Cooperative Agreement F14AC01123

The County of Escambia, Florida will receive $462,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program (NRDAR, CFDA 15.658). The funding will support the Fort Pickens Road-Pensacola Beach Wildlife Lighting Retrofits Project from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2032. The Project aims to restore natural resources and their services that have been injured by...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) provides $111,020.00 to restore suitable nesting habitat for the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Puerto Rico. The goal is to reduce threats and enhance the quality of nesting beaches across approximately 128 acres along the southwest, south, and southeast coasts of the island, including Vieques. Planned restoration actions include constructing...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded the Marine Research Foundation (MRF) a $227,500 Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) grant to mitigate bycatch of endangered sea turtles in shrimp trawl fisheries in Sarawak, Malaysia. The two-year project, commencing on August 1, 2024 and concluding on July 31, 2026, aims to introduce and provide turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to local fishers, raise their capacity to adapt TEDs to single and double net vessels, and develop enforcement...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) aims to enhance coastal habitat conditions for shorebirds and seabirds through the innovative use of crushed shell debris. The $136,828 project, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 30, 2027, involves sourcing mollusk and bivalve shells from recent beach nourishment efforts in Panama City Beach, Florida, crushing the material, and manually...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), provides $295,704.50 to the Alachua Conservation Trust to assist the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Florida with a sandhill groundcover planting project over two years. The project aims to improve habitat for listed species and aquifer recharge, as well as decrease the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the area....

Cooperative Agreement Summary: Pensacola Bay Living Shoreline Project The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, awarded County of Escambia a $1,399,920 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) on July 1, 2025, for implementation through April 29, 2027. The project funds the design and construction of a large-scale living shoreline ecosystem restoration initiative across three sites within the lower Pensacola Bay system...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) program, awarded a $135,413 project grant to the Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation. This grant, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support conservation efforts for six highly threatened tortoise and freshwater turtle species in Bangladesh. The Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation will utilize a three-pronged approach of conservation breeding, rewilding, and community engagement to...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, provides $213,333.34 to the State of Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks (MDWFP) for a 3-year intensive long-term study of alligator snapping turtle (AST) populations. The project has two main components: 1) mark-recapture surveys at five established AST populations across four major river...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $158,600 project grant under the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) to Grupo Tortuguero De Las Californias, A.C., a nonprofit organization based in Mexico. The grant, awarded in August 2024, aims to build on the experience and momentum of the initial phase of the "MARES COMUNIDAD" project. The key objectives are to: 1) Design and facilitate structured knowledge exchange workshops to co-develop...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $127,017 Project Grant under the Broad Agency Announcement (CFDA 11.015) to The Ocean Foundation to collect sea turtle genetic samples. This will contribute to conservation and management planning efforts, and improve stock assessments and status reviews for sea turtle populations. The project will run from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024. Sea turtles are important components of healthy ocean and coral reef...