Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Department of Conservation has announced the applications for Threatened Species and Ecosystems to support community-led conservation projects on public and private land
Funding Information
- There is $7.2 million available in the 2022/23 funding round for threatened species and ecosystems projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Fund is aligned with the Te Mana o Te Taiao the Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy to address their biodiversity crisis. Projects must reduce the extinction risk of priority threatened species and/or protect and enhance threatened ecosystems. Applications must support biodiversity priorities identified across New Zealand.
- You can apply to this funding stream if the project:
- Reduces the extinction risk of priority threatened species (limited to those defined as Nationally Critical, Nationally Endangered or Nationally Vulnerable) at their priority management sites or protects and enhances priority ecosystems (guided by the Top 850 Ecosystem Management Units, Ngā Awa sites, Marine Reserves and Rare and Threatened Ecosystem types)
- Is community-led (For example, led by whānau, hapū, iwi, community conservation groups, not-for-profit organisations or umbrella groups. Government departments and local authorities cannot apply.)
- Seeks funding for up to 3 years
- Is for a minimum of $30,000.
Note: The individual or group applying to the fund must be the same individual or group who will run the project.
Assessment Criteria
- Your application will be assessed on the following criteria.
- The extent of biodiversity benefits that the project will deliver, specifically reducing the extinction risk of priority threatened species and/or protecting and enhancing priority ecosystems.
- The extent to which the project will deliver wider conservation benefits, including volunteer effort, stakeholder collaboration, co-design work and partnerships that connect New Zealanders with nature.
- Recognition will be given to projects that support Te Ao Māori and mātauranga Māori, respecting tangata whenua values and aspirations for the environment.
- The readiness of the project, including the feasibility of objectives and methods, required skill sets and capability to deliver the project, and provision of a reasonable and realistic project budget and timeframe.
- The likelihood that, and extent to which, project benefits will be sustained.
Ineligible
- The fund cannot support:
- Retrospective costs (i.e. costs incurred prior to a Deed of Grant being signed)
- Reimbursement of landowner time or voluntary labour
- Activities that individuals, organisations or councils are required to do by law
- Proposals that are designed to generate personal or commercial profit
- The development of an activity for which public use will be restricted by copyright or patent
- Debt repayment or the refinancing of loans
- Participation in statutory processes or litigation
- On-funding (i.e. using grant to issue grants to third parties)
- Vehicle purchase
- Venture capital
- Land purchase
- Academic scholarships
- Local and central government fees and charges, with the exception of fees associated with submitting an application for resource consent but excluding costs for the public notification of an application and other associated costs (eg related to hearings).
For more information, visit Threatened Species and Ecosystems.
