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BSP's Africa & Madagascar Program

Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE)

Providing critical information and capacity strengthening for forest management in the Congo Basin.

CARPE is a long-term initiative to address the issues of deforestation and biodiversity loss in the Congo Basin forests. It engages NGOs, research and educational organizations, private-sector consultants, and government agencies in evaluating threats to forest integrity in the Congo Basin and identifying opportunities to manage the region's vast forests sustainably for the benefit of the region and the world.

CARPE works in five main areas:

  • Logging policies and practices.
  • Protected areas in a lived-in landscape.
  • Feasibility of household-level interventions.
  • Promotion of effective environmental governance.
  • Monitoring of forest resources.

CARPE covers Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and São Tomé e Principé. It continues after BSP close out.

 

From the BSP Library

Congo Basin Information Series Issue Briefs: Results and Lessons Learned in the First Phase of CARPE (1996-2000) (pub. no. 134)

Bulletins d'Informations du Bassin du Congo: Résultats et leçons de la première phase de CARPE (1996-2000)

Fiches d'Informations Regionax des Partenaires de CARPE (pub. no.173)

 

Core Partners:

African Wildlife Foundation

Conservation International

Innovative Resources Management

University of Maryland

Peace Corps

United States Agency for International Development

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) /Forest Service

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Wildlife Conservation Society

World Resources Institute

World Wildlife Fund

 

International and Regional Grantees and Partners:

Centre International d'Etudes Forestières et Environnementales, World Conservation and Monitoring Centre, Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale (Gabon), African Rattan Program, Centre for Environment and Rural Transformation, Herbier National du Cameroun, Bioresouces Development and Conservation Programme-Cameroon, Limbe Botanic Garden, Tropenbos, Conférence des Ecosytèmes des Forêtes Denses et Humides d'Afrique Centrale-Bureau, Club Ornithologique du Cameroun, CIRAD-Forêt (FORAFRI), Géosynergie, Service Permanent d'Inventaires et d'Aménagement Forestiers, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique et Forestière (Gabon), Mont Cameroon Project, Comité Inter Association Jeunesse et Environnement, Cameroon Environmental Watch, Centre d'Action pour le Développement Durable et l'Environnement, COGEREN, Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (Gabon), Centre d'appui aux Femmes et aux Ruraux, Aventures Sans Frontières, Association pour le Développement de l'Information Environmentale, Groupe des Amis de l'Unesco et de l'Environnement, Comité de Coordination du Dévéloppement Durable, Forêt-Dévéloppement, Alliance Nationale pour la Nature, Centre International Pour la Promotion de la Création, African Forest Action Network, Association-Congo-Forêt-Ressources-Environnement- Traditions, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières, Centre National de l'Information Environnementale, Ecole Régionale Post-Universitaire d'Aménagement et Gestion Intégré des Forêts Tropicales, Action Intégrée pour la protection de l'Environnement, Faune et Vie, Les Amis du Pangolin, Comité de Coordination du Développement Durable, WWF-Cameroon Program Office, Université Libre de Bruxelles, World Conservation Union/Central African Regional Office, Yale University, CIFOR, Transparency International, San Francisco State University, Beaver College, Center for Tropical Forest Science of the Smithsonian Institute, Kew Botanic Garden, Bioresources Develoment and Conservation-International, York University, University of Wageningen, Harvard Insitute for International Development, Boston College

NOTE: Much more information on CARPE and its results is available on the CARPE Web site.