Principal Investigator: Dr Zoe Davies Co Investigator Dr Bob Smith Project dates: 2012-2013 Funding: Darwin Initiative Overseas Territories Challenge Fund Collaborators: Falklands Conservation, South Atlantic … Read more
Category: Conservation Biology
A cutting-EDGE approach to saving Seychelles’ evolutionarily distinct biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Dr Jim Groombridge Co Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project Officer: Rachel Bristol Project dates: October 2012-2015 Funding: DEFRA, Darwin Initiative Fund UK Project … Read more
Monitoring the factors that influence rhino managers decision making
Principal Investigator: Dr Bob Smith Co Investigator Dr Freya St, John Project dates: 2012 – 2013 Funding: Critical Environment Partnership Fund Collaborators: Private Rhino Owners … Read more
Implementing CITES in Madagascar
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project dates: 1 April 2012 – 31 March 2016 Funding: Darwin Initiative: £254,788 Collaborators: Madagasikara Voakajy Madagascar is underachieving … Read more
From native to invasive: using DNA to characterise the spread of introduced ringneck parakeets from Asia/Africa to Europe
Principal Investigator: Dr Jim Groombridge Co Investigators: Dr. Diederik Strubbe, University of Antwerp Researcher: Hazel Jackson Project dates: February 2012 – January 2013 Funding: £12,467: … Read more
From genes to environmental change: the spatial ecology of a tropical seabird
Principal Investigator: Dr Jim Groombridge Project dates: 2011-September 2016 Funding: NERC/University of Reading (£35,596) Collaborators: Prof. Ken Norris and Dr. Malcolm Nicoll, CAER, University of … Read more
Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change (PARCC) in West Africa
Principal Investigator: Dr Bob Smith Project dates: 2011 to 2015 Funding: Global Environment Fund UK Project Partners: Led by UNEP-WCMC, with Durham University, IUCN Species Programme, BirdLife International, and … Read more
Examining the fate of local great crested newt populations following licensed developments
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project dates: 1 May 2011-30 November 2013 Funding: Defra: £190,296 Collaborators: Amphibian and Reptile Conservation The demand for housing … Read more
Molecular genetics and infectious disease in red squirrels on Jersey
Principal Investigator: Dr Jim Groombridge Co Investigators: Dr Tiffany Blackett and Major Stephen Coleman Project dates: May 2011 – April 2012 Funding: £13,370: Jersey … Read more
Development of standardised protocols for assessing reptile and amphibian populations
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project dates: 1 January 2011 – ongoing Funding: NERC: £85,866; Freshwater Habitats Trust Collaborators: Natural England; Countryside Council for Wales; … Read more