Greater Cederberg Biodiversity Corridor 

Conservation International, Environmental Monitoring Group, Botsoc, Department Agriculture Western Cape, various local communities and local authorities.

CEPF (Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund) and GEF (Global Environmental Fund)

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Biodiversity

To conserve the globally important Greater Cederberg Region’s biodiversity. To do this through a partnership approach with key interested and affected stakeholders

To provide a landscape approach to conservation in a highly threatened, globally biodiversity important region. Partnerships need to be created to achieve biodiversity goals and a range of stakeholders are involve – from species conservation (tracking of leopards) to community champions (communication networks / access to internet) to monitoring and research (GPS, spatial planning, etc) – this include alien species invaders; monitoring of fires, and monitoring rare and endangered plant / species populations. This is but a small part of the project.

• Expand protected areas to include highly threatened habitat types on private land.
• Create biodiversity partnerships
• Mainstream biodiversity locally
• Raise awareness of the high biodiversity of the Greater Cederberg Corridor locally, nationally and internationally
• Share lessons learned

Completed a 18-month planning phase and initiating a 5-year implementation phase from January 2005.

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