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JOURNEY INTO CONSERVATION FINANCE
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This blog was created to encourage and support efforts to meet the conservation finance challenge*; by sharing information about current conservation finance mechanisms, global conservation efforts, economic and political ecological policies, sustainable enterprise, and the ever-evolving landscape conservation finance opportunities. *Developing and utilizing conservation finance mechanisms to fully support desired global conservation objectives is a fantastic challenge. “One study indicates that current global expenditures on protected areas amount to approximately $6.5 billion per year, but the amount required to fully support conservation objectives would cost an estimate $45 billion per year.” (Balmford 2002)