Grants for vehicles

Yvan Satgé

@YvanSG
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Clemson University

Seabird ecologist at Clemson University, South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Co-chair of Caribbean Seabird Working Group.

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Hi all,

It is an understatement to write that vehicles are necessary for efficient conservation. We all need motorbikes, pickup trucks, 4x4 to get to the places where the actual conservation efforts can occur: in the process, they accumulate kilometers, they get beat up, tires blow up, suspensions break, etc, etc.

My colleagues in the field need to replace their 15-years-old vehicles but many funders do not support purchase or reparations of field vehicles.

Do you know of any grants that could specifically provide fund for conservation vehicles?

Thanks

Carly Batist

@carlybatist | she/her

Science Outreach Lead-Rainforest Connection (RFCx) & ArbimonEcoacoustics, biodiversity monitoring, primates, lemurs

21 June 2022 9:33pm

There was a previous Wildlabs thread on this - https://wildlabs.net/discussion/conservation-grants-field-vehicles but it didn't garner any comments unfortunately.

I'm not sure if IdeaWild allows for car repairs? The grants are for equipment specifically. That's a small grant anyways though ($1500) so you'd probably need something bigger it sounds like.

I don't know of any grants specifically funding this, but most people I know who have gotten vehicles have applied for bigger grants that they write a new vehicle into as a budget line item (e.g., WWF, WCS, CI, MBZ, national agencies like NSF).