In 2024, we provided travel grants to support speakers from four countries (Ecuador, Indonesia, India, and Malaysia) to attend the World Congress of Herpetology symposium.
This support from our Amphibian Conservation Fund (a pooled fund for donors supporting Amphibian Programme partners) helped to ensure that speakers at this symposium were almost all from the ‘Global South’, all had first-hand experience working on community-based conservation in tropical countries and brought hugely valuable experience to share with early-career conservationists attending the symposium.
“Without this scholarship, it would have been impossible to participate in an event of such global relevance. Attending this conference allowed me not only to share the progress and challenges of our work, but also to highlight the strong component of working with local communities, an essential dimension in our conservation strategies.”
María del Carmen Vizcaíno, Jambato Alliance