The BBVA Biodiversity foundation Awards aims to recognise and promote preservation organisations, institutions and bodies developing policies and functions of environmental preservation as well as professional work on environmental culture, thinking, education, dissemination and communication in any form that helps protect the natural patrimony.

The awards have seven cateogries:

• Spain Biodiversity Award, prize of 250.000 euros
• Latin America Biodiversity Award, prize of 250.000 euros
• New, Africa Biodiversity Award, prize of 250.000 euros
• Global Biodiversity Award, prize of 250.000 euros
• New, Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences Biophilia Award, prize of 100.000 euros
• New, Spain Environmental Education and Communication Biodiversity Award, prize of 80.000 euros
• New, Global Environmental Education and Communication Biodiversity Award, prize of 80.000 euros

Applications can be:

• Direct: by the participant
• Indirect: by natural people other than the participant via nomination letter