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What is the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund?
The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund is a significant philanthropic endowment established to do the following:
- Provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives
- Recognize leaders in the field of species conservation; and
- Elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate.
The Fund’s reach is truly global, and its species interest is non-discriminatory. It is open to applications for funding support from conservationists based in all parts of the world, and will potentially support projects focused on any and all kinds of plant, animal and fungus species, subject to the approval of an independent evaluation committee.
In addition, the Fund will recognize leaders in the field of species conservation and scientific research to ensure their important work is given the attention it deserves and to elevate the importance of species in global conservation discourse.
For 2012 the Fund would like to announce that applications received before the end of February 29th 2012 will be reviewed and applicants will receive a reply in May 2012. The following deadline for applications will be June 30th 2012 and applicants will be informed in September 2012.
NB For the review period up to July 31st 2011 the Fund received over 390 applications, but was only able to provide grants (often only part of the requested funding) to 67 new projects.
The Fund is now only accepting applications through the online system, and so will not be able to consider applications sent as Word document attachments to an email.
The Fund had an initial endowment of €25,000,000, of which a small portion is spent each year on grants. Our species conservation case study web site shows up-to-date information on where these funds have been allocated so far.
It is envisaged that the Fund’s establishment will act as a catalyst to attract additional donations from third party sources to ensure the Fund’s annual contribution to direct species conservation initiatives increases over time.
To view the Fund's Annual Report for 2010, please click here.