The Future For Nature Foundation is looking for the next three Future For Nature Award winners. The application for 2024 FFN Awards is now open!
Future For Nature is welcoming applications for the annual FFN Awards for the seventeenth consecutive year. We are looking for natural leaders aged between 18 and 35 who have proven they can be a factor in the protection of wild species as well as how nature will evolve in the coming years.
Each year, young, skilled, and ambitious natural conservationists from all over the globe shoot to win this prestigious award. Then, three exemplary wildlife heroes are chosen as the winners. This FFN Award not only provides winners with a prize of EUR50,000 to help them in their conservation efforts and gain international recognition and connections to our vast network of conservationists. The winners will be part of FFN as part of the FFN Family, allowing them to be in contact with others, share their knowledge, and even collaborate with colleagues.
Through FFN Award FFN Award, former winners could help start their non-profit associations to increase their nature- or community-based initiatives, and come up with new conservation strategies and projects. For instance, Pieter van Wyk, who was a 2023 winner of the award, created his Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden & Nursery, which grew into an evolving gene bank that holds seeds as well as plants. Rebecca Cliffe, one of the FFN award recipients in 2022 created the first “Wildlife safe zones within Costa Rica to provide a secure reintroduction zone for sloths, as well as other species. 2021 FFN winner Monica Torres designed biological corridors that protect further and expand the habitat that is available to the Campbell’s alligator in and between the three distribution zones.