Biodiversity Strand 2009

Anglia Ruskin University - £89,886
Towards further monitoring and evaluation of Wicken Vision and Great Fen projects over three years.

Bournemouth University - £38,277
Towards research and survey costs of biological colonisation of Boscombe Surf Reef over three years.

Buglife - £157,115
Towards the cost over three years of conservation work on mosaic habitats on priority developed land.

Cairngorms National Park Authority - £80,540
Towards the Cairngorms Rare Plants Project over three years.

Galloway Fisheries Trust - £40,000
Towards the cost over three years of conserving a freshwater biodiversity hotspot.

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust - £14,612
Towards research costs of arable weeds, their associated invertebrates and their manipulation to encourage farm wildlife.

Kent Reptile & Amphibian Group - £4,000
Towards a joint project with Conservatoire des Sites Naturels du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais to investigate habitat management in areas of chalk grasslands for adders.

Queen Mary University of London - £78,515
Towards research over two years to highlight the significance of wet fens as reservoirs of biodiversity.

Scottish Wildlife Trust - £40,060
Towards the Lowland Peatlands Project over three years.

Sheffield City Council - £36,900
Towards the cost of investigating the extent of Crayfish in Sheffield and to implement practical conservation over two years.

St Mawes Harbour Conservation Trust - £50,000
Towards the costs of an initial survey over two years to map the extent and condition of the seagrass and maerl habitat, and to disseminate the findings.

University of East Anglia - £125,000
Towards the costs over two years of research and laboratory staff to define ecological niches of important saltmarsh plants.

Total - £754,905
No of Grants - 12

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