The Darwin Initiative

2013

• £8.7 million to fund key environmental projects around the world
  Mon April 8, 2013
• New Chair appointment to the Darwin Expert Committee
  Tue Jan 22, 2013

2012

• A new briefing note explains the implications of ODA criteria for Darwin funds applicants
  Tue Nov 13, 2012
• Global Environments Summer Academy 2013 Call for Applications
  Tue Nov 13, 2012
• Announcing a new Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund under the Darwin Initiative - 'Darwin Plus
  Wed Oct 17, 2012
• Project Dragonfly graduate courses at the University of Miami
  Fri Oct 5, 2012
• Darwin Expert Committee seeks a new Chair
  Fri Sept 28, 2012
• Defra announces new members of the Darwin Expert Committee
  Wed Aug 22, 2012
• The latest issue of the Darwin Newsletter is available now
  Thur Aug 16, 2012
• Whitley Awards - call for applications
  Fri Aug 10, 2012
• New BirdLife report - State of Paraguay's birds
  Fri Aug 10, 2012
• Darwin Initiative Call for Funding Applications: Round 19
  Tue June 19, 2012
• Government gives £7.5 million to boost global wildlife
  Tue June 19, 2012
• New briefing note published: The Darwin Initiative - Addressing Rio+20's critical issues
  Thu June 14, 2012
• Defra seeks applications for 8 new members to join the Darwin Expert Committee
  Fri June 1, 2012
• Short course: Project Management Skills for Conservation Professionals
  Fri May 11, 2012
• ZSL invites contributions to review of alternative livelihoods good practice Wed May 2, 2012
• Darwin News April issue available for download
  Wed Apr 25, 2012
• Proceedings of the workshop for new Darwin Projects
  Fri Apr 20, 2012
• ESPA Announcement of Opportunity
  Fri Mar 9, 2012
• Darwin Initiative celebrates 20th birthday with £8.5m funding announcement
  Tue Mar 6, 2012
• Darwin Initiative Workshop for New Projects on Fri 23rd March. An induction into the Darwin Initiative for all new Round 18 projects
  Mon Feb 20, 2012
• The latest issue of the Darwin newsletter (February 2012) is now available
  Fri Feb 3, 2012
• The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands has created a new collaborators fund to develop scientific research on South Georgia. The fund is open for applications.
  Wed Jan 18, 2012
• Erosion of traditional 'taboos' threatens Madagascar's lemurs. The Darwin project Bushmeat hunting in Madagascar: linking science, policy and local livelihoods has highlighted in a press release the increasing threat to endangered wildlife caused by the changing economy in eastern Madagascar. The story was also covered by the BBC and the New York Times.
  Thur Jan 5, 2012

2011

• The Field Studies Council offers a short biodiversity training programme (called the Darwin Scholarship) every year. Their applications procedure is now open for the August 2012 programme. Full details are on their website
  Mon Nov 28, 2011
• Call for applications - Scoping, Fellowship and UK Overseas Territories Challenge Fund schemes
  Mon Oct 31, 2011
• The latest issue of the Darwin newsletter (October 2011) is now available
  Thur Oct 27, 2011
• 11th Annual Darwin Lecture
  Wed September 14, 2011
• Stage 1 applications results were emailed on 12 August. If you are still waiting to hear, please check your spam filters or contact Darwin Applications
  Wed Aug 24, 2011
• Whitley Fund for Nature – Call for applications for the Whitley Awards 2012
  Tue Aug 16, 2011
• The Darwin Initiative on Twitter - read our latest tweets on the right of the page - or follow us on Twitter
  Wed Aug 3, 2011
• The latest issue of the Darwin newsletter (July 2011) is now available
  Tue July 26, 2011
• Round 18 Stage 2 Budget forms are now available on applications page
  Wed May 11, 2011
• NHM seminar - Maya Nut: traditional rainforest food for healthy forests and families
  Mon April 25, 2011
• Film making for biodiversity conservation - workshop May 2011
  Thur April 14, 2011
• Call for applications - round 18
  Fri April 8, 2011
• Government gives £25m boost to global wildlife initiative
  Fri April 8, 2011

2010

• New briefing note: Achievements in Overseas Territories
  Thur December 30, 2010
• Darwin funding announcement
  Mon November 15, 2010
• 13th Annual Report published
  Mon October 18, 2010
• New species of sharks and rays from Borneo
  Sat July 31, 2010
• Science prize for Darwin project
  Sat July 31, 2010
• Whitley Fund for Nature - Call for applications for the Whitley Awards 2011
  Fri July 30, 2010
• Postponement of round 18 of the Darwin Initiative
  Wed July 14, 2010
• BBC conservation grants
  Fri June 18, 2010
• Round 17 small schemes awards announced
  Fri June 4, 2010
• New workshop proceedings available: Darwin Initiative workshop for new projects and Monitoring and measuring progress in biodiversity conservation
  Wed April 14, 2010
• New briefing note published: Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Targets
  Tue April 6, 2010
• Round 17 successful applications announced
  Mon March 8, 2010
• Special Darwin Initiative issue of Systematics and Biodiversity journal
• UNDP Equator Prize 2010 Call for Nominations

2009

• Nepal Conservation in Crisis - a seminar on key conservation issues
  Tue October 6, 2009
• Dates and financial support announced for Darwin Initiative Regional Workshop 2009 - Latin America
  Fri October 2, 2009
• Darwin Initiative call for funding applications: round 17
  Fri July 10, 2009
• New Funding for Overseas Territories
  Tues June 9, 2009
• Call for applications for new DAC members
  Mon May 25, 2009
• Funding announcement: Scoping and Fellowship awards 2009
  Fri May 1, 2009
• Changes to ECTF
  Fri Mar 20, 2009
• Successful applications for Round 16 funding announced
  Thu Feb 19, 2009
• Darwin student receives award
  Mon Feb 16, 2009
• Darwin Initiative on Google Earth
  Thu Feb 12, 2009
• Google Earth helps Kew put 'lost forest' of Mount Mabu on the conservation map
  Wed Jan 28, 2009
• New website feature - related projects
  Tue Jan 27, 2009
• Important finance deadline for projects
  Wed Jan 14, 2009

2008

• Sheffield scientists help shape South African curriculum
  Mon Dec 15, 2008
• Round 16 call for Scoping Awards and Fellowships
  Tue Nov 25, 2008
• Darwin Project awarded for quality of course materials
  Fri Nov 14, 2008
• Endangered Wildlife Trust's Bongisiwe Khosa Honoured by International Award
  Mon Nov 10, 2008
• Darwin 200 education initiative
  Sat Oct 25, 2008
• Darwin Information Project milestone - categorical analysis
  Fri Oct 3, 2008
• First regional Darwin workshop
  Sun Sep 14, 2008
• The Prince of Wales visits Darwin Initiative project in Transylvania
  Thu Jul 10, 2008
• Letter from DAC Chair David MacDonald
  Mon Jun 30, 2008
• Call for funding applications: Round 16
  Mon Jun 30, 2008
• Report on Darwin side event at CoP 9
  Tue Jun 03, 2008
• Darwin Briefing Note - Climate Change
  Tue May 27, 2008
• Pygmy hog saved and ready for release
  Tue May 20, 2008
• Darwin side event at CoP 9
  Thu May 15, 2008
• Darwin200
  Mon May 5, 2008
• New administration arrangements for Darwin grants
  Mon Apr 21, 2008
• "Endemic Plants of the Altai Mountain Country" published
  Thu Apr 17, 2008
• NERC ESPA Announcement of Opportunity
  Tue Apr 1, 2008
• Royal couple visit Caribbean Darwin project
  Sun Mar 23, 2008
• Darwin Information Project
  Wed Mar 5, 2008
• I would fly 5,000 miles…
  Tue Mar 4, 2008
• The Mists of Muanenguba
  Thu Jan 24, 2008
• Darwin partner CORALINA featured in Nature
  Thu Jan 10, 2008

2007

• BIAZA award for Assam elephant project
  Fri Dec 7, 2007
• 10th Annual Report published
  Fri Dec 7, 2007
• Darwin Lecture 2007
  Fri Dec 7, 2007
• Sociable lapwing finds some friends
  Fri Oct 19, 2007
• St Andrews Prize for the Environment 2008
  Fri Oct 19, 2007
• Darwin workshop - livelihoods and conservation
  Tue Oct 16, 2007
• CEPA Thematic Review and Briefing Note
  Fri Oct 12, 2007
• Update from Darwin Committee Chairman
  Thu Oct 4, 2007
• Workshop - Bees and biodiversity in developing countries
  Wed Sep 12, 2007
• Workshop for new projects
  Fri Jun 15, 2007
• Scoping Awards and Fellowships announced
  Wed Jun 13, 2007
• Announcement of Successful Round 15 Darwin Projects
  Mon Apr 2, 2007
• Darwin News Issue 8
  Mon Mar 19, 2007
• Towards official protection for the largest wetland in the world
  Mon Feb 26, 2007
• Darwin Initiative Workshop - Legacy and Forest Biodiversity
  Fri Jan 19, 2007

2006

• 9th Annual Report
  Mon Dec 4, 2006
• Changing attitudes of local people towards wildlife in Chin State, Myanmar
  Sun Sep 17, 2006
• Darwin News Issue 7
  Sun Jul 9, 2006
• Scoping and Fellowship results
  Tue May 23, 2006
• Gardiner announces £84,000 in biodiversity grants - news release, 22 May 2006
  Mon May 22, 2006
• Darwin News Issue 6
  Sat Apr 1, 2006
• Value of UK's Darwin's Initiative highlighted on world stage - news release, 30 March 2006
  Thu Mar 30, 2006
• Announcement of Successful Round 14 Darwin Projects
  Sat Mar 25, 2006
• UK commits £8.3m to biodiversity projects around the world: Knight in Brazil to see impact first-hand - news release, 25 March 2006
  Sat Mar 25, 2006
• Diversity of life on earth preserved through Defra-funded projects - news release, 22 February 2006
  Wed Feb 22, 2006
• Darwin Workshop, February 2006
  Wed Feb 15, 2006
• Las Perlas conference
  Wed Feb 1, 2006
• Review of Darwin small awards schemes
  Tue Jan 24, 2006

2005

• New Darwin Advisory Committee members announced
  Wed Dec 14, 2005
• Darwin News issue 5 - special edition
  Wed Nov 2, 2005
• DarwinNet and the VI National Peruvian Ornithology Conference
  Wed Oct 26, 2005
• Protecting the Las Perlas Archipelago of Pacific Panama
  Wed Oct 26, 2005
• Darwin Advisory Committee - appointment of 7 new members
  Mon Aug 15, 2005
• Review of Darwin Initiative new schemes
  Mon Aug 1, 2005
• GardenAfrica - Making Conservation Work for Communities
  Thu Jun 30, 2005
• Darwin Newsletter issue 4
  Mon Jun 27, 2005
• Announcement of Successful Round 13 Darwin Projects
  Thu Jun 16, 2005
• New Support for Conservation Entrepreneurs
  Mon May 9, 2005
• Darwin Newsletter issue 3
  Sun May 1, 2005
• Call for papers: Local Environment - special issue on biodiversity and biosafety
  Fri Apr 15, 2005
• Conservation map helps protect important habitats In Southern Africa
  Thu Apr 7, 2005
• Darwin Initiative Project launches the first ever bird ringing program in the British Virgin Islands
  Mon Jan 24, 2005
• 2005 Call for Applications for Scholarship Funding
  Mon Jan 17, 2005
• 2005 Call for Applications for Pre-Project Funding
  Mon Jan 17, 2005

2004

• World Bank funding for the production/printing of field guides
  Sun Nov 28, 2004
• IUCN 3rd World Congress
  Sun Nov 28, 2004
• The Darwin Initiative: seventh annual report
  Fri Oct 29, 2004
• Sixth Darwin Initiative lecture
  Wed Oct 27, 2004
• Access to Genetic Resources, Benefit Sharing and Traditional Knowledge in Chile - final recommendations
  Mon Aug 23, 2004
• Darwin Newsletter issue 2
  Tue Aug 3, 2004
• Application forms and schedule available for latest Darwin funding round
  Sun Aug 1, 2004
• New Pre-project, Post-Project and Scholarship Funding Awards
  Mon May 24, 2004
• Announcement of Successful Round 12 Darwin Projects
  Tue May 4, 2004
• Biodiversity Conservation in Cuba - new project website
  Mon May 3, 2004
• IUCN funding for wetlands projects
  Mon Apr 5, 2004
• CDA/FIELD side-event at MOP-1 meeting in Kuala Lumpur
  Tue Feb 24, 2004
• Darwin Initiative event at the 7th Meeting of the CoP to the CBD
  Tue Feb 17, 2004
• Additional 21,000 hectares of Indonesian rain forest protected
  Mon Feb 16, 2004

2003

• Access to Genetic Resources - event at Montreal CBD meeting
  Wed Dec 3, 2003
• Access to Genetic Resources Seminar
  Tue Nov 4, 2003
• Darwin post-project awards announced
  Wed Oct 22, 2003
• First Darwin M & E Newsletter
  Mon Oct 20, 2003
• Applications invited for Round 12
  Mon Aug 18, 2003
• Access, Benefit Sharing and Traditional Knowledge seminar
  Thu May 29, 2003
• Darwin Lecture 2003
  Wed May 21, 2003
• Darwin Scholarships
  Wed May 21, 2003
• Electronic Distribution Maps of Caribbean Fungi
  Wed Apr 23, 2003
• Flamingo website
  Wed Apr 23, 2003
• Conservation award for Darwin project worker
  Wed Apr 2, 2003
• Latest main Darwin Grants Announced
  Mon Mar 24, 2003
• The CBD for Botanists
  Wed Jan 15, 2003

2002

• Whale Sharks on CITES Appendix II
  Thu Aug 29, 2002
• 5th Darwin Initiative Report
  Mon Jun 17, 2002
• Darwin Lecture 2002
  Wed Mar 13, 2002

2000

• Darwin Lecture 2000
  Wed Dec 13, 2000

1995

• Important Bird Areas in Tanzania
  Fri Jul 14, 1995
• Paraguayan plant diversity online database
  Wed Jul 12, 1995
• Parataxonomist training in Papua New Guinea
  Wed Jul 12, 1995