Conservation Leadership Programme calls application for 2021 CLP Team Awards. The awards target exceptional teams of early-career conservationists leading high-priority projects across the world. The award-winning teams will benefit from a project grant as well as global recognition for their exceptional work in conservation. Also, all team members will have opportunities to build connections with peers and access expert mentorship through the CLP Alumni Network (comprising over 2,700 past recipients around the world); CLP partner organizations; and the CLP Management Team.

Individuals from winning teams will participate in international, regional, and online training courses to develop their conservation knowledge and skills. The international Conservation Management & Leadership course is particularly renowned among CLP alumni.

Benefits

The CLP Team Awards are a competitive process through which CLP aims to identify, recognize, and empower rising stars in conservation, who work mainly in the developing world. Awards winning teams must be undertaking high-priority projects that involve not just research but also practical actions and community outreach to promote pro-conservation attitudes and achieve tangible, effective, and long-lasting conservation solutions.

Awards

Conservation Leadership Programme Team Awards has the following awards

• Future Conservationist Awards (up to $15,000 per project)
• Conservation Follow-Up Awards (up to $25,000 per project; available only to previous recipients of a Future Conservationist Award)
• Conservation Leadership Award (up to $50,000 per project; available only to previous recipients of a Follow-Up Award).

Eligibility

• Applicants must propose projects that support the conservation of species listed as Data Deficient, Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered on the global IUCN Red List.
• Projects must take place in an eligible country, be led (or co-led) by a national of one of these countries, and involve at least three team members.
• Projects submitted for Future Conservation Awards should last for three to 12 months.
• Follow-up projects may be up to but no more than two years in length.

Apply through online portal