For the sake of the planet, we must change the conservation career path from one of exclusion and privilege to one of inclusion and growth.
Grant Programs
Mid-Year Grant Program
Thanks to our generous donors who helped make our year-end fundraising goal a success, we are now offering a mid-year Established Conservationist grant program for spring of 2022.
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The Conservation Nation Grant Program offers funding to help save animals and their ecosystems around the world by building a stronger, more diverse wildlife conservation community. We believe that only by supporting each other and breaking down barriers to expand the number and diversity of conservationists in the fight will we be giving this challenge all we’ve got.
2023 Grant Program
The application portal for the 2023 Conservationist Grant Program is open. Grant criteria, requirements, and other important information is now available.
2022 Mid-Year Grantees
We are excited to announce our newly awarded Mid-Year Established Conservationist grantees, Nina Attias, Lorna McCallister, and Dawn Zimmerman.
2022 Fall Grants
We are pleased to announce our Fall 2022 Grants Program for Established and Emerging Conservationists! Learn about the programs and proposal requirements below. Our online application portal will be open from August 15 though August 29.
Established Conservationists
Emerging Conservationists
Grant Project Distribution
2024 Grantees
Each year, we welcome conservationists to our dedicated and diverse network of wildlife champions. Their projects aim to conserve various species from threats like climate change, poaching, and deforestation, while promoting human-wildlife co-existence.
Each of their focal species is as diverse as the grantees themselves, and while their projects may vary, each grantee shares the same ultimate goal: to protect and conserve the species they love.
Chikmagalur, India
Delmarva Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley, USA
Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Indonesia
Northwest Kunene Region, Namibia
Central Highlands, Vietnam
National Forest of Nazinga, Burkina Faso
Bhutan
Nagaland, India
Madagascar
Mombasa, Kenya
North and South Dakota, USA
Bono East Region, Ghana
2023 Grantees
Each year, we welcome conservationists to our dedicated and diverse network of wildlife champions. Their projects aim to conserve various species from threats like climate change, poaching, and deforestation, while promoting human-wildlife co-existence.
Each of their focal species is as diverse as the grantees themselves, and while their projects may vary, each grantee shares the same ultimate goal: to protect and conserve the species they love.
Golfo de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico
North San Francisco Bay Area, California
Chaco and Pampen Regions, Argentina
Vohibe Forest, Madagascar
Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea
Santa Marta-Magdalena, Colombia
Colombian Amazon Basin
Nijhum Dweep National Park, Bangladesh
Teluk Dalam Island, Indonesia
Madagascar
Chiquitano Dry Forest, Bolivia
Bauchi State, Nigeria
Jangamo Bay, Mozambique
Fall 2022 Grantees
Last fall, we welcomed nine conservationists to our dedicated team of wildlife champions. Each of their focal species is as diverse as the grantees themselves: from Sunda gharials to Himalayan Old World leaf warblers and Himalayan black bears, Antillian manatees to large-antlered muntjacs, Weddell seals to Perret’s toads, and Peruvian bats to Hawaiian waterbirds. While their projects may vary, each grantee shares the same ultimate goal: to protect and conserve the species they love.
Estero Hondo, Dominican Republic
Nepal
Berbak-Sembilang National Park, Jambi, Sumatra
Hawaii
Idanre, Nigeria
Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos
Northwestern Peru
Erebus Bay, Antarctica
Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India
Spring 2022 & 2021 Grantees
Our Established Conservationist grant program supports critical, wildlife-saving work being done by mid-career conservationists from historically underrepresented groups such as women, people of color, and Indigenous people, and those from disadvantaged communities. These grantees will share their work and knowledge and become mentors for our emerging conservationists and youth conservationists.
Yellowstone National Park
USA-Mexico Border
Namunyak Conservancy, Kenya
Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
Armenia
Southeastern Arizona
Bach Ma National Park, Central Vietnam
Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania
Yellowstone National Park
Cerrado Savanna, Brazil
Bimini, Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas
Marañón Watershed, Peru
Established Conservationists
Our Established Conservationist grant program supports critical, wildlife-saving work being done by mid-career conservationists from historically underrepresented groups such as women, people of color, and Indigenous people, and those from disadvantaged communities. These grantees will share their work and knowledge and become mentors for our emerging conservationists and youth conservationists.
Bach Ma National Park, Central Vietnam
Marañón Watershed, Peru
Nassau, Bahamas
Cerrado Savanna, Brazil
Mkomazi National Park, Tanzania
Namunyak Conservancy, Kenya
Nepal
Emerging Conservationists
Our Emerging Conservationist grant program supports conservationists beginning their careers who have the passion and ideas to help save the planet but not the privilege, access, and networks that hold back so many from success. This program provides funding for emerging conservationists to underwrite internships and professional development activities. They will work together with us to become mentors and role models for the next generation and will, in turn, receive mentoring from our established conservationists.
Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park
USA-Mexico Border
Southeastern Arizona
Bimini, Bahamas
Armenia
Estero Hondo, Dominican Republic
Berbak-Sembilang National Park, Jambi, Sumatra
Hawaii
Idanre, Nigeria
Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos
Northwestern Peru
Erebus Bay, Antarctica
Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India
What's New
Grant Program Updates
Fall 2022 Emerging Conservationist Grant Program
We are no longer accepting applications for this grant program. The Conservation Nation Grant Program provides funding to help save endangered animals and their ecosystems
Fall 2022 Established Conservationist Grant Program
We are no longer accepting applications for this grant program. The Conservation Nation Grant Program provides funding to help save endangered animals and their ecosystems
Mid-Year Established Conservationist Grants
Thanks to our generous donors who helped make our year-end fundraising goal a success, we are offering a Mid-Year Established Conservationist Grant Program for spring of 2022.
2021 Grant Winners
Established and Emerging Conservationists
Tatjana Washington
Tatjana Washington is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose mission is to provide solutions
Parker Levinson
Parker Levinson is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 Emerging Conservationist grant winners. She grew up in Monterey, California, and received her B.A. in environmental sciences
Morgan Hughes
Morgan Hughes is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She graduated from Utah State University with a B.S. in wildlife management and
Established Conservationists
Conservation on the (Rivers’) Edge
Last summer, I spent over two months conducting the exploratory assessment phase of my dissertation research in the Loreto region of the northern Peruvian Amazon.
Giorgia Auteri
Giorgia Auteri is Conservation Nation’s 2022 established conservationist grant winner. She developed an interest in wildlife conservation at an early age after observing the effects
Nina Attias
Nina Attias is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 Established Conservationist grantees. She is a Brazilian conservation biologist with over 15 years of experience in ecological
Emerging Conservationists
Tatjana Washington
Tatjana Washington is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist whose mission is to provide solutions
Parker Levinson
Parker Levinson is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 Emerging Conservationist grant winners. She grew up in Monterey, California, and received her B.A. in environmental sciences
Morgan Hughes
Morgan Hughes is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She graduated from Utah State University with a B.S. in wildlife management and
Minh Nguyen
Minh Nguyen is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She was born near the Annamite Mountain Range, a biodiversity hotspot that runs
Lotanna Micah Nneji
Lotanna Micah Nneji is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. He was born and raised in Nigeria, which sparked his passion and
Jaime A. Botet Rodriguez
Jaime A. Botet Rodriguez is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. Originally from Gurabo, Puerto Rico, Jaime holds a B.S. in natural
Herdhanu Jayanto
Herdhanu (Dhanu) Jayanto is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. He is originally from Indonesia, and is currently pursuing his master’s degree
Fátima Ramis
Fátima Ramis is one of Conservation Nation’s 2022 emerging conservationist grant winners. She holds a B.S. in biology from Stetson University and an M.S. in
Maddy Jackson
Maddy Jackson is one of Conservation Nation’s 2021 emerging conservationist grant winners. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2017 with a BS in
Elise Loggers
Elise Loggers is one of Conservation Nation’s 2021 emerging conservationist grant winners. After obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, she spent three consecutive years
Carlisle Segal
Carly Segal is one of Conservation Nation’s 2021 emerging conservationist grant winners. Carly spent her childhood in northern California exploring tidepools, streams, forests, and mountains
Cirenia Torres
Cirenia Torres is one of Conservation Nation’s 2021 emerging conservationist grant winners. Cirenia has an MS from USC. Her thesis was titled “Assessing the Connectivity
