{"id":1983,"date":"2016-04-07T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:44:59","slug":"funding-success-darwin-initiative-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2016\/04\/07\/funding-success-darwin-initiative-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Success: Darwin Initiative Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1988\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2016\/04\/news-darwin-initiative-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"The critically-endangered Seychelles paradise flycatcher\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2016\/04\/news-darwin-initiative-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2016\/04\/news-darwin-initiative.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The critically-endangered Seychelles paradise flycatcher (Credit: J.Watson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The School of Anthropology and Conservation is delighted to announce that we have been successful in three bids for research funding from the UK Government\u2019s Darwin Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/the-darwin-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Initiative<\/a> is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide.<br \/>\nThe initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives under one or more of the following biodiversity conventions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">Convention on Biological Diversity<\/a> (CBD)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/cites.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna<\/a> (CITES)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbd.int\/abs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nagoya Protocol<\/a> on Access and Benefit Sharing<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planttreaty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our successful projects are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-biology\/academic-staff\/groombridge_jim.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Jim Groombridge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translocating conservation success and skills-exchange across four Indian Ocean countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many global conservation success-stories originate from Seychelles and Mauritius. Remarkably, however, propagating these much-needed skill-sets elsewhere doesn\u2019t happen naturally, particularly across low-income and island nations. Building upon previous Darwin-funded success, the project will implement three flycatcher reintroductions, and via a newly-established regional \u2018training hub\u2019, galvanising skill-sharing between four Indian Ocean countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-social\/academic-staff\/stjohn_freya.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Freya St John<\/a>, with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investing in agroforestry options for forest restoration in Indonesia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has approximately 80 million hectares of exhausted logging concessions. Restoration of these forests is a high priority for biodiversity conservation. Working in the Harapan Rainforest (Hutan Harapan, HH) Ecosystem Restoration Concession (ERC) in Sumatra, the project will develop agroforestry options to reconcile conservation restoration goals with livelihood aspirations of local communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-biology\/academic-staff\/struebig_matt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Matthew Struebig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marrying conservation with stakeholder aspirations in Borneo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project will help deliver social and ecological justice in Kalimantan, Indonesia, by improving understanding of linkages between ecological systems and human wellbeing, resulting in improved governance. For this, the project will develop datasets, increase awareness, and build vital capacity for participatory and evidence-based systems to allocate land for community forest management.<\/p>\n<p>A huge congratulations from the School to the successful project leaders. These grants follow a number of successful research bids this term, more details of which can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/kentsac.wordpress.com\/category\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/kentsac.wordpress.com\/category\/research\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2016\/04\/darwin_initiative-002.jpg\" alt=\"darwin_initiative (002)\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Anthropology and Conservation is delighted to announce that we have been successful in three bids for research funding from the UK Government\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2016\/04\/07\/funding-success-darwin-initiative-award-winners\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39551,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}