Applications Invited for Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) Grant Program

About the Organization

The Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) was established in 2002 as a partnership initiative of Conservation International, IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG), and Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA). In 2007 it was joined by the Shellshock Campaign of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, and in 2009 expanded to turn out to be a broader-based partnership coalition of a number of main turtle conservation organizations and people. Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), Chelonian Research Foundation (CRF), and Turtle Conservancy (TC) presently function monetary umbrella organizations for the TCF.

The TCF administers a turtle conservation and analysis grants program centered on endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles. Awards are granted to organizations or people for particular conservation or analysis initiatives coping with extremely endangered  tortoises or freshwater turtles, however not marine turtles, with both partial or full help as funding permits.

About the Grant

As considered one of its most important features, TCF administers a turtle conservation and analysis grants program. Awards are granted to organizations or people for particular conservation or analysis initiatives coping with extremely endangered tortoises or freshwater turtles, however not marine turtles, with both partial or full help as funding permits.

TCF Grant Program:

Priority for funding is given to initiatives that concentrate on tortoises or freshwater turtles which might be already extremely threatened in line with the IUCN Red List or the TFTSG Provisional Red List, as both Critically Endangered or Endangered, or which can be extremely threatened however not but formally labeled as such on the Red List. We don’t help work on marine turtles. TCF Awards are roughly within the $1000 to $5000 vary per undertaking (with full or partial funding relying on full undertaking prices), and smaller seed grant initiatives are additionally inspired (as much as $1000 every) to help pilot conservation initiatives for tortoise and freshwater turtle species which might be presently both IUCN Red Listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered (or on the TCF Priority Species checklist–see under), or species that will turn out to be precedence species with a rise within the state of data in regards to the standing of their populations or the threats they presently face (principally species presently labeled on the Red List Data Deficient or not but assessed [Not Evaluated]).

Award recipients enter into contractual settlement with both Re:wild (previously Global Wildlife Conservation) or Chelonian Research Foundation to supply the proposed work (these non-profit organizations function TCF’s monetary umbrella organizations). Award recipients are additionally inspired to publish not less than partial outcomes of the supported analysis within the worldwide scientific turtle journal, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, printed by Chelonian Research Foundation (www.chelonian.org).

There are two funding cycles yearly. Total disbursement has averaged between $20,000 to $50,000 per funding cycle, or $40,000 to $100,000 per yr to this point.

How to Apply

Grant Application Deadlines: June 1 and December 1.

Award Determinations: roughly August 15 and February 15 (dates could range)

Submit ALL TCF grant proposals electronically through e-mail to:

Hugh R. Quinn, Anders GJ Rhodin, and Vivian P. Páez

( DoubleHQ@aol.com , RhodinCRF@aol.com , vivianpaez1@gmail.com )

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