Wildlife Conservation Society, Research Fellowship Program, International Conservation

Wildlife Conservation Society (Established 1895)
Conservation Agency
Web Site: http://www.wcs.org

Director: John G. Robinson
Phone: ++1 (718) 220-5155 Fax: ++1 (718) 364-4275
2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York 10460 UNITED STATES
Department: International Conservation
Institution: Research Fellowship Program

Mission: The Wildlife Conservation Society is dedicated to preserving the earth's wildlife and ecosystems. WCS has been engaged in international conservation activities since 1898. Efforts are concentrated in the world's developing countries where biological diversity is greatest and the pressure on nature is most intense. The Wildlife Conservation Society currently conducts 250 field projects in over 50 countries throughout Central and South America, Asia, and Africa, spanning terrestrial and marine habitats.

Mission: WCS-International saves wildlife and wildlands by understanding and resolving critical problems that threaten key species and large, wild ecosystems around the world.

Vision: WCS-International believes in the intrinsic value of the diversity and integrity of life on Earth and in the importance of wildlife and wilderness to the quality of human life.

Principal Research Programs: African forest surveys and management: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zaire; Gorilla studies and surveys: Congo, Rwanda, Gabon, Indonesia, and Zaire; Primate use of forest habitats Conservation of the banded langur: Sarawak, Indonesia; Guizhou golden monkey conservation: Fan-Jing Chan Reserve in Guizhou Province, China; Proboscis monkeys: Sabah, Kuala Kinabatangan; Tropical ecology: northern Sulawesi; Capuchin monkey biology: Venezuela; Spider monkey ecology: Caura Forest Reserve; Wildlife surveys: Central Africa forests, Asia, Latin America, Tanzania

Training Opportunities: Field work opportunities available; Program emphasis: Conservation biology; Wildlife surveys; Management planning; Training and conservation education; Ecological monitoring; Wildlife ecology.

Financial Aid: Administered by WCS-International, the Research Fellowship Program (RFP) is a small grants program designed to support individual field research which is based on sound and innovative conservation science, and aims to build capacity for the next generation of conservationist.

The Research Fellowship Program (RFP) offers small grants to support research projects that lead directly to conservation of threatened wildlife. Every project must lead to concrete advances in the conservation of wildlife, and must incorporate clearly identifiable, specific conservation components. Stipends are considered when the investigator has no other source of support.

The RFP will not limit any individual from applying, however, most of our grantees are:
*Professional conservationists from the country of research, and/or
*Post-graduates pursuing a higher degree.

Applications will be accepted for field research in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (including Mexico.)

Additionally, the RFP will entertain proposals for research in North America only from Native Americans and First Nation (Canada) People. Applicants must be recognized members of established native groups who intend to conduct their work on native lands, on issues of direct relevance to wildlife conservation/management on native lands, or on species governed by treaty or intertribal agreements. Applicants must meet all other RFP criteria.

The RFP does not support research in North America (except mentioned above), Australia, Europe or their territories.

The WCS Conservation Committee meets twice a year and closing dates for applications are Jaunary 2 and July 1.
http://wcs.org/home/wild/researchfellowship/1267/

Number of Staff: 250

Associated Field Sites: Kibale Project, Uganda; Nouabale-Ndoki project, Congo; Nyungwe project, Rwanda; Ituri forest project, Zaire; Paseo pantera project, Meso America.; Banyang M'bo, Cameroon; Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar; Lope, Gabon; Okomu, Nigeria.

For contact information, call (718) 220-1387.

Publications: "Wildlife Conservation" (bimonthly)
http://www.wildlifeconservation.org/

Last Updated: 2006-07-25

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