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Announcement of Scoping awards, Fellowships, and Challenge Fund awards under round 17

Successful applications June 2010.

Scoping awards

Ref	Project title	Project Leader	Organisation
EIDPR120	Honey bees in Krgyzstan	Nicola Bradbear	Bees for Development
EIDPR121	Conservation of the the threatened Magdalena valley and blue-billed curassow, Colombia	Huw Lloyd	World Pheasant Association
EIDPR122	The Marine Expansion of Kirindy Mite National Park, Madagascar	Charles Sheppard	University of Warwick
EIDPR123	Addressing and monitoring unsustainable bushmeat harvesting in the Maringa Lopori Wamba landscape of northern Democratic Republic of Congo	John Fa	Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
EIDPR124	Building Capacity of Next Generation of Liberian Natural Resource Managers	Chloe Hodgkinson	FFI
EIDPR125	Improving the conservation of Cambodia's coastal and marine environment	Stephen Browne	FFI
EIDPR126	Building Regional Capacity on Human Elephant Conflict and Population Census techniques	Stephen Browne and Matt Maltby	FFI
EIDPR127	Empowering civil society to strengthen biodiversity conservation in China	Mike Crosby and Caroline Pridham	Birdlife International
EIDPR128	Guarding genetic biodiversity of exploited SW Indian Ocean marine resources	Paul Shaw	Royal Holloway, London
EIDPR129	Fish Net: Integrating freshwater fish into biodiversity conservation in Turkey	Brian Zimmerman	ZSL
EIDPR130	Flagships of the Desert: Implementation of a holistic conservation strategy	Sally Wren and Nicholas Lindsay	ZSL
EIDPR131	Investing in island biodiversity through increasing capacity fo conservation medicine	Olivia Walter and Andrew Greenwood	Wildlife Vets International
EIDPR132	Conserving endemic threatened and evolutionary disctinc biodiversity in the Seychelles	Sam Turvey and Jim Groombridge	ZSL
EIDPR133	Building Community Capacity for Forest Conservation in Papua New Guinea	Martin Kaonga and Janice Weatherly	A Rocha International
EIDPR134	Reintroduction of Eastern Black Rhinos ( Diceras bicornis michaeli) to former range in Uganda	Rob Brett	FFI
EIDPR135	Fish Watch: building riverine management capacity in western lowland Nepal	Heather Koldeway and Matthew Gollock	ZSL
EIDPR136	Cultivating sacred canopy bromeliads to promote conservation and Maya culture	Mandar Trivedi and Jan Wolf	Global Canopy Programme
EIDPR137	Kabul University Botanical garden - Conserving Biodiversity in Afghanistan	Matthew Hall	RBGE
EIDPR138	Management tools for endemic mammal conservation in Papua New Guinea	Craig Turner	ZSL

Fellowships

Ref	Project title	Project Leader	Organisation
EIDPS024	Maxim Koshkin	Paul Donald	RSPB
EIDPS025	Maria de la luz Ruiz Maqueda	Julie Hawkins	University of Reading
EIDPS026	Magdalena Bennett Manzano	Claudio Sillero	University of Oxford, WildCRU
EIDPS027	Nilda Maria Leticia Lopez Sosa	Muhtari Aminu-Kano	Birdlife International

Challenge Fund

Ref Project title Project Leader Organisation

EIDCF001	Automating seabird counts from standardised photos contributed bu volunteers	Tom Hart	Institute of Zoology
EIDCF002	Conservation of Falkland Islands raptors - reducing conflicts with sheep farming	Craig Dockrill	Falklands Conservation - FI
EIDCF003	Developing a community-led marine management action plan for the Pitcairn Islands	Terry Dawson	University of Southampton - Geography
EIDCF004	Laying the foundations for invertevrate conservation of St Helena	Richard Smith	Buglife
EIDCF005	Darwin Southern Sea Lion Programme	Iain Stanliand	BAS
EIDCF006	Strengthening management of the British Indian Ocean Territory marine area	Heather Koldewey	ZSL
EIDCF007	Management plans implementation and Ramsar designation expansion in the TCI	Wesley Clerveaux	Gov of TCI

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