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Marine biodiversity capacity building in the West African sub-region
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME
Main Project
VALUE
£216,540
WHERE
Ghana
Summary
To provide enabling technologies for west African scientists to assess their coastal biodiversity.
Status
Completed_noFR
Reference
70-45
Round
6
Start
01/09/1998
End
31/03/2001
Project Leader
Dr Susan Clarke
Lead Organisation
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Project Partners
University of Ghana
Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa
Countries
Ghana
Project Outputs
6 newsletters; 1 week workshop for 5 Darwin Fellows on biotope mapping and cataloguing marine resources; teaching packs and identification manuals produced by Fellows; 3 computer databases; 3 species reference collections; communication network.
Documents:
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- 7-045 App - 04/02/2022
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