Lemurs, eagles and cloud forest receive UK conservation funds

WILDLIFE and habitats from Madagascar’s lemurs and the cloud forest of St Helena are among those receiving a share of £35million in UK conservation funding.

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A project to protect Diana's Peak, in St Helena, will receive a share of £35million in UK conservation funding

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The latest round of the Government's Darwin Initiative and Darwin Plus programmes will fund more than 80 local projects across 36 developing countries and 12 UK Overseas Territories.

Funding will go to restore natural systems and protect nature, secure food and water supplies and improve lives, the Environment Department (Defra) said.