Passionate about grassroots wildlife conservation, Director @WhitleyAwards & Trustee of @WildTeamUK. Views & RT my own.
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Danni Parks retweeted
29 Jul 2025
Applications for the #WhitleyAwards 2026 are OPEN 🎉
These aren't just grants – they're career changers. 🧵
👇 Here's what winners get:
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Danni Parks retweeted
5 Aug 2025
🌍 Applications are open for the 2026 Whitley Awards!
Our #WhitleyAwards celebrate & fund grassroots conservation leaders protecting people, wildlife & the planet — local action into global impact.
Apply before 31 October: bit.ly/WA26Apply
#ConservationFunding
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Danni Parks retweeted
2 May 2024
Join us in congratulating the 2024 Whitley Award winners; outstanding conservation leaders working to protect communities, wildlife and landscapes!
Meet this year's winners & learn more about their projects helping to safeguard our planet's #SharedFuture:
whitleyaward.org/2024/05/02/…
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Danni Parks retweeted
5 Apr 2024
📢 Less than four weeks to go until the 2024 Whitley Awards!
Tune in via livestream and join us in celebrating the newest cohort of inspiring award winners! 🏆
Watch the full ceremony live on our YouTube channel (@WhitleyAwards) - and follow along using #SharedFuture
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Danni Parks retweeted
18 Dec 2023
Relive the key moments and outcomes of WFN’s #PeopleForPlanet Biodiversity Summit. A look back at the exciting the 2-day event, which brought together 11 of the world’s star conservationists and special guests at London’s @Ri_Science
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Danni Parks retweeted
12 Dec 2023
Whitley Award winners put snow leopards and biodiversity on the agenda at @COP28_UAE. See how conservationists spotlighted the connection between nature and climate, as fossil fuel talks go into overtime:
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Danni Parks retweeted
11 Dec 2023
What an amazing vidication of #ConservationOptimism! The #saiga was today moved from Critically Endangered to Near-Threatened on the @IUCNRedList Here I share my thoughts on this milestone moment conservationoptimism.org/con…
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🌐 Big News: Saiga antelope reclassified from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened by IUCN
🦌 Kudos to @AltynDalaCI, @NABU_de, @TheWCS, @WWF_Mongolia, thanks to donors @USFWS, @PTES, @wildnetorg, @WhitleyNature.
bit.ly/3GET06C
#SaigaConservation #ConservationWin
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Danni Parks retweeted
24 Jul 2023
APPLY NOW to the 2024 #WhitleyAwards!
Are you a mid-career conservationist ready to scale up science-based, community-led projects in the Global South?
You could win:
🏆 £40,000 in funding
🌎Global recognition
🌐Peer network access
Closes 31 Oct 2023: whitleyaward.org/apply-for-c…
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Danni Parks retweeted
28 Nov 2022
We’re pleased to announce our latest cohort of Continuation Funding grant recipients: 11 past #WhitleyAward winners who will receive a total of £700,000 in urgently needed project funding to scale up their work and address new challenges!
#MondayMotivation
whitleyaward.org/2022/11/16/…
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Danni Parks retweeted
7 Dec 2022
Introducing 'Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence & Decision Making', a new #OpenAccess book by Fellow Prof. @Bill_Sutherland launching TODAY.
We're delighted to have contributed to this important guide to evidence and decision making in conservation & beyond
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Danni Parks retweeted
3 Dec 2022
Delighted to be holding a copy of this book - so pleased with it.
Download free on Wednesday bit.ly/3TqteY9.
Launch 4pm Wednesday with 6 ten-minute talks by Tony Juniper, Mark Burgman, Harriet Downey, Jonny Hughes, Nancy Ockendon, and me. bit.ly/3VtlS7z.
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Danni Parks retweeted
10 Sep 2022
Ladyfriends and gentledorks, please allow me to present: this shirt.
ALT Me, on the couch, wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the text “distance raptor” over a horizontal line, below which “time raptor,” then an equals sign, and “veloci raptor” written on top of the silhouette of a rather demonic looking velociraptor. I bout this shirt to make my teen daughters roll their eyes at me and I am gratified to report success.
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Danni Parks retweeted
8 Sep 2022
As a historian of the first Elizabethan Age, I am overwhelmed to be in London at this historical moment. 16th-century Elizabethans would have looked for signs. This double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace just moments before the Queen's death was announced. 📷: Reuters
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18 Aug 2022
Application to the @WhitleyAwards 2023 is now open! Apply below ⬇️ & join us for our 30th anniversary celebrations next spring 🎉 #WhitleyAwards #conservation #grants #funding #training #capacitybuilding
17 Aug 2022
#WhitleyAward winners receive:
🏆 £40,000 project funding
🏆 International media spotlight
🏆 Training
🏆 Peer network of over 200 alumni in 80 countries
🏆 Eligibility for further funding
#Conservationists Find everything you need to apply here 👉 whitleyaward.org/apply-for-c…
ALT 2021 Whitley Gold Award winner, Paula Kahumbu, sits on a Save the Elephants Toyota safari vehicle, talking to David from Save the Elephants charity.
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18 Aug 2022
WFN is working with @ConservEvidence to support a culture of evidence use in #conservation. Take a 👀 at this short 📽️from @Cambridge_Uni ft @Bill_Sutherland & @WhitleyAwards winner @IroroTanshi on the importance of using evidence when designing & implementing enviro projects
29 Jun 2022
Our film featuring Sir David Attenborough, Iolo Williams, @Bill_Sutherland about the ‘evidence emergency’ and how evidence-based conservation can reverse this. Meet people already using and contributing to @ConservEvidence @ConservEvidJour @Cambridge_Uni youtube.com/watch?v=jdrv15Qo…
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Danni Parks retweeted
7 Jun 2022
⏰Tomorrow is our job app deadline! To realise our ambition of raising more money for south-south collaboration between 200 #WhitleyAward alumni we're hiring:
🟠Head of Communications
🟠Grants & Networks Officer
🟠Fundraising Officer
🟠Operations Manager
whitleyaward.org/about/curre…
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27 May 2022
Proud to be supporting #Ukrainian @WhitleyAwards winner 🇺🇦@bohdan_prots & join him on @BBCRadio4's @Costingtheearth as he speaks to @tomheapmedia about the environment as a silent victim of war & his work to #rewild the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Listen: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017kd…
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23 May 2022
Beyond the Ceremony @WhitleyAwards provide funding, training & profile to help winners forge connections with NGOs, supporters, WFN's team, & with each other. It's the start of our journey & we're looking forward to following their progress! A run down ⬇️ whitleyaward.org/2022/05/16/…
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23 May 2022
A month later media coverage of the 2022 @WhitleyAwards winners is still flooding in, opening policy-making doors, accelerating careers, putting a spotlight on impt #conservation issues & helping catalyse impact. A summary of the top hits so far... whitleyaward.org/2022/05/09/…
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