LocationsStrengthening Protected Areas Finance & Management Systems
Background
Protected areas have a potentially critical role to play in reducing the above threats to Egypt’s biodiversity. Egypt’s system of protected areas (PAs) is divided geographically into five management units: Sinai, Cairo, Western Desert, Red Sea and Upper Egypt. Currently, Egypt’s 27 PAs cover 148,023 km2, or about 15% of the nation’s total land area. The proposed long-term solution for biodiversity conservation of Egypt’s protected areas is an effective and sustainable PA system operated by an autonomous Nature Conservation Sector that has the financial wherewithal and management capacities needed for effective management.
This project aims to establish a sustainable protected area financing system, with associated management structures, systems and capacities needed to ensure the effective use of generated revenues for priority biodiversity conservation needs.
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