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This $677,476 five-year Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) aims to enhance sustainable conservation of the critically endangered African forest elephant. The grant will expand the capacity of the Sangha Tri-National Center for Bioacoustics Training and Analysis in the Republic of Congo to conduct passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) research and train a new generation of Central African...

This four-year, $799,960 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will assess the effects of human activity on the composition of tropical forests. The Florida Institute of Technology will examine how human impacts such as planting, cutting, burning of plants have potentially shaped rainforest ecosystems over extended periods. Alternative hypotheses around more recent intensive...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $472,614 to Cornell University from July 2022 through June 2026 to study the impacts of severe drought on tropical forest post-disturbance recovery. Specifically, the researchers are conducting a rainfall manipulation experiment in a forest in Puerto Rico that is recovering from Hurricane Maria in 2017. The project aims to characterize and predict forest resilience to climate change by...

This $129,702 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research between the University of Miami and its sub-awardee to test for the acclimation of individual tropical rainforest trees to over four decades of climate change through a longitudinal study. The research aims to improve understanding of how Amazonian tree species have responded or not responded to climate change and the consequences for species performance and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $183,000 Cooperative Agreement under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to Agritix Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia. The purpose of this 5-year award, with a start date of September 4, 2024 and completion date of July 31, 2029, is to develop and deploy an automated wood identification model for West Africa. This project aims to address critical global challenges such as climate change, forest conservation, and supporting...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $100,558.90 Cooperative Agreement on August 23, 2024 to Conservation Opportunity Inc. under the Forest Health Protection program (CFDA 10.680). The funding supports the Citizen Science Program Forest Health Ambassadors initiative, which aims to protect and manage non-Federal forest and tree resources from damaging insects, diseases, and invasive plants in Puerto Rico. The project will develop and deploy improved forest health monitoring...

This $307,095 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program supports a 2-year research project at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus. The project aims to investigate the ecophysiological responses of two key tree species in Caribbean tidal freshwater wetlands to the impacts of climate change, including warmer temperatures and increased salinity. Using field observations and greenhouse...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Pan African Sanctuary Alliance to advance conservation efforts at Loma Mountains National Park in Sierra Leone under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) federal grant program. The grant will support Pan African Sanctuary Alliance's delivery of services to improve forest policies and practices, address climate change, conserve and protect critical forest environments and resources, and enhance the...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service has awarded a $886,895 Project Grant under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) to Protectores De Cuencas Inc. (PDC), a minority-owned non-profit organization in Puerto Rico. The grant funding will be used to enhance habitat connectivity in subtropical dry forests in Puerto Rico over a 3-year project period ending in May 2026. PDC, which has a strong track record of delivering federally-funded environmental conservation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $231,060 over 5 years to Lewis & Clark College to research the long-term dynamics of tropical forest regeneration across sites in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, and Panama. The project aims to understand how variations in environmental conditions and climate patterns, including seasonality and multi-year cycles, impact the timing and success of plant...