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Wildlife
- Close
- - We protect wildlife in Britain and around the world by bringing our most threatened species back from the brink of extinction. We do this through ground-breaking research, practical conservation and education, all with the help of our supporters.
Wild places
- Close
- - Some habitats contain such a richness of life that we need to protect them at all odds. We are working to preserve ancient woodlands, orchards and wood pastures and parklands, as well as the countless species they support.
What we do
- Close
- - Everything we do is based on scientific evidence. We gather this through surveys, which you can take part in, and by awarding research grants to the most inspiring scientists worldwide. This evidence guides our conservation efforts and is shared through our events and publications.
Who we are
- Close
- - People’s Trust for Endangered Species was set up in 1977 to save our wildlife. We are governed by a board of volunteer trustees and our team of staff are passionate about protecting endangered species and places.
Success stories
- Close
- - We strive to bring our most threatened species in the UK and around the world back from the brink of extinction. Our successes come from ground-breaking research, practical conservation and education, all with the help of our supporters.
Get involved
- Close
- - There are so many ways you can help save endangered species. Fancy taking part in a survey, joining us on a wildlife event or becoming a regular supporter?
Shop
- Close
- - Support our work in our shop with a range of charity gifts, home-ware, cards and more. 100% of the profits go directly to help wildlife both in the UK an overseas.
Donate
- Close
- - There is nothing natural about the alarming rate at which we are losing animals and their homes. It is absolutely avoidable. We can stop the loss of our wildlife – but we need your support. You can act now by choosing to give to our cause. Thank you.

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Apply for a grant

People’s Trust for Endangered Species offers a variety of grants for research and conservation work here in the UK and around the world.

We award PTES Conservation Insight Grants to projects all around the world. If you are based in a country other than the UK and working on a species listed by the IUCN as endangered or more threatened, please click on the Worldwide grant criteria tab below, to read our guidelines and see if you are eligible to apply. If you are working in the UK on a non-mammal species, then you may also be eligible for one of our Conservation Insight Grants. Please note that we do not fund work on bird species or general habitat management.
If you are working on a UK mammals project please select the UK Mammals Grants criteria tab below to read our guidelines and check the latest deadline.
If you would like to apply to our PTES Wildlife Conservation Internship Programme, having completed a bachelors or masters, please select the intern tab below.

UK mammals grant criteria Worldwide grant criteria Internship grant criteria

Conservation Evidence

PTES is a partner on the Conservation Evidence Project, a University of Cambridge initiative, as one of their Evidence Champions. The Conservation Evidence Project (www.conservationevidence.com) summarises the scientific evidence on different conservation interventions that people have carried out, all around the world.

Their work so far includes comprehensive information on the conservation of birds and bees, frogs and forests. There is also information on work relating to many other taxa and in the next few years detailed work on other taxa will be added. For some projects, there will not yet be relevant evidence on the Conservation Evidence website; we encourage you to consult other evidence if available, but this will not prejudice your application.

Crucially, this information is made freely available, so anyone can read it and see what has worked – and what hasn’t. However, some conservation groups are still not using the available science, meaning they may not be as effective as they could be in conserving nature. As an Evidence Champion, PTES is keen to fund experimental conservation work, which tests actions that are undertaken in order to prove what does and what doesn’t work.

We would like all our grantees to check the evidence for their proposed projects on the Conservation Evidence website. This will help us to fund the projects with the highest chance of success. We will also be encouraging the conservationists that we fund to test their work and publish it in Conservation Evidence’s journal, so we can be constantly improving conservation science. For examples of how to reference Conservation Evidence in your application please click here.

If you have any questions relating to whether your proposed work either has been trialed previously or whether it can be adapted to be more effective, please email nida.al-fulaij@ptes.org.

The information that you provide will be held by People’s Trust for Endangered Species. For information on how PTES processes personal data, please see our privacy policy. You can change how you hear from us via enquiries@ptes.org or by calling 020 7498 4533. The information collected through this grant application, is shared with a number of experts for assessment and to help guide conservation action. This data never includes your personal details.