Rainforest Trust

Project Grant Applications should meet the following criteria: - Clear focus on creating a new protected area or the expansion of existing protected areas. * This can be through land purchase, designation as a National Park or other officially recognised protected area, conversion of logging concessions to reserve, long-term land lease, or land-titling or other mechanism of providing for indigenous ownership and management with the formal stipulation that the indigenous or community lands will be managed for conservation. - Proposed sites must be currently unprotected. Use IUCN’s World Database of Protected Areas to determine if the area is already recognized as protected (category 1-6). Exceptions: We do not consider Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites or RAMSAR Reserves to be officially protected by virtue of these designations. - Projects should have endorsement from project stakeholders, especially local communities. - All projects are expected to obtain Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of any impacted communities. - Projects should seek to develop sustainable financing mechanisms for long-term management of the proposed protected area.