Forests matter - GEF's contribution to conserving and sustaining forest ecosystems
Bichara,Dominique
This report provides an overview of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) forest program, focusing on its support for protected areas and mainstreaming biodiversity in forest management systems, and landscapes. It also highlights how these activities have helped enhance the quality of life in communities, and contributed to improvements in the management and quality of forest ecosystems. The diversity of forest ecosystems, and the numbers of species and amount of genetic diversity they harbor, makes supporting forest ecosystems a critical component of conserving biodiversity. Under guidance from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the GEF is targeting forest ecosystems as a key to the conservation, sustainable use, and equitable sharing of benefits from biodiversity. In its first 10 years of operation, the GEF has focused on protected areas as a key tool for conserving forests and biodiversity. The following are the strategic priorities that will guide the GEF's investments in biodiversity, and respond to the policy directions of the GEF: Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Areas; Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation in Production Systems; Capacity Building for the Implementation of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; and, Generation and Dissemination of Best Practices to Address Current and Emerging Biodiversity Issues.
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