Cooperative Agreement W911KB1920500

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has been awarded a $540,019 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to implement actions to conserve and manage the federally threatened Western Snowy Plover (WSPL) and federally endangered California Least Tern (CLTE) in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California. Key activities include replacing a fence at the Venice Beach CLTE colony,...

The U.S. Department of the Navy, through the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), has awarded a $113,760 Cooperative Agreement to Wildlife Innovations, a for-profit company. This 5-year award will support the conservation management of the California least tern, an endangered seabird species, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. Specifically, Wildlife Innovations will conduct endangered species monitoring, manage predator...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to Point Blue Conservation Science (Point Blue). The purpose of this 5-year project is to develop a habitat suitability model and survey protocol to monitor changes in the extent of western snowy plover nesting habitat at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in California. The key deliverables include: 1) a habitat...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $3,176,250 Cooperative Agreement to the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658). This 5-year project, starting February 2024, will work to stabilize and increase beach-nesting bird populations in Texas through habitat protection, stewardship, outreach, and monitoring activities. The project focuses on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Birds of Conservation Concern and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $678,797 Project Grant to Habitats Resilientes, A.C. under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation grant program (CFDA 15.635). The grant will support conservation activities for the Mountain Plover, a bird species experiencing significant population declines, at its wintering habitat sites in the Ascension region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Specifically, the grantee will (1) secure long-term protection of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Manomet, Inc., a non-profit conservation organization, a $109,450 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664) to assess the importance of three priority shorebird sites in Argentina's Pampas region. The two-year project will 1) evaluate the use of these sites by shorebird species, especially the Lesser Yellowlegs, 2) explore the connectivity between these wintering areas and different breeding populations,...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program. The funding will support the Division's efforts to review and amend the current Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for the protection of the threatened Piping Plover in Massachusetts. Specifically, the project aims to provide greater flexibility in the management of...

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 $195,903 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Marine Corps under the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Natural Resources on Military Installations program (CFDA 12.005) supports predator management activities at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. The awardee, Wildlife Innovations, is a for-profit company based in Lakeside, California that specializes in wildlife conservation, environmental management, and ecological research services for federal agencies. The project will...

This $155,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) supports The Peregrine Fund, Inc.'s efforts to preserve and restore grassland habitats in South Texas for the endangered northern aplomado falcon. The funding enables The Peregrine Fund to work closely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at refuges in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to manage thousands of acres of prairie using prescribed fire, mechanical, and chemical treatments....