Divers from the “Ghost Net Hunters”, COMDEKS grantees in Turkey, free a Dusky Grouper from a net in Gökova Bay off the Datça-Bozburun peninsula. The Ghost Net Hunters Project is one of nine COMDEKS funded projects working to enhance the resilience of the Datça-Bozburun peninsula, the target socio-ecological production landscape/seascape in Turkey. The Ghost Net … Continue reading →

(Click photo to download a PDF of the brochure) COMDEKS India with the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) has produced a brochure presenting the vision and goals of the COMDEKS Project in within Uttarakhand State, the target landscape in India. The brochure outlines the focus and expected outcomes for community based projects within the landscape … Continue reading →

(Click photo to download a larger PDF of the poster) As part of the community consultation process and mapping exercise of the COMDEKS socio-ecological production landscape, COMDEKS Turkey has produced a poster of the Datça-Bozburun Peninsula, a key biodiversity area in the Muğla province of Southwest Turkey and the target landscape for the COMDEKS Programme … Continue reading →

In launching this year’s World Environment Day (WED 2013),  June 5, the GEF Small Grants Programme in Ghana organized a workshop for the Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Project (COMDEKS) grantees; and a small celebration for the beneficiary communities in the Weto Range in the Volta Region. The event was attended … Continue reading →

The Government of Japan and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched the second phase of a major biodiversity and sustainable development partnership, and announced new projects in ten countries. Communities in Bhutan, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Mongolia, Namibia, and Niger will join the Community Development and Knowledge Management for the … Continue reading →