The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is offering a two-day Climate Adaptation for Conservation Training & Coaching Session for a limited number of project teams on October 27-28, 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee.

This unique opportunity provides hands-on training in how to consider climate change information in conservation planning and identify adaptation actions for implementation. It will also furnish participants with feedback and coaching on their own real-world climate adaptation project.

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Identify climate change impacts that pose the greatest challenges and opportunities for achieving current conservation goals with existing actions;
• Describe whether and how conservation goals and actions may need to be adjusted in light of climate change;
• Design a "climate-informed" on-the-ground conservation project that aims to address the effects of climate change on a focal ecosystem;
• Tell a clear and compelling story of how their conservation project is designed to achieve climate adaptation outcomes;
• Prepare a stronger application for future project funding to sources like the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund.

Interested individuals or project teams will need to submit a completed application form no later than 5:00pm ET on Monday August 24, 2015. We plan to limit attendance to 10-12 project teams. If we receive more than 12 applications, we will select project teams on a first-come-first-served basis, assuming they have already completed or will be able to complete some pre-work in advance of the training.

Questions? Contact Erika Rowland (; 406-640-1206) or Molly Cross (; 406-209-4060).

There is no registration fee for the session Thanks to a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

For more information and to apply, visit here.