applications

Six types of grant are offered by the Programme. The Future Conservationist, Conservation Follow-up and Conservation Leadership Awards are arranged in a tiered system, which allows progression from encouraging and supporting inexperienced teams who are undertaking small-scale, basic surveying and awareness-raising projects, to the stage where teams are learning to command much more complex decision-making, communication and leadership skills. This steep learning curve results in committed conservation practitioners who are making longer-term innovative projects work and in many cases setting up institutional structures of their own.

Future Conservationst Award:
Annually, approximately 20 Future Conservationist Awards of up to $12,500 each will be offered to teams that have been identified with leadership potential for biodiversity conservation and are developing their skills through small scale practical conservation projects. These awards are highly competitive, and winners are selected from amongst the best quality applications. Winners of these awards become eligible for continued support through the programme and have the long-term backing and advisory support of Programme staff and all the partner organisations as they develop in their careers. Click here for full deatils.

Conservation Follow-up Award:
Conservation Follow-up Awards are aimed at exceptional teams with individuals who want to address a conservation issue raised by recommendations in a project the programme has previously supported. The project should allow team members to go beyond basic surveying, analysis and awareness-raising, and develop their networking, decision-making, policy, communication and conservation leadership skills and experience. There are approximately 5 of these awards on offer annually, each worth up to $25,000 each.

Conservation Leadership Award:
The idea of the Conservation Leadership Award is to enable teams that have been supported in the past to consolidate (or connect together) their previous project successes by creating something longer-term, which is more practical and conservation oriented than research oriented. These awards aim to provide more substantial resources to first-rate innovative and original projects that build long-term capacity for conservation in the project area, whilst offering the team invaluable developmental experience. Future Conservationist and Conservation Follow-up Awardees are both eligible to apply for Conservation Leadership Awards - first-time award winners that haven't received a Conservation Follow-up Award will need to show that they have gone through the process of building on their initial work, most likely over a number of years, with the support of other resources. Two awards are offered per year, each up to $50,000 USD.

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WCS Research Fellowship Program:
The RFP is a small grants program designed to build capacity for the next generation of conservationists through supporting individual field research projects that have a clear application to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wildlife habitat. RFP seeks projects that are based on sound and innovative conservation science and that encourage practices in conservation that can contribute to sustainable development in their home country. Click here for more information.

Scholarships:
CLP scholarships provide promising young conservation leaders with the formal post-graduate qualifications they need to progress their careers in conservation. The objectives of the scholarships are to develop advanced individual skills for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in high priority areas and to expose young conservationists to current thinking and debate in conservation science. Only two scholarships are available each year and the process is handled by partner organisation who nominate potential applicants. Please do not contact the Conservation Leadership Programme directly regarding scholarships.

Internships:
Each of the four conservation partners will manage $25,000 annually to disburse as at least one annual internship as most appropriate within the organization. The objective of the internships is to transfer skills, to enthuse, offer experience to, and open career doors for interns in the four conservation partner organizations. Each partner has the responsibility to identify and select the individuals to receive these grants.