Focused on Nature’s $15,000 grant to the International League of Conservation Photographers for the Yucatan Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition facilitated 30 world-renowned photographers to produce a comprehensive visual library of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and all the biological diversity it supports. Photographers included: Paul Nicklen, Brian Skerry, Christian Ziegler, Joe Riis, Klaus Nigge, and Daniel Beltra. In addition to producing the visual library, which was shared with local non-profit organisations across the Yucatan free of charge, the grant sparked four long-term conservation photography projects : one for Klaus Nigge, which resulted in a story in National Geographic Magazine on Flamingoes; two for Brian Skerry, one which resulted in a story in National Geographic Magazine on the Mesoamerican Reef, and another in Smithsonian Magazine on Whale Sharks; and one for Paul Nicklen, which resulted in a National Geographic Magazine story on Cenotes.
In 2021, Focused on Nature supported ILCP’s “Puma pictures film” campaign with a donation of $10,000.
FON Giving $25,000
2009, 2021