Darwin Initiative
Announcement of Successful Round 15 Darwin Projects
Defra announced today that 14 new projects, 4 post-project awards, and a number of Darwin Fellowships and scoping awards will share £7 million under Round 15 of the Darwin Initiative.
Successful applicants for both the fellowships and scoping awards will be decided and announced later this year.
The full text of the announcement is available in the Defra press release.
Round 15 main awards list
| Project Title | Project Leader | Organisation Name | Project Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community-based sustainable management of forest resources in Amazonian extractive reserves | Carlos Peres | University of East Anglia, Centre for Ecology, Evolution & Conservation | Brazil |
| Building capacity for sustainable fisheries management in the Wallacea region | Tim Coles | Operation Wallacea Trust | Indonesia |
| Tools, training and research for managing eco-hydrology of Cape flora. | John Silvertown | The Open University | South Africa |
| Conservation Of The Cerrados Of Eastern Bolivia | Rob Scotland with Dr C Hughes | University of Oxford, Dept of Plant Sciences | Bolivia (with Brazil) |
| Biodiversity inventory and monitoring for conservation of threatened Sumatran forest | Jeremy Lindsell | RSPB | Indonesia |
| Local Action for Global Impact – Community-based Biodiversity Conservation Films | David Harper | University of Leicester, Dept of Biology | Kenya, Tanzania |
| Building capacities for mitigating human-elephant conflicts in Assam | Alexandra Zimmermann | North of England Zoological Society (Chester Zoo) | India |
| Conservation of Microfungi: A Voice for Unprotected and Vulnerable Organisms | David Minter | BioNet International | Armenia, Argentina, Cuba, India, South Africa, Ukraine |
| Crisis to Biological Management: Rhinoceros, Grassland and Public Engagement | Richard Kock | Zoological Society of London | Nepal |
| Wildlife Wood Project | Glyn Davies | Zoological Society of London | Ghana, Cameroon |
| Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Building research capacity in SE Asia | Glen Reynolds | University of Wales, Swansea | Sabah, Malaysia |
| Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use (OSSSU) | Hugh Pritchard | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seed Conservation Department | Ecuador, China |
| Strengthening partnerships for Ramsar implementation in South-East Asia | Richard Grimmett | Birdlife International | Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam |
| Co-management of Forests and Wildlife in Bi Doup-Nui Ba Nature Reserve, Vietnam | Ivan Bond | IIED | Vietnam |
Round 15 post project awards
| Project Title | Project Leader | Organisation Name | Project Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participatory resource monitoring in Community Use Zones in Crocker Park Range | Gary Martin | Global Diversity Foundation | Malaysia |
| Implementing an otter action plan for marine environments of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia | David MacDonald | WildCRU, University of Oxford | Argentina |
| Conservation actions to secure the recovery of Gyps species vultures | Richard Cuthbert | RSPB | India, Nepal |
| Enabling the people of Tristan to implement the CBD in the marine environment | Sarah Saunders | RSPB | Tristan da Cunha |
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