GRANT: Biodiverse Landscapes Fund

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Biodiverse Landscapes Fund Early Market Engagement Event Biodiversity is declining across the world faster than at any other time in human history. In the past 50 years, human pressures have increased while populations of animals, on average, have more than halved. The global rate of species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and is accelerating. Drivers of biodiversity loss include habitat loss and land use change (including urban development and agricultural intensification), pollution, invasive species, unsustainable resource use and climate change. To address the challenges facing nature today, the UK Prime Minister announced at the 2019 UN General Assembly a £220 million International Biodiversity Fund. This includes a new £100m Biodiverse Landscapes Fund to restore key landscapes and their ecosystems. The joint Defra-DFID Biodiverse Landscapes Fund will deliver lasting protection and improvement of biodiversity in five global biodiversity hotspots, by aligning nature conservation and human development objectives at a landscape scale. Each landscape will be eligible for up to £20m over 5 years. We intend to begin projects in two initial landscapes by April/May 2021, with the next three to begin 6-9 months later. Early Market Engagement (EME) Event We are hosting an information day for interested potential delivery partners on Monday 24th February 2020. You are invited to join one of the two web conferences we are hosting – one at 0930-1130 GMT, and one at 1430-1630 GMT. For more information on how to access this event you need to register your interest on Bravo.