Main Priorities For The Network
During 2005-2006, members of the network decided to focus their efforts on:
- Advocacy, lobbying and strategic information gathering in local, national and regional contexts;
- Enhancing the technical and financial capacities of environmental NGOs to meet the challenges and threats to the natural environment, resulting from livelihood activities;
- Involvement of the local populations in biodiversity conservation and forest restoration;
- Inventories of endangered and flagship species as well as direct efforts to promote protection of protected areas;
- Environmental awareness and education at local, national and regional levels;
- Improved availability of current information on threatened species and habitats;
- Conflict management in biodiversity conservation initiatives
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