The Darwin Initiative

Round 17 successful applications announced

Projects awarded funding under the Darwin Initiative's Main Projects and Post-projects schemes have been announced and are listed below. Further details about each project are available on each project's main details page on this website.

Main Projects Scheme

Project No Project Title Project Leader Organisation Host Country
18-001 Darwin Sustainable Artisanal Fisheries Initiative Brendan Godley with Annette Broderick University of Exeter in Cornwall Peru
18-002 Enhancing taxonomic capacity to underpin tropical biodiversity conservation Paul Bates Harrison Institute Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam
18-003 Supporting indigenous and local organisations to implement CBD Article 10(c) Maurizio Ferrari Forest Peoples Programme Bangladesh, Cameroon, Guyana, Indonesia, Panama, Suriname, Thailand, Venezuela
18-004 Altyn Dala: supporting ecosystem-scale conservation in Kazakhstan Michael Brombacher RSPB Kazakhstan
18-005 Understanding, assessing and monitoring ecosystem services for better biodiversity conservation Alison Stattersfield Birdlife International Nepal
18-006 Integrated River Dolphins Conservation for Sustainable Ecosystem Services in Brahmaputra Raj Amin ZSL India
18-007 Collaborative conservation of critical Kerinci-Seblat National Park buffer zone forest Zoe Cullen FFI Indonesia
18-008 Trans-boundary solutions to the Asian vulture crisis Juliet Vickery RSPB India, Nepal
18-009 Saving the Madagascar Pochard: the world's most endangered duck Glyn Young Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Madagascar
18-010 Tools for the sustainable harvesting of Mayanut Alex Monro NHM Guatemala, Mexico
18-011 Building a future for Haiti's unique vertebrates David Wege Birdlife International Haiti
18-012 Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor Maryanne Grieg-Gran IIED Uganda
18-013 Building capacity for wild felid conservation in China Philip Riordan University of Oxford, WildCRU China
18-014 Ecosystem-wide forest conservation in DRC using okapi as a flagship Noelle Kumpel ZSL Congo, Dem. Rep.
18-015 Addressing the illegal trade in the critically endangered Ustyurt Saiga Paul Hotham FFI Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
18-016 Darwin Initiative to enhance an established protected area system John Turner Bangor University Cayman Islands
18-017 Developing knowledge to eradicate house mice from UK OT islands Richard Cuthbert RSPB Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha
18-018 Enabling Montserrat to save the Critically Endangered mountain chicken Matthew Morton Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Montserrat
18-019 Mapping benthic biodiversity of the South Georgia shelf and slope David Barnes British Antarctic Survey Falkland Islands, South Georgia
18-020 Increasing local capacity to conserve St Helena's threatened native biodiversity Jamie Roberts St Helena National Trust St Helena

Post-projects Scheme

EIDPO037 Tarnava Mare: securing the future of a Transylvanian HNV landscape Nat Page Adept Foundation Romania
EIDPO038 High Andes conservation without borders Claudio Sillero-Zubiri University of Oxford, WildCRU Argentina, Bolivia, Chile
EIDPO039 Guide to the cerrados of Eastern Bolivia Rob Scotland University of Oxford, Plant Sciences Bolivia
EIDPO040 Assam Haathi Project Alexandra Zimmerman Chester Zoo India
EIDPO041 Protecting galaxiids from salmonid invasions in Chile and the Falklands Carlos Garcia de Leaniz Swansea University Chile, Falkland Islands

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