Grants awarded

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science

To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.

To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Intiative Directorship

To enable CCI to conduct the preparatory work to establish a re-granting programme dedicated to supporting projects to create habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resillent to environmental change, and to sharing novel replicable techniques that can achieve this.

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

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.

To digitize and make publicly accessible travellers' and naturalists' field manuscripts on South America, 1800 to 2000.

To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made

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

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.

To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.

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

To train African biodiversity conservation professionals.

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.

To secure new areas of high biodiversity value under conservation management, in collaboration with local partners

To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

To develop and consolidate the initiative.

To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.