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2021 Praeger Grants Awarded

19 May 2021

The Royal Irish Academy is delighted to announce that three natural history projects will be funded under this year's Praeger scheme. 

The proposed research projects involve:

  • a survey of Donegal's red throated diver breeding populations,
  • a botanIcal survey of the Outer Copeland islands
  • the Irish black poplar genetic finger printing project.

More detals are available here

The Praeger Grants in Natural History were set up in honour of Robert Lloyd Praeger, “Ireland’s greatest naturalist”, onetime President of the RIA and instigator of the of original Clare Island Survey, to encourage the promotion of field study of Ireland’s geology, flora and fauna.

Since 1958, the RIA, through its Praeger Committee, has used the income of this fund to disburse over 360 grants to natural historians, for small fieldwork projects throughout the island of Ireland.

All queries can be sent to grants@ria.ie

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