Nature, Biodiversity & Environmental Quality
Support for innovative solutions that contribute to environmental protection and diversity.
Preserving biodiversity means protecting all the living species (animals, plants, insects etc.) that make up our ecosystems. Today this biodiversity is shrinking, a victim of factors such as climate change, pollution, over-exploitation and the destruction of natural habitats. Faced with such an enormous challenge, numerous groups are rallying to the cause. The King Baudouin Foundation is also acting to protect the environment and biodiversity.
Our activities
- the development of environmental and biodiversity projects
- proposing innovative solutions to philanthropists who would like to contribute to environmental protection and diversity.
Protecting the environment and biodiversity is part of the programme Climate, the environment and biodiversity
Calls for projects
2025 Ernest Solvay Fund
Fostering STEM Education, Planet progress and better life for communities around Solvay
Ongoing
2022 Ernest du Bois Prize for doctoral students
Support of a doctoral research on the theme of water
Selection announced
Fonds Bikes in Brussels - Call for projects 2022 B
Support for efforts in development and equipment to encourage cycle mobility in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Selection announcedGrantees
Solar Impulse Foundation
IMAQA
Actively engage and build relationships with research & adventurecommunities & support of educational STEM programmes
Société Royale Forestière de Belgique
Identify trees that help forests adapt to climate change, and support reforestation and an awareness-raising programme (current/future forests).
Funds and philanthropic tools
Island of Bohan
The King Baudouin Foundation owns three islands on the Semois thanks to generous donors who established the "Semois Islands Fund".
Bikes in Brussels (Fund)
Supports efforts to develop and equip infrastructure for bicycle mobility in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Fund Beckers – Diels
Support for nature protection
Press Releases
635,000 euros for 15 new cycle projects in Brussels
The Bikes in Brussels Fund supports 15 new cycling infrastructure projects (cycle paths, cycle shelters, cycle ramps), for a total of €635,000.
How to build a fairer Europe to reach a greener future: a blueprint
Following two years of listening to Europe’s most vulnerable people, the Fair Energy Transition for All project, led by the KBF, delivers its recommendations at European level.
The Bikes in Brussels Fund has allocated over 1.15 million euros to ten new cycle projects in and to Brussels
The Bikes in Brussels Fund is supporting 10 new cycling infrastructure projects (a cycle bridge, cycle paths and shelters), amounting to over 1.15 million euros.
Stories
Cycling moves up a gear in Saint Gilles
Nature, Biodiversity & Environmental Quality
"Encouraging travel by bike in Saint Gilles is a priority, particularly because our local population is very young."