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Institution African Bird Club Award/Scholarship Conservation Award; Expedition Award Description The ABC's Conservation Programme supports small conservation projects in Africa. Conservation awards are given to projects surveying and researching African birds, educational projects or training courses, production of guides to the common birds of a country in local languages, interpretation material for nature reserves, and other ideas will be considered. Expedition awards are provided for larger projects. In 1996, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) introduced the Charlotte Conservation Fellowships to provide support for African nationals pursuing masters degree courses or doctoral research. Charlotte Fellowships enable recipients to improve their qualifications, update their skills, acquire the latest information on natural resource management and adapt new technologies to their work. The Program is committed to enhancing the effectiveness and impact of African nationals in the field of conservation through the increased knowledge, skills, and credentials obtained through an advanced degree. AWF is offering scholarships for full or partial MSc or Ph.D. programs with field research components that produce knowledge offering solutions or insight into specific conservation challenges that complement AWF's conservation programs in the African Heartlands. The countries of focus for this year's program are Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Expenses that AWF expects to cover under the scholarship will vary depending on the individual program selected by the scholarship recipient. Funding to support the study of life histories, especially social relations and reproduction, of little known birds on the continental neotropics, including Trinidad and Tobago. The Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) and its Peruvian counterpart, Asociacin para la Conservacin de la Cuenca Amaznica (ACCA) announce three grant programs to support field research in pure and applied biology, systematics, resource use and related topics at the Los Amigos Research Center and Conservation Area in Amazonian Peru during 2004. Award Amount Conservation Award: US$1,000; Expedition award: US$1500 Website http://www.africanbirdclub.org/ conservation@africanbirdclub. org
http://www.awf.org/
Research grant
One award of US$8,000 $10,000 offered annually. Peruvian student award -US$3,000 $5,000; Grad grant -- $5,000; Seed grants -$20,000
Website: http://research.amnh.org/biodi versity/center/programs/grad.h tml Contact: Ana Luz Porzecanski Tel: 212-313-7052 Email: alporze@amnh.org.
US$1,000
http://www.mammalsociety.org /committees/indexlatin.asp
http://www.asp.org/conservatio n
www.batbiodiversity.org
Grants up to 25,000.
Grants up to 7,000.
Expedition Grants
Grants up to 2,000.
Research grants
Grants of 1000.
http://www.bou.org/
http://www.nature.nps.gov/can onscholarships/
Center for Tropical Forest Science (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) ChevronTexaco
Research grants
US$3,000 $5,000 (with one or two larger awards up to $40,000) Six awards are given per year in the amount of $10,000.
http://www.ctfs.si.edu/CTFS% 20Research%20Grants%20804.pdf
Conservation Awards
http://www.clemetzoo.com/con servation/grants.asp
http://www.colszoo.org/Conser vation/con2001.html
Up to US$5,000
http://biodiversityeconomics.or g/funding/dir3-13.htm
Research grant
Research grants
Research grant
Research grant
http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/
Darwin Initiative
http://www.darwin.gov.uk/
Disney
Wildlife Conservation
http://disney.go.com/disneyha
Earthwatch Institute
Per capita grants average $900 (range $250 to $1,200), and project grants average $25,000 (range $7,000 to $130,000) annually.
http://eapei.home.att.net/dpsite
Small grants
500
Exploration Fund
US$1200
http://explorers.org/research_g rants.php
Exxonmobil/Esso
http://www.nfwf.org/programs/ stf.htm
http://www.faunaflora.org/help/funds.html
Haribon Foundation
Max. grant amount for a one-year project for professionals and organizations is PhP250,000 (US$4500); and PhP100,000 (US$1800) for undergraduate students.
http://www.haribon.org.ph/?q=
http://www.ideawild.org/ Humphrey Fellowships are granted in the amount of $55,000 to $58,000. http://www.iie.org/
International
Danida and
http://www.ifs.se/index.htm
Martha J. Galante Award, Lawrence Jacobsen Education Development Award, Charles Southwick Cons Ed Commitment Award, and Captive Care Grant
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/ips/
http://www.lpzoo.com/conserv ation/
Lindbergh Grant
Grants up to $10,500.
http://www.macfound.org/
http://www.levinsonfoundation. org/index.html
National Geographic
US$15,000 $20,000
http://www.nationalgeographic. com/research/grant_applicatio
Research grant
http://www.nationalgeographic. com/conservation/
Environmental research grants; Education grants Research grants Small Grants for Wetlands Program (SWP)
http://www.nsf.gov/ Grants are available for conservation work or research which may be of conservation benefit in the neotropics. The new phase of SWP has started the 1st of January 2004 and will last until December 2006. The next deadlines for submitting proposals will be 1 March 2004 and 1 US$500 to $1500 Max amount awarded is Euro 85.000 http://www.neotropicalbirdclub. org/club/conserve.html http://www.nciucn.nl/english/fu nds/wetlands/
Research Fellowships
http://www.ots.duke.edu/index _nao.php
Padi Foundation
Research grants
Grants up to $20,000; average award amount is $5,000 $10,000. Individual grants range from 100 - 5000.
http://www.padifoundation.org/
Research grants
http://www.primate.org/
Ramsar
US$10,000
http://www.ramsar.org/key_aw ard_criteria_e.htm
Rockefeller Foundation
www.rockfound.org
Rolex
http://www.rolexawards.com/h ome-flash.html
http://www.rgs.org/
Grants of up to US$1,000.
Shell Corp.
http://www.nfwf.org/programs/ shell.htm
Shell Foundation
http://www.shellfoundation.org/ biodiversity/funding.html
Simbiota
http://wildlife.wisc.edu/simbiota /s-list.htm
http://www.ukans.edu/~ssar/int _grt.html
http://www.hfp.heinz.org/progr ams/environmentalscholars.ht ml
http://nature.org/
Tinker Foundation
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker /tinker/field.html
Total Foundation US Fish and Wildlife Service Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund Max amount for FY05 is US$250,000. Average award US$88,000, with a range of US$2,000 US$250,000. Requests under US$5,000 are discouraged. Grants up to US$50,000.
Vodaphone Foundation
African and Asian Elephant Conservation Funds; Great Apes Conservation Fund; Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund Various grants
http://international.fws.gov/gra nts/grants.html
WCS
The Foundation makes social investments that help the people of the world to have fuller lives by: sharing the benefits of developments in mobile communications technology as widely as possible; protecting the natural environment; and supporting the local communities in which Vodafone's customers, employees, investors and suppliers live. Most projects will be funded in partnership with local Vodafone company foundations or community programmes. Established in 1993, the RFP is a small grants program designed to support individual field research that is based
http://www.vodafonefoundation .org/1.0.html
http://wcs.org/swaround_the_globe/rfp?preview
Rufford: Grants up to 5,000. Whitley: 30,000, plus a second year of 30,000 for the gold winner.
http://www.whitleyaward.org/Articles/projects/ruff ord/rufford_index.html
Wildlife Trust
http://www.wildlifetrust.org/ssf. htm
www.wwfchina.org
http://www.wwfefn.org/index.html
Up to US$20,000/yr.
http://www.wwfefn.org/index.html
http://www.wwfefn.org/index.html