Summary:
This award recognizes deserving colleagues and students, especially those from primate habitat countries – countries with native primate fauna – for whom the prestige of an ASP award or grant can be a valuable aid to the recipient’s conservation efforts.
Application Deadline Date:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Upper Limit Amount ($):
3,500
Academic Area:
Primate Conservation/ Conservation Education
Description:
Grant proposals are solicited for primate conservation research or related projects, including conservation education. ASP members working in habitat countries are especially urged to apply or to help someone from a habitat country submit a meaningful project that can be a portion of a larger effort.
Award Purpose:
Research
Year In School:
Masters
PhD
Post Doctoral
Other
Eligibility Requirement - Gender:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Citizenship:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Residency:
Any
Eligibility Requirement - Other:
- Research project must strictly be for the purpose of primate conservation
- The ASP Conservation Committee likes to see funds used for local employee salaries and support. Funding can be used for research supplies, educational material, local travel, reasonable research fees, and lab fees for samples collected in the field. Funding cannot be used for overhead to universities or salary for western researchers and only rarely pay for international travel
- Applicants where no more than five years have elapsed since receipt of their terminal degree are eligible
- Must be a member of ASP. Individuals from non-human primate habitat countries are eligible for free membership
Specializations:
Ecosystem Management and Conservation
Forestry
Date Updated:
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Recurring:
Annual - January
Eligibility - Citizenship:
US Citizens/Permanent Residents
Foreign Nationals
DACA
Other
Amount:
3500