ABS Grants
Two types of grants
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1) Regular ABS grants
Three grants of $1,500 awarded once a year. (Applications are usually sought between 1 March - 1 April) 2) Paddy Pallin Foundation-sponsored ABS grants
Two grants of $3,000 awarded once a year, kindly sponsored by the Paddy-Pallin Foundation. (Applications are usually sought between 1 September - 1 October) |
Eligibility
Who:
Any member of the Australasian Bat Society Inc. can apply for an ABS grant.
Activities funded:
The ABS Grants programme is open to applications for any proposal that:
• Improves or promotes the conservation of bats and their habitat in Australasia,
• Raises positive public awareness of bats in Australasia,
• Undertakes scientific research that contributes to bat conservation in Australasia,
• Supports the role that wildlife carer and rehabilitation organisations play in bat conservation in Australasia.
Projects may include (but need not be limited to):
• Scientific research, student projects, on ground bat conservation work, education programs or materials, equipment or materials purchased to support bat conservation programs or projects.
The ABS is interested in supporting a very broad range of projects. However, funding is unlikely to be available for the following purposes:
• conference travel, attendance at meetings, or other short-term activities mainly involving travel, where these are
the principal elements of the grant proposal,
• activities which are properly the responsibility of other funding bodies or other government agencies,
• recurrent funding of existing projects,
• payment of salaries, wages etc.
Where:
ABS Grants are only available for projects undertaken in the Australasian region. That is the islands east of ‘Wallace’s Line’ including; Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the islands of the south-west Pacific.
Any member of the Australasian Bat Society Inc. can apply for an ABS grant.
Activities funded:
The ABS Grants programme is open to applications for any proposal that:
• Improves or promotes the conservation of bats and their habitat in Australasia,
• Raises positive public awareness of bats in Australasia,
• Undertakes scientific research that contributes to bat conservation in Australasia,
• Supports the role that wildlife carer and rehabilitation organisations play in bat conservation in Australasia.
Projects may include (but need not be limited to):
• Scientific research, student projects, on ground bat conservation work, education programs or materials, equipment or materials purchased to support bat conservation programs or projects.
The ABS is interested in supporting a very broad range of projects. However, funding is unlikely to be available for the following purposes:
• conference travel, attendance at meetings, or other short-term activities mainly involving travel, where these are
the principal elements of the grant proposal,
• activities which are properly the responsibility of other funding bodies or other government agencies,
• recurrent funding of existing projects,
• payment of salaries, wages etc.
Where:
ABS Grants are only available for projects undertaken in the Australasian region. That is the islands east of ‘Wallace’s Line’ including; Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the islands of the south-west Pacific.
Past Projects
2011 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2012 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2013 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2014 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2015 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2016 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2017 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
2018 Projects (Paddy Pallin Foundation ABS grantees)
2019 Projects (Paddy Pallin Foundation ABS grantees)
2019 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Julie Broken-Brow: The abundance, species diversity and habitat usage of microbats in coastal mangroves of South-East Queensland.
- Cory Toth: The breeding ecology of the Lesser Short-tailed Bat (Mystacina tuberculata).
- Jenny Maclean: Tolga Bat Hospital: Assistance with Spectacled Flying Fox rescue and care during 2011-12 tick season.
2012 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Stephen Griffiths: Efficacy of artificial bat-boxes as a tool in the conservation of tree-roosting insectivorous bats.
- Ian Gill, Keiran Stone, Gavin Collis, Sarah Evans, Tim Shaw: John Paul High School - Mauria Forest bat survey, New Zealand.
2013 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Lisa Cawthen: King Island Bat Survey.
2014 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Jane Hall: Developing non-invasive methods for the detection of toxic heavy metals (e.g. Cadmium) in the Christmas Island Flying-fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis), using the Grey-headed flying-fox (P. poliocephalus) as an analogue.
- Cathy Hartley: Improving mortality rates in Juvenile Grey-headed Flying-foxes during Heat Stress Events.
2015 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Tyrone Lavery and Michael Pennay: Bat calls of the Solomon Islands: a reference call library and identification key to the bats of the Solomon Archipelago.
- Toni Mitchell: Enhancing caring standards for bats and raising awareness for deadly hazards in our environment.
- Julie Broken-Brow: The roosting preferences of Saccolaimus mixtus and Critically Endangered Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus in Cape York.
2016 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Kayla Asplet: Investigating the sensitivity of Myotis macropus (Large-footed Myotis) to heavy-metal pollution in urban waterways, Sydney, New South Wales.
- Erin Westerhuis: The importance of riparian woodland for insectivorous bats and their prey in central Australia.
2017 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Bradley Clarke-Wood: Insectivorous bats and spatial subsidies across a land-use gradient in north-eastern Victoria’ as a part of ‘Longitudinal trends in land-use, spatial subsidies and food-webs of north-eastern Victorian perennial streams.
- Anita Freudmann: Foraging ecology and behaviour of Eastern Tube-nosed Bats (Nyctimene robinsoni).
- Danielle Eastick: Sex and the city: Investigating the reproductive ecology of a successful urban species, the Gould’s wattled bat (Chalinolobus gouldii), in greater Melbourne.
2018 Projects (Paddy Pallin Foundation ABS grantees)
- Laura Pulscher: Are Nutritional Diseases Contributing to the decline of the Endangered Christmas Island Flying-Fox?
- Amanda Lo Cascio: What factors affect microbat connectivity in fire-prone fragmented landscapes?
2019 Projects (Paddy Pallin Foundation ABS grantees)
- Kerryn Parry Jones: Black and Grey-headed flying-foxes similarities in biology diet behaviour.
- Eliane McCarthy: Remotely sensing flying-foxes in their roosts.
2019 Projects (ABS Conservation Grantees)
- Vanessa Gorecki: The roosting ecology and roost selection of Large-footed Myotis (Myotis macropus) in culverts in Brisbane.
- Elizabeth Parker: The big bat and wildlife festival.
- Sarah Judge: Cultural engagement with bat conservation at Yellomundee Aboriginal Place Yarramundi NSW.
