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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…

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.

Updates from our seabird tracking Biodiversity Challenge Funds Protecting Seabirds Across Borders:
More Ascension frigatebirds satellite tagged in recent weeks and results are coming in as the birds build up their flying capabilities and start to fledge from the Letterbox Nature Reserve

🌿Explore our BCFs newsletter! Over 20 #DarwinInitiative articles showcase global projects balancing agri/aquacultural needs with ecological integrity. From buffalo herds in Cambodia to cricket-based solutions in Madagascar, dive into #FoodForThought 🌍📰 loom.ly/0WIyKWQ

Encouraging sustainable community livelihoods is a powerful and innovative conservation strategy that helps protect our precious forests.
Read more👉bit.ly/3vkrgC2
Happy #ForestDay #ForestsAndInnovation

I bet there's not many people out there making music videos using Climate models, Matplotlib, NumPy, and #cartopy .

Headphones on. Full video out this Friday!

Thanks to Mission Atlantic TerraFIRMA UKESM project #DarwinInitiative Biodiversity Challenge Funds Plymouth Marine Lab

🌳 Happy International Day of Forests! 🌲
This year, we're all about innovation & tech in forest monitoring. We’re using #EarthObservation to track temperature/drought responses & land clearance in the Virgin Island's dry forests. 🛰️
Biodiversity Challenge Funds
#ForestDay #DarwinPlus #BVI #UKOT

Explore captivating stories from #IWTCF in our BCFs newsletter! From fighting jaguar trafficking to protecting Karoo succulents, discover innovative solutions for biodiversity in 9 absorbing articles. Feed your curiosity with #FoodForThought 🌵 loom.ly/-K5GC_g 📰🌐