Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- Nigeria and six other countries under the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People have won $50,000 seed grants each under the Rapid Deployment Mechanism (RDM) to execute projects aimed at accelerating progress towards their 30x30 conservation targets.

The grants were announced and awarded on the sidelines of the ongoing 17th session of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in Armenia.

The beneficiary countries are Costa Rica, Mexico, Nigeria, Nepal, Zambia, Rwanda, and Kenya, each receiving a certificate confirming a $50,000 grant for its respective project.

Nigeria received the grant for its project proposal titled "Strengthening Nigeria's 30x30 Progress through Ecological Co...