Deadline: 14-Jan-2025
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is pleased to announce the call for Landscape Restoration Grants.
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme (ELSP) is working to restore nature, demonstrating and delivering a vision for Europe’s landscapes and seascapes where:
- Populations of wild animals and plants flourish;
- There is space for the natural functioning of ecological processes;
- The cultural, social and economic values of nature to people are supported and respected; and
- Nature and people are resilient to ecological shocks and stresses such as climate change
Funding Information
- The amount awarded per project will be between US$1.5 Million (minimum) and US$5 Million, over five years.
Eligible Projects
- Applications are invited for landscape restoration projects that:
- Restore nature and ecosystem processes at landscape scale to address global, regional or national biodiversity conservation priorities (for species and habitats).
- Establish large-scale systems of continuous or ecologically connected habitat where natural processes are given increased freedom to generate natural patterns and distributions of species (reducing the need for conservation management in the long term) and which enhance ecosystem and species resilience to the impacts of climate change.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of the mechanism through which they will help overcome one or more barriers to ecosystem recovery (be they ecological, legal, social, economic or political), enabling restoration processes to become self-sustaining.
- Are developed and delivered through a process that involves engagement or partnership with the main landowners and natural resource users, which can show they have support from key actors (state, private, NGOs, communities) within the project area, and which can demonstrate positive community impact.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisation eligibility:
- Applications are invited from partnerships, where organisations contribute according to their individual and complementary experience, expertise and resources.
- They strongly encourage organisations that may not have all the skills and experience required to deliver a landscape restoration project at scale to partner with an international organisation that can provide support with institutional strengthening and capacity building.
- Collaborations may include international and national NGOs, national and local government agencies, research organisations, utilities companies, community organisations, local landowners, social enterprises, the private sector and others. Government agencies, for-profit companies and individual private landowners should not be major beneficiaries of Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme funding.
- Lead partners for grants must:
- Be not-for-profit organisations.
- Be non-governmental organisations.
- Have previously managed grants of no less than 60% the amount being requested from the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme.
- Be well-established and currently or very recently active in the project landscape.
- Have prior experience of the type and size of project proposed.
For more information, visit Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme.