Biodiversity conservation, sustainable tropical forest management, promotion of scientific research, climate change and strengthening climate resilience for communities are some of the topics that have funding available in July 2025.

 

Discover opportunities that can enhance conservation and sustainable development! 

 

• For Woman in Science. The L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Program awards outstanding women in life, environmental, physical, mathematical and computer sciences. In addition to awarding international prizes, the program supports promising young women researchers in more than 140 countries, highlighting their significant contributions and promoting gender equality in science globally. Closing date: July 4. Apply here.

 

• 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards. The award seeks to highlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring and scalable locally-led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and strengthen climate resilience in vulnerable communities, social sectors and individuals, especially those on the front lines of this existential threat to humanity. Closing date: July 6. Apply here.

 

• Science & SciLifeLab Young Scientist Award. The Science & SciLifeLab Young Scientist Award aims to boost the careers of the next generation of researchers by recognizing and rewarding early-stage scientific excellence, offering a key financial incentive (USD $30,000 for the grand prize and USD $10,000 per category) in a challenging global context. It seeks to retain research talent, strengthen the scientific community -an essential engine for economic development- and disseminate innovative findings through publications in Science and digital platforms, thus ensuring visibility and continuity in critical fields for the future.. Closing date: July 15. Apply here.

 

• RELX Environmental Challenge. To recognize and support innovative projects that offer practical and sustainable solutions to ensure access to safe drinking water and sanitation, addressing concrete needs and generating positive impacts in complementary areas such as health, education or human rights. The challenge seeks to reward initiatives with real applicability, awarding significant funding (USD $50,000 for first place and USD $25,000 for second place) and providing access to cutting-edge scientific resources through ScienceDirect, in order to enhance the knowledge and scalability of the winning solutions. Closing date: July 27th. Apply here.

 

• Freezailah Scholarship Fund. ITTO offers fellowships through the Freezailah Fellowship Fund to promote human resource development and strengthen professional expertise in member countries in tropical forestry and related disciplines. The objective is to promote the sustainable management of tropical forests, the efficient use and processing of tropical timber, and improved economic information on the international tropical timber trade. Closing date: July 28th. Apply here.

 

• Turtle Conservation Fund. The Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) is a coalition of strategy and funding partnerships of leading turtle conservation organizations and individuals whose goal is to ensure the long-term survival of tortoises and freshwater turtles. TCF awards grants to fund direct research and conservation expenditures for turtle projects and programs. Closing date: December 1. Apply here.

 

• Grants from Rapid Response Facility (RRF). The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) provides emergency support to natural World Heritage sites in times of crisis. The RRF is a partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Fauna & Flora International (FFI). RRF grants are available to natural UNESCO World Heritage sites. The RRF only funds actions at a site facing an ‘emergency’ threat to its biodiversity. They do not fund ongoing problems, even if they require urgent action. Closing date: No deadline. Apply here.

 

• Grant program from OFID. Its focus areas are: (1) energy; (2) agriculture; (3) water and sanitation; (4) health; and (5) education. OFID has several financing schemes that include public sector lending (the main pillar of OFID's operations), private sector support and grant financing. Its grant program focuses on (1) technical assistance, (2) support to the people of Palestine, (3) energy poverty, (4) HIV/AIDS program, (5) research and similar intellectual activities, and (6) emergency relief. Closing date: No closing date. Apply here.

 

• Rufford Grants Program. This grant program offers grants for nature conservation projects in the developing world. There are five consecutive funding schemes: Rufford Small Grant, 2nd Rufford Small Grant, Booster Grant, 2nd Booster Grant and Completion Grant. The overriding requirement is that the work must be pragmatic in nature and have a substantial and lasting impact on the issue in question (conservation). There will often be a significant human element to a successful proposal, with community education and involvement being very important. The Foundation has a broad scope of interest. In addition to the conservation of animals in their habitat, it also wishes to support conservation work focused on threatened habitats and other organisms such as plants, fungi or insects. Closing date: No closing date. Apply here.

 

• Reece Foundation Grant. Support local initiatives that help communities in Australia and overseas to access clean water, sanitation or food security through irrigation.. Closing date: No closing date. Apply here.

 

• The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation is an organization whose primary mission is to protect the environment, ensure food security and improve public health in developing regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. To fulfill this purpose, the Foundation specializes in financing innovative projects that offer practical solutions to local challenges, strengthen human capital and develop institutional capacities in three strategic areas: ecosystem conservation, sustainable agriculture and public health systems. As part of its intervention model, the Foundation prioritizes support for pioneering initiatives through seed funding for applied research, demonstration projects and training programs, with special emphasis on those proposals located in areas with limited access to financial resources. Its ultimate goal is to serve as a catalyst for these projects to achieve sustainability and scale their impact with the support of other investors. Apply here.

 

• Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund 2025. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund is an innovative philanthropic organization that awards small grants to direct-action, field-based species conservation projects for the world's most threatened species. The Fund was created to provide targeted grants for individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field of species conservation, and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Apply here.