Wildlife Conservation Network

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WCN supports dedicated individuals who have demonstrated exceptional promise for lifelong leadership as wildlife conservationists. The Sidney Byers Scholarship, Pat J. Miller Scholarship, and Handsel Scholarship provide grants for graduate education and applied training to students from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America who are committed to working on wildlife conservation in their home countries. Scholarship candidates are nominated by WCN’s Partner conservationists. They expand upon the ground-breaking work of our Partners, while gaining the skills they will need to pioneer projects of their own in the future. To date, WCN has awarded 20 scholarships to women and men working in Argentina, Botswana, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, and Russia. The wildlife conservation community in sub-Saharan Africa has been hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Individuals dedicated to saving wildlife are fighting for their own lives, and the conservation effort faces the enormous loss of their professional skills and innovative contributions. The Wildlife Conservation Network is creating an integrated intervention model addressing the needs of prevention, testing, counseling and treatment for the field-based staff of conservation programs. Our model will be refined through a series of field-tested pilot programs and rolled out to over half of the 400 conservation programs in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2012. Learn more at: www.wild4life.org

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