Protecting the environment and biodiversity
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

Fonds Bikes in Brussels - Call for projects
Support for efforts in development and equipment to encourage cycle mobility in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Fonds Bikes in Brussels - Call for projects
Support for efforts in development and equipment to encourage cycle mobility in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Selection announced
Call 2020 Fund Professor T. Van Autenboer
The Fund supports applied geological research designed to improve our knowledge of the prevention or remediation of the impact on the geological environment of the exploitation a…
Selection announcedGrantees

Hasselt University
Investigating exposure routes of black carbon to infants. Through the epidemiological study of the transfer of particles in an in vitro setting we will explore if breast milk is …
Dung Dung
Within the framework of the Walloon river contract Dyle-Gette, carry out tests to verify if these mats can clean up the waterways for future generations
Fund Isaan Thailand
Payment of scholarships for the 1st semester 2021/2022 to about 150 beneficiaries.
Funds and philanthropic tools
Bikes in Brussels (Fund)
Supports efforts to develop and equip infrastructure for bicycle mobility in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (Friends of Fund)
Philanthropists support projects that contribute to the preservation and enhancement of nature, landscape, heritage, regional identity and recreation in Hoge Kempen National Park
Professor T. Van Autenboer (Fund)
Geological research into the environmental impact (with an emphasis on groundwater) of the extraction, storage, processing and cleaning up of minerals, ores and secondary raw mat…
Press Releases

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.

The Domaine de Freÿr: exemplary heritage and environmental restoration
Stories

Cycling moves up a gear in Saint Gilles
Protecting the environment and biodiversity
"Encouraging travel by bike in Saint Gilles is a priority, particularly because our local population is very young."