Cooperative Agreement AID367A1600008

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $120,500 Project Grant to the Wildlife Areas Development And Welfare Trust through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Phase VIII of a partnership between February 2021 and January 2025 to improve protection of the Western Hoolock Gibbon population in Jeypore, India. As part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund's mission to support applied research and conservation...

This two-year, $773,117.71 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters, under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629), will support improved forest and peatland management and conservation of threatened ape populations in target landscapes in Indonesia. The Borneo Nature Foundation International will work to strengthen landscape governance and local stakeholder coordination, increase community autonomy over forest...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $706,836 Project Grant to Planet Indonesia through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Planet Indonesia's efforts to protect Bornean orangutans, white-bearded gibbons, and Abbott's gray gibbons in West Kalimantan, Indonesia from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. As stated in the program description, the Great Apes Conservation Fund aims to support conservation...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $225,794.27 Project Grant to Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support the reintroduction and protection of wild Bornean orangutan populations in Indonesia by expanding orangutan reintroduction and post-release monitoring efforts in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest. It will also enhance the capacities of local government...

The Forum Konservasi Leuser received a $137,556 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The award was made under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support protection of Sumatran orangutan populations and their habitats in three research stations within the Western Leuser Ecosystem of Aceh, Indonesia. Specifically, the funding will be used to support applied research and conservation activities focused...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $603,086.39 Project Grant to Aaranyak under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.619) to support grassland management activities in Manas National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in India from January 3, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The goal of the project is to replenish habitats for rhinos and tigers through grassland management. This work will boost conservation efforts...

The World Wildlife Fund, Inc. received a $222,131.87 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support efforts to recover the last viable population of endangered white-handed gibbons in Nam Poui National Protected Area in Laos from November 2021 through December 2024. Key activities to be undertaken by WWF-Laos under a sub-award include facilitating...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $648,492.87 Project Grant to the Borneo Nature Foundation through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support protecting ape habitat in two critical rainforest landscapes in southern Borneo from March 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023. The Great Apes Conservation Fund program aims to provide financial assistance for effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats, with a...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $584,550 project grant to the Hutan Kinabatangan Orang-Utan Conservation Project (doing business as Hutan Kocp) to support landscape conservation efforts for the Bornean elephant population in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah Borneo from October 13, 2021 through August 8, 2022. This award was made under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.621), which provides financial assistance to support...

The Aaranyak organization will receive $331,300 under a three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The grant will support Aaranyak's work to deter wildlife crime and illegal wildlife trafficking of rhinoceros and tiger body parts in the Transboundary Eastern Himalayas region of India. This award is provided through the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.619), which aims to support effective long-term...