Call for proposals: SavingSpecies Announces RFP for Land-Conservation Program
SavingSpecies helps local conservation groups purchase land for conservation and habitat restoration and will consider projects for restoration of habitat on land that is within an existing protected area. The organization maximizes its effectiveness by providing grants for the purchase and restoration of land that connects existing habitat fragments, or that prevents isolation of habitat that […]
Call for proposals: grants for international coral reef conservation projects
The NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program provides matching grants for international coral reef conservation projects. The International Strategy focuses on four priority regions based on their interconnections with U.S. reef ecosystems and existing initiatives and partnerships. Two of these four regions will be considered under this current call for proposals: (i) the Wider Caribbean; and […]
Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests
Several ATBC members are among the authors of this very interesting paper published this week on Nature, showing that young forests help to fight climate change, taking carbon from atmosphere faster than older forests. Take a look on the paper’s abstract: “Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance between […]
Call for proposals in Wildlife Acoustics
Wildlife Acoustics aims to advance the conservation of animals through bio-acoustics recording technology. The Wildlife Acoustics Scientific Product Grant Program offers US$5 thousand of product-in-kind grants to biologists, researchers, conservationists, and students who work for charitable, educational, and other tax-exempt organizations. There are no geographical limitations. The next deadlines for applications are 1 15 February […]