OUR GRANTS

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

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)

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)

Conserve Global (2023)

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

$92,508 (30 Months)

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

$242,481 (36 Months)

Madagascar Biodiversity Fund - FAPBM (2019)

Securing the value and sustainability of the Madagascar Lemurs Portal

$51,000 (12 Months)

Madagascar Biodiversity Fund - FAPBM (2016)

Development of the Madagascar Lemurs Portal

$264,100 (36 Months)

African Conservation Centre (2014)

Biodiversity Knowledgebase to Support Decision-making in Kenya

$359,600

African Technology Policy Studies Network (2014)

Biodiversity Informatics Policy Landscape

$50,050 (18 Months)

Albertine Rift Conservation Society (2011)

Albertine Rift Biodiversity Portal

$196,075 (24 Months)

CAB International

East African Invasive Species

$182,210 (36 Months)

California Academy of Sciences (2014)

Digitizing Southwestern-African Herpetological Collections

$56,006 (12 Months)

Colorado State University

Living Atlas of East African Flora

$168,061 (30 Months)

Conservation International Foundation (2014)

GDSA Country Policy and Bioinformatics Projects Review

$42,800 (18 Months)

CyberTracker (2012)

Cyber Tracker Upgrade

$134,400 (12 Months)

CyberTracker (2013)

CyberTracker Software and Website Upgrade

$60,000 (24 Months)

Institute of Policy Analysis and Research - Rwanda (2014)

Biodiversity Informatics Policy Research

$49,400 (18 Months)

Mesoamerican Reef Fund (2012)

Meso-American Reef Health Database (2012)

$127,270 (24 Months)

Museo Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado (2013)

Geospatial Center for Biodiversity - Bolivia

$189,970 (30 Months)

National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica

Benin National Biodiversity Information System

$182,319 (30 Months)

NatureServe Policy Review (2015)

How biodiversity information informs national policy in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

$94,000 (18 Months)

New York Botanical Garden (2009)

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

$ 199,410 (36 Months)

Office National pour l’Environnement

Lemur Atlas Technical Assistance

$35,000 (27 Months)

Ohio State University (2015)

Revitalizing Hexacorallians of the World

$7,000 (12 Months)

South African National Biodiversity Institute (2012)

Mobilizing Africa's Biodiversity Data

$246,000 (30 Months)

Universidad Central de Venezuela (2012)

Neotropical Leaf Beetles

$92,494 (24 Months)

Universidad de los Andes

Páramo Plants Online

$139,700.00 (36 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 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)

WCN - Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program

Improving Ethiopian Wolf Monitoring

$64,600 (36 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - Camera Traps (2014)

Camera Trap Data Repository for Biodiversity Monitoring

$202,929 (24 Months)

Wildlife Conservation Society - Madagascar (2015)

Project Planning Grant for the ‘Madagascar Lemurs Portal’

$29,000

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Freshwater

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.

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Pollinators

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.

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Capacity

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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