National Geographic has an open funding opportunity related to understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on the natural world. The details are below:

Funder: National Geographic Society

Opportunity name: COVID-19 Science Fund

Focus: Proposed projects should seek to better understand and/or provide solutions to the situations created or magnified by the pandemic, thereby helping us to understand and address the challenges and changes of living in a COVID-19 world. The fund invites research, conservation, and technology projects on:

  1. Community-based and inclusive conservation
  2. Impacts of tourism changes on cultural heritage sites and wildlife

Amount: up to $50,000

Eligibility: Only applications that propose activity in the applicant’s country of residence will be considered

Deadline: 31st March 2021

Find out more: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/covid-19-science-fund/