Deadline: 28-Feb-25
Wildlife Habitat Canada (WHC) is currently accepting applications for its grant program to fund both in-year securement expenses and associated securement costs of fee simple land or Conservation Agreements.
The Government of Canada is investing a further $90 million to their initial $100 million investment (2019-2023), over the next 3 years in the Natural Heritage Conservation Program (from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2026) as a continuation of the Budget 2018’s Nature Legacy initiative. This funding will be shared by conservation partners including the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Ducks Unlimited Canada, and Canada’s community and regional land trusts.
The NHCP is a public-private partnership designed to advance privately protected areas in some of the country’s most cherished landscapes.
Objectives
- Shared and mutually beneficial conservation objectives may include:
- Where parcels occur in a cluster, connectivity/continuity of protected lands, providing increased ecosystem integrity and risk mitigation for climate change or as key wildlife corridors.
- Where parcels are more geographically dispersed, intact habitat for a particular species-at-risk or protection of rare ecosystem types, priority habitats or protection of key stopover points on migratory pathways.
Funding Information
- Per program year, applicants are permitted to submit one project per Application Form with a funding ask between $50,001.00 and $1,000,000.00. Applicants may choose to submit up to 3 Large Grant project Application Forms with a combined total ask of up to $1,250,000.00/ per organization (this would require that an application be submitted for each proposed project), or a single Large Grant project for a minimum ask of $50,001.00 and maximum ask of $1,000,000.00.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply to the Land Trusts Conservation Program (LTCF), applicants must meet all the criteria below:
- Applicants must be a Canadian Land Trust;
- Applicants must be a registered Canadian charity; and,
- Applicants must be in compliance or working towards substantial compliance with the Canadian Land Trust Standards and Practices (2019)
For more information, visit WHC.