Future Conservationist Award

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Future Conservation Awards: your first step as a conservation leader.

The call for applications to our 2025 Future Conservationist Awards is open. We invite proposals from teams of early-career conservationists addressing global conservation priorities at a local level. Applications should be submitted via the online application portal by the deadline: 18 October, 2024.

Our award-winners will receive a grant of up to US$15,000 plus training, mentorship, and continuous support through our extensive global alumni network.

Main eligibility criteria:

  • Proposed projects must be focused on protecting at-risk species such as those listed as Data Deficient, Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List;
  • Projects must take place in an eligible country and last between three to 12 months;
  • Project teams must include at least three people;
  • All team members must be early in their careers (i.e., have less than five years of professional conservation experience);
  • All team members must be nationals of the country in which the project will take place, although one team member can be a non-national if this is clearly justified in the application.
  • For more details on our eligibility criteria, we recommend you carefully read these guidelines on our Future Conservationist Awards.

Please note: If you have previously received a Future Conservationist Award, you are eligible to apply again, as long as your project meets the following criteria:

• Your initial CLP project is successfully closed
• Your new project relates to a different species
• Your new project works on the same species but in a different site of your country.

Resources

Here are some useful resources to help you with your application: