Introduction
Funders have adopted a range of practices to ensure that the evidence is used. This allows funders to understand the work in the context of the wider evidence-base and allows applicants to critically assess the justification for, and hopefully help to improve, their project. Some funders are also encouraging and supporting tests of actions. If you need more information on what an Evidence Champion is and how to become one, visit the Become an Evidence Champion page.
Bat Conservation International
BCI’s mission is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet. Bats are vital to our world’s ecosystems and economy, but hundreds of species are under threat. BCI works worldwide to conserve caves, restore critical habitats in danger, and ensure the survival of bats. Founded in 1982, BCI has grown into a globally recognized conservation organization dedicated to ending bat extinctions. As a science-based and results-focused organization, BCI’s strategic plan outlines high impact conservation efforts focused on four core missions to execute our work: (1) Implement endangered species interventions, (2) Protect and restore landscapes, (3) Conduct high-priority research and develop scalable solutions, and (4) Inspire through experience.
Visit www.batcon.org
Biodiversity Challenge Funds
Biodiversity Challenge Funds (BCFs) is the collective name for three of the UK Government's competitive grants, Darwin Initiative, IWT Challenge Fund and Darwin Plus, aimed at conserving biodiversity and safeguarding the environment for local people.
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is working to deliver a vision for the future in which European landscapes are enriched with biodiversity, establishing resilient, more self-sustaining ecosystems that benefit both nature and people. The ELSP aims to achieve this by:
- Funding the implementation of a suite of large-scale restoration initiatives that will bring back nature and be sources of inspiration.
- Supporting participatory planning and development of innovative landscape restoration initiatives.
- Creating the conditions for wider restoration through capacity building, sharing best practice and lessons learned from its funded projects, and demonstrating the environmental, social and economic benefits of landscape restoration.
The Helvellyn Foundation
The Helvellyn Foundation is a family-run grant making foundation that funds biodiversity organisations globally.
Mossy Earth
Mossy Earth is a social enterprise dedicated to protecting and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem processes through targeted field interventions. It works with a wide range of partners to identify, plan and implement interventions that will achieve these objectives. Mossy Earth seeks to implement interventions that provide the best return on investment both in the local sense (most effective way to restore a species, habitat or natural process) and in the global sense (focusing on the type of intervention and ecosystem more likely to yield widely positive outcomes). The work is funded by individual members and businesses that provide recurring financial support. By creating engaging content about these interventions and sharing it through social media, Mossy Earth also aims to make its operations more transparent and appealing to a wider audience. In line with these objectives, Mossy Earth is interested in improving its approach to using and generating conservation evidence and to reporting intervention costs.
Visit www.mossy.org
Natural Cambridgeshire
Natural Cambridgeshire is the Local Nature Partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It brings together representatives from local government, conservation groups, communities, landowners, farmers and developers in a shared ambition to double the space for nature in the county. Through ambitious programmes of habitat and species recovery, wider land stewardship and the safeguarding of existing wildlife sites, Natural Cambridgeshire will facilitate partnerships with the ambition that Cambridgeshire will become an exemplar for the landscape scale restoration of the natural environment.
People's Trust for Endangered Species
People’s Trust for Endangered Species has been improving the outlook of endangered species in Britain and throughout the world for over 40 years. They invest in research and test the best ways to protect endangered species in their natural habitats. Then they put what works into action, creating vibrant wildlife havens. They fund work on UK mammals, species worldwide and internship projects.
Visit www.ptes.org
The Rufford Foundation
The Rufford Foudation funds nature conservation projects across the developing world. To date the Foundation has awarded grants to over 5200 projects in 153 countries. It encourages projects on the conservation of neglected or less well known species, habitat protection at a wider scale, and local community involvement. Through its conference programme, the Foundation encourages the sharing of knowledge and best practice throughout the conservation world.
Visit www.rufford.org
USFWS Division of International Conservation
The US Fish & Wildlife Service Division of International Conservation works with others to conserve the world’s diverse wildlife and their habitats. USFWS international programs collaborate with a range of partners and annually administer $20-30M in grants to support species and regional conservation in Latin America, Asia and Africa, to promote and develop individual, organizational and governmental capacity, and to combat wildlife trafficking.
Whitley Fund for Nature
Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is a fundraising and grant-giving nature conservation charity. Established in 1993, it has channelled £23 million to 200 conservation leaders in 80 countries across the Global South, benefitting wildlife, landscapes, and people. They offer long term, laddered support to courageous changemakers leading local solutions to the global biodiversity and climate crises; they are acting on the latest science and igniting projects with passion. Through these award winners they support work rooted in communities that creates lasting benefits for wildlife, landscapes and people.
Visit www.whitleyaward.org
Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest charity dedicated to the conservation of woodland in the UK. We own over 1,000 sites across the UK, covering around 28,000 hectares and we have 500,000 members and supporters. Our conservation activities focus on the protection, creation, restoration and management of native woodlands and trees in the context of the wider landscape – both rural and urban. We are seeking to achieve a network of woods and trees that are bigger, better, more joined up and great in number than before. Delivering landscape-scale conservation requires a collaborative approach, working with partner organisations, landowners and communities to develop diverse, wildlife-rich and resilient landscapes that engage and benefit people. The Woodland Trust research programme funds and supports research to underpin our approach to conservation. We target our involvement in research activities to ensure that our objectives for woods and trees are informed by the best available evidence.
Visit www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
Zhilan Foundation
The Zhilan Foundation was established in January 2019 as a pure grant-making charity. The Zhilan Foundation promotes biodiversity conservation, as well as rural revitalization and ecological civilization construction, by providing small, flexible, and long-term funding support to frontline researchers and practitioners. The Foundation focuses on conserving endangered and critical species/ecosystems beyond well-funded charismatic species/ecosystems and aims to provide the necessary resources to empower true actors.
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