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.
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
International Rivers
https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/734/protecting-freshwater-biodiversity-how-international-r
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
To support organisational development.
$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
To support organisational development.
$450,000
2010
4 years