Grants awarded

You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.

We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated July 2024). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.

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Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)

To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.

$3,000,000

2020

5 years

Forest campaign

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

$1,995,000

2020

3 years

Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems

To influence how rivers are governed, protected in law, and valued through planning and management, with the aim of ensuring that rivers are used sustainably and can continue to perform their critical biodiversity functions.

$1,250,000

2018

5 years

Core costs

Towards ECF's infrastructure and to tackle some of the most pressing political challenges in Europe

$1,018,754

2018

1 year

Marine Wildlife Protection

To protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in some of the most biodiverse areas of the oceans through policy changes at the national and regional levels

$10,500,000

2018

7 years

Wildlife Defence Programme

To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.

$2,992,500

2018

5 years

Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

To support the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) to continue its mission to protect deep-sea species and ecosystems from the harmful impacts of fishing and mining, and to strengthen and enhance biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

$472,000

2018

5 years

Oceans Campaign

To support the Environmental Justice Foundation's Oceans Campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity, with a focus on West Africa and South-East Asia.

$999,750

2017

5 years

Deep-sea biodiversity conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction

To enable the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative to provide expert input into the negotiations of the incipient UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (UN BBNJ) and International Seabed Authority (ISA) mining regulations, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and enforceable.

$496,000

2017

5 years

Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests

To mitigate the current rates of biodiversity and habitat loss associated with illegal and unsustainable industrial logging in the Peruvian Amazon, Congo Basin, and South-East Asia

$668,449

2016

3 years

Reducing Trade Threats to Africa’s Wild Species and Ecosystems (ReTTa)

Reducing trade threats to Africa's wild species and ecosystems through strengthened knowledge and action in Africa and beyond. This purpose of this project is to strengthen actions to conserve and protect wildlife populations, areas of high biodiversity, and communities in Africa threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, with a particular focus on trade to Asia.

$3,000,000

2016

4 years

Earth Journalism Network

To support capacity building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.

$450,000

2015

4 years

Wildlife Defence Programme

To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.

$1,459,073

2014

3 years

Coastal conservation in West Africa

To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.

$450,000

2014

4 years

Campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans

To reduce habitat destruction by changing fishing policies in the Americas, tropical Asia and Europe.

$5,000,000

2013

5 years

Coastal conservation in West Africa

To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.

$100,000

2012

2 years

EU Common Fisheries Policy reform

To develop an effective, enforceable framework for sustainable, biodiversity-friendly fisheries management.

$250,000

2011

2 years

Core costs of the organisation

$1,050,000

2011

3 years

Baltic Sea Campaign

To enforce existing laws and regulations, to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.

$1,000,000

2010

2 years

Core costs of the organisation

$450,000

2010

4 years