Recovering wildlife, protecting forests, and aleviating poverty through community governance
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £796,685
WHERE Pakistan
Summary
This project will help at least 50 communities in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan build and strengthen their natural resource governance institutions to help save threatened wildlife and forests. This initiative has previously been shown to be extremely effective in recovering key species of wildlife, building multi-community management structures that safeguard traditional rights and cultural values while increasing the voice of marginalized community members, and helping to alleviate poverty through the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of biodiversity.
Bridging the biodiversity financing gap: Blending public and private capital for nature-positive outcomes that foster human-elephant coexistence in India.
