Deadline: 1 March 2017
WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) is seeking applications for its fellowship to emerging leaders who are able to make significant contributions to helping people and nature adapt to a changing climate.
Changes in climate and extreme weather events have already begun to affect biodiversity across the globe. Climate change also magnifies the impacts of other threats like habitat destruction, overexploitation, and disease. The increasing number of weather-related disasters has profound consequences on the natural environment as people can cause unintended damage to ecosystems as they seek to rebuild their communities.
WWF is committed to helping the field of conservation adapt to climate change, while ensuring that communities and governments make environmentally responsible, climate-informed decisions in their efforts to build climate resilience.
Focus Areas
- Climate science, climatology and climate modeling, particularly as it relates to conservation
- Climate change impacts on wildlife
- Impacts of human responses to climate change on biodiversity
- Ecological and social-ecological resilience to climate change
- Ecosystem-based adaptation and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction
- Adaptation for protected areas
- Environment and disaster management
- Natural and nature-based techniques to flood risk management
- Communicating climate science for conservation
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a citizen and legal permanent resident of an eligible country.
- Applicants must have at least two years of work or research experience in conservation or a field with strong relationships to conservation such as sustainable development or disaster management.
- Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment to either working in or contributing to conservation in an eligible country.
- Applicants’ research or academic program must address one of the focus areas listed.
- Applicants must be enrolled in, admitted to, or have applied to a master’s or PhD program anywhere in the world.
- Applicants must plan to begin your studies no later than January 2018.
- Applicants must commit to working for at least two years in your home country after the completion of your degree.
- Applicants must not have received a Train Fellowship or Scholarship in the past.
- Applicants must contact EFN if you are a WWF employee, consultant, or previous EFN grant recipient.
- Applicants must submit all required documents by the application deadline.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Fiji, Guatemala, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
For more information, please visit WWF’s Climate Fellowship.