Future for Nature Awards 2026 (up to €50,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 25, 2025

Are you a younger (between 18 to 35 years outdated) and devoted nature conservationist dedicated to defending wild species? Do you mix ardour with motion to create concrete ends in nature conservation? Are you the way forward for nature? Apply now for the Future for Nature Award 2026!

Future For Nature helps younger, proficient and impressive conservationists dedicated to defending species of untamed animals and crops. The dedication of those people is what is going to make the difference for our planet’s biodiversity and the way forward for nature. Through their management they encourage and mobilize communities, organizations, governments, buyers and the general public at giant.

Benefits

• Each 12 months, FFN awards three younger, proficient, and impressive nature conservationists with the FFN Awards. This award supplies the winners with worldwide recognition, €50,000 for their nature conservation work, and a heat welcome to the rising FFN Family!
• Winners will current their work on the Future for Nature Awards occasion at Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The occasion will happen in May 2026. Travel and lodging bills will probably be lined by the Future for Nature Foundation.

Eligibility

• The Candidate:
  • Must be a person, not an organisation, programme, or group of people.
  • Must be born on or after May 31, 1991 (Maximum age of 35 years outdated on the 2026 FFN Awards occasion) and earlier than August 31, 2007 (minimal age of 18 years outdated on the time of submitting your application).
  • Has achieved substantial and lengthy-time period advantages to the conservation standing of a number of wild species.
  • Has demonstrated dedication, willpower, and fervour for conservation work.
  • Has demonstrated management, entrepreneurship, and a transparent view of conservation work.
  • Has been inventive and modern of their work.
  • Has demonstrated to be honourable within the conservation work carried out.
  • Must be decided to proceed their conservation work, because the Award goals to stimulate the winner’s future work. It shouldn’t be an “end of career” prize.
  • Is ready to clarify their conservation work in proficient English (written and spoken).
• The Application:
  • Must be based mostly on the continuing conservation work of the candidate and never a challenge proposal. Future For Nature is a basis that presents Awards to particular person nature conservationists and isn’t a challenge funding organisation. Therefore, they don’t consider challenge proposals.
  • Must be written by the applicant and replicate the work and conservation imaginative and prescient of the applicant in their very own phrases. The use of AI instruments is permitted for steering solely; when direct copying or pasting of AI-generated content material is suspected, the application might be excluded from the choice course of.
• The Award:
  • Should be used for a conservation initiative of the winner’s personal selection and applied by them.
  • Should be used for the conservation of untamed species. The conservation initiative can contain a part of (elementary) analysis, however this shouldn’t be the primary focus. The relevance of the proposed actions to wild species conservation and the sensible impression needs to be made clear.

Application

The deadline for your application is on the twenty fifth of August 2025, at 23:59 (CEST). 

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For extra info, go to Future for Nature Awards.