Species Recovery Programme: projects awarded funding for 2026 to 2029
A list of the projects that have been awarded funding through Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme to support threatened species.
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In 2025, the Species Recovery Programme launched a new opportunity calling for ideas to support threatened species.
This document lists the projects awarded funding from Natural England through that opportunity.
These projects will deliver:
- targeted action for threatened species with specific recovery needs to prevent national extinctions
- the actions identified in the Threatened Species Recovery Actions
All the species receiving funding are considered priorities for recovery. More than half are classified as near threatened, vulnerable or endangered, according to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessments for Great Britain.
These classifications are based on assessments included in the JNCC Great Britain Red List dataset up to the end of 2025.
IUCN Red List assessments are continually reviewed and updated as new evidence becomes available, and the conservation status of species may therefore change over time.
The Species Recovery Programme contributes to the legally binding species targets set out in the Environment Act 2021. It supports the long-term biodiversity goal of reducing species’ extinction risk by 2042, compared with 2022 levels.