Land Purchase for Conservation

Land Purchase for Conservation is sponsored by World Land Trust. The World Land Trust provides funding for the acquisition of land that has conservation importance and funds additional activities related to protection, habitat restoration, and biodiversity monitoring.

Project Proposal Guidelines - World Land Trust Project Proposal Guidelines WLT Application Guidelines Before applying for support from World Land Trust (WLT), please read the following Guidelines and carefully assess if your project and organisation meet the criteria. Concept notes or organisations that fall outside these criteria will not be supported by WLT.

WLT’s mission is to help people across the world protect and restore their land to safeguard biodiversity and the climate. Working through a network of partner organisations around the world, WLT funds the creation of reserves and provides permanent protection for habitats and wildlife.

Partners are typically non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or not for profit/charitable organisations, and with shared objectives around the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems.

However, we may also support other organisations, including those with a focus in other areas (for example, development NGOs and indigenous organisations), if these can deliver effective actions for bringing land into conservation and are unable to secure other funding for these activities.

The type of project supported by WLT WLT funding aims to create long-term and sustainable support for on-the-ground conservation activities, including land acquisition, protected area creation, reserve protection and ecosystem restoration.

WLT prioritises supporting projects in countries with high levels of biodiversity and which have the fewest resources available for biodiversity protection – consequently we focus our support to organisations based in the Global South. The main project activities supported by WLT are the creation of protected areas and the protection and restoration of threatened habitats.

Project activities may include land acquisition through a range of mechanisms including land purchases, conservation easements, community reserves, and the legal declaration of protected areas (gazetting).

WLT’s core focus is on bringing new areas of land into conservation protection, but we also support activities that support this core objective including habitat protection (e.g. rangers and patrols), habitat restoration, community activities that are essential for the success of new areas, research and monitoring, and income generation activities that support the financial sustainability of newly created areas or organisations.

These latter activities are not funded on their own and would only be considered if they are part of a wider conservation project with the creation or expansion of reserves as the main objective. All WLT funded projects need to have clear benefits, and no net negative impact to biodiversity, communities and the climate. If you have not done so already you will first be prompted to set up an account and create a password.

Setting up your account and then subsequent submission of a concept is self-explanatory. One thing to highlight is that you need to add and then select the organisation you are applying on behalf of (this is because you can use the Grants Connect portal to apply on behalf of more than one organisation). You will only need to set up the organisation once, (i.e. on your first application).

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