Deadline: 25-Aug-2024
The Wellington Zoo is currently accepting applications for the Local Conservation Grants.
These grants will provide funding for projects or programmes with clear community conservation value for native wildlife and wild places.
Funding Information
- They will consider applications for up to $NZD5,000, but they anticipate that most successful applications will be for $NZD1,500 – $NZD3,000.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects must have a clear conservation value (i.e. a measurable outcome to improve knowledge or status of a priority species or habitat), and be based in the Greater Wellington region or the Chatham Islands. They will need to contribute to at least two of the following sustainability aspects: social, climate change, local ecological, and/or wider environmental.
- Project applications will score more highly during the assessment process if they:
- work to protect threatened species;
- are logistically feasible, fiscally sound, and involve a team with adequate skills and experience to deliver a measurable outcome;
- represent good value for money;
- integrate different aspects of sustainability (e.g. social, local ecological, wider environmental);
- are innovative in approach or resource use;
- are linked to the Zoo or the Zoo community.
Eligibility Criteria
- They want to support projects in their wider community and invite applications from the Greater Wellington Region and the Chatham Islands (part of their local Rongotai electorate).
Ineligible
- In general, Wellington Zoo Local Conservation Grants are not for pure/non-applied research. They will, however, be happy to consider applications for projects with a research component, especially where the outputs could have an influence on future conservation management.
- This is not a travel grants fund, and they will not consider applications where the main focus is on supporting conference attendance or meeting organisation.
For more information, visit Wellington Zoo.