The second call for proposals for SOS Endangered Species Grants is now open and will be closed on 22 June 2012. Please click here to download the call for proposals.

SOS - Save Our Species, is a global coalition initiated by three founding partners that are IUCN, the GEF (Global Environment Facility) and the World Bank to build the largest species conservation fund. Field support for conservation projects around the world. SOS has combined the resources and funding experience of the World Bank and the GEF (Global Environment Facility), the technicality of IUCN, and the resources and ingenuity of the private sector to create a mechanism that ensures sufficient funding to support species conservation projects wherever it will have the greatest impact.

The second call for proposals for “SOS - Let's save our species” is now open. SOS - Save our species is a joint initiative of IUCN, the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank and supported by Nokia and the French Global Environment Facility (FFEM). Its aim is to ensure the long-term survival of endangered species and their habitats. Since its launch in October 2010 in Nagoya, SOS has already financed 28 projects targeting endangered mammals, birds and amphibians in more than 27 countries.

Endangered species grant applications will only be accepted for the following strategic directions:
• Endangered vertebrates in tropical Asian terrestrial areas; • Endangered small marine mammals;
• Endangered cycads
• Endangered
cycads • Endangered freshwater animals of Africa

The eligible countries are:

asia

• > bangladesh
• > china
• > india
• > indonesia
• > kazakhstan
• > Lao People's Democratic Republic
• > mongolia
• > malaya
• > pakistan
• > philippines
• > russia
• > Sri Lanka
• > thailand
• > vietnam

africa cameroon

• > Congo (DRC)
• > kenya
• > madagascar
• > Mozambique
• > namibia
• > nigeria
• > Sierra Leone
• > tanzania
• Latin America

> columbia

• > Ecuador
• > guatemala
• > Mexico
• > Mexicque