Submissions open for Fonseca Species Conservation Fund

Deadline: 30 March 2025

The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund (FSCF) is for early career conservationists 35 years of age and younger in GEF-recipient countries to either start or progress their careers.

Categories

Amphibians
Freshwater fish
Primates
Small mammals
Tortoises and freshwater turtles

Funding Information

The fund provides grants of up to $25,000 to support conservation efforts for five threatened species groups — amphibians, freshwater fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises and freshwater turtles — in urgent need of intervention and conservation action.

Eligibility Criteria

All applicants must be between 18-35 years of age.
Species that meet the following criteria AND are native to the geography of the request for proposals are eligible for the fund:
- Amphibians species in the Class Amphibia.
- Freshwater fish excluding anadromous and catadromous species (spending parts of their life cycles in both freshwater and marine environments).
- Primates in the families: Cercopithecidae, Aotidae, Atelidae, Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Pitheciidae, Tarsiidae, Galagidae, and Lorisidae.
- Small mammals in the Orders Rodentia and Eulipotyphla.
- Tortoises and freshwater turtles in the Order Testudines excluding the marine turtle families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae.
- Proposals should address any species requiring conservation action. However, priority consideration will be given to proposals addressing the conservation needs of globally threatened species in the following categories on the IUCN Red List: EW, CR, EN, and VU.
For the third request for proposals (RFP), the applicant/project leader must be a citizen of the following GEF-recipient countries AND the target species must be native to these same countries (the species range country and the applicant citizenship country do not need to be the same):
- Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.