📣 The Boring Fund 2025 is now open! 🧠
Investing in the essential infrastructure of conservation technology.
- Total funding: $80,000 USD
- Grant size: up to $12,500 per project (smaller amounts encouraged) DevelopmentAid+11Opportunity Desk+11Funds for NGOs+11
- Deadline: August 19, 2025 at 23:59 BST
Eligibility
We welcome applications for projects that may be considered “boring to fund” by traditional standards, as long as they address a relevant need within the conservation technology space.
We are looking for proposals that strengthen the core, often-overlooked components of the following conservation technologies:
- AI / Machine learning
- Bioacoustics
- Bio-loggers / Animal tracking
- Camera traps
- Data management and processing platforms (e.g., Movebank, Wildlife Insights, Zooniverse)
- GIS and remote sensing (satellite, multispectral, and thermal imagery, LiDAR)
- eDNA & genomics
- Mobile apps & citizen science platforms
- Non-AI computational tools (e.g., R, Python, statistical software)
- Networked sensors
- Protected area management tools (e.g., SMART, EarthRanger)
- Remote sensing & GIS
- UAVs / Drones
We will also consider applications that address at least one of the following conservation challenges:
- Biodiversity and/or environmental monitoring
- Captive breeding
- Citizen science
- Climate change / Resilience
- Habitat loss or destruction (e.g., deforestation)
- Endangered species & ecosystems
- Illegal or unsustainable fishing (IUU)
- Human-wildlife conflict and coexistence
- Invasive species
- Pollution
- Protected area management and planning
- Scientific research
- Species protection
- Wildlife crime / Illegal wildlife trade / Poaching