OUR GRANTS

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

Botanical Society of Namibia (2026)

Enhancing the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources for a Resilient Traditional Seed System in Namibia

$179,893 (24 Months)

Musekese Conservation (2026)

Biodiversity Impact of Land-use and Farming Practices in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia

$129,388 (24 Months)

re:Wild (2026)

Partnership to Build African Capacity for Lost Species Data Collection and Bioinformatics Use to Prioritize Biodiversity Conservation

$150,000 (24 months)

National Museums of Kenya PEBCA (2026)

Pathways for Emerging Biodiversity Changemakers in Africa (PEBCA)

$60,000 (18 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)

Africa Nature Investors Foundation (ANI) & Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC) at Bamenda (2025)

Establishing Research and Cross Boundary Partnerships in the Gashaka Gumti/Tchabal Mbabo Transboundary Protected Area Complex

$250,000 (30 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)

Freshwater Research Centre | African Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (2025)

FBIS-Africa: A Freshwater Biodiversity System for Africa

$499,320 (48 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)

Freshwater Research Centre | Capacity Buillding for Water Policy Managers (2025)

Policy Implementation for Water Resources and Biodiversity Protection through Capacity Building of Water Managers

$168,561 (24 Months)

Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD) 2025

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

$353,860 (24 Months)

Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (2024)

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

$34,500 (12 Months)

National Museums of Kenya (2024)

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

$45,000 (15 Months)

Rhodes University, Centre for Biological Control (2023)

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

$31,000 (6 months)

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)

$157,449 (18 Months)

Namibian Nature Foundation (2023)

Incorporating Succulent Plant and Animal Species Information into Conservation Planning

$264,108 (36 Months)

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (2023)

Madagascar Wetland Knowledge Base

$385,907 (36 Months)

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

Advancing Environmental DNA Research Capacity in Rwanda to Inform Conservation Decisions

$245,865 (36 Months)

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

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

$250,000 (36 Months)

International Crane Foundation- Zambia (2023)

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

$249,359 (36 Months)

Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (2023)

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

$258,500 (24 Months)

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

$250,000 (36 Months)

Gaea Seychelles (2023)

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

$260,839 (36 Months)

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2023)

Design of a Parataxonomists Training Program at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute

$42,248 (6 Months)

Hawassa University (2023)

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

$219,213 (36 Months)

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

$249,929 (36 Months)

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

$65,000 (30 Months)

National Herbarium of Benin (2022)

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

$249,966 (36 months)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022)

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

$274,721 (36 months)

Kabale University (2022)

Site Selection to Protect Papyrus Endemic Biodiversity in Uganda

$256,446 (36 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)

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2022)

Invertebrate surveys in Afromontane ecosystems

$142,901 (36 months)

Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (2021)

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

$277,794 (36 months)

Southern Africa Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute (2020)

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

$308,100 (36 months)

National Museums of Kenya (2019)

Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa

$50,000 (12 Months)

Freshwater Research Centre Odonata Map (2019)

Atlas and Phenology of Dragonflies and Damselflies in South Africa

$113,900 (18 Months)

Royal Museum for Central Africa (2019)

The Pollinator Information Network for Sub-Saharan Two-Winged Insects (PIN-DIP)

$40,000 (9 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)

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2018)

Assessing Landscape Level Impacts of Climate Change on Montane Forest Pollinators in Tanzania

$ 275,000 (36 Months)

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (2017)

Integrative Pollinator-Plant Interaction Assessment of Ecosystem Service Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

$324,040 (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)

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN, 2016)

Biodiversity Information For the Lake Malawi Catchment Eastern Africa: Data For Decision-makers

$252,000 (36 Months)

Royal Museum for Central Africa (2016)

The Pollinator Information Network for Sub-Saharan Two-Winged Insects (PIN-DIP)

$209,000 (36 Months)

National Museums of Kenya (2016)

Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity in East Africa

$264,200 (36 Months)

University of Cape Town (2016)

Atlas and Phenology of Dragonflies and Damselflies in South Africa

$102,000 (48 Months)

BirdWatch Zambia (2016)

Planning grant for bird diversity assessments in Zambia's major wetland important bird and biodiversity areas

$15,000 (5 Months)

CAB International

East African Invasive Species

$182,210 (36 Months)

Field Museum of Natural History

The Bats of Kenya

$90,095 (46 Months)

Institute of Ecology at National Autonomous University of Mexico (2014)

Mexico National Bat Monitoring

$162,500 (30 Months)

National Museum Bloemfontein

South African Arachnid Biodiversity

$180,000 (30 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2012)

Vietnam Flora

$181,700 (48 Months)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2014)

Madagascan Plants Threat Assessment

$160,700 (18 Month)

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (2011)

African Pollinator Biodiversity

$198,000 (24 Months)

Stellenbosch University (2012)

Dragonfly Freshwater Health Tool

$296,000 (47 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 Pretoria (2013)

South African Dung Beetle Atlas

$145,000 (24 Months)

University of Pretoria - Neuroptera (2012)

Afrotropical Neuroptera Biodiversity Database

$86,000 (36 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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