About Future for Nature Awards
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: July 03, 2025
- Application Deadline: August 25, 2025
- Category: Contest
- Oppotunity Locations: Netherlands
Are you a young (between 18 to 35 years old) and dedicated nature conservationist committed to protecting wild species? Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature conservation? Are you the future of nature?
Benefits of Future for Nature Awards
Each year, FFN awards three young, talented, and ambitious nature conservationists with the FFN Awards.
- The winners each receive 50,000 euros and the prestigious FFN Award
- This award provides the winners with international recognition for their work and opens doors that were previously closed.
- FFN offers the winners a platform and brings their stories to the attention of conservationists, financiers, and a wide audience, allowing them to increase their impact and gain more access to funds.
- They also give the (former) winners an extra stage via the Future For Nature Academy. This is an independently functioning committee, which is active in several Dutch cities for and by students with the aim of inspiring students to become active in nature conservation and to offer them resources such as lectures, networking, and workshops.
- FFN is building a growing Family of (previous) winners, dedicated people who form a community of like-minded people. FFN offers them the opportunity to meet each other and continue to learn with each other in order to continue their fight for nature as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Future for Nature Awards Requirements
1) The Candidate:
- Must be an individual, not an organisation, programme, or group of individuals.
- Must be born on or after the 31st May 1990 (Maximum age of 35 years old at the 2026 FFN Awards event) and before the 31st of August 2007 (minimum age of 18 years old at the time of submitting your application).
- Has achieved substantial and long-term benefits to the conservation status of one or more wild species.
- Has demonstrated commitment, determination, and passion for conservation work.
- Has demonstrated leadership, entrepreneurship, and a clear view of conservation work.
- Has been creative and innovative in their work.
- Has demonstrated to be honourable in the conservation work performed.
- Must be determined to continue their conservation work, as the Award aims to stimulate the winner’s future work. It is not an “end of career” prize.
- Is able to explain their conservation work in proficient English (written and spoken).
- Must have a minimum gap of one year between applications. Therefore, if you applied for the 2025 Future For Nature Award (application submission in summer 2024), you are not eligible to apply for the 2026 Future For Nature Award.
2) The Application:
- Must be based on the ongoing conservation work of the candidate and not a project proposal. Future For Nature is a foundation that presents Awards to individual nature conservationists and is not a project funding organisation. Therefore, we do not evaluate project proposals.
- Must be written by the applicant and reflect the work and conservation vision of the applicant in their own words. The use of AI tools is permitted for guidance only; when direct copying or pasting of AI-generated content is suspected, the application can be excluded from the selection process.
3) The Award:
- Should be used for a conservation initiative of the winner’s own choice and implemented by them.
- Should be used for the conservation of wild species. The conservation initiative can involve a component of (fundamental) research, but this should not be the main focus. The relevance of the proposed activities to wild species conservation and the practical impact should be made clear.
Additional:
- Winners will present their work at the Future For Nature Awards event at Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The event will take place in May 2026. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the Future For Nature Foundation.
- Future For Nature will not allow administrative deductions to be made or claimed by mother organisations.
- From all applications, 6 to 12 nominees will be shortlisted. These applicants will be required to provide additional information (which may include photos and/or video) that will be used for the selection of the three awardees.
Application Date and Process
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Application Deadline
25 August, 2025
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