Browsing by Author "World Wildlife Fund (WWF)"

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  • The Biological Corridor Landscape Project
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-26)
    The biological corridors includes core protected areas, forest and wetland habitats outside of protected areas, agricultural lands and settlements. As an integral component of the proposed project, a long-term financial plan will be developed based on the review of current and future costs of managing the corridors by gathering information from government, community, and private investments.
  • Danube Basin PES project
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2006-12-06)
    Danube Basin PES project is attempting to implement activities that reward the maintenance, improvement or adoption of conservation friendly land uses are established in the on the lower Danube and Danube Delta. The project activities are scheduled for the 2007-2010 timeframe.
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    Ecosystem Services and Payments for Ecosystem Services: Why should businesses care?
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (WWF Macroeconomics Program Office, 2007)
    Many companies rely on natural resources, and securing the flow of ecosystem services may be directly related to their business's bottom line. Other businesses have a considerable environmental impact or produce significant harmful emissions; they may find that paying to increase the flow of ES (e.g., carbon offsets or biodiversity offsets) is an economical way to neutralize their footprint. Insurance companies and coastal area developers may find that increasing the provision of ES is the cheapest way to reduce the risk of natural hazard. However, caring for the environment and paying for ES is not the sole responsibility of the private sector. Governments, communities, and NGOs share the burden of protecting the environment. Governments must work out the rules of the game, prime the pump, and in many cases be the direct procurers of some ecosystem services (public goods). Community and conservation NGOs must ensure that ES and PES are pursued with equity -balancing the interests of people and nature- to increase job and income opportunities for the rural poor and deliver real, on-the-ground conservation. Finding creative and equitable business arrangements is not a new concept, and companies that have already embraced corporate social and environmental responsibility are well positioned to take advantage of the business opportunities inherent in the five PES Business Models described within. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of initiatives to increase society's awareness of ecosystem services and a rush to devise mechanisms to pay for sustaining them. The business sector is bound to be a key player here, as a buyer and a seller of ecosystem services as well as a market developer and innovator. With this in mind, in November 2006, WWF invited a dozen representatives of some of the world's largest food, beverage, energy, and mining companies to join staff from government agencies, financial institutions, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Vienna to exchange ideas and identify collaborative opportunities.
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    Equitable payments for watershed services: Delivering poverty reduction and conservation
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-10)
    WWF, CARE, and IIED launched a joint program in 2006 to establish equitable payments for watershed services (PWS) in ten watersheds in five countries located in Latin America, Africa and Asia (Guatemala, Peru, Tanzania, Indonesia and the Philippines). The ten watersheds selected as project sites all have three features in common: high levels of biodiversity, high rates of land-use change affecting watershed services, and high levels of poverty. The program, which has received funding from the Dutch and Danish governments (DGIS and DANIDA), aims to demonstrate how equitable PWS can reverse forest loss through addressing the core drivers of land-use change, as well as improve livelihoods through various forms of compensation, including direct payments.
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    Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Project
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-25)
    The Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Project secured more than $5 million from state, federal and private sources to conduct a five-year pilot project that will identify and field test critical elements of a program to complement the existing restoration efforts by paying cattle ranchers to provide environmental services that will benefit the lake. The program will:
  • Jequetepeque and Piura river basins Equitable Payment for Watershed Services project
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF); CARE (2007-07-11)
    CARE Peru's and WWF Peru's Equitable Payment for Watershed Services (PWS) project is part of an international initiative supported by DANIDA and DGIS (Holland) in 5 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to promote equitable compensation of hydrological services as a way of promoting sustainable development practices as well as the livelihoods of rural poor communities. The project will work on developing a business case for environmental services in two river basins in Northern Peru (the Jequetepeque River and the Piura River Basins, in the Departments of Cajamarca, La Libertad, and Piura). The project will focus on watershed protection services from natural forest and agroforestry systems and will explore and support other services' opportunities related to PWS, with an emphasis on community involvement and gender. In the long term, such services are expected to potentially benefit 80% of the population of Jequetepeque River Basin, and nearly 1 million inhabitants from the Piura River Basin.
  • The Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2006-11-01)
    The goal of this project is to develop a Monarch Butterfly protection area by conserving forest area. In the past local communities who owned the logging rights to the areas of interest have resisted efforts to protect the forest. The WWF and partner organizations created the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund (MBCF) which has been using economic incentives to conserve these critical Monarch habitats. Payments of US$18 per cubic meter of wood are being made to communities that have not cut within the protected area. Additional payments for conservation range from US$8 to US$12 per hectare of conserved forest.
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    The Motagua-Polochic PES project
    Defenders of Nature (2007-07-11)
    This Payment for Environmental Service program will help ensure the protected area's financial self-sustainability by increasing participation among local resource users, particularly by engaging the private sector and municipalities in the conservation of their own natural resource base. At a broader level, beyond the protected area itself, the Water Fund is also intended to address water pollution problems affecting the Motagua and Polochic rivers and ultimately the Mesoamerican Reef, which stem from neighboring urban centers and agro-export activities. This conceptual model will be useful for reliability by other municipalities in Guatemala and as a tool for future policy development at a national level.
  • Namibia Community Based Natural Resources Management
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-27)
    The Namibian Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) program is currently in its third phase of USAID funding. It has been designed to develop local community conservation groups that manage their local natural resources in ways to generate income by the creation of local conservancies. Perhaps the most successful conservancy in Namibia is the Torra conservancy which was the first conservancy to become financially self sufficient. Torra has established a variety of sustainable hunting and ecotourism activities that proved to be profitable. In 2003, they distributed funds equaling half the average annual incomes to its members. Other financial assistance has been distributed to community project such as school assistance, ambulance purchasing, and other social projects. In addition to the typical ecotourism activities that most conservancies conduct as payment for environmental services activities, several conservancies are providing cash compensations for livestock being killed by predators.
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    Payments for Environmental Services: An equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (Gland, Switzerland: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 2006)
    WWF's approach of equitable PES, which it is developing and implementing with partners including CARE and IIED, aims to address the constraints to poverty alleviation by finding a balance between conservation and development outcomes; by delivering conservation of biodiversity with significant benefits to the poor; and by doing so in a just and equitable way.
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    Performance and potential of Conservation Agriculture for climate change adaptation and mitigation in sub-Saharan Africa
    Milder, J. C.; Majanen, T.; Scherr, Sara J. (2011)
    This resource offers an extensive review of Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in an effort to determine future possibilities and applications of these practices in the same region. EcoAgriculture Partners performed a literature review, interviews, field visits to Mozambique and Tanzania, and critical analysis to reveal the current status of CA in SSA, production stages where it may be most relevant, and future extension methodologies. The authors found that despite the many environmental, economic, and social benefits to CA, adoption was sparse. Recommendations for facilitating adoption include intensive education, policy changes, and infrastructure development.
  • Sibuyan Island payment for watershed services
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-11)
    In 2000, the Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park with 15,000 hectares of forest, was established through a DENR EU-supported program. In 2004, a management plan and draft PA bill was completed. WWF-Philippines also initiated the development of livelihood systems among the Sibuyan Mangyan-Tagabukid, the indigenous group of the area, through farm extension, technological demo farms and credit. The project assisted Sibuyan Mangyan-Tagabukid WWF also assisted the group in obtaining a Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title and preparing a management plan covering 7,900 hectares of ancestral land. WWF-Philippines, the San Fernando LGU and the indigenous group agreed on future work on the ancestral domain, which covers the watershed of the San Fernando Municipality. The watershed management program will be supported through a payment scheme for watershed services that will be established with the LGU of San Fernando and a downstream hydro-electric power producer. The project is supported by the LGU of San Fernando and WWF-Philippines.
  • The Sierra de las Minas water fund
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF); Defensores de la Naturaleza (2006-11-01)
    The Montagua-Polochic System is one of the most biodiverse regions within the area, with 63 major rivers originating within the dense cloud forest of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve (SMBR). These rivers supply water to a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and residential users which have noticed a decline in the water quantity and quality. There are currently no financial mechanisms in place to collect or distribute fees to protect the upstream source areas.
  • Tanzania Uluguru Mountains payments for watershed services
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-11)
    Communities living in the Uluguru Mountains are heavily dependent on the forests for their livelihoods. In addition, while expanding agriculture up the slopes has led to forest loss, these farms are now important producers of fruit and vegetables, and so vitally important for the welfare of the mountain communities as well as the people of Dar es Salaam. The WWF-CARE-IIED project aims to help mountain communities stabilize and improve the productivity of their farms as well as prevent further forest loss. The water authorities of Dar es Salaam and Morogoro will be approached as buyers for the environmental services being provided by the mountain communities. The project will help promote the PES concept in Tanzania, as well as influence relevant policy and create an enabling environment for PES to function in the country.
  • Upper Kapuas Basin payment for environmental services project
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2007-07-11)
    "The project seeks to ensure a sustainable flow of services generated by a watershed in Kapuas Hulu, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), to beneficiaries of these services through the establishment of payments mechanisms. Natural resource degradation in Kapuas Hulu district has increased over time, mainly because of mismanagement and the high intensity of unsustainable logging. The consequence? Increased flooding and erosion downstream. The figures are telling: in 2002, floods took place in 14 of 23 sub-districts and landslides in 5 sub-districts.
  • User fees: Scuba diving in Mabini, Batangas, Philippines
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2006-11-01)
    Batangas is a coastal marine area containing a wide range of aquatic resources which include 319 coral species, dolphins, turtles, and shorebirds. Several NGOs had provided funding for marine conservation, but due to the uncertainty in continued funding additional funding mechanisms were needed. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) sought to implement a diver fee to supply the needed conservation funds.
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    Working for Wetlands, South Africa
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF) (2003)
    This publication describes the development of South Africa's 'Working for Water' and 'Working for Wetlands' Programs. The objectives of 'Working for Water' are water resource protection, poverty reduction and capacity building, and conservation of biodiversity, with an emphasis on water resource management. The local workers employed in wetland rehabilitation programs are typically some of the poorest in society. The document concludes with a list of lessons learned.
  • WWF initiative for capacity building and on-the-ground PES project development
    World Wildlife Fund (WWF); SIDA (Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency) (2007-07-06)
    With traditional sources of funding dwindling, a variety of PES and related schemes have emerged as potential sources of sustainable financing for conservation. Yet thus far most PES are small in size, cumbersome to manage and are not rural-poor friendly. This WWF program seeks to address these limitations by focusing on how to scale-up current PES and other sustainable financing schemes so that they deliver substantial and long-lasting conservation while alleviating rural poverty.