Block Grant 982104G929

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded $510,885 to the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation - Germany E.V. under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The project aims to protect western chimpanzees in Liberia through establishing the Krahn-Bassa proposed protected area as the country's largest national park. Key activities include increasing community ecomonitoring teams for smart...

The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) will receive $460,436 under a three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The grant is part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629), which supports projects focused on long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats. PASA will conduct surveys, fecal analysis, botanical surveys, habitat mapping, and reforestation efforts to support protection of endangered...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $106,986 project grant to Wild Earth Allies, Inc. under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support conservation efforts for the endangered Pileated Gibbon in Cambodia from June 2021 through May 2022. The project focused on applied research and conservation activities to benefit the Pileated Gibbon population within Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Given the program's purpose of...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $117,136 supports research examining learning-related aspects of brain organization in bonobos and chimpanzees. Funded through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, the award will compare brain anatomy in great apes that have and have not undergone training in evolutionarily relevant skills like tool use and language-like systems. Researchers from Harvard University will analyze archived brain images and samples from prior...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $140,343 to Emory University for collaborative research examining foundations of learning through individual variation, plasticity, and evolution in humans and closely related great ape species. The research focuses on analyzing archived brain images and samples from previous studies of bonobos and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) supports a study on the evolutionary origins of longevity in great apes. The $1,574,518 grant, awarded on September 15, 2024, will be used by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Inc. to investigate how early life adversity influences lifespan and frailty in wild chimpanzee and gorilla populations. The study leverages over 170 years of detailed demographic and health data on approximately 400...

This Project Grant award for $677,476 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) supports efforts to improve understanding of forest elephant conservation needs and build capacity for conservation in Central Africa. The 5-year project will expand bioacoustics research and monitoring capabilities at the Sangha Tri-National Center for Bioacoustics Training and Analysis in the Republic of Congo. This will facilitate evidence-based decision...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Great Apes Conservation Fund (CFDA #15.629), awarded a $897,128 Cooperative Agreement to the non-profit organization Re:wild. The objectives of this 5-year project, spanning from October 2023 to September 2028, are to: (1) maintain a comprehensive database on great ape populations, (2) increase capacity to assess conservation intervention effectiveness, and (3) produce bi-annual publications to communicate great ape distribution, status, and...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $329,849 to San Diego State University Research Foundation to study factors affecting foraging and provisioning decisions in rapidly changing landscapes. The research will examine how human-modified habitats shape macaque behavior in agricultural intensification contexts and people's...

This federal Project Grant award, with ID R01AG087945, was awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866). The $1,055,607 grant is funding a 5-year research project to investigate the impact of cardiovascular health on longevity, the brain, and age-related diseases in humans and great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The project aims to evaluate the effect of aging, cardiovascular disease, and...