GRANT OPPORTUNITY
Program: Neotropical Birding & Conservation Awards
Entity: Neotropical Birding & Conservation
Location: Neotropical Region
Funding: $1,500 – $5,000
Deadlines: 1st February & 1st July
Description:
Neotropical Birding & Conservation awards small & medium-sized grants for conservation action or research that has an intended measurable benefit. Applications are assessed twice yearly, with deadlines on 1st February & 1st July. An initial assessment is made by a Conservation Awards sub-committee & sent for peer-review & the applications that best match the aims of the awards program then have to be approved by the Council of the Neotropical Birding & Conservation.
Projects criteria:
-Projects with a total budget small enough for the NBC award to be a significant proportion of that total.
-Projects that are likely to achieve constructive local engagement in some form, such as environmental education in local communities, working with local decision-making or land-management organizations, or local/international publicity.
-Projects that are likely to achieve global conservation benefit. This means that the project must target either globally threatened species or globally important sites, as defined below, in order to be eligible for funding, unless there is an exceptional reason to waive this rule.
-Globally threatened species — those on the IUCN’s global red list — are defined & appear on the website www.birdlife.org/datazone/.
-Site-based projects must focus on the conservation of either: a) an Important Bird Area (IBA), or an area proposed as an IBA or recently found to qualify for designation as an IBA; or b) a site within an Endemic Bird Area (EBA) holding habitats that are important to the restricted-range bird species that define the EBA; or c) a protected or potentially protected area that holds or is expected to hold Threatened or Near Threatened bird species.
For more info:
https://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/…/conservation-fund/