Apply for Wildlife Acoustics Grant Program

The quarterly grant program provides scientists with bioacoustics research tools to further their study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other vocal wildlife.

Funding Information

• Standard Product Grant
  • Wildlife Acoustics may award up to $12,000 worth of eligible products to selected grant recipients worldwide every quarter. Individual applicants may request products and software licenses totaling up to $4,000 quarterly. They will highlight grant recipients and their projects on the website and social media platforms.
• Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant
  • Wildlife Acoustics may award an unlimited number of Kaleidoscope Pro licenses to selected grant recipients worldwide every quarter. Individual applicants may request an unlimited number of software licenses.

Eligibility Criteria

• Grant recipients must be associated with a charitable, educational, NGOs, or other tax-exempt organization. Consideration will be given to projects that make significant and novel use of wildlife vocalization recordings for data collection and/or analysis.
  • The work advances scientific knowledge and contributes to long-term conservation.
  • The grant would have a significant impact on the success of the project.
  • The application provides adequate information to facilitate project evaluation, including detailed expected outcomes and the need for bioacoustics data to support those outcomes.
  • The project must begin within one year of the award.

Requirements

• If you receive a grant, you’ll be expected to:
• Maintain contact with Wildlife Acoustics to provide:
  • Quarterly project updates for the duration of your project (Standard Product Grant); or
  • One annual project update per Kaleidoscope Pro license awarded for the duration of the project (Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant).
• Acknowledge the support of Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., in any presentations, meetings, publications, and/or materials mentioning or resulting from the project, whenever possible.
• Submit a final report within two months of project completion (or within two months of the bioacoustics section/phase if part of a larger biodiversity project)

For more information, visit Wildlife Acoustics.