Deadline: 29-Apr-22
The International Elephant Foundation (IEF) is now accepting pre-proposals for 2023 Elephant Conservation and Research Funding Support.
Pre-Proposals should specifically target at least one of the following:
- African Savannah Elephant
- Human-elephant conflict mitigation and coexistence
- Reducing habitat fragmentation and loss
- Action to eliminate illegal killing and trafficking of elephants
- Community capacity building
- Conservation education
- African Forest Elephant
- Human-elephant conflict mitigation and coexistence
- Reducing habitat fragmentation and loss
- Action to eliminate illegal killing and trafficking of elephants
- Community capacity building
- Conservation education
- Asian Elephant
- Human-elephant conflict mitigation and coexistence
- Reducing habitat fragmentation and loss
- Action to eliminate illegal killing and trafficking of elephants
- Community capacity building
- Conservation education
- Managing captive range country Asian elephants
- Disease investigation
Funding Information
The International Elephant Foundation typically awards grants up to $15,000 but larger amounts will be considered for exceptional projects.
Criteria
- Clearly contribute to the in situ or ex situ conservation of African or Asian elephants or their habitats.
- Be grounded in sound scientific methodology, be logistically feasible, and have a high probability of success.
- Be impact and action-oriented not purely data collection or survey.
- Must include a component that evaluates the success in saving elephants.
- Projects must begin in the year for the portion of the project which funds are requested, but not before funds are to be awarded.
- Funds will not be awarded for elements of a project that will have already occurred before awards are made.
- If the project includes direct contact or capture of animals, it must meet humane standards of care when animals are involved.
For more information, visit https://elephantconservation.org/pre-proposals-for-2023-elephant-conservation-and-research/