Project Grant 1448982103G694

This $203,088 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA# 15.621), supports a five-year research initiative led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY). The project aims to: 1) complete elephant personality profiles and assess the efficacy of targeted personality-based human-elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation methods in and around Thailand's Salakpra Wildlife...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) provides $519,324.67 to Wildlife Conservation International LIMITED, a foreign non-profit organization, to protect Sumatran elephants and their habitat in the Leuser Ecosystem of Indonesia. The project aims to implement regular elephant protection patrols, develop a bioacoustic early-warning monitoring system to detect elephant presence, and...

This three-year $542,996 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) aims to strengthen human-elephant coexistence in the Chure Terai Madhesh Landscape of Nepal. The grant recipient, the National Trust for Nature Conservation, will implement a multi-faceted program to: 1) Increase human tolerance towards wild elephants through community outreach, behavior change campaigns, and development of a regional human-elephant coexistence...

This $677,476 five-year Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) aims to enhance sustainable conservation of the critically endangered African forest elephant. The grant will expand the capacity of the Sangha Tri-National Center for Bioacoustics Training and Analysis in the Republic of Congo to conduct passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) research and train a new generation of Central African...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $1,413,952.19 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) program. The goal of this 3-year project, running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, is to recover elephant populations in three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Thailand - Huai Kha Khaeng, Kaeng Krachan, and Thap Lan - through effective protection and mitigation of human-elephant conflicts....

This $1,079,005 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, awarded under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), aims to increase human-elephant coexistence in Asia through behavior change education and community-managed portable seasonal electric crop fences. The key objectives are to: 1) Provide human-elephant safety education workshops to gain community trust, 2) Train communities on the use of seasonal electric crop fences to protect homes...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $316,640 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) program. The grant supports research from October 2021 through December 2025 to study elephant behavior in Thailand and develop conflict mitigation tools. Through two subawards totaling $80,193 to the Golden Triangle Elephant Foundation, the grant funds four...

The Foundation For Ecological Research Advocacy And Learning (F.E.R.A.L.) received a $225,799.20 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The funding supports the "Capable and Functional Elephants: A Capabilities Approach for Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict in the Brahmagiri-Nilgiri-Eastern Ghats Landscape of Southern India" project under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) federal grant program. The...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $249,718 Project Grant under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) to the Centre for Wildlife Studies, Inc. The five-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029, will support a research and conservation program to assess the distribution, habitat use, and patterns of human-elephant conflict across the Northern Eastern Ghats landscape of India. Key activities include occupancy surveys, camera...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), awarded a $653,349 project grant to Trunks & Leaves Inc. on August 1, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year effort to explore alternatives to conflict-prone food crops in areas where human and elephant habitats overlap in Thailand. The project aims to develop elephant-friendly agricultural products and sustainable models for coexistence, with a focus on movement...