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Scoping and Fellowship results

Biodiversity Minister Barry Gardiner today (International Biodiversity Day) announced Darwin Initiative grants worth �84,876 to support new projects and foster expertise in developing countries.

Mr. Gardiner announced �57,076 in scoping award grants, and also three Fellowship Grants totalling �27,800.

Scoping awards

App No Project Leader Project Title Org Name Project Country
777 Jaboury Ghazoul Conserving the unique plant endemics of the Seychelles inselbergs Imperial College London Seychelles
778 Robert John McInnes Community-based environmental monitoring for the Carlos Anwandter Sanctuary The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) Chile
779 Ann Mary Mitchell Recuperation and Preservation of human and environmental biodiversity Amazonia University of St. Andrews Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru
784 Shaun Russell Screening of Ethiopian Plant Diversity for Sustainable Livelihoods Potential University of Wales, Bangor Ethiopia
785 Julie Hawkins DNA tools to safeguard sustainable trade in Indian medicinal plants University of Reading India
787 Kevin Hand Developing Conservation and Sustainable Production of Butterflies in Ecuadorian Rainforest Butterfly Conservation Ecuador
790 Stuart Semple Post release monitoring of orangutans in Tabin Wildlife Reserve Roehampton University Sabah, Malaysia
794 Linda Siegele Biodiversity in the Deep and High Seas of the Pacific Region FIELD Pacific
796 Bryan Dickinson Assessment of the faunal impact of wild harvesting of Allanblackia from forest, bush fallows and farms Wild Resources Limited Ghana
798 Maria Nijnik Local Delivery of Biodiversity Goals: Public Perceptions and Institutional Capabilities The Macaulay Institute Ukraine
800 David Agassiz Insect taxonomy capacity building in Kenya Earthwatch Institute (Europe) and NHM Kenya
801 James Hindson Protecting Endangered Species by Simply Updating Armenia's Red Book Field Studies Council Armenia
803 Richard A Pettifor Conserving Wetlands and Associated Biodiversity, including a Critically Endangered Rail Zoological Society of London South Africa and Ethiopia
805 David Harper Local Action for Global Impact - Community Conservation Films University of Leicester Kenya and Tanzania
806 Robert Nunny Sea Turtle Hatcheries: Centre for Biodiversity Conservation and Community Development Ambios Guatemala and Costa Rica
807 Joseph Tobias Andes to Amazon: A Conservation Initiative for La Paz University of Oxford Bolivia
808 Julia Wright Development of Living Heritage Seed Bank and Seed Exchange Network HDRA Sri Lanka
810 Stewart Thompson GIS mapping and modeling of primate crop raiding in Uganda Oxford Brookes University Uganda
811 David Harper Sustainable Livelihoods in Rift Valley (Kenya) woodlands to conserve biodiversity University of Leicester Kenya
812 Richard Kock Conserving Nepal rhinoceros and Teria grassland habitat in a changing community context Zoological Society of London Nepal
814 Gary Martin Ethnobiology, conservation and livelihood strategies in the Central Kalahari The Global Diversity Foundation Botswana
815 David Thomas Reviving Hima: an ancient conservation system for a modern world Birdlife International Lebanon
818 Owen Mountford Narrow endemic plants of the Crimea: a conservation challenge NERC-CEH Ukraine

Fellowships

Darwin ref Darwin Ref Title PL Proposed fellow Organisation
820 EIDPS11 Doctor Mark Newman and Philip Thomas Soulivahn Lanorsavanh Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
823 EIDPS12 Doctor Jane Hill Noel Tawatao University of York
824 EIDPS13 Doctor Frank Krell Saoud Motala Natural History Museum

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