📢 #DarwinPlus Local training session announcement!

On Wednesday 15 May🗓️ we will be running a training webinar to support applicants.

To understand the essentials of a good application, sign up via the link👇 loom.ly/tu2AoDI

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We visited the #Chimanimani National Park in Manica with 🇬🇧 NGO Fauna & Flora that co-manages the park 🌍🌱.

We saw the ground-breaking work, involving the community, to:
👉🏾protect Chimanimani unique biodiversity
👉🏾use climate-friendly solutions
👉🏾strengthen climate resilience

We recently co-organised a workshop with experts on St Helena as part of a #DarwinPlus project assessing risks posed by invasive non-native species in the UK Overseas Territories.

Read more about the workshop and ongoing project: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media… #INNS #biodiversity

Next to the park, we saw the work done by #Micaia Foundation supported by Biodiversity Challenge Funds #DarwinInitiative .
Their innovative sustainable production of 🍯is helping to preserve the miombo woodland.

This #EarthDay 🌍, be a superhero, be a trailblazer, be a changemaker.

#GoFarGoTogether

📣 The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate is recruiting new members for their Evidence Advisory Group! See below for details🌍   #ExpertRecruitement #Biodiversity #Funding

As one of our core values, celebrating innovation is important to us

In today's World Creativity & Innovation Week blog, find out how #DarwinPlusLocal supports innovative new environmental projects in the UK Overseas Territories bit.ly/3JkTYpP World Creativity & Innovation Week/Day #WCIW

We've been collecting data to better understand pathogen dynamics and impacts in the wildlife of the Falkland Islands. The project started 2 years ago and turned out to be crucial to our understanding of avian influenza there. Stay tuned! Thanks Biodiversity Challenge Funds for the support!

Excited for new #DarwinPlus funding, launching on 22 April? We are!

See what projects do: Addressing #pathogens threatening Falkland Islands' seabirds🐧, one project bolsters surveillance and response protocols to safeguard local #seabird populations🔗 loom.ly/8to3iDg

Thank you, DFID and Biodiversity Challenge Funds, for supporting Space for Giants in our efforts to address human-wildlife conflict in Uganda. The project, ‘Uganda Wildlife Authority in Human-Wildlife Conflict,’ has wrapped up after two successful years.

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After a week intensive training at Analalava Forest #Madagascar , 7 candidates took exams to be certified as Assessors for The Global Biodiversity Standard (an international standard that recognises/promotes protection, restoration and enhancement of biodiversity). Tks Biodiversity Challenge Funds

This project-working with communities & Malagasy gov to develop/apply social safeguard policies around Madagascar's protected areas-has been great. Thanks to Biodiversity Challenge Funds, British Ambassador David Ashley for support, & congratulations to the team from ESSA Eaux et Forêts & Bangor University

As the #DarwinPlus funding launch on 22 April nears, interest grows for project examples! This one maps South Georgia's plant #biodiversity , empowering staff & surveying priority sites. Data gathered via app aids #conservation for a new Protected Area📱🌱 loom.ly/WSyXpNs

Some exciting news from the Marine Centre - a stumpy (red slipper lobster) has been recaptured after four years! It was first tagged in 2020 during a #DarwinInitiative Project.

To learn more about this lobster, read the infographic below!

#smallislandBIGFUTURE #sthelenampa

Establishing & maintaining community-based nurseries for seedlings of native trees & crop species are #PPPDarwinProject important activities to support in planting of 60,327 native trees so far, increasing knowledge/capacity of local communities in forest ecological restoration.

Here comes report on conservation approach taken by ForestAction Nepal led Biodiversity Challenge Funds project. Focuses conservation of rare & threatened tree species in Jalthal remnant forest. Strategies proposed are result of ecological survey, review & local workshops. forestaction.org/publications/c…

Stay updated on news and projects: Subscribe to each of our funds' mailing lists for latest updates on the #DarwinInitiative , #IWTCF , and #DarwinPlus . Watch our video tutorial to see how you can sign up✍️

Link to the BCFs mothership below! 👇

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Students from the 2 schools - Kirimon secondary and primary school - experienced the magic of storytelling through drama centered around coexistence with wildlife, particularly #Africanwilddogs , and disease control.

#WildlifeCoexistence #RabiesPrevention #CommunityEngagement

Read about our just-completed Biodiversity Challenge Funds #krill4whales field season:

#PPPDarwinProject field visit, delivering Safeguarding Policies training, exchanging with Voluntary Conservation Group & farmer participants, meeting with UK in Viet Nam🇬🇧🇻🇳 & MONRE's NBCA in seeking of possible future cooperation opp., reviewing Project with Tuyen Hoa authorities.