Conservarea biodiversităţii şi dezvoltare comunitară în Transilvania
Darwin
Darwin Initiative for Biodiversity in partnership with Orange Romania, are the main sponsors for the range of activities you see described in this website: biodiversity studies and conservation, and innovative measures to support the small-scale farming communities of the area. In 2005, the British Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced support for the ADEPT project for 2006-2009, under its Darwin Initiative programme.
This represents important recognition for ADEPT of the scientific strengths and social / environmental / developmental good practices being implemented, and raises the international profile of the project.
Darwin Initiative Newsletter highlights the ADEPT project
The Darwin Initiative newsletter of January 2009
- summarises some underlying concepts of the ADEPT project - the European and global importance of the biodiversity of man-made landscapes, and the key role played by farmers in maintaining such landscapes - and
- describes some outputs of the project, in particular research into the practical links between specific agricultural management and maintenance of high biodiversity, and economic incentives to promote continued biodiversity-friendly management by linking high nature value farming and agricultural income.
About the UK Darwin Initiative
The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
The aim of the Initiative is to assist countries which are rich in biodiversity to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise. The Darwin Initiative also emphasises local community benefit from conservation.
Darwin projects are diverse. Typically, they may address issues in the following areas:
- institutional capacity building
- training
- research
- work to implement the Biodiversity Convention
- environmental education or awareness
Partners
About our partnersOrange
Innovation Norway
Darwin
Fauna and Flora International
Other partners
The Saxon Villages Region of southeast Transylvania - 2007
UK Darwin Initiative supported the preparation and publication of research work carried out in the ADEPT project area: see Volume IV: The Saxon Villages Region of southeast Transylvania - 2007 , in the series published by Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research (University Lucian Blaga Sibiu).
The UK Darwin Initiative funds collaborative projects bringing together UK and host country expertise, to help conserve global biodiversity.
