Cooperative Agreement 24CA11120107034

This $423,920 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) program aims to eradicate invasive black rats from Savana Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project, led by the non-profit organization Island Conservation in collaboration with local government and federal partners, seeks to create the largest invasive predator-free island in the U.S. Virgin Islands to establish a highly resilient...

The Executive Office of the Government of the Virgin Islands will use a $299,770 project grant from the Department of the Interior's Insular Affairs to support coral restoration efforts in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Funded through the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program, the Division of Coastal Zone Management will pursue restoration activities to counter the devastating impacts of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, which has affected the territory's reefs...

The Executive Office of the Government of the Virgin Islands Division of Fish and Wildlife will facilitate the annual Nuisance and Invasive Species Awareness Week and implement the USVI Eradication Plan for Rats and the Eradication Plan for Agave Snout Weevil through September 2025. Funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Insular Affairs under the CFDA program "Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories", this $102,539 Project Grant will support outreach...

This Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior funded the COMPLETE USVI EXOTIC SPECIES CONTROL AND NATIVE SPECIES RESTORATION PROJECT. The $166,613 award supported invasive species eradication and native habitat restoration efforts in the U.S. Virgin Islands from June 2027 through September 2029. Through this funding under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program, the recipient conducted exotic plant and animal removal across the USVI, while replanting native...

The Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875) to the Nature Association Of The Virgin Islands. The grant, awarded on January 8, 2025, aims to prevent the establishment of invasive Burmese pythons in the U.S. Virgin Islands through early detection, rapid response, and proactive community engagement. The project, titled "The Python Watch VI", will...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs (CFDA 15.875 - Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories) to the Executive Office of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Division of Coastal Zone Management, will support coral reef restoration activities in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project will directly incorporate enhanced sexual reproduction techniques into the division's ongoing coral restoration efforts, a...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service on June 16, 2025 under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) will be used to create a new territorial government-run initiative in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The initiative will issue cost-share payments to non-industrial private forest landowners to increase implementation of recommended management practices through the U.S. Virgin Islands Forest Stewardship...

This $109,300.85 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports Island Conservation and its partners in establishing a new population of the endangered Virgin Islands tree boa on Savana Island, U.S. Virgin Islands. The key activities funded through this 3-year award (Oct 2023 - Sept 2026) are: 1) Eradicating invasive rats from Savana Island to create suitable habitat for the boa, 2) Establishing...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $2,500,000 Project Grant under the Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program (CFDA 10.727) to The St. George Village Botanical Garden Of St. Croix, Inc., a non-profit organization in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The grant, with a performance period from August 22, 2024 to December 31, 2028, supports a comprehensive urban forestry initiative focused on tree planting, ecosystem restoration, conservation planning,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry Jardin Botanico Sur awarded a $100,000.00 Project Grant under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) to the Virgin Islands Fire Service, a local government entity in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The grant will be used to assist in the control of rural fires, fire prevention, control, suppression, and prescribed use of fires on non-federal forest lands and other...