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Winners of Sanctuary Awards 2020 Announced

Richard Brooks, 17 March 2021 - Accommodation, Armed Forces, Belize, British Army, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Environment and Ecology, Portsmouth, RAF Brize Norton, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Salisbury Plain Training Area, Sanctuary Awards, Wildlife

This week we hosted the first ever virtual Sanctuary Awards ceremony! The Sanctuary Awards have been showcasing outstanding sustainability and conservation efforts across the Ministry of Defence (MOD) estate since 1991, celebrating the achievements of teams and individuals in the …

Baby squirrels born on Ballykinler Training Area

Alyn Cairns, 3 February 2021 - Ballykinler Training Area, Conservation, Wildlife

I was pleased to hear about the birth of new red squirrel kittens on the Ballykinler Training Area. For the past five years Belfast Zoo has been working together with DIO as one of the organisations involved with the red squirrel breeding programme to protect and help red squirrels adapt to the wild across forests in Northern Ireland.

DIO’s commitment to protecting the jungle wildlife in Belize

Richard Snow, 26 October 2020 - BATSUB, Belize, Conservation

DIO has worked with big cat charity Panthera to monitor big cats in the jungle at British Army Training Unit Belize.

Introducing DIO's new Director of Strategy and Plans

Major General Bobby Walton-Knight, 14 October 2020 - Climate Change, Conservation, Environment and Ecology, Sustainability

My early service in the Royal Engineers was in armored engineer roles in the UK and Germany, with deployments to the Falkland Islands, Angola, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and exercises in Canada, Poland, Belize, Australia and Cyprus.

Sustainable construction in Defence

Isobel Asher, 1 September 2020 - Accommodation, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment and Ecology, Glen Mallan jetty, Project Wellesley, RAF Lakenheath, VolkerStevin, Worthy Down

The MOD’s sustainability strategy aims to reduce defence’s contribution to carbon and greenhouse emissions on the defence estate.

Last chance to nominate for the Sanctuary Awards!

Iain Perkins, 20 July 2020 - Accommodation, Army Basing Programme, Conservation, Energy, F-35B Lightning II, Landmarc, RAF Marham, Sanctuary Awards

Nominations for the MOD Sanctuary Awards close on 31 July and we’re still looking for entries for some of our new award categories.

How conservation groups help to protect biodiversity on the Defence estate

Rebecca Jenkins, 5 June 2020 - Conservation, Environment and Ecology, Salisbury Plain Training Area

Today is World Environment Day and I’d like to tell you about the important role that our conservation groups play in managing and protecting biodiversity, the environment and wildlife across the Defence estate.

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