The Art to Preserve the Birds

Supporting Caribbean Bird Conservation Through Art

An initiative of "Caribbean Wildlife Art Working Group", Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, SCSCB and Optics for the Tropics

Goal

To help in preserve Caribbean birds and its habitat trough the financial support of small grants given by wildlife artist artworks donated to improve for this kind purpose.

Brief Outline:

Caribbean Wildlife Art Working Group from SCSCB and Optics for the Tropics are linked to contribute and improve the projects in the Caribbean region pointed in bird conservation, specially focused on threatened birds.

Optics for the Tropics had been doing many efforts to provide with optic materials such as binoculars, scopes and other items to several bird conservation projects in the area and Caribbean Wildlife Art Working Group join many artist with interest to preserve the nature, it had donated several artworks to raise funds for birds conservation in the Caribbean. It link, will allow to support with small grants and optics items to indivuals who are leading projects on this mater in the Caribbean region. Each project should have an additional funding sources or the grant must be enough to cover the entire budget.

The small grant fundraising are obtained by selling bird paintings, these funds will be used to allowed OT to get new optic materials and to support the cash for small grants.

Guidelines

• We only support small grants up to 300 USD.
• We only support grants for the people (Caribbean ornithologist or conservationist) involved in birds conservation and study in the Caribbean region, in special for local people whose work in any protected area or that live or work in any way inside of the distribution range of the species involved.
• We like to support projects to improve the knowledge through field work (expeditions) about range, reproduction or status of any threatened birds, very rare or critically endangered ones, therefore new important data for its conservation and related maters.
• We are happy to join with other grant making foundations or wildlife artist to support a particular initiative.
• The author must give us the contact of three referees that know about your project and qualification.
• TGrants are made annually. We tend to make a grant for a period of one years but very occasionally a one-off grant may be made.
• The expedient use of funds is an important criterion in assessing all applications.
• There is no deadline for applications, the number of applications supported will be in relation to the fundraising able to obtain through the paintings sale and the amount of the project budget.
• The application must be sent through email and the acceptance or not will be notify to each author by the same way.
• Each author is responsible to present the complete results of his project at the end.
• We can afford a continuation grant in exceptionally cases, when the result will be very important and compromise with the specie survival.

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