Impact Funding Resources
The Satellites for Biodiversity Award opens its fourth call, helping conservationists apply cutting-edge geospatial tools, including very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery, artificial intelligence (AI) and in-situ data to reveal critical details of our changing planet.
End Date19 Dec 2025 Funding AmountUSD 6k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderConnected Conservation Foundation
Grant
Connected Conservation Foundation
Award open for global applications:
Run by the Connected Conservation Foundation and the Airbus Foundation, this award provides conservationists with access to Airbus’s state-of-the-art satellites, including AI-enhanced Pléiades Neo HD15 imagery, delivering sharper, artefact-free views.
This grant can help map habitats and biodiversity in fine detail, build better training data sets, track land-use change at scale, and guide actionable strategies for conflict hotspots, restoration, and ecosystem protection.
We encourage all applications to integrate participation from local communities and meet one of these criteria:
STATE OF SPECIES
Projects focusing on the state of species abundance, distribution and extinction risks to threats from environmental, social or commercial pressures. These projects assess threat level (IUCN Red List threat level), population sizes and extinction drivers, including changes in habitat area and quality.
INVASIVE SPECIES
Projects investigating introducing, spreading and managing invasive plant or animal species.
ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Projects that track and inform management practices and operations, especially within or near biodiversity-sensitive areas. Including early-warning solutions that enable a response to mitigate conservation issues.
ECOSYSTEM CONNECTIVITY
Projects examining changes to “spatial configuration,” “structural connectivity,” and “functionality connectivity” - focusing on maintaining or enhancing the physical, biological and ecological linkages within and between ecosystems.
ECOSYSTEM CONVERSION AND RESTORATION
Projects identifying and analysing the change in natural spaces to managed systems or built-up areas, as well as efforts to restore areas to their natural state.
