£200,000 - Darwin Initiative

We are thrilled to announce that applications for Darwin Initiative Round 32 are now open.

The aim of the Darwin Initiative is to support communities to find just, scalable, and sustainable ways to conserve and restore nature while growing their economies and reducing poverty. Darwin Initiative grants enable real impact on the ground. Since 1993, the Darwin Initiative has invested over £289 million in more than 1,370 projects. These grants have empowered communities to more sustainably manage millions of hectares of precious natural habitats. These landscapes, from ancient forests and vital peatlands to rich ocean ecosystems, shelter endangered wildlife, lock away carbon, and help secure the food we all depend on. Darwin Initiative grants have also enabled more than 100,000 people to improve their resilience to natural disasters and climate change, including communities in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Putting these numbers into context, one current Darwin Initiative project in Indonesia is enabling large-scale conservation across West Papua’s globally important land- and seascapes. Communities and authorities now manage over 1.3 million hectares of biodiverse forests and fisheries more effectively and have achieved UNESCO designation of a 12.6-million-hectare Biosphere Reserve – boosting the global profile of Indonesia’s biodiversity and embedding nature into regional planning and development.