OUR GRANTS

Enhancing the understanding of biological diversity for the benefit and sustainability of life on earth.

National Museums of Kenya PEBCA (2026)

Pathways for Emerging Biodiversity Changemakers in Africa (PEBCA)

$60,000 (18 Months)

Conserve Global (2026)

Agrobiodiversity in an Area of Rapid Ecological and Socio-Economic Transformation

$122,147 (24 months)

African Wildlife Foundation (2026)

A Multiyear Capacity-Building Project to Strengthen Biodiversity Monitoring and Data Sharing in African Protected Areas

$150,000 (18 Months)

Copperbelt University / Lubumbashi & Kitwe Herbaria (2025)

Highlighting Plant Diversity of Wet Savanna Springheads within the Katanga- Zambian Centre of Endemism

$99,998 (24 months)

Wild Earth Allies (2025)

Understanding the Ecological and Socioeconomic importance of plants used by Batwa Indigenous Communities in upland Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Inform Habitat Restoration

$197,570 (30 months)

National Museums of Kenya / Earth Acre (2025)

Building Community Capacity to Conduct Biodiversity Assessments integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Technology to Identify, Monitor, and Conserve Critical Ecosystem Fragments

$99,900 (18 months)

Tusk Trust (2025)

JRS-TUSK Partnership to Support Biodiversity Monitoring Capacity for African Protected Areas and Conservation Leaders

$200,000 (15 months)

SOS SAHEL (2025)

Biodiversity Mapping in Transfrontier Savannahs of Senegal and Chad

$250,000 (24 months)

Dambari Wildlife Trust and Natural History Museums of Zimbabwe and Mozambique (2025)

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

$155,667 (24 months)

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

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

$50,000 (18 months)

National Museums of Kenya (2019)

Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa

$50,000 (12 Months)

Makerere University (2019)

Generating information on bee pollinator diversity and distribution in Uganda through the application of ecological and informatics tools

$ 275,000.00 (36 months)

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources: Freshwater Planning (2019)

Planning for Saving the critically endangered riverine species of Malawi

$ 36,339 (5 months)

National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (2018)

From the lab to the World: Unlocking Uganda’s freshwater biodiversity data for sustainable development

$260,000 (36 months)

CAB International (2017)

Creating global access to Africa’s most complete and current dataset on Invasive Alien Plant Species

$45,750 (18 mo. Months)

National Museums of Kenya (2016)

Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa

$264,200 (36 Months)

Zoological Society of San Diego (2012)

Enhancing Access to Peruvian Plant Specimens through Herbarium Digitization

$ 86,050 (24 Months)

Zoological Society of San Diego (2014)

Enhancing Access to Peruvian Plant Specimens through Herbarium Digitization

$71,900 (24 Months)

California Academy of Sciences (2014)

Digitizing Southwestern-African Herpetological Collections

$56,006 (12 Months)

Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques UAC (2014)

Implementation of the National Biodiversity Information System (NBIS) of Benin

$150,000 (32 Months)

Field Museum of Natural History

The Bats of Kenya

$90,095 (46 Months)

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

Plant Conservation in Colombia

$182,950 (36 Months)

National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica

Benin National Biodiversity Information System

$182,319 (30 Months)

National Museum Bloemfontein

South African Arachnid Biodiversity

$180,000 (30 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2009)

Rescue and Integration of Botanical Data for Conservation in the Southwestern Amazon

$ 199,410 (36 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2012)

Vietnam Flora

$181,700 (48 Months)

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (2011)

African Pollinator Biodiversity

$198,000 (24 Months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2014)

Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa

$150,000 (36 Months)

Stellenbosch University (2012)

Dragonfly Freshwater Health Tool

$296,000 (47 Months)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (2012)

Neotropical Leaf Beetles

$92,494 (24 Months)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (2014)

Mobilizing Venezuelan Biodiversity Data

$100,000 (24 Months)

University of Bergen Museum (2012)

West African Marine Biodiversity

$ 288,000 (36 Months)

University of Cape Town (2008)

Southern African Reptile Conservation Assessment

$135,057 (32 Months)

University of Florida (2015)

Digitizing Southwestern-African Herpetological Collections

$121,707 (18 Months)

University of Ghana (2012)

DNA Barcoding and Conservation of Tree Species

$199,520 (24 Months)

University of Ghana (2014)

Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants

$230,230.00 (42 months)

University of Pretoria (2011)

Dung Beetle Diversity

$197,568 (24 Months)

University of Pretoria (2013)

South African Dung Beetle Atlas

$145,000 (24 Months)

University of Pretoria - Neuroptera (2012)

Afrotropical Neuroptera Biodiversity Database

$86,000 (36 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - Camera Traps (2014)

Camera Trap Data Repository for Biodiversity Monitoring

$202,929 (24 Months)

Learn More About Our Programs

Freshwater

Freshwater resources in Africa are insecure in quantity and quality, and water resource development is a high priority for governments and international donors. We are developing grantmaking initiatives in Freshwater data and information systems to support conservation and development. We aim to address the urgent need for better freshwater biodiversity assessment and access to freshwater biodiversity data by all stakeholders.

Pollinators

Pollination is critical to sustaining human nutrition and agricultural livelihoods, yet studies show a widespread global decline in pollinator biodiversity. In Africa, the conservation sector lacks the baseline data, effective monitoring methods, information services, and evidence of pollinator status and value to influence policy. Our Pollinator Biodiversity Program aims to increase the accessibility and quality of pollinator biodiversity data through a long-term investment in collecting baseline data, developing technologies and methods to do so, and creating data sharing platforms relevant at regional and local levels.

Capacity

Our goal is to expand the tools and processes used to collect, manage, and disseminate biodiversity data and information in sub-Saharan Africa. That makes capacity-building the over-arching focus of the Foundation. Our other two Programs in Freshwater and Pollinator Biodiversity are intended to drive and sustain biodiversity informatics capacity.

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