Rainforest Trust Grants
Rainforest Trust
Next deadline: Feb 1, 2024
Later deadlines: Jun 1, 2024, Nov 1, 2024, Feb 1, 2025
Grant amount: Unspecified amount
Fields of work: Environmental Conservation
Applicant type: Nonprofit
Funding uses: Project / Program
Location of project: Preferred: Caribbean; Central America; Eastern Africa; Melanesia; Micronesia; Middle Africa; Polynesia; South-Eastern Asia; Western Africa; Algeria; Argentina; Bangladesh; Bolivia; Botswana; Brazil; Chile; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Ecuador; Egypt; French Guiana; Hong Kong; India; Libya; Macao; Maldives; Namibia; Oman; Paraguay; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Republic Of China; United Arab Emirates; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Western Sahara; Yemen Other eligible locations: Africa; Caribbean; Central America; Melanesia; Micronesia Show all
Location of residency: Preferred: Caribbean; Central America; Eastern Africa; Melanesia; Micronesia; Middle Africa; Polynesia; South-Eastern Asia; Western Africa; Algeria; Argentina; Bangladesh; Bolivia; Botswana; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; Chile; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Ecuador; Egypt; French Guiana; Hong Kong; India; Libya; Macao; Maldives; Namibia; Oman; Paraguay; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Republic Of China; United Arab Emirates; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Western Sahara; Yemen Other eligible locations: Africa; Caribbean; Central America; Melanesia; Micronesia Show all
990 Snapshot
Overview:
We partner with local conservation organizations to create new protected areas for safeguarding endangered species and exemplary intact landscapes. Join our partnership now to save species and protect our planet.
You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.
Eligibility:
- Partnership applications should meet the following criteria:
- Clear focus on creating a new protected area or the expansion of existing protected areas. This can be through land purchase, designation as a National Park or other officially recognised protected area, conversion of logging concessions to reserve, long-term land lease, or land-titling or other mechanism of providing for indigenous ownership and management with the formal stipulation that the indigenous or community lands will be managed for conservation.
- Proposed sites must be currently unprotected. Use IUCN’s World Database of Protected Areas to determine if the area is already recognized as protected (category 1-6). Exceptions: We do not consider Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites or RAMSAR Reserves to be officially protected by virtue of these designations.
- Projects should have endorsement from project stakeholders, especially local communities.
- All projects are expected to obtain Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of any impacted communities.
- Projects should seek to develop sustainable financing mechanisms for long-term management of the proposed protected area.
- Proposed sites qualify if they meet one of the following:
- Protect globally significant populations of Critically Endangered (CR) or Endangered (EN) species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- There must be recent, verifiable evidence that species assessed as CR or EN occur within the proposed site.
- Projects proposed under this criterion may encompass various habitat types (not only rainforests). OR
- Protect an Intact Landscape according to the attached criteria.
- Priority landscapes for Rainforest Trust include: Amazonia, the Congo Basin Forests, Southern African Miombo, and the islands of Borneo and New Guinea. OR
- Mitigate global climate change.
- Landscapes with a high capacity for carbon sequestration (e.g. tropical peat swamps, mangroves, páramo).
- Projects which substantially reduce CO2 emissions (Carbon offset eligible).
- Projects which store in perpetuity a very large quantity of carbon at a reasonable cost (e.g. designations of extensive tall hardwood forests as national parks at a low cost/acre).
Preferences:
- Preference will be given to proposed sites that qualify as a Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) under criterion A1(a) (site regularly holds a globally significant proportion of the population of a Critically Endangered or Endangered species; see page 16 of the KBA Standard).
Ineligibility:
- We are unable to assist with the following:
- Overhead costs
- Long-term ecological monitoring or research
- Habitat restoration (e.g., tree planting)
- Vehicle purchases other than motorcycles
- International travel
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