Deadline: 9 December 2016
The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is seeking applicants for its 2017 Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources in order to recognize efforts that demonstrate outstanding leadership for advancing the resilience of the nation’s living natural resources.
The Award recognizes outstanding leadership by organizations and/or individuals to advance the resilience of living natural resources in a changing climate by helping address the goals of the National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy.
Goals
- Conserve habitat to support healthy fish, wildlife, and plant populations and ecosystem functions;
- Manage species and habitats to protect ecosystem functions and provide sustainable commercial, subsistence, recreational and cultural use;
- Enhance capacity for effective management;
- Support adaptive management through integrated observation and monitoring and use of decision support tools;
- Increase knowledge and information on impacts and responses of fish, wildlife, and plants;
- Increase awareness and motivate action to safeguard fish, wildlife, and plants; and
- Reduce non-climate stressors to help fish, wildlife, plants, and ecosystems.
Eligibility Criteria
- Both government (federal, state, tribal, and local) and non-governmental organizations are eligible.
- Individuals and organizations may submit nominations. Self-nominations and third party nominations are acceptable.
- Individuals and organizations should be based in the United States and focus primarily on U.S. resources.
- Individual and organizations can represent sectors other than natural resources (air, forests, soils, water, fish, wildlife and plants), but must demonstrate how their work has tangible impacts on natural resources conservation.
- Nominations may be for efforts that are ongoing or recently completed.
- Previous award recipients and honorable mentions may be nominated again if their work is significantly different than the work for which they were originally recognized.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
Note: Awardees will be notified in March 2017.
For more information, please visit Climate Adaptation Leadership Award.