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The Desert Tortoise Council provides grants and funding to individuals, students, and organizations for projects and programs aimed at providing scientific research, management, and conservation actions that benefit desert tortoise populations and their habitats. The Council’s Grants Committee oversees the evaluation of grant proposals and requests for the following funding opportunities:

Regular Grants Program

This program funds activities and research that benefit desert tortoises and/or their habitats, provide information or service to the public, or address other appropriate conservation issues.

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Request for Proposals

Under the Regular Grants Program, the Grants Committee recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the following opportunity: Innovations for Improvement/Restoration of Desert Tortoise Foraging Habitat.

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David J. Morafka Memorial Research Award

The David J. Moraka Memorial Research Award was established in memory of the late Dr. David J. Morafka, distinguished herpetologist and authority on North American tortoises. The Morafka Award supports research that contributes to the understanding, management, and conservation of tortoises of the genus Gopherus in the southwestern United States and Mexico: G. agassizii, G. morafkai, G. evgoodei, G. berlandieri, and G. flavomarginatus. The award amount is US $2,500.

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Glenn R. Stewart Student Travel Fund

The Glenn R. Stewart Travel Fund honors the DTC’s co-founder. This Fund supports students working with North American Gopherus tortoises by assisting with travel costs to attend and participate in the 2019 Desert Tortoise Council Symposia. The Fund will support up to US $500 (each) in travel costs for up to two students annually.

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Innovations for Improvement/Restoration of Desert Tortoise Foraging Habitat

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New Publication!

A new, comprehensive account of Agassiz’s desert tortoise by Kristin H. Berry and Robert W. Murphy is now available.

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46th [Virtual] Annual Symposium

We’ve teamed up with the Turtle Survival Alliance to provide our annual symposium virtually on the mornings of Tuesday and Thursday plus, the 2nd through 4th weeks in February 2021, including mixers, sponsors, awards, raffles, vendors, break-out rooms and more.  Abstracts will be due by November 15.

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Request for Proposals

Innovations for Improvement/Restoration of Desert Tortoise Foraging Habitat

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New Publication

Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles & Tortoises — A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group

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