[Pollinator] FW: [WHPRP] Funding Opportunities for Wildlife Habitat Conservation

[Ruth Allard]

FYI.
 

Ruth Allard

Interim Assistant Director of Conservation & Science

Association of Zoos & Aquariums

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Subject: [WHPRP] Funding Opportunities for Wildlife Habitat Conservation



Research Grant Program

To Strengthen Wildlife Habitat Protection Launched

 

The first Requests for Proposals (RFPs) by the new Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program (WHPRP) will be issued on June 12, 2006 by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE).  The RFPs will be posted on the WHPRP website (  <http://www.whprp/> www.whprp.org) and also distributed via email to the wildlife habitat conservation community (including this list). The program is supported by a four year grant by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF).

Application to the WHPRP is open to everyone and begins with composing Letters of Intent due to NCSE by July 10, 2006 (see website for instructions.) Three applicants for each grant will be invited to submit full proposals to be reviewed by an independent panel of experts, who will evaluate the technical quality and practical value of each submission, managed by the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS).

Grants will be made only for the projects specifically defined in the RFPs and will cover a variety of research areas with the general goal of improving the basis for implementation of the statutory State Wildlife Action Plans.  Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this conservation challenge, the program will support research in law, economics, social sciences, natural sciences, and public policy.  Examples of the RFPs research topics include:

- Valuation of ecosystem services and estimations of the costs and benefits of habitat conservation

- Syntheses of what is known about the impacts of climate change on habitat and wildlife

- Review of the State Wildlife Action Plans to determine the conservation priorities indicated by them.

In total, the WHPRP will offer about ten RFPs ranging in size from $50,000 to $150,000 to be conducted over 12 months beginning November 1, 2006.

Please distribute this announcement to any colleague you feel may be interested.  If you did not receive this announcement directly and would like to be added to the WHPRP listserv to ensure you receive our call for proposals, please contact Christina Zarrella at  <mailto:czarrella at ncseonline.org> czarrella at ncseonline.org or 202.207.0007.

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Christina Zarrella, Program Coordinator

National Council for Science and the Environment

1707 H Street, NW

Suite 200

Washington, DC 2006

(202) 207-0007 Phone

(202) 628-4311 Fax

 

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