About

Wildlife Acoustics is offering a grant program to support the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. The quarterly grant program provides scientists with bioacoustics research tools to further their study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other vocal wildlife.

Grant Types

• Standard Product Grant

• Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant

How It Works

• Standard Product Grant

  • Wildlife Acoustics may award up to $12,000 worth of eligible products to selected grant recipients worldwide every quarter. Individual applicants may request products and software licenses totaling up to $4,000 quarterly. They will highlight grant recipients and their projects on the website and social media platforms.

• Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant

  • Streamlined application for those wanting Kaleidoscope Pro only

  • Unlimited Kaleidoscope Pro licenses for eligible applicants

  • One-year, annual memberships awarded quarterly

  • Applicants may reapply

• In General

  • Grant recipients must be associated with a charitable, educational, NGOs, or other tax-exempt organization. Consideration will be given to projects that make significant and novel use of wildlife vocalization recordings for data collection and/or analysis.

    • The work advances scientific knowledge and contributes to long-term conservation.

    • The grant would have a significant impact on the success of the project.

    • The application provides adequate information to facilitate project evaluation, including detailed expected outcomes and the need for bioacoustics data to support those outcomes.

    • The project must begin within one year of the award.

Eligibility

If you receive a grant, you’ll be expected to:

• Provide written acceptance of the grant.

• Maintain contact with Wildlife Acoustics to provide:

  • Quarterly project updates for the duration of your project (Standard Product Grant) or

  • One annual project update per Kaleidoscope Pro license awarded for the duration of the project (Kaleidoscope Pro-Only Grant).

• Acknowledge the support of Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., in any presentations, meetings, publications, and/or materials mentioning or resulting from the project, whenever possible.

• Submit a final report within two months of project completion (or within two months of the bioacoustics section/phase if part of a larger biodiversity project).

Post Date: August 16, 2023