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Announcement of Successful Round 14 Darwin Projects

Defra announced today that 41 new projects will share £8.3 million under Round 14 of the Darwin Initiative.

Also announced today were 11 post-project grants.

The full text of the announcement is available in the Defra press release.

Round 14 main awards list

App No Project Title Project Leader Organisation Name Project Country
594 Bees, Biodiversity and Forest Livelihoods in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Janet Seeley University of East Anglia/ODG India
596 Integrating Crane Conservation with Sustainable Habitat Utilisation Richard Pettifor Institute of Zoology, ZSL South Africa principally
597 Conservation of Biodiversity in Traditional West African Vegetable Species Margaret Pasquini CAZS Natural Resources, University of Wales Bangor Mali, Benin
601 Conserving and using entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes within Chile Dave Moore CABI Bioscience Chile
602 Conservation of the Mangrove Finch Cactospiza heliobates Hywel Glyn Young Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Ecuador
603 Capacity Building for Temperate Rainforest Biodiversity Conservation in Chile Alison Hester Macaulay Institute Chile
617 Focus for Fiji: Insect Inventories for Biodiversity Assessment Alan Stewart University of Sussex Fiji
621 ADEPT - Agricultural Development and Environmental Protection in Transylvania Nat Page Grasslands Trust Romania
624 Investing in Island Biodiversity: Restoring the Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher Jim Groombridge University of Kent, DICE Seychelles
625 Buffer Zone Restoration and Development in Knuckles Forest Reserve Michelle Pinard University of Aberdeen Sri Lanka
626 Building Capacity for Forest Inventory in the Republic of Congo David Harris Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Congo Brazzaville
633 Protected Key South African Biodiversity Sites Through Community Based Conservation Paul Buckley RSPB South Africa
637 Biodiversity and Sustainable Development of Butterfly Production (Lepidoptera) Doreen Winstanley University of Warwick Guyana
638 Managing Wetlands for Sustainable Livelihoods at Koshi Tappu Seb Buckton Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Nepal
640 Tools and Training for Fern Conservation and Monitoring Sandra Knapp Natural History Museum El Salvador
641 Habitat Restoration and Sustainable use of Southern Peruvian Dry Forest William Milliken Royal Botanics Gardens, Kew Peru
642 Implementing a Recovery Plan for the Critically Endangered Pygmy Hog in Assam John Fa Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust India
653 Developing Land Snail Expertise in South and Southeast Asia Fred Naggs Natural History Museum Thailand, India, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka.
656 Community-Based Conservation Groups at Fiji�s Key Conservation Sites James Millett BirdLife International Fiji
660 Reducing the Impact of Exotic Aquaculture on Chilean Aquatic Biodiversity Carlos Garcia de Leaniz University of Wales, Swansea Chile
666 Strengthening the National Biodiversity Strategy Simon Potts University of Reading, CAER Congo Brazzaville
667 Government-Civil Society Partnerships for Protected Areas in Timor-Leste Roger Safford BirdLife International Timor-Leste (East Timor)
669 Conservation of endangered coastal biodiversity hotspots of Central Chile Stephen Harris University of Oxford, Dept of Plant Sciences Chile
674 Quantification and elimination of threats to the Caspian seal Simon Goodman University of Leeds Caspian countries - Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation
682 Capacity Building for Biodiversity Studies of Freshwater Insects Stephen Brooks Natural History Museum Argentina
690 Bornean Wild Cat and Clouded Leopard Project Katherine Secoy Global Canopy Programme Malaysia
692 Baseline tools for management in PN La Amistad Alex Monro Natural History Museum Costa Rica, Panama
694 Community Resource Management Planning in the Maichin River Valley Paul Oldham University of Lancaster, ESRC/ CESAGen Chile
701 Certifying Peccary Pelts in Peru: Catalysing Community-based Wildlife Management Richard Bodmer University of Kent, DICE Peru
702 Strengthening scientific capacity of conservation NGOs working with the CBD Leon Bennun BirdLife International Bolivia, Botswana, Lebanon, Nepal, Russia, Palau
704 Novel and practical conservation strategies following mining in Sierra Leone Jan Dick Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Sierra Leone
709 Conserving a flagship steppe species: the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing Paul Donald RSPB Kazakhstan, Russia, India, Turkey
711 Monitoring bat biodiversity: indicators of sustainable development in Eastern Europe Kate Jones Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology Romania, Bulgaria
716 Red List Plants of Cameroon Martin Cheek Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Cameroon
724 Ex-situ conservation of the rate and threatened plants of Mauritius Steve Alton Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Mauritius
725 Monitoring and Managing Biodiversity Loss in South-east Africa�s Montane Ecosystems Paul Smith Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Malawi, Mozambique
728 Distance Learning For Biodiversity Conservation In Small Island Developing States Elizabeth Hughes International Centre for Protected Landscapes (ICPL) Fiji
734 Restoring island biodiversity: The reintroduction of endemic Mauritian reptile communities Carl Jones Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Mauritius
740 Participatory implementation of a management plan, Maderas Volcano Natural Reserve Alison Gunn Fauna and Flora International Nicaragua
741 Building capacity to alleviate human-elephant conflict in north Kenya Bill Adams University of Cambridge Kenya
748 The Waria Valley Community Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods Programme Peter Raines Coral Cay Conservation PNG

Round 14 post project awards

App No Darwin Ref Project Title Project Leader Organisation Name Project Country
755 Biodiversity Education and Teacher training (BETT) James Hindson Field Studies Council Kyrgyzstan
757 Replicating biodiversity conservation management at key soda lakes in the Rift Valley David Harper Earthwatch Institute Kenya
760 Integrating evolutionary history and phylogenetic measures of biodiversity into conservation planning Vincent Savolainen RBG Kew South Africa
763 Devising strategies to integrate biodiversity conservation in plantation dominated landscapes Carlos Peres University of East Anglia Brazil
765 Integrating disease surveillance with conservation management for Galapagos fauna Simon Goodman University of Leeds Ecuador
766 The North Rupununi Adaptive Management Plan (NRAMP): assessing the impacts and building capacity Jay Mistry Royal Holloway University of London [with Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust; Open University] Guyana
768 Conservation management zoning implementation and facilitation in Perlas Archipelago, Panama James Mair Heriot Watt University Panama
770 Evaluating approaches to public engagement in saiga conservation Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland Imperial College Kazakhstan
773 DarwinNet - and the Tumbesian Important Bird Areas David Thomas Birdlife International Peru, Ecuador

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