[MPWG] [WHPRP] Funding Opportunities for Wildlife Habitat Conservation

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Research Grant Program
To Strengthen Wildlife Habitat Protection Launched
 
The first Requests for Proposals (RFPs) by the new Wildlife Habitat Policy 
Research Program (WHPRP) will be issued on June 12, 2006 by the National 
Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE).  The RFPs will be posted 
on the WHPRP website (www.whprp.org) and also distributed via email to the 
wildlife habitat conservation community (including this list). The program 
is supported by a four year grant by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 
(DDCF).

Application to the WHPRP is open to everyone and begins with composing 
Letters of Intent due to NCSE by July 10, 2006 (see website for 
instructions.) Three applicants for each grant will be invited to submit 
full proposals to be reviewed by an independent panel of experts, who will 
evaluate the technical quality and practical value of each submission, 
managed by the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS).

Grants will be made only for the projects specifically defined in the RFPs 
and will cover a variety of research areas with the general goal of 
improving the basis for implementation of the statutory State Wildlife 
Action Plans.  Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this 
conservation challenge, the program will support research in law, 
economics, social sciences, natural sciences, and public policy.  Examples 
of the RFPs research topics include:

- Valuation of ecosystem services and estimations of the costs and 
benefits of habitat conservation

- Syntheses of what is known about the impacts of climate change on 
habitat and wildlife

- Review of the State Wildlife Action Plans to determine the conservation 
priorities indicated by them.

In total, the WHPRP will offer about ten RFPs ranging in size from $50,000 
to $150,000 to be conducted over 12 months beginning November 1, 2006.

Please distribute this announcement to any colleague you feel may be 
interested.  If you did not receive this announcement directly and would 
like to be added to the WHPRP listserv to ensure you receive our call for 
proposals, please contact Christina Zarrella at czarrella at ncseonline.org 
or 202.207.0007.
_______________________________________________
Christina Zarrella, Program Coordinator
National Council for Science and the Environment
1707 H Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 2006
(202) 207-0007 Phone
(202) 628-4311 Fax
 
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