Cooperative Agreement F07AC00138

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), through its Office of Research Administration, has been awarded a $228,397 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. This grant, funded under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), supports research to address the declining population of the Lange's metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei) at the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in California. The key...

The Zoological Society of San Diego, doing business as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, will rear Laguna Mountains skipper butterflies for reintroduction under a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. Under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance will breed and raise Laguna Mountains...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports the development and implementation of a sustainable captive rearing program for the endangered Island Marble Butterfly. The $150,000 award will enable Woodland Park Zoo, the primary awardee, to conduct a captive rearing partner workshop in 2024 and establish a long-term captive rearing program to produce approximately 125...

This $124,665 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) aims to restore the endangered Behrens and Myrtles Silverspot butterflies on the Sonoma-Mendocino coast by expanding the coverage of their larval host plant, Viola adunca, in Fort Ross State Historic Park. The project will test the effectiveness of two restoration methods - seed dispersal and planting mature...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $100,232 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the San Juan Preservation Trust, a private non-profit land conservation organization, to expand and maintain habitat for the federally endangered Island Marble Butterfly (IMB) on San Juan Island, Washington. The project aims to transform approximately 10 acres of degraded pastureland into suitable habitat areas that support IMB and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $487,120 Project Grant under the Competitive State Wildlife Grant (C-SWG) Program to the Guam Department of Agriculture (GDOA) Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, in partnership with the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability. The two-year grant project aims to propagate captive Mariana eight-spot butterflies (MESB) to augment wild populations, assess available habitats and risks, propagate and out-plant host plants to enrich MESB...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $319,975 cooperative agreement to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) federal grant program. The funding will support habitat restoration activities within the 13-acre Lunada Canyon parcel to establish habitat for the federally endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly. Key deliverables include the removal of non-native vegetation and restoration...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $442,709 Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) Project Grant to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to support research on the Burke's goldfields (Lasthenia burkei) and Contra Costa goldfields (Lasthenia conjugens) plant species. The 3-year project, which began on February 1, 2024, aims to: (1) evaluate seed production, quality, viability, and dormancy rates; (2) assess seed...

The San Juan Islands Conservation District will implement ten new Island Marble Butterfly habitat projects totaling $151,918.84 through December 2026 under a Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. Funded by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, the projects will create fenced habitat plots and permanent open spaces on private properties in San Juan and Lopez Islands, Washington to expand existing habitat and connect areas for...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...