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Towards core costs integrating community action and restoration finance into strategic plans for rivers in Greater London

Continuation of previous grant award to further expand badger TB Vaccination in Cornwall

#NNF2 Project SIARC (Sharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities) Phase 2

This Programme has been Match-Funded by Amazon. Led by Zoological Society of London, this project will build a partnership to complete the essential first steps toward recovering water vole and ....more

This Programme has been Match-Funded by Amazon. Led by Zoological Society of London, this project will build a partnership to complete the essential first steps toward recovering water vole and managing mink in London. The aim is to benefit all river corridor SINCs in London and build a strategic regional approach to support wider rewilding objectives. The partnership project will complete a water vole in London status report. This project will include an assessment of baseline water vole data, a communications campaign requesting sightings of water vole and mink, bringing all current London populations into the National Water Vole Monitoring Programme, and training in water vole survey methods. Once widespread, the water vole (Arvicola amphibius) is now the UK’s fastest declining mammal. In London, remnant populations still exist but we do not have a clear idea where they are and if they are being monitored. One of the principal causes of the disappearance of water vole is the introduced highly damaging invasive American Mink (Neovison vison) so the project will also plan how we can work collaboratively to remove mink.

#NNF2 Restoring Wild Oysters to Conwy Bay

Explore: Pathways to increase workforce diversity in conservation careers

Funding is ring fenced to support the full costs of a planned three-month expert-led field survey for the tooth billed pigeon on Samoa.

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.

Projects that aim to protect the unique biodiversity and improve resilience to climate change within the UK Overseas Territories

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.

Seeking to enhance and progress coordination for coastal sustainability and resilience in England. The 3Cs initiative will use this funding to: Test, trial and inform best practice approaches for ....more

Seeking to enhance and progress coordination for coastal sustainability and resilience in England. The 3Cs initiative will use this funding to: Test, trial and inform best practice approaches for coastal coordination in England. The overall ambition is for a strengthened and well supported national framework covering the entire English coast to integrate place-based delivery for coastal ecosystems and communities. Determine how the existing activities of those involved on coastal governance can be strengthened to better coordinate and achieve improvements to coastal environments that are linked to enhanced social and economic outcomes, and how governance systems can be capacitated to facilitate this process. Explore how to make better use of resources, share ownership of complex issues and maximise outcomes through a collaborative approach of organisations from the public sector, private sector

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem ....more

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will stimulate private sector investment in protecting and enhancing the environment in line with the governments 25 Year Environment Plan.Projects receiving funding focus on tackling climate change and restoring nature through schemes such as woodland and habitat creation, peatland and kelp forest restoration and river catchment management. Helping to provide natural flood risk management, improve water quality and biodiversity.

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem ....more

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will stimulate private sector investment in protecting and enhancing the environment in line with the governments 25 Year Environment Plan.Projects receiving funding focus on tackling climate change and restoring nature through schemes such as woodland and habitat creation, peatland and kelp forest restoration and river catchment management. Helping to provide natural flood risk management, improve water quality and biodiversity.

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem ....more

The funding will be used to develop a broad range of projects that deliver environmental benefits while also demonstrating a wide range of innovative approaches to generating revenues from ecosystem services. In doing so, these projects will stimulate private sector investment in protecting and enhancing the environment in line with the governments 25 Year Environment Plan.Projects receiving funding focus on tackling climate change and restoring nature through schemes such as woodland and habitat creation, peatland and kelp forest restoration and river catchment management. Helping to provide natural flood risk management, improve water quality and biodiversity.

Programme lead, project officer, travel and subsistence for CITES, CMS and ICES, fieldwork costs, proportionate contribution to overheads.

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.

Staff costs (Ascension and UK); project activities, including research, capacity-building and communication, M&E, 15% overheads. Matched funding of £36,564 confirmed.

Connecting to nature: ZSL London Zoo’s Community Gardens and Outdoor Classroom

This project will protect two important Critically Endangered Palawan pangolin populations through developingcommunity-led local pangolin conservation models (LPCAs) for replication across the ....more

This project will protect two important Critically Endangered Palawan pangolin populations through developingcommunity-led local pangolin conservation models (LPCAs) for replication across the species range. Thismodel: i) empowers local communities to manage their natural resources; ii) creates incentives for protectingpangolins, explicitly linking pangolin conservation to financial benefits from sustainable livelihoods andcommunity banking schemes; iii) increases social benefits from positive pangolin stewardship; and iv)strengthens disincentives for poaching/trafficking through building law enforcement capacity and commitmentto combating IWT.

Co-designed with Mongolian and UK partners this project will disrupt IWT through: 1) building and sustainingthe newly established Ecological Police Department (EPD) and partners law enforcement (LE) ....more

Co-designed with Mongolian and UK partners this project will disrupt IWT through: 1) building and sustainingthe newly established Ecological Police Department (EPD) and partners law enforcement (LE) efficacy,through institutionalising state-of-the-art training; 2) establishing world-class standards for EPD Detector Dogtraining and strategic deployment; 3) strengthening EPDs rural engagement through partnership withArkhangai Local Protected Area (LPA), empowering community-led governance to jointly mitigate IWT, whileimproving wellbeing; and 4) bolstering public awareness of EPDs role in combating IWT.

Across the Green transboundary corridors in Chitwan-Sindhuli, this project will protect pangolins and otherillegally traded wildlife species, through i) improved national and transboundary ....more

Across the Green transboundary corridors in Chitwan-Sindhuli, this project will protect pangolins and otherillegally traded wildlife species, through i) improved national and transboundary intelligence sharing andcoordination among law enforcement agencies (LEA) ii) upskilled LEA agents utilising evidence-basedapproaches to inform effective LE efforts to disrupt IWT iii) community-managed pangolin conservation areasimplementing a community-led pangolin protected area (PA) network, and iv) vulnerable community membersengaging in sustainable livelihoods and inclusive participatory decision-making, resulting in improved wellbeing

Significant concerns exist over the sustainability of Diego Garcias (DG) reef fisheries. We will conduct anurgent impact assessment of DGs two fisheries, quantify their true nature and extent, ....more

Significant concerns exist over the sustainability of Diego Garcias (DG) reef fisheries. We will conduct anurgent impact assessment of DGs two fisheries, quantify their true nature and extent, develop biologicalreference points and elucidate spawning seasons for vulnerable reef predators. We will also determine thesocietal drivers of fishing, the current understanding of existing fishery regulations, and stakeholderperceptions of management options. We will produce feasible, effective management recommendations andengage stakeholders to ensure long-term sustainable fisheries management

A direct award grant to support ZSL vaccination activity of badgers against bovine TB in response to landowner interest granting access to land. Activity involves staff training, establishing new ....more

A direct award grant to support ZSL vaccination activity of badgers against bovine TB in response to landowner interest granting access to land. Activity involves staff training, establishing new vaccination areas and collecting samples to test for effectiveness of vaccinations across varied seasonal conditions.

Proposed Outcome:An explicit partnership with local experts to gather knowledge on vanishingly rare species provides arespectful model for sustainable, forest-linked livelihoods.

The Great Gobi A Strictly Protected Area encompasses 44,630km2 of globally significant desert and is hometo the last population of Critically Endangered wild camel. Herders here face socio-ecological ....more

The Great Gobi A Strictly Protected Area encompasses 44,630km2 of globally significant desert and is hometo the last population of Critically Endangered wild camel. Herders here face socio-ecological issues, includingovergrazing; rangeland degradation and waterhole loss, exacerbated by climate change. Government andcommunities lack mechanisms and resources to collaboratively tackle these threats. This project seeks toinstitutionalise robust evidence-based environmental management, implement scalable waterhole habitatmanagement, strengthen collaborative governance, enable community-led awareness-raising, improvesustainable rangeland management and herder livelihoods

Core Funding - Science Research

This project will secure populations of African grey parrots in Cameroon’s TRIDOM landscape by protecting key parrot strongholds and strengthening law enforcement efforts to disrupt IWT through ....more

This project will secure populations of African grey parrots in Cameroon’s TRIDOM landscape by protecting key parrot strongholds and strengthening law enforcement efforts to disrupt IWT through Cameroon at border areas and major transport hubs.

Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment

Towards core costs developing a long-term programme to counter the effects of damaging activities on England's rivers through Citizen Science

Increased livelihood resilience within two communities through the introduction of mushroom farming and quail egg production facilities resulting in greater food production and security, with ....more

Increased livelihood resilience within two communities through the introduction of mushroom farming and quail egg production facilities resulting in greater food production and security, with augmented income and household savings. This project will introduce mushroom and quail egg production livelihoods to three Community Managed Savings and Credit Associations (CoMSCA), in two communities negatively impacted by COVID-19. Both are associated with Freshwater Sanctuaries (FS) established in our current Darwin-funded project (24-016) and have suffered drastically from reduced tourism and service industries. The project endeavours tounderstand COVID-19 impacts on beneficiaries’ behaviour pre- and post-intervention, using established socio-economic and biological data to determine the effects on both community well-being and FS biodiversity.

Establish critical evidence base to inform decision-making, scalable solutions to livelihood shocks and positive coping mechanisms, increasing resilience in two coastal communities against poverty ....more

Establish critical evidence base to inform decision-making, scalable solutions to livelihood shocks and positive coping mechanisms, increasing resilience in two coastal communities against poverty while protecting biodiversity in northern Mozambique The project aims to fill critical gaps in our understanding of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of Covid-19 on coastal communities in northern Mozambique. The data will inform development of copingmechanisms for communities, increase resilience to shocks and support recommendations for scalable community-based solutions. We will focus on enhancing knowledge around key pillars including governance and co-management of marine resources, community behaviour and biological impact on fisheries, to inform the knowledge base and strategies for long term community resilience.

Additional funding to spread and embed the #OneLess project to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles.

BIOT’s coastal ecosystems are threatened by the accumulation of large volumes of plastic debris. Consumption of single-use plastic (SUP) on Diego Garcia (DG) also creates waste streams that are ....more

BIOT’s coastal ecosystems are threatened by the accumulation of large volumes of plastic debris. Consumption of single-use plastic (SUP) on Diego Garcia (DG) also creates waste streams that are hard to manage in this remote location. This project will empower BIOT stakeholders to implement cleaning strategies on target beaches, mitigating the impacts of plastics on nesting turtles. We will develop long-term strategies to enable systemic change, reducing DG’s SUP consumption, improving disposal and recycling practices.

The growing coastal population in Northern Mozambique due to gas sector industries will increase seafood demand and pressure on this fragile marine biodiversity hotspot. Our Sea Our Life aims to ....more

The growing coastal population in Northern Mozambique due to gas sector industries will increase seafood demand and pressure on this fragile marine biodiversity hotspot. Our Sea Our Life aims to improve socio-ecological resilience in a way that is pro-poor and gender inclusive. We will enhance a scalable model for sustainable solutions in two Cabo Delgado communities while fostering saving groups of vulnerable female fishers to farm bivalves as an alternative to illegal mosquito net fishing.

To establish a local protected area to promote socio-ecological resilience to support the recovery of the globally-endangered Saker falcon, Steppe eagle, Marmot and Musk deer and disincentivise ....more

To establish a local protected area to promote socio-ecological resilience to support the recovery of the globally-endangered Saker falcon, Steppe eagle, Marmot and Musk deer and disincentivise over-exploitation and degradation of their threatened forest-steppe habitat.

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and assessment by our external and independent Darwin Expert Committee (DEC).

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and assessment by our external and independent Darwin Expert Committee (DEC).

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and ....more

This funding will fund projects in developing countries aiming to protect Biodiversity. Applications received Ministerial approval following an open application round under the Darwin Initiative and assessment by our external and independent Darwin Expert Committee (DEC).

Strengthening community anti-poaching and ecotourism in the Western Terai Complex

This project will secure populations of African grey parrots in Cameroon’s TRIDOM landscape by protecting key parrot strongholds and strengthening law enforcement efforts to disrupt IWT through ....more

This project will secure populations of African grey parrots in Cameroon’s TRIDOM landscape by protecting key parrot strongholds and strengthening law enforcement efforts to disrupt IWT through Cameroon at border areas and major transport hubs.

Research and pilot campaign to reduce demand for pangolins

This project will strengthen Mongolia’s border law enforcement capacity, enable interagency intelligence sharing and empower border communities to combat IWT and associated cross-border criminality, ....more

This project will strengthen Mongolia’s border law enforcement capacity, enable interagency intelligence sharing and empower border communities to combat IWT and associated cross-border criminality, including human-trafficking. Key activities include targeted training, equipping, and performance-based incentivisation of Border Detector Dog units, and associated law enforcement staff at three prioritised pilot sites; establishing a national Wildlife Crime Control Task Force, to promote effective interagency and transnational intelligence sharing; and developing Community Surveillance Networks, increasing awareness, and reporting of IWT and associated criminality.

The W Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (WTBR) is a key part of the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) landscape, recognized as a conservation priority and last stronghold for elephant, lion and cheetah in West ....more

The W Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (WTBR) is a key part of the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) landscape, recognized as a conservation priority and last stronghold for elephant, lion and cheetah in West Africa. IWT is the major threat to these species in the WAP. This project will help address this by, strengthening protection of wildlife in W Niger park; better targeting of traffickers along the main trafficking route through Benin; and providing incentives for local communities to support efforts to combat IWT.

Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment

Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment

Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment

Partnership Grants for England (PG) is a payment mechanism enabling us to provide capital and revenue grants to third sector organisations for projects which protect and enhance the water environment

Community Engagement in the River Brent

Funding for Phase 3 (2020) of the #OneLess project to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles in London by creating a 'refill revolution', changing behaviour and systems by connecting people to a ....more

Funding for Phase 3 (2020) of the #OneLess project to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles in London by creating a 'refill revolution', changing behaviour and systems by connecting people to a love of the sea.

Mother Oyster and her Super Spat

Main Darwin Initiative projects support projects tackling key threats to biodiversity in developing countries

Main Darwin Initiative projects support projects tackling key threats to biodiversity in developing countries

£99,400 over two further years (£49,100, £50,300) for the salary of the part-time Project Manager and Project Coordinator posts and related Tidal Thames Conservation project costs.

Angelsharks in Wales: Safeguarding one of the world’s rarest sharks through fisher-participation, heritage and citizen-science

Towards the salary of a Network Coordinator to establish and run the first UK Network for the Restoration of the Native Oyster.

Community Engagement in the River Brent, a Critical River for Eels

Community and learning centre for the restored Snowdon Aviary

Stage Two of the #OneLess bottle campaign to reduce single-use plastic water bottle use in and beyond London by 2021.

The Snowdon Aviary Restoration Project

To support participation in the Marine CoLABoration in phase two of the initiative (2017-2018).

Towards delivery costs for the Garden Wildlife Project enabling ZSL to work with partners and the public to map and understand diseases afflicting birds, hedgehogs, reptiles and amphibians.

Towards the core costs of the Great British Oceans campaign to secure marine reserves in UK Overseas Territories.

Snowdon Aviary Restoration Project

£150,000 over three years (£52,000; £49,000; £49,000) for the salary of two part-time posts and related Tidal Thames Conservation project costs.

The fish that smells of cucumber: conservation of smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) in the Thames Estuary

Towards the Garden Wildlife Health project looking to engage people with the wildlife in their garden on a more scientific level and monitor change.