Investing in the people and institutions who share biodiversity knowledge for Africa

Biodiversity Systems Management and Analytics for the Restoration of Transboundary Rivers of South Africa, Mozambique and Eswatini (BIO-SMART Phase 2)

Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (2024)

Developing National Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Assessment Protocol and Evaluating the Status of a Pilot Legacy KBA

National Museums of Kenya (2024)

Illuminating Understudied Caves to Highlight Plant Pollination and Seed Dispersal Services by Bats

Rhodes University, Centre for Biological Control (2023)

Protecting 30x30 Gains Through Integrated Control of Prosopis and Cactus Invasions in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa

WildTrack & Tswalu Foundation and Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation (2023)

Novel Biodiversity Metric: Small Mammal Track Analysis using AI, Morphometrics and Traditional and Local Ecological Knowledge (TaLEK)

Namibian Nature Foundation (2023)

Incorporating Succulent Plant and Animal Species Information into Conservation Planning

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (2023)

Madagascar Wetland Knowledge Base

UCLA Center for Tropical Research & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2023)

Advancing Environmental DNA Research Capacity in Rwanda to Inform Conservation Decisions

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2023)

Support for the Sustainable Management of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chari-Logone sub-Basin.

International Crane Foundation- Zambia (2023)

Designing and Implementing a Wetland Information System for the Kafue Flats Wetlands, Zambia

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (2023)

Increase Knowledge, Awareness and Data Accessibility for Bee and Dipteran Pollinators, their Forage Plant Species to Support Conservation of Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Cameroon

Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (2023)

Cross-sectoral Household and Critical Biodiversity Surveys in Riparian South Kivu and Tanganyika Provinces

Wildlife Conservation Society (2023)

Freshwater Biodiversity Data Collection System (FBDC) for Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Northeast Protected Area Complex (NPAC) in the Central African Republic

Conserve Global (2023)

Advancing Community Conservation Management through Integrated Habitat Monitoring in Northern Zambia Game Management Areas

Gaea Seychelles (2023)

Developing a Freshwater Biodiversity Information System for Conservation and Management in the Seychelles

Namibian Chamber of Environment (2023)

Better Information for Better Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of Namibian Near-endemic Plants

University of Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (UNAD) & SOS SAHEL Senegal (2023)

Niokolo-Koba National Park Buffer Zone Biodiversity Survey

Endangered Wildlife Trust (2023)

Developing a 30-by-30 Landscape Planning Tool for South Africa that Balances the Need for Conservation, Agriculture, and Renewable Energy

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2023)

Design of a Parataxonomists Training Program at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute

Hawassa University (2023)

Insect Pollinator Diversity Under Different Land Uses in and around Kafa Biosphere Reserve and Bale Mountains National Park

University of Namibia (2022)

Establishing Capacity for Sustained Production of National Spatial Biodiversity Data Products: Guiding Progress towards the post2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Goals and Targets

Research Unit of Tropical Mycology and Soil-Plant Fungi Interactions, University of Parakou (2022)

Data Mobilization and Long Term Conservation of Wild Fungi (WEF) in Benin

National Herbarium of Benin (2022)

Mobilizing data for Identification, Taxonomy, Socioeconomic Importance and Conservation Assessment of Bryophytes in Benin

University of Florida (2022)

Freshwater Biodiversity Data of Rivers of the Lake Victoria Basin

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022)

Enhancing Data Access to Transform Guinea’s Capacity to Identify and Protect its Threatened Plants

Nature Uganda (2022)

Training a Cohort of Herpetologists to Increase Baseline Data Knowledge in Uganda – to Build Capacity for Herpetology Surveys in Key Ecosystems of East Africa.

Kabale University (2022)

Site Selection to Protect Papyrus Endemic Biodiversity in Uganda

The East African Wildlife Society (2022)

Unlocking Biodiversity Data to Facilitate Designation of Lake Ol Bolossat as a 7th Ramsar Site in Kenya

Dambari Wildlife Trust & Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe (2022)

Zimbabwe Herpetofauna Data: Mobilizing Data for Mapping Biodiversity Distribution, for Climate Change and Conservation Strategies

North-West University (2022)

Building Bee Taxonomic Capacity Among Citizen Scientists in South Africa

World Wildlife Fund (2022)

Improving Conservation Decision-making in Africa with Environmental DNA Technology

Frankfurt Zoological Society (2022)

Ecological Monitoring in the Nsumbu-Mweru ecosystem of Zambia

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2022)

Invertebrate surveys in Afromontane ecosystems

South African National Parks (2022)

Overcoming pandemic threats to South Africa's national parks

Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (2021)

Biodiversity data collection and training conservationists in East and West Usambaras, Tanzania

Media For Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (2021)

Journalists acting for biodiversity

Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (2021)

Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young West African conservationists

Freshwater Research Centre (2020)

Demand-driven, high impact, expansion of the Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) for freshwater decision-making in South Africa

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2020)

South Africa Biodiversity Data Pipeline for Wetlands and Waterbirds (BIRDIE)

Southern Africa Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (2020)

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) and Biodiversity in the Khakea/Bray Transboundary Aquifer

Our Grantmaking Programs

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Investing in the people and institutions who share biodiversity knowledge for Africa

AWARD Launches BIO-SMART Phase 2 Project

Namibian Nature Foundation Expands Citizen Science Training

JRS Recognizes East African Biodiversity Champions

Capacity Building in West Africa for Bryophyte Identification

Somabhula Grassland Biodiversity Surveys Launch Capacity-building for Mozambique and Zimbabwe

Community Engagement to Protect Lake Ol Bolossat for a Common Future

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