The Darwin Initiative

News archive

• 11th Annual Darwin Lecture
  Wed September 14, 2011
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Darwin Lecture 2000
  Wed Dec 13, 2000
• 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

From the internet

• Birdlife workshop promotes grassroots conservation
  March 9th, Fiji Daily Post. Project: Community-based Conservation Groups at Fiji's Key Conservation Sites
• Villagers vow to protect birds, forests
  March 9th, Fiji Times. Project: Community-based Conservation Groups at Fiji's Key Conservation Sites
• New IBA directories for Central Asia
  March 9th, BirdLife International. Project: Important Bird Area conservation and capacity building in Central Asia
• Scots bird team to promote conservation in Syria
  March 2nd, Edinburgh Napier News. Project: Conserving a Flagship Steppe Species: the Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing
• Protecting Africa's IBAs - People and Partnerships
  February 27th, BirdLife international. Project: Kenyan Important Biodiversity Areas: Improving monitoring, management and conservation action

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