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This user-friendly edition provides key information for the international NGO community on general policy and advocacy issues related to the GEF. Given the complexity of the GEF, the guide gives a simple and concise overview of the GEF, areas for NGO involvement and financial modalities.

In order to contribute to the discussion of furthering coherence with respect to the role of the World Bank, this report looks at the various case studies where coherence between World Bank and GEF was either successful or wanting and formulates recommendations to improve operational coherence.

Outlines the needs for, and benefits of, economic valuation techniques as applied to wetlands and development projects intended to alter them, and describes some of these techniques in detail.

Descended from a long and ancient lineage, tapirs are important tropical forest seed dispersers. However, today, all species of tapirs are threatened to various degrees by habitat destruction and hunting.

This publication offers an analytical reading of the evolution of the ideas and perceptions pertaining to the management of protected areas in Latin America, during the decade 1997–2007, and uses as a reference point the Latin American Congress on National Parks in its first two versions (Santa M