Deadline: 15-Feb-24
The Wildlife Acoustics is proud to offer a grant program to support the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation.
The Wildlife Acoustics quarterly grant program provides scientists with bioacoustics research tools to further their study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other vocal wildlife.
They have established a “Kaleidoscope Pro-only” grant option for their esteemed applicants. They value your commitment to making a positive impact and understand that time is of the essence, so they have streamlined these applications to get you back in the field (or lab!) quicker.
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.
- Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant
- Wildlife Acoustics may award an unlimited number of Kaleidoscope Pro licenses to selected grant recipients worldwide. 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.
- US or Non-US government agencies are not eligible for the program.
- Due to the volume of applications, you may only apply for one project per quarter.
- If you applied and were not awarded a grant, you may re-apply in the future.
- Annual Kaleidoscope Pro subscriptions are eligible for the grant program. In fact, there is a streamlined application for those who wish to apply for a “Kaleidoscope Pro-only” grant. This abbreviated application will appear as an option as you begin to fill in information on their grants interface platform.
- If your country does not grant tax-exempt status or does not provide documentary proof, the online application will allow you to certify that you will and your organization will cover any applicable taxes assessed by your government.
- Please note that, due to pending Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM) Certification as required by the Mexican government, all shipments to Mexico are currently limited to their EMT2 and EMT2 PRO units. Wildlife Acoustics cannot ship to Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Iran, Russia, Crimea, or Belarus, nor to anyone who they know will bring their products to those countries.
Ineligible
- They do not grant cash or equipment other than their own.
- Products that are not eligible include:
- Song Meter SM4, SM3, SM2+
- Song Meter SM4BAT, SM3BAT, SM2BAT+
- SM3M Deep Water and Submersible Recorders
- Echo Meter EM3+
- Echo Meter Touch 2 for iOS (discontinued)
- Accessories related to the products in this list, including SD cards, batteries (except lithium-ion), and battery chargers carried in their store.
Requirements
- If you receive a grant, you’ll be expected to:
- Provide written acceptance of the grant and agree to the applicable terms and conditions.
- 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.