12 December 2011: The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group has outlined its approach to evaluating the Bank's support for member countries and the private sector as they balance competing demands on forest resources and manage them for sustainable development.
3 December 2011: Oceans Day 2011 addressed several issues related to marine biodiversity, including the ecosystem approach, payment for ecosystem services (PES), invasive marine species, ocean acidification, coral bleaching and fish stocks depletion.
1 December 2011: The World Bank's Programme on Forests (PROFOR) has launched an updated version of its study on the miombo woodlands of southern Africa. The original study explored policies, incentives and options for the rural poor. The updated study revisits this situation in the context of a changing climate, growing food insecurity and increasing demand for woodfuel and charcoal.
28 November 2011: INTERPOL, the World Bank and partners launched Project Predator, a worldwide enforcement initiative to protect tigers in the wild. The Project will call for countries to establish National Tiger Crime Task Forces, which it hopes will encourage the use of modern, intelligence-led enforcement practices for tiger conservation.
14 November 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced positive results of a community sustainable forest management project in Albania, which succeeded in establishing forest and pasture management plans for 240 communes.
10 November 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council, at its 41st Council Meeting, approved decisions on the administration of the GEF, as well as a work programme including several biodiversity-related projects on protected areas, and an innovative International Waters initiative, the “Blue Forests” effort to estimate the carbon sequestration capacity of coastal habitats like mangroves, sea grass beds, coral reefs and salt marshes, and demonstrate their economic value.
4 November 2011: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) approved US$1.08 billion in near-zero-interest loans and grants to support Bolivia, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Lao PDR, Mali, Mexico and Nepal in their efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
2 November 2011: The World Bank, Interpol and partners launched Project Predator, an initiative to protect and save the world's last surviving wild tigers. Due to poaching and habitat degradation and fragmentation, Asia's estimated 100,000 tigers in 1900 have dwindled to fewer than 3,500 across the tiger range countries.
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is organizing three regional meetings in Chile, Tajikistan and Uganda with support of the World Bank Development Grant Facility. This meeting is organized in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
30 September 2011: The Seventh Council Meeting of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) met to review IABIN's accomplishments to date, and develop a vision statement and work plan for the next phase of the project.
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