Darwin Initiative: Antarctic

(asked on 4th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in Antartica since 2019.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th March 2024

Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 22 environmental projects of benefit to the Falkland Islands. These are listed in the table below.

Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.

Project reference

Project title

UK Overseas Territories involved

DPLUS146

Red Listing can protect OT marine biodiversity

British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

DPLUS110

Recognise, protect, restore: driving sound stewardship of Falklands peat wetlands

Falkland Islands

DPLUS115

Unlocking Falkland Islands Marine Management: Key Biodiversity Areas for seabirds

Falkland Islands

DPLUS116

Falklands wetlands and aquatic habitats: baselines for monitoring future change

Falkland Islands

DPLUS126

Advancing Falklands and region-scale management of globally important whale populations

Falkland Islands

DPLUS139

Improving Falklands marine management effectiveness for marine higher predators

Falkland Islands

DPLUS148

Climate change resilience in Falkland Islands fisheries and marine ecosystems

Falkland Islands

DPLUS167

Pathogens as a threat to seabirds in the Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands

DPLUS168

Understanding increased FI seal bycatch to inform bycatch Action Plan

Falkland Islands

DPLUS169

New Island: completing preparatory steps for restoration against invasive mammals

Falkland Islands

DPLUS182

Habitat restoration and species re-introductions on four Falklands island reserves

Falkland Islands

DPL00047

Increasing environmental monitoring capacity on FI: a Thermal Imaging UAV

Falkland Islands

DPL00058

Fire Contingency Planning for Offshore Islands

Falkland Islands

CV19RR02

Establishing wildlife health and disease monitoring in the Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands

DPL00002

Restoring native tussac grassland habitat

Falkland Islands

DPL00006

Restoring peat soils and tussac grass habitat in the Falklands

Falkland Islands

DPL00020

Data driven solutions to land management and climate change adaptation

Falkland Islands

DPL00025

Building farm biodiversity planning and monitoring capacity for sustainable management

Falkland Islands

DPLUS092

Seabird sentinels: mapping potential bycatch risk using bird-borne radar

Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

DPLUS094

Developing Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) tools for Turks and Caicos

Falkland Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands

DPLUS175

Enhancing monitoring and prevention of invasive non-native species across UKOTs

Gibraltar, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bermuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands

DPLUS174

A cross-UKOT camera network to enhance marine predator conservation

Montserrat, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

Reticulating Splines