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.
3 November 2011: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist coastal communities in remote areas of the Coral Triangle of Indonesia and the Philippines in starting small, green businesses that will help preserve threatened marine environments in the area.
October 2011: The September-October 2011 issue of the Global Island Partnership's (GLISPA) Progress Update highlights outcomes of the Caribbean Challenge Planning Meeting, a briefing on Debt Swaps for Adaptation, the Hawai'i Green Growth Initiative and Micronesia Challenge. It also notes GLISPA's efforts at upcoming international conferences to raise attention for island initiatives.
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 upcoming 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) taking place from 20-25 November, in Bergen, Norway, will be another step towards improving species conservation in the more than 30-year history of the Convention.
28 October 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released the October edition of its News Update with a selection of stories on: protected area effectiveness; Indonesia's forestry concession ban; interactions between farms and biodiversity; Forest Day 5 at the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17 ) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and the Dry Forests Symposium.
26 October 2011: The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) has issued a statement on the importance of forest foods and services for food and nutritional security in poor, forest-dependent communities.
26 October 2011: The UN-REDD Programme's October newsletter reviews recent activities related to its work on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+).
2o October 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Biennial International Waters Conference brought together 300 participants involved in GEF's International Waters (IW) portfolio of projects. The Conference aimed to facilitate information sharing and exchange of best practices in implementing international waters projects, which address the fragmentation of political jurisdictions, in order to balance water use among countries.
24 October 2011: The Asian Wetland Symposium on Human Well-being and Wetlands brought together 800 participants from 19 countries, including many officials from local governments in China. The event concluded with the adoption of the Wuxi Declaration, in which participants call for a series of actions to be taken for wetland conservation and wise use.
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