Announcing WWF’s Arctic Community Wildlife Grants Program

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is happy to announce that submissions are open for the WWF Arctic Community Wildlife Grants program.

The program provides grants of up to about $25,000 per project per year for conservation, stewardship, and research initiatives that focus on coastal US Arctic ecology, community sustainability, and priority Arctic wildlife, including polar bears, walrus, ice seals, belugas, bowhead whales, and Arctic seabirds in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas and adjacent coastal areas.

Grants are intended to address community concerns and achieve meaningful outcomes for the conservation of Arctic wildlife and the people who depend on them. The 2023 pilot phase of this program advanced our understanding of beluga whale movements in the Yukon River through collaboration with Yup’ik hunters and utilization of underwater hydrophone technology.