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.
WHITLEY AWARDS 2024 CEREMONY ON-DEMAND
Watch the Whitley 2024 Award Live Ceremony in full. Filmed in front of a live audience at the Royal Geographical Society in London, 1st May 2024.
2024 Whitley Award winners
View AllSir 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.
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View AllMeet the 2024 Whitley Award winners!
Announcing this year’s recipients of world-leading prizes for grassroots wildlife conservation…
Whitley Awards 2024: A message from founder Edward Whitley
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
Read the 2024 Whitley Awards Booklet
Learn more about WFN’s work and meet the 2024 Whitley Award winners in this year’s ceremony booklet.
The 2024 Whitley Awards
Save the date: On Wednesday 1st May we reveal this year’s Whitley Award Winners
2024 Whitley Awards: Meet the shortlist
Introducing this year’s top 15 applicants
Meet the latest Continuation Funding winners
To close our 30th anniversary year, WFN awarded £1.4 million in Continuation Funding in 2023 – our largest ever round of funding!
conservation and climate change
Our open letter to world leaders
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.
Nature-Based Solutions
The WFN funding stream supporting community-led action for conservation and climate.
Tackling your carbon footprint with WFN & IPÊ
Your opportunity to offset carbon through a Whitley Award-winning reforestation project in Brazil.