DCNR Says Grants Available to Protect Non-Game Species, Preserve PA's Diverse Native Wildlife

Applications Should Target Four Areas Identified as Environmental Threats

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In its ongoing mission to protect Pennsylvania's native biodiversity, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Wild Resource Conservation Program again is accepting applications for grants to protect the state's non-game animals, native plants and their habitats.

This year the program is soliciting grant applications in four areas: identifying species and natural communities at risk from climate change; species inventory and monitoring; sustainable energy extraction and transport; and critical conservation needs.

"We need to invest our grant dollars in projects that target major environmental threats," said WRCP Executive Director Greg Czarnecki. "We're looking for applied research and conservation projects that deal with climate change, energy extraction, and habitat loss and degradation."

Launched in 1982, the program is funded through Growing Greener and voluntary contributions. It supports research and protection efforts to conserve Pennsylvania's diverse native wildlife resources, including bird and mammal species, amphibians and reptiles, insects and wild plants.

While grants vary in amount, the average award size is $30,000, and the term of the grant is 18 months.

Applications are being accepted through June 30 for work to be performed between January 2011 and June 2012. Applications will only be accepted electronically through DCNR's eGrants online grant application system.

To apply for a grant or learn more about the application process go to www.dcnr.state.pa.us/wrcp/2010grants/index.aspx.

For more information, contact Greg Czarnecki at 717-783-1337.

Media contact: Terry Brady, 717-772-9101

SOURCE Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

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