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Brussels, March 12, 2019, The Earth and Life institute of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain),
has officially joined the members of the Congo Basin Forests
Partnership (CBFP). As part of the accession process, the Earth and Life
institute of the UCLouvain submitted the required documents and agreed
to abide by the CBFP members’ cooperation framework in promoting
sustainable management of forest ecosystems in Central Africa |
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The United Nations General Assembly
proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests (IDF) in 2012. The
Day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of all types of
forests. On each International Day of Forests, countries are encouraged
to undertake local, national and international efforts to organize
activities involving forests and trees, such as tree planting campaigns.
The theme for each International Day of Forests is chosen by the
Collaborative Partnership on Forests. The theme for 2019 is Forests and
Education. |
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On the occasion of the signing on 12
February by Minister Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of
Foreign and European Affairs and Minister of Defense, of a commitment
of two million euros to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
François-Xavier de Donnea delivered the following speech... |
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Minister of State François-Xavier de
Donnea, Belgian Facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership was
received in audience on the one hand, by Mr. Pedro Antonio OLIVEIRA
BORUPU and Mr. Santiago Francisco ENGONGA OSONO, respectively the
Secretary of State for Agriculture and Livestock and the Secretary of
State for Forests and the Environment, and on the other hand, by the
Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs of Equatorial Guinea. |
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On March 5, 2019, His Excellency Mr.
Fred CONSTANT, French Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, hosted a
high-level working luncheon during the visit of Minister of State
François-Xavier de Donnea, Belgian Facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest
Partnership to Malabo. |
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From 5 to 8 March 2019, Minister of
State François-Xavier de DONNEA, Belgian facilitator of the Congo Basin
Forest Partnership conducted a working visit to the highest authorities
of Gabon. The aim of the trip to Gabon was to review cross-border
threats to Gabon’s forest resources and biodiversity and present the
CBFP’s results and prospects in this regard. |
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The COMIFAC Climate Working Group held a
workshop from 05 to 07 March 2019 in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea). The
purpose of the meeting was to decode COP 24, prepare for future events
under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
and validate the concept notes of regional projects. |
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Songdo, 28 Feb 2019. The 22nd meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Board ended today, with a raft of decisions to strengthen GCF for its
first replenishment. Following the selection of Yannick Glemarec as its
new Executive Director at the start of the meeting, the Board then
approved nine new climate resilience and low emission projects totaling
USD 440 million in GCF resources, and took steps to strengthen
operations, reinforce standards and close policy gaps. The meeting also
approved the selection of nine new project partners to become Accredited
Entities to GCF. |
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We are pleased to announce the 2019 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Central Africa Regional Program.Conservation priorities for USFWS
support in 2019 will focus on providing front line support to protected
areas and capacity development, and addressing regional threats to
wildlife.
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In October 2018, WWF published the 10th
edition of its bi-annual Living Planet Report, indicating that
biodiversity has declined by over 60% in the last 40 years. The report
attributes this decline mostly to human, rather than natural causes. For
the first time in history, human beings have had such a powerful impact
on the planet. In our incessant quest for more land for logging,
mining, big infrastructure, agriculture, we have overexploited nature
and its re- sources to meet ever-increasing human consumption. |
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Following his discussion with the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, the CBFP Facilitator talked with the
Vice-President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Pierre Maganga
Moussavou who reaffirmed the commitment of the Head of State. He
expressed the wish that logging companies and large plantations would
invest in improving the livelihoods of local populations in their
operating areas, and especially improving their habitat.
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The CBFP Facilitator had several working
meetings with, amongst others: Ambassador François Fall, Special
Representative of the United Nations SG for Central Africa; the Deputy
Secretary General of ECCAS, Ms. Marie-Thérèse Mfoula; Ambassador Helmut
Kulitz, accompanied by Mr. Jean Huchon and Ignacio Sobrino from DUE and
Ms. Muriel Soret from the French Embassy; representatives of the ADB,
the World Bank and UNODC in Libreville.
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The CBFP Facilitator held discussions
with Ms. Jacqueline Van De Pol, ITTTA representative (International
Technical Tropical Timber Association) in Libreville and Mr. Lee White,
Executive Secretary of Gabon’s National Agency of National Parks.
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Lebanese companies and enterprises will benefit from better and more
stable supply of electricity thanks to a US$ 20 million financial
package extended by the EBRD to BUTEC Utility Services S.A.L. (BUS), a
private electricity distribution service provider operating in the north
of the country and a member of BUTEC Group.
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we have the pleasure of informing you
that today Fern has released “La foresterie communautaire : Opportunité
ou chimère pour les femmes du Bassin du Congo ?” (Community forestry:
Opportunity or mirage for women in the Congo Basin?) a new briefing
which considers the extent to which community forestry in Central
Africa, particularly in CAR and Congo, can benefit women, taking into
account the regional, local institutional, legal and cultural context.
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"Due to its immense potential productivity, the Cluster also forms part
of the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). Presence of
these attractive natural resources, protected resources, fertile land,
water resources, extensive grazing land, reliable rains and availability
of large-scale plantations have attracted large concentrations of both
human being and livestock. This multi-layered resource endowment
scenario calls for effective planning to enable sustainable utilization
of resources and the avoidance of conflicts.
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The first month of the year and the PMU has already achieved some
important results! In January alone, 12 suspects were arrested and
transferred to court. Amongst these, three poachers and an ivory buyer
were arrested during an operation in the Eastern Sector of the Park. We
have also succeeded in removing two war weapons from circulating in
these criminal networks.
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The ABCG Land Use Management task group
has developed methodological approaches for scenario analysis, and
guidelines for its application in Africa. This is to help identify how
to incorporate equitable and climate-smart alternatives into land use
decisions for conservation.
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This study carried out by Maliasili under
ABCG's Land and Resource Tenure Rights working group documents emergent
community forest enterprises in Tanzania and their impacts on forest
conservation and the livelihoods of local communities.
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A convicted Chinese trafficker known as
the "ivory queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by a Tanzanian
court. Yang Fenglan, who has lived in Tanzania on and off for decades
and operated a Chinese restaurant, was found guilty of working with two
Tanzanian men to smuggle more than 800 pieces of ivory between 2000 and
2004, as Reuters reported.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian
authorities have seized a record 30 tons of pangolin and pangolin
products in eastern Sabah state on Borneo, the biggest such bust in the
country, a wildlife monitoring group said Tuesday. |
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On 12 February, Didier Reynders,
Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and
Minister of Defense signed, at Egmont Palace in Brussels, a commitment
of two million euros to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC). The contribution will go into a UNODC fund devoted to the fight
against corruption related to crimes against wildlife and forests in
Africa. Wildlife is an irreplaceable part of the planet’s natural
resources.
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For two weeks, the conference has brought together thousands of climate
action decision-makers, advocates and activists, with one key objective:
adopting global guidelines for the 197 parties of the 2015 Paris Agreement,
when countries committed to limiting global warming to less than 2°C –
and as close as possible to 1.5° – above pre-industrial levels.
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Africa Climate Week 2019, dates:
18-22 March 2019 location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana 20.03.2019–22.03.2019
Second High-level UN Conference on
South-South Cooperation, dates: 20-22 March 2019 location: Buenos Aires,
Distrito Federal, Argentina 21.03.2019 International Day of Forests 2019,
date: 21 March 2019 location: worldwide 25.03.2019–29.03.2019
Land and Poverty Conference 2019:
Catalyzing Innovation, dates: 25-29 March 2019 location: Washington D.C., US 28.03.2019–31.03.2019
Annual Meeting of the Boards of
Governors of the IDB and IIC, dates: 28-31 March 2019 location: Chengdu,
Sichuan, China 28.03.2019
High-level Meeting: Climate
Protection for All, date: 28 March 2019 location: New York City, 01.04.2019–04.04.2019
OceanVisions2019: Climate Summit,
dates: 1-4 April 2019 location: Atlanta, GA, US 01.04.2019–04.04.2019
13th International Conference on
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) 1-4 April 2019 in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia 01.04.2019–05.04.2019
52nd Session of the Commission on
Population and Development, dates: 1-5 April 2019 location: New York City 04.04.2019–05.04.2019
WMU Third International Women’s
Conference dates: 4-5 April 2019 location: Malmo, Skane Lan, Sweden 08.04.2019–09.04.2019
ECOSOC Youth Forum 2019, dates: 8-9
April 2019 venue: UN Headquarters location: New York City, UScontact: DESA 11.04.2019
12.04.2019–14.04.2019
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The Secrétariat international
francophone pour l'évaluation environnementale (SIFÉE) and its partners,
CRESA Forêt-Bois, the University of Yaoundé, the Institut de la
Francophonie pour le développement durable and the Bureau de recherches
géologiques et minières (BRGM), are pleased to announce that the next
training session will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from April 29 to May
4, 2019.
Last but not least, a further aim of the
event will be to document and disseminate the wealth of experiences
available today. To this purpose, the "African Handbook of Climate
Change Adaptation: learning, sharing and advancing efforts to promote
climate change adaptation in Africa" will be published, with all
accepted papers. This will be a further volume of the award-winning
book series “Climate Change Management” ...
2.5-month
position based in Ntui, in the Mbam & Kim Division Headquarters (Centre
region) a town located at a two hours’ drive (on tarred road) north of Yaoundé.
Application deadline: 30 March 2019
3-month
position starting in July 2019, based in Ntui, in the Mbam & Kim Division
Headquarters (Centre region) a town located at a two hours’ drive (on tarred
road) north of Yaoundé.
24-month
position based in Ntui, in the Mbam & Kim Division Headquarters (Centre
region) a town located at a two hours’ drive (on tarred road) north of
Yaoundé.Send CV to: david.brugiere@brl.fr, mentioning “Recrutement AT” in the
subject line. Application deadline: 30 March 2019
The EAGLE
Network is looking for individuals with the right skills and qualities
developed from professional experience, training background and a passion for
activism who have a strong personal engagement and internal motivation. You
will need to have some experience of living, travelling or working in Africa,
flexibility, the ability to work long hours at short notice and to endure
stress. The EAGLE Network operates in 8 African countries where it carries
out wildlife law enforcement operations that has brought more than 2,000
traffickers to prison.
AWF seeks
to initiate positive change in the Lower Zambezi landscape by (i) providing
training on anti-poaching operations and equipment for community scouts in the
Mbire Rural District Council (RDC); (ii) supporting the development and
implementation of alternative income-generating activities for target community
members while concurrently using income-generating tools such as chili farming
to mitigate human-wildlife conflict; and (iii) developing and facilitating the
use of well-established land-use plans that demarcate priority conservation
areas within the landscape.
The African
Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is seeking a dynamic and high-performing individual
to implement an integrated conservation and livelihoods program in Kedougou
Region, SE Senegal in partnership with the Municipal Council of Tomboronkoto
Commune and Petowal Mining Company. Under the overall supervision of AWF's Vice
President, Programs for West and Central Africa, the Deputy Program Manager.
Applications
must include a cover letter and CV with full contact details of three referees
sent as one file with subject line “Freshwater Programme Manager – Zambia”, to
The People, Culture & Operations Manager – Zambia through
wwfcareers@wwfzam.org to be received not later than 15th March 2019 at 17:00.
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you have any questions about any of issues CBFP is engaged on or would
like to know more about any aspect of our work, please do forward your
suggestions or do get in touch, we'd love to help:
Email :dany.pokem@pfbc-cbfp.org /and ccing info@pfbc-cbfp.org
Tel: 0049 176 24 09 5050
Web site : visit
the PFBC web site HERE
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