Brown Memorial Grant

Leslie Brown Memorial Grant

Leslie Brown. Photo by Peter Steyn.

The Leslie Brown Memorial Grant is given in memory of one of the most inspired and productive raptor conservation biologists of recent decades. The Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. announces the availability of this grant to provide financial assistance to promote the research and/or the dissemination of information on African birds of prey. Applications that do not focus on African raptors will not be reviewed for funding.

Leslie Brown: Some Memories, JRR 1981

In Memoriam: Leslie H. Brown 1917-1980

To apply, applicants must send 5 copies of:

1. a resume
2. specific study objectives
3. an account of how funds will be spent
4. an indication of how the proposed work would relate to other work by the applicant (if applicable)
5. other sources of funding

Amount: Up to $1,400

Number of Grants Issued per Year: 1

Deadline: A complete application must be received by the abstract submission deadline for the annual conference. Cheques will be distributed directly after the annual conference (typically September/October each year).
Contact: Proposals, donations, and inquiries about tax-exempt contributions to the fund should be sent to Dr. Jeffrey L. Lincer, 9251 Golondrina Dr., La Mesa, CA 91941; e-mail: jefflincer@gmail.com

Recent Recipients:

Year	Brown Recipient	Title
2012	Ruth Agaku	Basic monitoring and national advocacy for the conservation of vultures in Nigeria.
2011	Darcy Ogada	Conserving threatened vultures in northern Kenya: collaborating with community-run conservancies to understand how land-use practices and human activities impact vulture populations
2011	Robin Whytock	The Effects of the Commercial Bushmeat Trade on Raptors in the Ebo Forest, Littoral Province, Cameroon
2010	Allai Orimba	The distribution and abundance of the locally threatened Banded Snake Eagle in the Lake Victoria Region
2009	Darcy Ogada	Ecological implications of vulture extinction on facultative scavengers and disease transmission
2008	Mwangi Githiru	Overall conservation status of raptors in sub-Saharan Africa
2007	Paul Kariuki Ndang’ang’a	Review of the status of African Raptors
2006	Ahon Dibie Bernard	Rufous Fishing Owl: distribution and conservation status in Cote d’Ivoire
2005	Darcy Ogada	Land-use practices, rural culture and the conservation of Mackinder’s Eagle Owls in Kenya
2004	Graham Fairhurst	Reproductive biology of African Goshawks (Accipiter tachiro) in fragmented landscapes of the Taita Hills, Kenya
2003	Odette Curtis	Black Sparrowhawks vs the Working for Water Project: recognising and resolving a conflict of environmental interests on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
2002	Ruth Tingay	Population dynamics and behavioural ecology of the critically endangered Madagascar Fish Eagle: implications for conservation.
2001	Maria Diekmann	Cape Griffon Vulture telemetry project.
2001	Ngoni Chitemamuswe	Motobo Hills Black Eagle monitoring and educational project.
2000	Not awarded
1999	Andrew Burton	Eagles of Tanzania’s Northern Rift Valley
1998	Suzanne Shultz	Ecology and conservation of the Crowned Hawk-Eagle, West Africa
1998	Anthony van Zyl	Life history traits of Common Kestrel in Kenya.
1997	Patrick Benson	Breeding status, reproductive success and mortality factors of Cape Vultures (Gyps coprotheres)at the Kranberg Colony, Northern Provine, South Africa
1997	Reuven Yosef	Study of a new subspecies of the Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) from southern Africa.
1996	Not awarded
1995	Simon Thomsett	Eagle Hill conservation awareness and education project, Kenya.
1994	Jim Berkelman	Habitat requirements of the Madagascar Fish Eagle.
1993	Suanne Unger	Educational efforts to protect the Cape Vulture along with doing educational outreach programs.
1992	Kevin McCann
1992	G.E.A. Banfield
1991	John D. Foss
1990	Andrew Jenkins	Peregrine Falcon
1989	Gerard Malan	Subject Pale Chanting Goshawk
1989	Anthony van Zyl	Redbreasted Sparrowhawks
1988	Robert E. Simmons	Wahlberg’s Eagle
1988	Phoebe Barnard	Publication of “Gabar.”
1987	Hilary Welch	North African Migrant Raptors
1986	Vicky J. Meretsky	Egyptian Vultures