{"id":4839,"date":"2020-05-02T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:42:32","slug":"dice-alumni-named-winners-of-prestigious-whitley-awards-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/05\/02\/dice-alumni-named-winners-of-prestigious-whitley-awards-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE alumni named winners of prestigious Whitley Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to two <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)<\/a> alumni who have been recognised by The Whitley Fund for Nature for the extraordinary conservation work they have achieved in their home countries to protect the natural world and its wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Patr\u00edcia Medici, who completed her PhD at DICE in 2010, has been announced as the Gold Winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whitleyaward.org\/2020\/04\/29\/meet-the-2020-whitley-award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whitley Awards 2020<\/a> for her research into tapirs as conservation flagships in Brazil. This builds on her original Whitley Award that she received in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Ikemeh, who received a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/postgraduate\/dice-msc-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DICE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/postgraduate\/dice-msc-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSc Scholarship<\/a> and graduated from the School in 2014, has been named a Whitley Award winner for her work advancing participatory conservation action for rare chimpanzees in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Patr\u00edcia will receive \u00a360,000 and Rachel \u00a340,000 in project funding to carry out their vital work, and a boost in profile to help forge\u00a0connections and leverage further support.<\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/557\/smith-bob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Smith<\/a>, Director of DICE, said, &#8220;We would like to congratulate Patr\u00edcia and Rachel and everyone at DICE is very proud of their achievements. The Whitley Awards are known as the \u2018Green Oscars\u2019 and this recognition demonstrates the significance of their work protecting the world\u2019s wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to two Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) alumni who have been recognised by The Whitley Fund for Nature for the extraordinary conservation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/05\/02\/dice-alumni-named-winners-of-prestigious-whitley-awards-2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839"}],"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\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}