Project Grant 22IG11132762453

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $600,000 five-year Cooperative Agreement under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organization in Malawi. The award, titled "Strengthening Law Enforcement and Community Engagement to Increase the Impact of Wildlife Crime Deterrents in Malawi", aims to support wildlife conservation efforts in Malawi through activities such as strengthening...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement awarded a $2,415,701.80 Project Grant under the Trans-National Crime Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.705) to the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organization in Malawi. This 2-year grant aims to enhance the capacity of law enforcement agencies and judicial systems in Malawi and surrounding Southern African countries to combat transnational wildlife trafficking. The project focuses on disrupting organized...

The National Park Service (NPS) Midwest Region has awarded a $635,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Mississippi Park Connection, a non-profit organization, under the NPS Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The project, which will run from August 4, 2023 to April 30, 2028, will restore up to 2,500 acres of forested floodplain in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota. The Mississippi Park Connection will provide natural resource conservation, habitat restoration,...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (CFDA 19.705 Trans-National Crime program) provides $2,123,278.10 to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to deliver specialized training, supplies, mentorship, and cross-border collaboration mechanisms to wildlife authorities, judicial police officers (OPJs), the judiciary, and prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. The project aims to strengthen law...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,092,648 Project Grant under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) to The International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc. (doing business as The Wild Foundation), a non-profit conservation organization. The grant will support the Mali Elephant Project, which aims to develop and apply models of inclusive, community-based natural resource management to protect the internationally important population...

The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) will receive $460,436 under a three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The grant is part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629), which supports projects focused on long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats. PASA will conduct surveys, fecal analysis, botanical surveys, habitat mapping, and reforestation efforts to support protection of endangered...

The National Park Service awarded a $270,300 cooperative agreement to the Mississippi Park Connection on September 16, 2022 through the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The project will develop best management practices to maintain and restore floodplain forest habitat along the Mississippi River in Minnesota through September 2025. As the principle means by which NPS evaluates and improves watershed, landscape, and coastal resource health while sustaining biological...

This $746,242 Project Grant award issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) program will strengthen protection and human-elephant conflict response capacity in Tanzania's Nyerere National Park and Selous Game Reserve. The funding will provide aerial support for anti-poaching patrols, maintain vehicles to enhance ranger mobility, and increase the capacity of rapid response teams to prioritize community...

FEDERAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SUMMARY Sky Island Alliance received a Cooperative Agreement award of $109,101 from the National Park Service (NPS) Intermountain Region under the Southwest Border Resource Protection Program (CFDA 15.963), effective June 11, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2026. The organization will monitor wildlife occurrence and movement patterns in response to border infrastructure along 90 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Deliverables include quantification of...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Park Service (NPS) awarded American Forests a Cooperative Agreement valued at $137,489 under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) on June 12, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2027. The agreement supports whitebark pine restoration and post-fire recovery initiatives across three major Washington national parks: North Cascades National Park Complex (NOCA), Mount Rainier National Park (MORA), and Olympic National Park...