Wildlife Conservation Society Invites Applications for
Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: March 15, 2008
Administered by the Wildlife Conservation Society's
( http://www.wcs.org/ ) Training & Capacity Building Program
and jointly funded by the Conservation Leadership Program
( http://www.conservationleadershipprogramme.org/ ), the Research
Fellowship Program is a small grants program designed to build
capacity for the next generation of conservationists through
support of individual field research projects that have a clear
application to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wild-
life habitat.
The program seeks projects that are based on sound and innovative
conservation science and that encourage practices in conservation
that can contribute to sustainable development. Most of the
grantees are professional conservationists from the country of
research and/or postgraduates pursuing a higher degree. One of
the priorities of the RFP is to help train applied conservation
scientists from developing countries.
The RFP supports marine or terrestrial field research in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America regardless of the nationality of the
applicant. In addition, the RFP accepts applications from Native
Americans (U.S.) and First Nation Peoples (Canada) who intend to
conduct work on native lands on issues of direct relevance to
wildlife.
While all applications to work in Asian, African, and Latin Amer-
ican countries will be considered, CLP funding is restricted to
nationals from the following countries: Algeria, Angola, Argentina,
Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia,
India, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia,
Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, and Venezuela.
The RFP does not support research in North America (except as
mentioned above), Australia, New Zealand, Europe or their terri-
tories, or Japan.
Grants are for up to $25,000 each for one year. The average grant
size is $10,500.
Complete program information is available at the WCS Web site.
