Ekuri Initiative
Conservation in Nigeria
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SummaryThis project focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of the Ekuri Community forests.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $125 was raised for this project. |
Received $125 from 3 donations from people like:
Daniel
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Richard
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Ernest
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
To provide two villages (with a population of 6,000 inhabitants) with the support and assistance needed to ensure sustainable harvest of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from community forests.
Activities
Forest inventory training; Tree harvesting and conversion; Taxation of forest products and management of funds; Support innovative and sustainable harvesting of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from the Ekuri community forest
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $125
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $125 . The original project funding goal was $5,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity through sustainable harvesting, processing and sale of timber and non-timber forest products from Ekuri community land and through the sale and marketing of resulting products.
Project Message
The sustainable harvesting of timber and non-timber forest products, resulting from stock surveys and assessment techniques is a means of exploiting local resources without destroying them.
- Sean Southey, UNDP's Equator Initiative Manager
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Sean Southey
UNDP's Equator Initiative Manager
405 Lexington Avenue
4th floor
New York, NY 10174
United States
212-457-1709
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
One United Nations Plaza 21st Floor
New York,
NY
10017
United States
212-906-5000
http://www.undp.org
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Nigeria
and can also be found under 
Environment.
For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 17, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 3, 2004
