A Partnership article on the Brazil Green Corridor Project
'Best Practice in Tobacco: an example from southern Brazil' has been published
by the CBD in Vol.
3 Issue 2 of their Business.2010 Newsletter called 'Food, Feed, Fiber & Fuel
- an overview of biodiversity and agribusiness'. This is part of a series found
at http://www.cbd.int/business/newsletter.shtml. Please see the related project
link STATUS
REPORT
The Partnership continues to support the International
Gorilla Conservation Programme: a recent census of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park estimated
that their population has now reached 340, an increase of 20 since the previous
census in 2002, indicating a steady increase. The total world population of mountain
gorillas is estimated to be in the region of 700.
As part of the 2007 programme, 23 British American
Tobacco Employees supported 9 Earthwatch projects, in Europe, Central America/Caribbean, Africa, and Asia/Bacific.
They carried out conservation research in wetlands, forests, dryland, montane
and agricultural habitats; while at the same time developing their own leadership
skills.
The Tropical Biology Association have trained Forty-six
young African biologists supported by BATBP (and 44 European fee-paying students) completed their field
courses in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar.
27 black rhino translocated from Solio Ranch in Kenya to the nearby Ol Pejeta,
thereby creating one of the largest and most significant breeding populations
of black rhino in East Africa (a highlight of the supported FFI Africa Programme
during 2007)
Two hundred seedlings of Magnolia sinica, one of the world’s
rarest trees reduced to just 10 individuals in the wild, planted out in a
nature reserve in China.
A recent census of mountain gorillas
in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park estimated that their
population has now reached 340, an increase of 20 since
the previous census in 2002.
