Cooperative Agreement F17AC01123

This $246,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program aims to support conservation of the endangered Spotted Turtle across its range in the Southeastern U.S. The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources will lead efforts to: 1) identify priority habitats and improve habitat quality and quantity for Spotted Turtles, 2) conduct demographic assessments to evaluate population viability in six states, 3) refine sampling...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $115,666 Cooperative Agreement to Tangled Bank Conservation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660). Through this 3-year award from June 2023 to June 2026, Tangled Bank Conservation will sequence existing tissues and gather additional tissues to assess the threat of hybridization and quantify population sizes across the range of the Alabama...

This $367,734.26 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) program will fund a comprehensive study of the genetic population structure and health of Blanding's turtles in the Great Lakes region. The primary objectives are to: 1) Quantify the redundancy of Blanding's turtle populations by identifying distinct genetic conservation units; 2) Assess the resiliency of populations by evaluating genetic...

This $132,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660), will fund genetic analysis and population modeling to help inform conservation of the gopher frog (Lithobates capito). Tangled Bank Conservation will sequence thousands of genetic loci from 1,000 existing gopher frog samples across the species' range. They will assess phylogeographic structure, identify potential distinct...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) provides $120,000 in funding to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (Suny ESF) to carry out a project focused on the conservation of the threatened Bog Buck Moth (Hemileuca maia menyanthevora) in New York. The key objectives of the project are to: (1) conduct comprehensive surveys using pheromone...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the State Wildlife Grants (SWG) Program (CFDA 15.634), awarded a $676,500 Formula Grant to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the Gopher Tortoise Conservation Initiative (GTCI). Under this award, the Georgia DNR is working with public and private partners to permanently protect a minimum of 65 viable gopher tortoise populations (250 adult tortoises) across Georgia's coastal plain. To date, the DNR has protected 63 populations through...

Rutgers University will conduct a spatially explicit population viability analysis for the piping plover within the New York-New Jersey recovery unit under a $118,066 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The analysis aims to determine the population size, demographic rates, habitat amounts and configurations necessary for viability and recovery of the subpopulation, including under scenarios of coastal storm impacts and sea level rise. Results will provide targets for...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award for the "At-Risk Freshwater Turtle Conservation and Ecology Project in Massachusetts" is funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Adaptive Science Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.670). The $314,285.72 award aims to assess the populations and habitats of three endangered turtle species - Blanding's turtles, spotted turtles, and wood turtles - in the Devens Reserve Forces Training Area and surrounding areas. Key activities include...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, funded under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program, will enable the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with North Carolina State University and the Orianne Society, to undertake a suite of conservation projects focused on the spotted turtle, a species of greatest conservation need across its range. Key objectives include: identifying priority habitats,...

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...