Meet TDARFAC’s 2024 Grant Recipients!
Grants can make a big difference in funding critical conservation research projects.
That’s why the Dr. Abigail Ross Foundation for Applied Conservation (TDARFAC) created its grant program: to help fulfill our mission to empower local communities with scientific research and advancement.
This year, TDARFAC received a record-setting 102 grant applications from around the world! Of those applications, seven recipients were selected and awarded a total of $59,500 USD in grant funding.
The grants were awarded to the applicants whose conservation research and community-based conservation projects best aligned with TDARFAC’s mission while achieving the following objectives: building capacity, amplifying voices, and partnering with local communities.
TDARFAC’s grant program aims to support individuals, collaborations or partnerships, and non-governmental organizations working on projects based on any non-human primates, their habitats, or any animal or plant species that share and influence the same landscape as non-human primates and directly relate to their conservation.
Meet this year’s grant recipients and learn more about the groundbreaking applied conservation projects that will benefit from TDARFAC’s funding!
Recipient Name: Kuenzang Dorji, Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary, Canada
Grant Amount: $15,000 USD
Project Title: Revolution in Primate Conservation: A Citizen Science-Based Research and Community-Led Interventions for People and Endangered Gee’s Golden Langur Coexistence in Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot-Bhutan
Recipient Name: Katherine Culbertson, Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley
Grant Amount: $12,000 USD
Project Title: Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Forest Regeneration in Critical Lemur Habitat
Recipient Name: Dr. Hoby Rabesandratra, Project Coordinator, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Madagascar
Grant Amount: $9,000 USD
Project Title: Making Lemur Conservation Effective in Madagascar by Proposing an Innovative, Pragmatic and Reflexive Conception of Environmental Education Based on Community and Science
Recipient Name: Julieanne Montaquila, Ph.D. student at Rice University
Grant Amount: $8,000 USD
Project Title: Exploring the Role of Canopy-Dwelling Parasitic Mistletoes in the Regeneration and Biodiversity of a Malagasy Rainforest
Recipient Name: Niony Mamy Koloina Rakotoarivelo, Ph.D. student at Northern Illinois University
Grant Amount: $8,000 USD
Project Title: Territory Exploitation Strategy of Propithecus diadema Relatively to the Fragmented and Continuous Forest at Tsinjoarivo-Ambalaomby Protected Area
Recipient Name: Dr. Andrés Link, Primatologist and Conservation Biologist, Associate Professor at Los Andes University, Colombia
Grant Amount: $5,000 USD
Project Title: Reconnecting Isolated Populations of Brown Spider Monkeys (Ateles hybridus): Aligning Primate Conservation, Restoration Ecology with Local Capacity Building in Central Colombia
Recipient Name: Lucy Millington, Ph.D. student, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Grant Amount: $2,500 USD
Project Title: Developing New Methods for Monitoring Populations Using Novel Technology
Interested in applying for TDARFAC’s grant funding program? Visit our Grant & Awards webpage to learn more about our grant funding program to support exceptional and promising conservation projects around the globe. Applications for 2025 will open later this year!
