Apply for PTES Conservation Insight Grant Program

Aim

• Funds will be awarded for work that aims to:
  • Generate the scientific evidence that will facilitate the conservation of a species. The evidence may include testing a conservation intervention to address a particular threat, or answer a key conservation question, which will enable conservationists to undertake critical conservation action.

Priorities

• High priority projects include:
  • Gathering evidence needed to undertake necessary mitigation work
  • Using scientific evidence to get changes made to local, national or international policy
  • Devising and testing a new methodology for monitoring a species or group of species
• Priority will be given to those projects that focus on sound research or conservation work that is likely to lead directly to practical conservation outcomes with a lasting benefit to the species and habitat concerned.
• Projects that require funds to promote, within local communities and or policy makers, the dissemination/public awareness of conservation strategies based on sound research will also be considered.
• Preference is given to projects with outcomes that are clear and sustainable.

Funding Information

• Applicants may apply for grants of between £3,000 and £10,000 per annum, up to a maximum total of £20,000 for the full grant.
• Duration: The project should be up to two years in duration.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are welcomed from scientific researchers and those working in the field of practical conservation. The project leader should be based either within an NGO or a university research department.
• These grants are suitable for research or conservation projects that focus on one or more endangered species, or their habitat.
• Priority will be given to projects working on those species classified by the IUCN Red List as Endangered, Critically Endangered and Extinct in the wild. However, applications for work on species listed as Vulnerable and Near Threatened will also be considered.
• Applications will only be considered from those working in countries classified by the World Bank as low and middle-income.
• Preference is given to applicants working in their own country rather than UK or other nationals working abroad.
• Preference will be given to applicants who have a proven, successful history working on the species and/or in that region.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Applications from local or national governments
• Applications for work on bird species, as many of these are covered by other funders
• Student fees or living costs for any level of course
• Projects that are part of an undergraduate or Masters course
• Core salary or administrative costs of an organisation unrelated to the project
• Work on an alien species to a country unless it is likely to result in benefit to a native species
• Applications for projects run by western-based NGOs such as Raleigh International, Frontier, EarthWatch.

For more information, visit PTES.