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 announced

Grantees

Hasselt University

Postnatal exposure pathways to soot particles: a focus on breast milk and its impact on cognitive function in the first months of life

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 …

Funds and philanthropic tools

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.

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."
Catherine Morenville
Alderwoman for Mobility in Saint Gilles