Deadline: 31 July 2017
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-New Zealand is seeking applications for its Habitat Protection Fund to support communities to run projects that conserve and restore New Zealand’s natural environment – freshwater, coastal, wetlands, forest and dunelands.
WWF-New Zealand believes that providing assistance to communities to take conservation action is vital to conserving biodiversity in New Zealand. WWF-New Zealand runs the HPF with the support of the Tindall Foundation and is the Foundation’s Environmental Funding Manager.
Aims
- To support community groups delivering local habitat protection and restoration projects protecting and restoring New Zealand’s most vulnerable habitats
- To protect and restore habitats that WWF-New Zealand identifies as a priority
- To promote increased coordination of habitat protection and ecological restoration on a catchment or landscape scale
- To raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation in the wider community
- To encourage communities to become guardians of their environment, becoming active partners in protecting, sustaining and restoring our biodiversity for present and future generations
- To increase the scale and effectiveness of community-led conservation action to achieve this.
Priorities
The WWF Habitat Protection Fund gives preference to projects that are working to protect areas of high conservation value. The priorities this year are:
- Areas with an active community involvement in conservation
- Freshwater environments and their catchments
- Coastal and dune systems
- Wetlands and estuaries
- Lowland and coastal forest communities
- Habitats of threatened indigenous species
Funding Information
- A maximum of NZ$15,000.
- Projects can be funded for up to three consecutive years, but new applications will need to be made for each successive year.
Eligibility Criteria
- The WWF Habitat Protection Fund is targeted at local community conservation groups based and working in New Zealand engaged in hands-on ecological restoration or conservation.
- WWF does not fund national or regional umbrella groups.
How to Apply
Applicants can download the application form via given website.
Eligible Country: New Zealand
For more information, please visit Habitat Protection Fund.