association collaborated with decision-makers in the Andean Amazon to establish a near real-time deforestation monitoring system.
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Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures strengthened community-based mangrove management in Madagascar.
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Friends of Siberian Forests
Friends of Siberian Forests created a network of “Forest Watchers” in Eastern Siberia to monitor local forest issues.
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Group for Environment, Renewable Energy, and Solidarity (GERES)
GERES analyzed the impacts of charcoal production on the forests of Cambodia’s cardamom mountains.
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Private Institute for Climate Change Research (ICC)
Private Institute for Climate Change Research (ICC) convened a multistakeholder initiative to evaluate the application of GFW in Guatemala.
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Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV)
Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) mapped logging activity in Mato Grosso, Brazil, and produced an analysis of illegal deforestation for government officials.
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Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA)
The Maya Leaders Alliance supported indigenous leaders in Southern Belize to map community land boundaries and use digital technology for forest monitoring.
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Perkumpulan Rincong
Perkumpulan Rincong enabled six forest communities in Aceh, Indonesia to manage their customary forest with GFW.
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Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF)
Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) improved forest protection in Sri Lanka by using deforestation alerts to inform and improve the response time of local law enforcement.
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Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists (SIEJ)
Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists (SIEJ) created effective storytelling of environmental issues by producing media packages using Global Forest Watch data, interviews and imagery of six locations in Indonesia.
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African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)
The African Wildlife Foundation trained eco-guards in using Global Forest Watch to protect a large swath of the Bili Uele Protected Area in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Asociación Guyra Paraguay
Asociacion Guyra Paraguay mapped forest loss from land use change in the Grand Chaco region to identify deforestation drivers and encourage government action to respond.
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Bruno Manser Fonds
Bruno Manser Fonds used drones to ground truth alerts on indigenous lands in Borneo and documented illegal deforestation to provide evidence for litigation.
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Center for Sustainable Economy
Center for Sustainable Economy trained citizens in Oregon to use GFW to help enforce existing forest laws and influence policy.
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Community Commons
Community Commons established an online forest education platform based on GFW data and created a learning exchange between high school students in Russia and the United States.
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Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth- Nigeria (ERAFOEN)
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth- Nigeria helped communities to map three forest reserves in Nigeria using GFW data, which resulted in the revocation of land grabbed by palm oil companies.
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Fundación para el Desarrollo de Políticas Sostenibles (FUNDEPS)
FUNDEPS identified areas of high deforestation in Argentina and effectively saved over 13,000 hectares of forest that were illegally authorized to be deforested.
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Instituto Araguaia
Instituto Araguaia established a legally recognized conservation buffer zone between two state parks in Brazil’s Cerrado region by using Global Forest Watch knowledge and data.
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Reporter Brasil
Reporter Brasil used Global Forest Watch data and graphics to investigate and report on the impact of hydroelectric dam development in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Association for the Development of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua – “PANA PANA”
PANA PANA strengthened the forest monitoring capacity of territorial leaders representing 84 indigenous communities in Waspam Rio Coco, Nicaragua.
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The Ecological Society
The Ecological Society used forest loss alerts around dam catchments to improve biological restoration programs.
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Transparent World
Transparent World compiled data about high conservation value forests in Russia and made it publicly available to promote informed decision-making in the forest sector.
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Women Research Institute (WRI)
Women Research Institute provided GFW data and advocacy training to women’s groups in Riau, Indonesia to empower them to influence how agribusinesses operate near their villages.
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African Conservation Foundation
African Conservation Foundation used GFW data with participatory 3D mapping processes to guide the establishment of a community-managed forest in Cameroon.
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Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
Amazon Conservation Team trained indigenous community members on the Forest Watcher mobile app and other data collection tools to effectively monitor forest threats.
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HAkA
HAkA succesfully improved the forest monitoring capacity of law enforcement officers and forest rangers in the Aceh province of Indonesia.
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Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad
Asociacion Ambiente y Sociedad built an online platform that alerts community members to the impacts of mega-infrastructure projects in Colombia.
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Global SchoolNet Foundation
Global SchoolNet Foundation incorporated GFW into a global forest learning program for middle and high school students.
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People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature)
People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) developed indicators and a monitoring system for a Payment for Ecosystem Services program in Vietnam, based on Global Forest Watch data.
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Pronatura
Pronatura incorporated GFW data into an online mapping platform for decision-makers in Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula.
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Proyecto Mono Tocón
Proyecto Mono Tocón trained communities on using GFW alerts to dispatch drones and position acoustic sensors to investigate forest threats in Peru.
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Regional Water Fund FORAGUA
Regional Water Fund FORAGUA trained local authorities, journalists and educators on using Global Forest Watch to monitor threats to Ecuadoran watersheds.
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Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF)
IBIF will strengthen the deforestation and fire activities of the Forestry Technical Unit of the Central of Original Communities of Lomerío (CICOL) in Bolivia using GFW tools.
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Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM)
Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management used GFW alerts to guide community forest patrols on the border between Belize and Guatemala.
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The ProForest Initiative
The ProForest Initiative used carbon value and land use data to create a dashboard for farmers and agriculture companies to guide more sustainable land use decisions.
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Working Group on Forest Certification Ghana
Working Group on Forest Certification Ghana supported law enforcement and communities in using GFW to combat illegal logging and forest-related crime in Ghana.
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Amazonicos por la Amazonia (AMPA)
Amazonicos por la Amazonia trained members of a network of 35 conservation areas in Peru’s San Martín region on near real-time surveillance and response.
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Brazilian Team for the Conservation of the Amazon (ECAM)
Brazilian Team for the Conservation of the Amazon (ECAM) gathered evidence about the impacts of deforestation on seven indigenous populations.
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Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante (FCTV)
Fondation Camerounaise de la Terre Vivante (FCTV) trained local communities in southern Cameroon to use Forest Watcher and GFW alerts to identify illegal activities in near real-time.
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HCV Resource Network
HCV Resource Network developed a rapid response protocol for High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) areas, based on GFW alerts.
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Rainforest Foundation US
Rainforest Foundation US supported community forest monitors and Peru’s National Protected Area Service to use GFW alerts and the Forest Watcher app to halt deforestation.
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Reporter Brasil
Reporter Brasil produced investigative reports to raise awareness of how the involvement of communities in forest protection is crucial for long-term success.
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Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA)
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental worked with a network of private protected areas in Peru to create a deforestation monitoring system.
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TuK Indonesia
TuK Indonesia integrated fire alerts into an existing database that links financiers to companies operating in forest-risk sectors, to encourage banks to adopt “no fire” policies.
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Abigail Frimpong
Abigail built the capacity of five Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAS) in Ghana to utilize GFW tools for forest monitoring and management.
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Women Research Institute (WRI)
Women Research Institute engaged women’s groups in Riau to develop a community-based early warning system for fires due to slash-and-burn clearing for agriculture.
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Christel Scheske
Christel Scheske collaborated with the Cocachimba community to map, monitor and conserve the Gocta Waterfall catchment system in Amazonas, Peru.
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Harry Surjadi
Harry Surjadi worked on a grassroots communication system, “Information Broker,” that allows communities to monitor and report on harmful forest activities.
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Johan Hardjopawiro
Johan Hardjopawiro worked with the Matawai community in central Suriname to develop a sustainable forest monitoring program.
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Robert Tumwesigye Baganda
Robert Tumwesigye Baganda monitored drivers of forest degradation and trained forest monitors on GFW tools across three different forest reserves in Uganda.
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Tatiana NGANGOUM NANA
Tatiana Ngangoum Nana used Global Forest Watch tools to support her forest monitoring and GIS work for Cameroon’s REDD+ project.
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Esaie Dufitimana
Esaie utilized GFW to develop an online platform for monitoring deforestation drivers in the Nyungwe and Gishwati-Mukura National Parks of Rwanda.
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Leonard Akwany
Leonard used GFW tools to develop forest monitoring indicators for the transboundary Mount Elgon Forest Landscape in Uganda and Kenya.
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Madeleine Ngeunga
Madeleine raised awareness of tree cover loss in Cameroon through digital storytelling and data visualizations. She also built the capacity of young Cameroonian journalists and indigenous community leaders to apply GFW to produce stories and monitor community lands.
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Amazon Conservation Association
Amazon Conservation Association expanded their GLAD alert-based monitoring system (MAAP) to the Western Amazon scale to confront drivers of deforestation in the region.
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Amazon Conservation Team
Amazon Conservation Team trained Amazon Conservation Rangers (ACRs) across three indigenous communities in Suriname to use GFW to protect and monitor their territories from mining and timber harvesting.
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Amazónicos por la Amazonía – AMPA
Amazónicos por la Amazonía worked with conservation volunteers and government officials to implement a GFW-based control and surveillance system within the Voluntary and Communal Conservation Network of San Martin, Peru.
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Pronatura Península de Yucatán A.C
Pronatura incorporated GLAD and VIIRS alerts into their Maya Forest Watch monitoring platform, which they used to train and improve the capacity of government and community stakeholders to protect forests within key Biosphere Reserves in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
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Publish What You Pay Indonesia
Publish What You Pay Indonesia used GFW to strengthen community participation in monitoring forests threatened by mining operations in West Papua, Indonesia.
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Rainforest Foundation US
Rainforest Foundation US integrated deforestation monitoring using GLAD alerts and Forest Watcher with indigenous communities in Loreto, Peru.
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Red Panda Network
Red Panda Network developed a community-based wildlife management system underpinned by GFW to protect red panda forest habitats in Nepal.
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SAILD
SAILD used GFW to monitor and report on the environmental and social impacts of the Lom Pangar Hyrdroelectric dam located in the Deng Deng National Park in Cameroon.
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The Center for People and Forests
The Center for People and Forests, in collaboration with Tempo Witness, developed a citizen science fire monitoring system using Forest Watcher, VIIRS active fire alerts and the Tempo Witness app. This system was piloted across three villages in the Jambi Province of Indonesia, with community members succesfully utilizing the system to monitor, report and respond to forest fires near their villages.
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World Wildlife Fund - Paraguay
World Wildlife Fund-Paraguay, in collaboration with INFONA, developed a GLAD Alert Prioritization tool in Google Earth Engine to monitor and report on deforestation hotspots across Paraguay.
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Cooperativa Ambio
Ambio will work with the Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) to strengthen community-based deforestation prevention activities across 11 natural protected areas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
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Amazónicos por la Amazonía – AMPA
AMPA will strengthen the forest control and surveillance system across 43 conservation initiatives within the Volunteer and Communal Conservation Network of San Martín, Peru.
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Code for Africa
Code for Africa will train Central African journalists to use GFW and publish stories on deforestation in the region.
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Earth Innovation Institute (EII)
Earth Innovation Institute will train the Pato River Municipal Settlers Association (AMCOP) in Colombia on the use of GFW’s early warning tools to monitor deforestation, and coordinate response actions with the San Vicente del Caguán municipal government.
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Federación por la Autodeterminación de los Pueblos Indígenas (FAPI)
FAPI will use GFW to support the consolidation of territorial forest rights and indigenous territorial governance of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode Cultural Natural Heritage (PNCAT) in Paraguay.
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Genesis Bengkulu Foundation
Genesis Bengkulu Foundation will train local communities to use GFW to protect the Seblat Forest Landscape in Indonesia.
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HAkA
HAkA will continue to support and build the monitoring capacity of forestry government agencies in Aceh, Indonesia - specifically the Forest Management Unit (KPH) and National Park Agency (BPTN).
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Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV)
ICV will train the Mato Grosso Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPMT) in Brazil to use GFW to curb deforestation and hold landholders accountable for environmental crimes
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Persatuan Aktivis Sahabat Alam (KUASA)
KUASA will strengthen forest stewardship of the Titiwangsa Central Forest Spine in Malaysia by building the forest monitoring capacity of the Orang Asli indigenous communities.
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Ny Tanintsika
Ny Tanintsika will build capacity to monitor deforestation zone of the Ambositra Vondrozo forest corridor (COFAV) protected area in Madagascar.
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Repórter Brasil
Repórter Brasil will highlight the environmental impacts of Brazil's economic policies on indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
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SAILD
SAILD will strengthen the forest monitoring efforts within the Deng Deng National Park in Cameroon.
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Asociación Amazónicos por la Amazonía (AMPA)
AMPA will work with the private concession network in San Martin, Peru to monitor illegal activity on private protected lands.
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Asociación ProPurús
Asociación ProPurús will work closely with the main indigenous federation in the Ucayali region – ORAU – to improve the technical level of ORAU’s Indigenous Forest Monitoring Unit.
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Aves y Conservación
Aves y Conservación will strengthen forest monitoring efforts in the ACUSMIT, and work to legally report and stop extractive activities and deforestation sources.
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HAkA
HAkA will collaborate with local and regional environmental authorities in Aceh, Indonesia to monitor and protect against deforestation in the region and train univeristy lecturers and students on GFW.
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Hen Mpoano
Hen Mpoano will build the forest monitoring capacity of communities and forest managers to reduce deforestation in the Takoradi Forest District.
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IKIAM Foundation
IKIAM will build the forest monitoring capacity and establish rapid response procedures for each of the 89 Achuar Communities in the Achuar territory.
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Iniciativa Climática de México
Iniciativa Climática de México will develop a digital platform for analyzing and disseminating analyses, reports and data on the deforestation impacts along the “Mayan Train” route.
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Malaysian Nature Society
MNS will work with their citizen science network to adopt Forest Watcher as a principal fieldwork tool for the Malaysian Forest Watch initiative.
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Observatoire de la Gouvernance Forestière (OGF)
OGF will synergize and complement information from the GFW platform with data available on the Open Timber Portal to increase transparency and accountability of forest products sourced from the DRC.
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Organización Regional de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente (ORPIO)
ORPIO will work with local indigenous federation – FECONATIYA – to build their community forest monitoring capacity to address invasions and deforestation activities perpetuated by illegal loggers.
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Pledge Ghana
Pledge Ghana will build the capacities of smallholder cocoa farmers and their producer cooperatives in Ghana to utilize GFW tools to monitor and manage farm and reserve buffers in cocoa production areas.
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ProCAT Colombia
ProCAT Colombia aims to use GFW’s deforestation alerts to mitigate, control, and monitor deforestation of Colombia’s Tropical Dry Forest.
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Titian Lestari Foundation
Titian Lestari Foundation will work with the Mahakam Delta Forest Managers and local communities to reduce mangrove loss.
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Alliance for Conservation of Great Apes in Central Africa (Alliance GSAC)
Alliance GSAC will strengthen the forest monitoring capacity of local communities to reduce deforestation in the Ebo Forest and the Bolobo Territory.
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Fondo de Conservación del Eje Neovolcánico A.C
FOCEN will train local communities in forest monitoring and use the information gathered to raise awareness of threats to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve and promote sustainable management practices.
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Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance will provide capacity building and training to forest rangers and social forestry groups to enable them to monitor and respond to forest disturbances across the Kotaagung Utara FMU.
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