{"id":6203,"date":"2023-04-25T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:48:45","slug":"protected-and-conserved-area-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/protected-and-conserved-area-fund","title":{"rendered":"Protected and Conserved Area Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"small-12 large-9 columns post-content\">\n<h4><span id=\"ZSL_Rainforest_Trust_and_an_alliance_of_conservation_NGOs_partner_to_launch_a_new_fund_aimed_at_safeguarding_EDGE_species\">ZSL, Rainforest Trust and an alliance of conservation NGOs partner to launch a new fund aimed at safeguarding EDGE species.<\/span><\/h4><div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><ul><li><a href=\"#ZSL_Rainforest_Trust_and_an_alliance_of_conservation_NGOs_partner_to_launch_a_new_fund_aimed_at_safeguarding_EDGE_species\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_2\">0.1<\/span> ZSL, Rainforest Trust and an alliance of conservation NGOs partner to launch a new fund aimed at safeguarding EDGE species.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"#Types_of_Award\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Types of Award<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Eligibility_criteria_forFull_Awards\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Full Awards<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Eligibility_criteria_forRapid_Feasibility_Awards\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Rapid Feasibility Awards<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#How_to_apply\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">4<\/span> How to apply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<p>ZSL, Rainforest Trust and an alliance of conservation NGOs are proud to announce a bold new US$ 5,000,000 partnership to protect and conserve habitat for the world\u2019s most threatened and evolutionarily distinct species.<\/p>\n<p>The EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund will provide grants to local Civil Society Organizations that are focused on creating or expanding protected and conserved areas for EDGE species \u2013 species that are evolutionarily distinct and at the highest risk of extinction \u2013 across the tropics and subtropics.<\/p>\n<p>The EDGE Protected and Conserved Fund is a partnership between Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, On The Edge Conservation, Re:wild, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Synchronicity Earth and the Zoological Society of London with funding provided by Rainforest Trust.<\/p>\n<p>The EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund will prioritize the establishment or expansion of protected areas for EDGE species based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Any CR or EN EDGE species (please consult this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgeofexistence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023_EDGE_species_RT_call.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">curated list<\/a>) that are currently unprotected in any part of their range; or VU EDGE species that overlap with other CR or EN unprotected species.<\/li>\n<li>Projects that address priority <a title=\"National Bamboo Development Strategy and Action Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/development-of-the-national-bamboo-development-strategy-and-action-plan\">actions from an existing action plan<\/a>, including IUCN SSC species action plans, specifically those calling for the establishment of protected areas for key populations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Special attention will also be given to unprotected Alliance for Zero Extinction sites holding EDGE trigger species, although this is not a pre-condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Types_of_Award\">Types of Award<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund is making two types of grants available:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rapid Feasibility Awards<\/strong>: to encourage conservationists and researchers to evaluate important potential sites for <a title=\"Rainforest Trust: Creating New Protected Areas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/rainforest-trust-creating-new-protected-areas\">creating new Protected Areas<\/a>. Awards average $5,000-10,000. Applications for Rapid Awards will be reviewed on a rolling basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Awards<\/strong>: projects with a clear focus on creating new protected or conserved areas or the expansion of existing protected or conserved areas. Applications for Full Awards are due by 08 May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, if you are currently applying to Rainforest Trust for <a title=\"Local Project Support\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/local-project-support\">support for your project<\/a>, you will not be eligible for additional funding through the EDGE Protected and Conserved Area Fund.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Eligibility_criteria_forFull_Awards\">Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Full Awards<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Applications for Full Awards should meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clear focus on creating a new protected area or the expansion of existing protected areas. This can be through land purchase, designation as a National Park or other officially recognised protected area, conversion of logging concessions to reserve, long-term land lease, or land-titling or other mechanism of providing for indigenous ownership and management with the formal stipulation that the indigenous or <a title=\"Science Communication Course\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/science-communication-course\">community lands will be managed for conservation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) may be considered for <a title=\"Funding for Conservation Projects\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/funding-for-conservation-projects\">project eligibility on a case-by-case basis where they provide for effective long-term conservation<\/a> of habitat and otherwise meet the criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Proposed sites must be currently unprotected. Use IUCN\u2019s World Database of Protected Areas or other nationally available data to determine if the area is already recognized as protected (category 1-6). Exceptions: <a title=\"Award for Biosphere Reserve Management\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/award-for-biosphere-reserve-management\">Biosphere Reserves<\/a>, World Heritage Sites or RAMSAR Reserves are not considered to be officially protected by virtue of these designations.<\/li>\n<li>Projects should have endorsement from project stakeholders, especially local communities. All <a title=\"Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) invites proposals for project funding\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/global-biodiversity-information-facility-gbif-invites-proposals-for-project-funding\">projects are expected to obtain Free Prior and Informed<\/a> Consent (FPIC) from any impacted communities.<\/li>\n<li>Projects should seek to <a title=\"Action Awards for Sustainable Development Goals\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/action-awards-for-sustainable-development-goals\">develop sustainable<\/a> financing mechanisms for long-term management of the proposed protected area.<\/li>\n<li>Projects must meet the following conditions:\n<ul>\n<li>Be in the tropics of subtropics.<\/li>\n<li>Focus on any CR or EN EDGE species (please consult the curated list) that is currently unprotected in any part of its range; or a VU EDGE species that overlaps with other CR or EN unprotected species.<\/li>\n<li>Address priority actions from an existing action plan, including IUCN SSC species action plans, <a title=\"Action Plan for the National Engineered Wood Sector Development Framework\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/action-plan-for-the-national-engineered-wood-sector-development-framework\">national action plans<\/a>, or EDGE Survival Blueprint, specifically those calling for the establishment of protected areas for key populations.<\/li>\n<li>There must be recent, verifiable evidence that the named <a title=\"Call for proposals \u2013 Citizen Science for Species Discovery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/call-for-proposals-citizen-science-for-species-discovery\">species occurs within the proposed<\/a> site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Eligibility_criteria_forRapid_Feasibility_Awards\">Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Rapid Feasibility Awards<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Applications for Rapid Feasibility Awards should meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n<p>Applications should exhibit clear intent to establish a new Protected Area and one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate land tenure of an unprotected site;<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the presence and abundance of CR and EN species within an unprotected site;<\/li>\n<li>Investigate legal processes for potentially designating the site as a nationally recognized protected area or acquiring the long-term lease of gazetted land, where appropriate;<\/li>\n<li>Negotiate land prices and gauge willingness to sell privately owned land; or<\/li>\n<li>Assessments of <a title=\"Vermont House passes Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection bill (H126)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/vermont-house-passes-community-resilience-and-biodiversity-protection-bill-h126\">community and government interest in protected<\/a> area establishment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span id=\"How_to_apply\">How to apply<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The <a title=\"PhD opportunity \u2013 call for application\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/phd-opportunity-call-for-application\">application process follows the standard procedure for Rainforest Trust opportunities<\/a>. To be considered, interested organizations must:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Complete and submit a <a title=\"PhD Research Concept Note: Invasion, impacts and management of Prosopis and Water Hyacinth in Tanzania\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/phd-research-concept-note-invasion-impacts-and-management-of-prosopis-and-water-hyacinth-in-tanzania\">Concept Note<\/a> and GIS file<\/strong>. A template for the Concept Note can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgeofexistence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Concept-Note_Template_v2.3_EDGEAlliance-1.docx\">here<\/a>. The GIS file should\u00a0show the boundaries of the proposed Protected or Conserved Area and be a\u00a0Shapefile, KML or KMZ file.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complete and submit an Application<\/strong>.\u00a0Based on your <a title=\"Call for Concept Notes for Regional Innovation Collaboration Projects in eastern Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/call-for-concept-notes-for-regional-innovation-collaboration-projects-in-eastern-africa\">Concept Note<\/a>, if your project fits our criteria, you will be contacted to begin work on a more detailed Application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Applications will be reviewed by a panel of representatives of the EDGE Alliance, but final approval rests with Rainforest Trust\u2019s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Approved Full Awards typically start no earlier than 6 months after the above Application deadlines. Once Applications for Rapid Feasibility Awards are approved, they can begin soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember:<\/strong> Applications for Rapid Awards will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications for Full Awards are due by 08 May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Applications should be submitted to <a href=\"mailto:info@edgeofexistence.org\">info@edgeofexistence.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZSL, Rainforest Trust and an alliance of conservation NGOs partner to launch a new fund aimed at safeguarding EDGE species.Contents0.1 ZSL, Rainforest Trust and an alliance of conservation NGOs partner to launch a new fund aimed at safeguarding EDGE species.1 Types of Award2 Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Full Awards3 Eligibility criteria for\u00a0Rapid Feasibility Awards4 How to apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}