Global Environment Partners Provide Additional $20 Million to Protect Endangered Habitats.

M2 Presswire, January, 2008

M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2008-WORLD BANK GROUP: Global Environment Partners Provide Additional $20 Million to Protect Endangered Habitats(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

RDATE:11012008

Washington, D.C. -- The World Bank and Conservation International (CI) today signed an agreement for $20 million in new funds, provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to protect some of the world's most unique and threatened areas, including island ecosystems and temperate forests.

These biodiversity hotspots are home to more than half of all terrestrial plants and animals, as well as more than 1.8 billion people who are highly dependent on healthy lands for their livelihoods and well-being.

"The world's irreplaceable habitats, those...