Grants awarded

Halcyon Programmes and core support

The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme gives grants for large-scale restoration projects across Europe’s land and seas. The programme supports projects that will restore extensive areas of terrestrial and marine habitat so that they are resilient and self-sustaining.

To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas

Match funding to create endowments for Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina's Ibera Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through their fiscal sponsor re:wild

To provide core support to re:wild

To continue advancing and scaling up rewilding across Europe through the development of innovative rewilding models, starting a new initiative to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.

To provide Legacy Landscapes Fund with match funding for Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Leuser Ecosystem bid in Sumatra, Indonesia.

The Open Rivers Programme gives grants for work to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.

To enable FFI to establish the Conservation Resilience Fund, to help local conservation organisations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

To establish a WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund to help build long-term capacity of select local partner groups. WCS will direct grants and capacity-building support to partners that have been impacted by COVID-19 and who seek to build more sustainable, resilient organizations.

To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.

The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme gives grants for large-scale restoration projects across Europe’s land and seas. The programme supports projects that will restore extensive areas of terrestrial and marine habitat so that they are resilient and self-sustaining.

To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.

To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes, and advance biodiversity conservation.

Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work that improves the biodiversity of the garden.

To support Rewilding Europe to increase its impact in making Europe a wilder place via three targeted activities: encouraging wildlife comeback; improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding; and developing new rewilding models to mobilise financial sector support to rewilding.

To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.

To address threats and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.

Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project