In 2006, and again in 2008, the MCFEA made grants of £10,000 to ARKive, a not-for-profit initiative of Wildscreen, a UK-based charity, whose mission is "to use the power of wildlife images to inspire the people of the world to value and conserve our natural environment and its biodiversity".

ARKive brings together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's endangered species. Using film, photographs and audio recordings, ARKive is creating a unique record of the world's biodiversity - complementing other species information datasets, and making a key resource available for scientists, conservationists, educators and the general public. Continued habitat destruction and the rise in extinction rates mean that for many species, films, photographs and audio recordings may soon be all that remains.