Funding Opportunity /  7 September 2025

Multiple grants

I have been a bit distracted the past months by my move from Costa Rica to Spain ( all went well, thank you, I just miss the rain forest and the Ticos ) and have to catch up on funding calls. Because I still have little time, it will just be a table with opportunities.

Deadline: 7 September 2025 - 3 months
Worldwide plus various countries and regions

 

 

 

 

Organization

Call

Grant size / Geo eligibility

Deadline

FSCF

Fonseca Species Conservation Fund

“... for early career conservationists 35 years of age and younger in GEF-recipient countries to either start or progress their careers.”

… “amphibians, freshwater fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises and freshwater turtles”

≤ USD25K

GEF recipient countries in the Americas, including Caribbean

20250330

FMCN

Convocatoria Conserva Aves México 2025

“Financiamiento para la creación y manejo de Áreas Destinadas Voluntariamente a la Conservación (ADVC) en sitios prioritarios para la conservación de aves”

USD1.9M for up to 18 months

Mexico

20250407

Google

Google PhD fellowships

“... recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.”

USD12K for up to 3 years

Worldwide

20250410

CEPF

Mediterreanean Basin. Call for large grants

US$50-180K

Mediterreanean basin

20250411

FMCN

Convocatoria 2025 Programa de Liderazgo SAM

“Un programa dirigido a funcionarios/as, legisladores/as o personas de la sociedad civil que buscan diseñar, mejorar o acelerar políticas públicas que impulsen negocios y emprendimientos con impacto positivo (NEI+) en el Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM).”

Grant size not found

México, Belice, Guatemala, Honduras

20250413

NatGeo

Freshwater Storytelling: Request for Proposals

“will support accomplished and talented storytellers from across the world. A variety of content formats, including, but not limited to, Photography, Film and Video, Mapmaking, Data Visualization, Written Word, Spoken Word, etc. will be considered.”

$20K-100K

Worldwide

20250422

BNP Parisbas

Climate & Biodiversity Initiative

Call on Ocean & coastal ecosystems. “we support scientific research teams internationally who study the interactions between climate and biodiversity as well as help to disseminate knowledge to the widest audience possible.” ♾️

€7M for 7 to 15 projects

Worldwide

20250504

NatGeo

Spatial Thinking: Request for Proposals

“This funding opportunity supports projects that identify a challenge related to a specific place and its unique conditions and leverages an educational solution using spatial thinking to enable people to act on behalf of our planet and its people.”

±$50K and ≤$100K

Worldwide

20250505

PTES

PTES Conservation Insight Grants

“grants to scientific researchers and conservationists for many years for work that is aimed at the preservation of endangered species around the world.” ( birds excluded )

£3-10K per year, max. £20K

UK, UK overseas territories, other countries not classified as high-income by the World Bank

20250529

GBIF

GBIF Node Awards

“These awards aim to amplify the significant impact of GBIF nodes and showcase diverse methods and approaches that can inspire and be adopted by the wider GBIF network.”

No grant size found

GBIF participant countries

20250620

NatGeo

The Big Questions: Request for Proposals

“... seeks innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization and other storytelling proposals to delve into some of these big questions”

≤$100K

worldwide

20250624

GBIF

Graduate Researchers Award

“... annual programme aims to highlight innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics…”

 

€5K

GBIF participant countries

20250627

GBIF

Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

“... call for innovative tools, both new and existing, that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science in support of research and policy.”

€20K

Worldwide

20250907

UNIFOR

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges

“We support new and unexpected ways of communicating the need for transitioning to a low-carbon economy”

 

€10K-200K

European-based

20250410

20250529

20250807

20251015

20251127

EOCA

EOCA funding

“EOCA funds projects which benefit biodiversity in a wild landscape. ... Projects must conserve, protect, enhance, restore, and/or reconnect habitats within a given landscape that are particularly important for the biodiversity there.”

≤€30K

Worldwide except North America

 

20250630

20251100

Terraformation

Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator

“The first biodiversity-focused, carbon-funded forest accelerator.”

Accelerator program  - not a grant

Worldwide

No deadline found

Currently ( March 2025 ) open

 

All information in this post is provided as is. Requirements and conditions apply. Read the call and guidelines carefully.

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