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August 1st, 2008
The new web site of theEthiopian Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF) has been launched.
The Ethiopian Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF) is a non-profit civil society association, established on October 19, 2005. The Association was established by a group of professionals, prominent public and business personnels, scholars, and community leaders, in order to

• strengthening and promoting networking among different institutions and organizations involved in the conservation and use of forest resources in Ethiopia
• developing strategies for sustainable use and conservation of forest coffee and other non-timber forest products
• conservation of biodiversity, research, conservation education and communication and
• implementation of sustainable use concepts developed from research findings.

Please find out more about ECFF onwww.ecff.org.et.

June 4th, 2008
CoFIS - theCoffee Forest Information Systemis online.
The CoCE research team has been publishing the first version of the web based Coffee Forest Information System. As part of the project results the Coffee Forest Information System (CoFIS) provides information on the extent of forest cover and areas supporting wild coffee populations, as well as a selection of scientific outcomes. CoFIS is the web based realization of the Ethiopian Coffee Forest Atlas, which emphasizes on

• decision support for land use planning economic development in southwest Ethiopia
• facilitating spatial fusion of scientific outcomes within the CoCE project
• providing easy access of research results of the CoCE project for the scientific community.

Please find out more about CoFIS onwww.cofis.info.
Your can access the Ethiopian Coffee Forest Atlas web mapping application directly atwww.cofis.info/atlas.

May 25th-30th, 2008
The CoCE Project will be present at the 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The conference will take place at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany.
Find out more onCOP9-Homepage.

August 10th, 2007
School Children Talent Competition Award on Biodiversity Conservation
The Ethiopian Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF) in collaboration with the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC), the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BFN) and ZEF awarded 12 children out of a total of 70 students from 14 schools in poems, songs, and drawings on Biodiversity Conservation. Being the future of their country, children can make a difference in Biodiversity Conservation according to Dr. Girma Balcha, the Director General of the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation.
Read more information on theIBC-Homepage.