Deadline: 6 April 2018
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has announced a new round of grantmaking through its Climate Adaptation Fund to support projects that implement effective interventions for wildlife adaptation to climate change.
The Climate Adaptation Fund seeks projects focused on achieving biodiversity conservation outcomes in the face of a changing climate. The program seeks to support actions that anticipate and respond to potential climate change impacts and maximize long-term conservation success. To achieve these ends, the program prioritizes projects that manage for dynamic ecological processes, landscape functionality, and species assemblages, rather than those aimed at maintaining historical conditions or individual species. Applicants must specify the sources of science and analyses that provide the basis for their adaptation project, and articulate how that climate adaptation science informs the proposed conservation goals and actions. The program also prioritizes projects that use strategic communications activities to scale up and amplify their conservation impact.
Funding Information
- With funding managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund will provide up to $2.5 million in competitive grants in 2018.
- Grants will be one to two years in length.
Project Priorities
The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund will support projects that demonstrate land and water management techniques to assist wildlife and ecosystem adaptations to climate change, for example:
- Projects that demonstrate applied management responses for wildlife adaptation in terrestrial, freshwater, or estuarine systems, including efforts to enhance resilience of climate-impacted habitats or facilitate their transition to a different yet functional ecological state.
- Projects to enhance or sustain the adaptive capacity of ecosystems, landscape functionality, and critical biological processes in the face of climate change.
- Projects that restore and sustain core habitat or create connectivity for fish and wildlife in order to achieve explicit climate adaptation goals.
- Pilot projects to exhibit successful on-the-ground actions for climate adaptation that can be replicated across a landscape.
- Projects that implement innovative or novel conservation activities in response to existing or expected climate-driven changes.
- Projects that mitigate pressures on wildlife and ecosystems caused by current or potential human responses to the impacts of climate change.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program provides grants to U.S.-based non-profit conservation organizations with approved IRS 501(c)(3) status. Grants can be awarded for projects only within the 50 U.S. states and U.S. territories.
- The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund is unable to make grants to for-profit corporations, individuals, universities, public agencies, municipalities or other types of government entities.
- Public agencies, tribal governments and universities may partner on proposals submitted by an eligible non- profit conservation organization or work as paid contractors on funded projects.
- The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund encourages and expects that many project proposals will emerge from collaborations between the applicant organization and any number of partners from academia, public agencies, and other non-profit organizations.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Climate Adaptation Fund.