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Living in harmony with nature in the northern Western Ghats of India
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 100%
AERF has been working on avoiding deforestation and ensuring conservation globally endangered species on private lands by creation of community reserve, developing certified deforestation free value chains and incentivising conservation of private forests over a long term in the Sahyadri Konkan Corridor. These efforts have resulted in conservation of 6000 acres of biodiversity rich community forests in the Western Ghats global biodiversity hotspot.
- Final Report-Value chain scale-up-AERF_NCI 27042023.pdf
- Annual report_Daikin_AERF_2022-6th Year.pdf
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.