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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Conservationists alarmed by drastic cuts to key UK fund for global nature protection

An aerial view of a peatland tropical forest in Indonesia.
One of the Darwin Initiative’s most high-profile projects was reducing peatland tropical forest fires in Indonesia. Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

One of the UK’s longest-standing funds for global nature protection is being drastically cut back, the Guardian has learned.

At least 89 countries will lose eligibility for funding for biodiversity projects under the Darwin Initiative, in a round of cuts that conservationists warned would put species and habitats in jeopardy, and set back global efforts to halt the precipitous decline in nature.

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