Deadline: May 8, 2023 | Fund for Protected and Conservation Areas (EDGE) 2023
The EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund 2023 is now accepting applications. The Rainforest Trust, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), and a coalition of conservation NGOs are pleased to announce a daring new US$ 5,000,000 partnership to safeguard and conserve habitat for some of the most endangered and distinctively evolved species in the world.
The EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund will award grants to regional Civil Society Organizations. Working to establish or expand protected and conserved areas for EDGE species—species that are uniquely adapted to their environments and are most vulnerable to extinction—across the tropics and subtropics.
| Title: | Fund for Protected and Conservation Areas (EDGE) 2023 |
| Nationality: | Global |
| Amount: | between $5,000 and $10,000 |
| Deadline: | May 8, 2023 |
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| WhatsApp Link: | Click Here |
| Telegram Link: | Click Here |
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, On The Edge Conservation, Re:wild, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Synchronicity Earth, and the Zoological Society of London are partners in the EDGE Protected and Conserved Fund, which receives financing from the Rainforest Trust.
Awards
Two different types of awards are offered by the EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund:
- Rapid Feasibility Awards: to encourage environmentalists and academics to assess significant possible locations for new Protected Areas. Awards often range between $5,000 and $10,000.
- Full Awards: initiatives having a distinct goal of establishing new protected or conserved areas or enlarging already existing protected or conserved areas.
Eligibility
The following requirements should be met by applications for full awards:
- Unmistakable attention paid to the establishment of new protected areas or the growth of existing ones. This can be accomplished through land purchases, designation as a National Park or other officially recognized protected area, conversion of logging concessions to reserves, long-term land leases, land-titling, or other mechanisms that support indigenous ownership and management with the formal requirement that the indigenous or community lands will be managed for conservation.
- On a case-by-case basis, the establishment of additional effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) may be taken into consideration for project eligibility if they effectively preserve habitat over the long term and otherwise meet the requirements.
- The proposed sites must be unprotected at the moment. To find out if the area is already protected (category 1-6), consult the IUCN’s World Database of Protected Areas or other publicly accessible data. Exceptions: By virtue of these designations, Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites, or RAMSAR Reserves are not regarded as being formally protected.
- Project stakeholders, especially local populations, should support projects. All projects must get the free, prior, and informed (FPIC) consent of all impacted communities.
- The goal of projects should be to provide long-term funding sources for managing the proposed protected area.
- Projects need to adhere to the following requirements:
- Be in a subtropical or tropical area.
- Pay special attention to any CR or EN EDGE species (please refer to the curated list) that lacks protection at the moment anywhere in its range or any VU EDGE species that shares habitat with other CR or EN unprotected species.
- Address the most important recommendations from an action plan already in place, such as the IUCN SSC species action plans, national action plans, or the EDGE Survival Blueprint, particularly the ones that call for the creation of protected areas for important populations.
- The identified species must be present at the proposed site, according to current, verifiable evidence.
Application requirements for Rapid Feasibility Awards should be as follows:
Applications must to demonstrate a strong desire to create a new Protected Area and at least one of the following:
Analyze the ownership of a site that is not protected;
Determine whether CR and EN species are present and how numerous they are on an unprotected location;
investigate the legal procedures for, if necessary, purchasing the long-term lease of land that has been gazetted or perhaps declaring the site as a nationally recognized protected area;
A protected area could be established by negotiating land prices and assessing the willingness of landowners to sell their property.
Application
The application process is conducted in accordance with Rainforest Trust’s standard operating procedure. Organizations that are interested in applying must:
- A Concept Note and GIS file must be finished and submitted. Here is a link to a Concept Note template. The proposed Protected or Conserved Area’s boundaries should be displayed in the GIS file, which should be a Shapefile, KML, or KMZ file.
- Fill out the application and submit it. If your project meets the requirements based on your Concept Note, you will be called to start working on a more thorough Application.
- A group of EDGE Alliance members will assess applications, but the Rainforest Trust Board of Directors will make the final decision. The normal commencement date for approved full awards is six months after the aforementioned application deadlines. Applications for Rapid Feasibility Awards can start as soon as they are authorized.
Rapid Award applications will be evaluated continuously. By May 8, 2023, applications for Full Awards must be submitted.
Information about applications should be sent to info@edgeofexistence.org.
Visit the EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund for further details.
| Title: | Fund for Protected and Conservation Areas (EDGE) 2023 |
| Nationality: | Global |
| Amount: | between $5,000 and $10,000 |
| Deadline: | May 8, 2023 |
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| WhatsApp Link: | Click Here |
| Telegram Link: | Click Here |
