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Funding announcement: Scoping and Fellowship awards 2009

Defra announced today (Thursday 30th April 2009) that 25 Scoping applications have been successful and that 4 Darwin Fellowships have been awarded.

Scoping awards

Title Project Leader UK organisation Country
Ex-situ conservation of wild plants in the Mekong River valley Jonas Muller RBG Kew China
Building biodiversity monitoring capacity for Belize (Chiquibul) and Guatemala (Peten). Malcolm Penn NHM Belize
Capacity building of Mano River countries for compliance to CBD Marceline Tonya Mahop African Conservation and Development Foundation Sierra Leone
Ranger Education Service - developing capacity for biodiversity education Richard Dawson Field Studies Council Egypt
Improving biodiversity conservation and management in the Gaoligongshan Mountain Range Stephen Browne FFI China
Agricultural intensification and African dung-insect biodiversity Richard Wall University of Bristol Zambia
River dolphins and ecosystem services: integrated conservation in the Brahmaputra Samuel Turvey Institute of Zoology India
Sustainable aquaculture, fisheries and livelihoods in the Indian Sundarbans Stuart Bunting University of Essex India
Community conservation of Chinese giant salamanders in the Qinling Mountains. Samuel Turvey Institute of Zoology China
Non - Invasive Acoustic Identification Of Singing Amphibians In Sri Lanka Fernando Montealgre-Z University of Bristol Sri Lanka
KuangXi Waterfalls area and Botanical Gardens development in Luangprabang, Laos Rogier de Kok RBG Kew Lao PDR
Capacity building for biodiversity identification and monitoring centre in North West India Francis Buner World Pheasant Association India
Conservation of the Endangered red-billed curassow and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil Philip McGowan World Pheasant Association Brazil
BioRecce - Biodiversity Recording for Conservation, Climate and Ecology, Central Siberia Paul Goriup Fieldfare International Ecological Development Russian Federation
Conservation of the Endemic Freshwater Crabs of Sri Lanka Craig Macadam Buglife Sri Lanka
Local-based monitoring for improved sustainability of Andean community-run reserves Bryony Tolhurst University of Brighton Ecuador
St Helena's Millennium Forest: conservation, evolution and a changing climate Alan Gray CEH St Helena
Adapting to climate change in biodiversity hotspots: the Western Ghats Ian Bride DICE India
Instituting Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Riparian Management within Belize Rebecca Ellis University of Lancaster Belize
Assessing and conserving critical pollinator communities in Bermuda William Hughes University of Leeds Bermuda
Conservation of endemic, threatened Vietnamese chelonians and their habitat Christoph Schwitzer Bristol Zoo Gardens Vietnam
Snow leopards and people: Natural Resource Management in Manaslu Himalaya Nepal Richard Kock ZSL Nepal
Biodiversity Inventory and Conservation in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Shaun Russell Wales Environment Research Hub Falkland Islands
Wildlife Conservation and Human Development in Northern Kenya Martin Jones Manchester Metropolitan University Kenya
Conservation, propagation and re-establishment of the Mulanje Cedar Paul Smith RBG Kew Malawi

Fellowships

Fellow Project Leader UK organisation Country
Hibert Huayalla Paul Wilkin RBG Kew Bolivia
Lokesh Ratna Shakya Mark Watson RBGE Nepal
Samuel Mutisya Bill Adams University of Cambridge Kenya
Jargal Jamsranjav Jon Bielby ZSL Mongolia

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