OUR GRANTS

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

WILDLABS | World Wildlife Fund (2026)

WILDLABS Symposium Training: Scaling Biodiversity Data Capacity for African Women

$81,536 (12 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)

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)

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)

Namibian Chamber of Environment (2023)

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

$161,651 (36 Months)

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

Niokolo-Koba National Park Buffer Zone Biodiversity Survey

$50,000 (12 Months)

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2023)

Design of a Parataxonomists Training Program at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute

$42,248 (6 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)

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)

World Wildlife Fund (2022)

Improving Conservation Decision-making in Africa with Environmental DNA Technology

$40,000 (4 months)

Frankfurt Zoological Society (2022)

Ecological Monitoring in the Nsumbu-Mweru ecosystem of Zambia

$263,684 (24 months)

Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (2022)

Invertebrate surveys in Afromontane ecosystems

$142,901 (36 months)

South African National Parks (2022)

Overcoming pandemic threats to South Africa's national parks

$498,100 (24 months)

Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (2021)

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

$277,794 (36 months)

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

Journalists acting for biodiversity

$56,862 (24 months)

Threatened Species Conservation Alliance (2021)

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

$75,636 (24 Months)

Malawi University of Science and Technology (2020)

Development of a Biodiversity Informatics MSc program at the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST)

$339,500 (36 months)

South African National Parks (2020)

Science support, monitoring, and capacity development for biodiversity conservation in South Africa

$208,740 (24 months)

Frankfurt Zoological Society - U.S. (2020)

Biodiversity Monitoring in Serengeti, Mahale, and Gonarezhou National Parks

$280,000 (24 months)

Wildlife Conservation Society (2020)

Biodiversity monitoring in Boma, Afi and Mbe, Nouabalé-Ndoki, and Tarangire Parks

$525,000 (24 months)

African Parks (2020)

Research and monitoring for evidence-based management in Garamba (DRC) and Zakouma (Chad) National Parks

$210,500 (18 months)

Maasai Mara University (2019)

Triggering the development of digital content for bat ecology and conservation in Africa: First course connecting African and Latin American students through bat conservation

$13,280

Freshwater Research Centre Workshop (2019)

Developing freshwater biodiversity information systems: Workshop for African Freshwater Information System Projects

$ 54,900 (7 Months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2019)

African Biodiversity Challenge: Unlocking Decision-Data Pathways for Sustainable Development

$ 321,000 (36 months)

African Conservation Centre (2018)

Follow on Support for Kenya Biodiversity Web Portal Project

$ 80,000 (9 Months)

University of Abomey-Calavi (2018)

Regional graduate course for capacity development in biodiversity informatics in Africa

$260,500.00 (36 months)

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (2018)

Conference Support: 6th Pan African Fish and Fisheries Association Conference

$15,000 (4 months)

University of Oxford (2018)

Second Generation of the Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum for Africa

$279,800 (36 months)

National Museum, Bloemfontein (2018)

Conference Support: 9th International Congress of Dipterology

$10,000 (6 months)

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (2018)

Conference Support: SPNHC and TDWG 2018 Conference; Collections and data in an uncertain world

$8,500 (4 months)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2018)

Conference Support: GBIC2: Delivering a Roadmap for Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age

$24,000 (4 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)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2016)

African Biodiversity Challenge: Unlocking Data for Sustainable Development

$293,000 (36 months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - REBIOMA (2011)

Madagacar Biodiversity Data Sharing

$200,000 (27 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - REBIOMA (2013)

REBIOMA Madagascar Data Portal

$120,000 (24 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)

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (2013)

Albertine Rift Biodiversity Portal

$100,000 (15 Months)

ElephantVoices

Elephant Partners

$290,712 (38 months)

Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques UAC (2014)

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

$150,000 (32 Months)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

2012 Biodiversity Informatics Conference

$25,000 (17 Months)

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund - GDFCF (2011)

Applied Informatics through the Rural Brain

$200,000 (12 Months)

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund - GDFCF (2013)

Guanacaste Parataxonomist Program

$200,000 (24 Months)

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

Plant Conservation in Colombia

$182,950 (36 Months)

Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (2011)

Regional Flora Database

$199,983 (27 Months)

Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (2013)

Atlantic Forest Information System

$65,000 (21 Months)

Mesoamerican Reef Fund (2014)

HRI Reef Health Database

$30,000 (24 Months)

National Land Use Planning Commission

Identifcation Tool for Tanzanian Plant Conservation Areas

$199,375 (40 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 National Biodiversity Institute (2014)

Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa

$150,000 (36 Months)

Tulane University (2011)

African Biodiversity Information Scientist Mentoring Program in Conjunction with Annual TWDG Conferences

$9,990 (2011) & $35,550 (2012-2014) (27 Months)

Tulane University (2014)

Pre-TDWG 2014-2015 Collaboration Building

$106,950 (12 Months)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (2014)

Mobilizing Venezuelan Biodiversity Data

$100,000 (24 Months)

University of Ghana (2014)

Capture of Primary Biodiversity Data for West African Plants

$230,230.00 (42 months)

University of Kansas Center for Research

Biodiversity Informatics Training for Africa and the World

$414,858 (54 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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