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Are you passionate about using technology to protect nature? The Tech4Nature Award is your opportunity to showcase how digital tools can make a difference in conservation efforts worldwide.
This Award is part of Tech4Nature, a global partnership – launched in 2020 by Huawei and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – to scale up success in nature conservation through technological innovation.
The Tech4Nature Award recognises creative and impactful uses of digital technology in nature conservation. Whether you’ve developed a tool that helps monitor wildlife populations, manage protected or conserved areas, or improve the status of species conservation, this Award is here to shine a spotlight on your work.
The Award is open to anyone who is using appropriate technology and digital solutions to drive real-world change in the way we make informed actionable decision making on the status of species and their conservation.
Recognising outstanding technology and digital Solutions that contribute significantly to the conservation of natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and wildlife. This category supports the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – Target 3, which aims to conserve 30% of land, waters, and seas by 2030, through innovative digital tools or applications.
Highlighting initiatives that leverage technology to protect, conserve, and recover threatened species listed on the IUCN Red List. This category emphasises the importance of addressing major threats to species and improving their conservation status through the use of advanced technological methods.
Celebrating the role of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and other organisations as stewards of biodiversity. This category recognises efforts to spearhead species and area-based conservation through inclusive, ethical, and community-driven approaches.
There will also be a special recognition for collaborations between conservation and technology sectors, celebrating the teamwork that is making conservation more effective.
The Tech4Nature Award aims to achieve several key objectives. It celebrates the collaborative spirit and partnership achievements in leveraging appropriate technology and digital solutions for nature conservation and sustainable development.
The Award seeks to showcase successful examples of how technology can be applied to address conservation challenges while encouraging the submission of new, transformational innovations. By increasing the number of documented Solutions, it enhances the visibility of partners developing and applying appropriate nature tech, fostering global recognition for impactful initiatives.
Additionally, the Award facilitates matchmaking between changemakers and potential donors and partners, promoting the uptake and application of existing Solutions to tackle pressing conservation and sustainable development challenges.
By submitting your Solution, you’ll not only have the chance to win of the three Tech4Nature Award categories, but also join a global community of innovators. If your Solution meets the PANORAMA criteria, it will be published on the PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet platform, which had nearly 250,000 website visits in 2023. This will give your Solution significant visibility alongside nearly 100 tech-based Solutions that are already making a real difference in conservation.
If you’re still wondering what a tech Solution on PANORAMA might look like, here’s an example: Acoustic monitoring is being used to protect the critically endangered Hainan Gibbon, showing how technology can actively support species conservation in real-time. It’s just one of many innovative Solutions making an impact.
Eligible applicants include individuals, groups, or organisations that use innovative technology and digital solutions to advance area-based or species conservation. This may include, but is not limited to:
All applicants will be required to declare conflicts of interest, including any associations with members of the Award judging panel.
We encourage applications from candidates whose projects promote equity, inclusivity, and intergenerational collaboration, with particular emphasis on youth from the Global South, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and young female leaders and innovators.
The submission deadline for the Tech4Nature Award has now passed, but the information remains online for reference.
If you submitted a Solution on the PANORAMA platform, this automatically served as your application for the Tech4Nature Award.
We encourage you to continue following the Award and its next steps. We have received many exciting and inspiring submissions, and we look forward to sharing more updates soon!
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We believe that technology has the power to transform the future of nature conservation. By joining the Tech4Nature Award, you’re helping to shape that future. Whether you’re working on a tech Solution or interested to start to explore how technology can support nature, we invite you to be part of this exciting initiative.
You can download the Call for Applications PDF, and please share it within your networks to help spread the word, and encourage other inspiring partners to share their Solutions.
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