TRANSFORMING GLOBAL AMBITION INTO GRASSROOTS ACTION

Whitley Fund for Nature is a UK charity. We have channelled £23 million to 220 conservation leaders in 80 countries across the Global South, benefiting wildlife, landscapes and people.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Whitley Awards

We’ve begun the search for our next cohort of Whitley Award winners. Are you a conservationist leading an inspiring project in your home country? You could be among the next Whitley Award winners! Find out more here.

Sir David Attenborough narrates this new film about Purnima Devi Barman, winner of the 2024 Whitley Gold Award.

WFN's top prize is awarded annually to a Whitley Award alumnus who has also received Continuation Funding. This laddered support allows successful conservation solutions to be scaled up; Purnima is a wildlife biologist from Assam, India, whose work to protect the Greater Adjutant Stork has seen the population quadruple and empowered more than 10,000 women as advocates for the bird.

A Masterclass from Conservationists on Ingenuity and Hard-Earned Hope for Nature

Applications are open until 31 October 2024.

A look behind the scenes of the 2024 Whitley Awards week in London…

A celebration of our globally #SharedFuture

Announcing this year’s recipients of world-leading prizes for grassroots wildlife conservation…

On 1 May, we celebrated the newest cohort of Whitley Award winners, six incredible conservationists from across the Global South working to safeguard our #SharedFuture

conservation and climate change

WFN is one of 15 organisations urging world leaders to increase support for locally-led solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises, in a joint open letter at COP26.

The WFN funding stream supporting community-led action for conservation and climate.

Your opportunity to offset carbon through a Whitley Award-winning reforestation project in Brazil.