People's Trust for Endangered Species Worldwide Grant
Overview
People’s Trust for Endangered Species offers a variety of grants for research and conservation work here in the UK and around the world.
- They award PTES Conservation Insight Grants to projects all around the world. If you are based in a country other than the UK and working on a species listed by the IUCN as endangered or more threatened, please select on the Worldwide grant criteria tab on their webpage. If you are working in the UK on a non-mammal species, then you may also be eligible for one of their Conservation Insight Grants. Please note that they do not fund work on bird species or general habitat management.
- If you are working on a UK mammals project please select the UK Mammals Grants criteria on the webpage.
- If you would like to apply to their PTES Wildlife Conservation Internship Programme, having completed a bachelors or masters, please select this tab on the webpage.
Worldwide Grant (PTES Conservation Insight Grants)
2025: They have introduced a two-stage application process for their Conservation Insight Grants in 2025, pre-applications must be submitted by 23.59 (UK time) on Thursday 29th May 2025. See website for more information about the new application process. Projects should start no earlier than January 2026.
Their Conservation Insight Grants are for projects focusing on endangered species for up to two years. They award funds between £3,000 and £10,000 per annum up to a maximum total of £20,000.
Funds will be awarded for work that aims to generate the scientific evidence that will facilitate the conservation of a species. The evidence may include testing a conservation intervention to address a particular threat, or answer a key conservation question, which will enable conservationists to undertake critical conservation action.
High priority projects include:
- Gathering evidence needed to undertake necessary mitigation work
- Using scientific evidence to get changes made to local, national or international policy
- Devising and testing a new methodology for monitoring a species or group of species
Priority is also given to applications for conservation and research work on species classified as endangered, critically endangered and extinct in the wild by the IUCN.
They only accept grant requests from applicants already working and established in either the UK, UK overseas territories or any country NOT classified by the World Bank as high-income. Please go to the World Bank web page to check if your country applies. Priority is given to native project leaders working in their own country.
Please note they are no longer accepting any grant applications – for either worldwide or UK work – on bird species. For organisations that do support projects on birds please visit Terra Viva grants.