Arcadia Fund

20 grants

Grants from Arcadia (arcadiafund.org.uk) supporting nature, culture, and open access.

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Legacy Landscapes Fund advocacy

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Global Impact

To support Legacy Landscapes Fund's public fundraising campaign in the run-up to COP17. Amount: $117,000.

Awarded 2026 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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Legacy Landscapes Fund Learning Event

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Legacy Landscapes Fund

To support the costs of a workshop for Legacy Landscape Fund's partners to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing. Amount: $54,000.

Awarded 2025 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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Protecting biodiversity through law

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Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Scoping grant to explore a regranting programme on protecting biodiversity through law. Amount: $110,000.

Awarded 2024 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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Supporting restoration leaders

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Center for International Forestry Research

To support eight young, local restoration leaders to attend the COP16 and Global Landscapes Forum events in Cali, Colombia in October 2024. Amount: $15,000.

Awarded 2024 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants

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Legacy Landscapes Fund

Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia). Amount: $25,000,000.

Awarded 2023 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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EU Nature Restoration Law

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European Climate Foundation

To provide support to environmental organizations, citizen groups and grassroots movements to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law. Amount: $1,100,000.

Awarded 2023 · 1 year · Ends 2027
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Saving Nature's Strongholds

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Wildlife Conservation Society

To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas. Amount: $8,000,000.

Awarded 2023 · 2 years · Ends 2028
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To build and protect strong legislative mechanisms for nature conservation and restoration in Europe.

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European Climate Foundation

To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience. Amount: $2,754,000.

Awarded 2025 · 2.5 years · Ends 2028.5
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Underground Explorers Programme

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks

To support the programme's work to map and protect soil fungal diversity. Amount: $1,500,000.

Awarded 2024 · 3 years · Ends 2029
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Halcyon Land & Sea and core support

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Fauna & Flora

To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and to support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats. Amount: $18,000,000.

Awarded 2023 · 3.5 years · Ends 2029.5
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Core support

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Peace Brigades International

To support Peace Brigades International's work to protect environmental defenders. Amount: $2,472,000.

Awarded 2025 · 4 years · Ends 2030
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Core support.

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Environmental Defenders Collaborative

To support the Environmental Defenders Collaborative's work to provide funding for environmental human rights defenders. Amount: $1,210,000.

Awarded 2025 · 4 years · Ends 2030
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Oceans 5 General Fund

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans. Amount: $12,500,000.

Awarded 2024 · 5 years · Ends 2031
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Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund

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The Nature Conservancy

To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative. Amount: $6,000,000.

Awarded 2024 · 5 years · Ends 2031
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Joint 30x30 Funding Initiative

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

To support a joint grant programme with Bloomberg Philanthropies for work towards the target of protecting 30% of the world’s marine and coastal areas by 2030. Amount: $25,000,000.

Awarded 2023 · 5 years · Ends 2031
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Biodiversity and habitat governance

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ClientEarth

To support ClientEarth’s work using legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance. Amount: $6,250,000.

Awarded 2023 · 5 years · Ends 2031
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Support for the Forest Campaign

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Global Witness

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. Amount: $3,795,000.

Awarded 2023 · 5 years · Ends 2031
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Core support

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TRAFFIC

Core support for TRAFFIC’s work to reduce illegal and unsustainable trade in wild species, and increase social, economic, and environmental benefits for people though legal and sustainable trade in wild species. Amount: $5,240,000.41.

Awarded 2024 · 6 years · Ends 2032
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Core support

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Oceana Inc

To support Oceana's campaigns to protect and restore marine habitats. Amount: $14,000,000.

Awarded 2025 · 7 years · Ends 2033
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Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme

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University of Cambridge

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich terrestrial and marine habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. Amount: $71,648,800.

Awarded 2023 · 8 years · Ends 2034
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