Research support for all endangered species conservation work.
Endangered species conservation
The Fund was established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species.
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* The Fund will not contribute to the core running costs of an organisation or administrative overheads, but recognises that salaries, stipends, per diems and project related living costs can be a vital part of in situ conservation work
* The Fund will provide support to in situ conservation work in the field (such as survey work and data gathering, direct action, recovery management, training and the like), focusing on the species in its natural habitat. However, the importance of ex situ work (genetic analysis, workshops, ex situ populations etc) is also recognised, and so a few grants may be given to projects which focus on ex situ conservation work in certain circumstances.
* Priority is give to those species facing a hight threat of extinction (with an emphasis on Endangered and Critically Endangered species), as well as those which are listed as Data Deficient or unlisted but are suspected as highly threatened. The Fund uses the IUCN Redlist as the primary guide
* Preference for single species focal projects, but the Fund also recognises that in some geographic and taxonomic circumstances it makes more sense to group a number of species