Project Grant 26DG11132762058

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $414,878.56 cooperative agreement on April 15, 2025, to the Upper Salinas/Las Tablas Resource Conservation District under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to restore monarch butterfly habitat. The project will restore five acres of overwintering and breeding habitat on Army National Guard Camp Roberts and Camp San Luis Obispo in California through...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, through its International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684), awarded a $810,000 Cooperative Agreement to Monarch Joint Venture (MJV) effective September 15, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2026. This award supports collaborative conservation solutions for migratory monarch butterfly populations and strengthens public-private partnerships across the United States. MJV, a non-profit organization...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $668,163.04 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) supports the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV), a non-profit organization, in facilitating science-based monarch butterfly conservation through network and community engagement. The award, effective September 6, 2024 through August 31, 2029, enables MJV to provide scientific research, technical assistance, monitoring, conservation planning, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports the development and implementation of a sustainable captive rearing program for the endangered Island Marble Butterfly. The $150,000 award will enable Woodland Park Zoo, the primary awardee, to conduct a captive rearing partner workshop in 2024 and establish a long-term captive rearing program to produce approximately 125...

The Zoological Society of San Diego, doing business as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, will rear Laguna Mountains skipper butterflies for reintroduction under a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. Under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance will breed and raise Laguna Mountains...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $295,000 Cooperative Agreement to Monarch Joint Venture (MJV), a non-profit organization, under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684). The award, effective June 4, 2024 through December 31, 2026, supports MJV's efforts to provide monarch butterfly conservation education and professional development services. Through this funding, MJV will deliver scientific research, technical assistance, monitoring, conservation...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $100,232 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the San Juan Preservation Trust, a private non-profit land conservation organization, to expand and maintain habitat for the federally endangered Island Marble Butterfly (IMB) on San Juan Island, Washington. The project aims to transform approximately 10 acres of degraded pastureland into suitable habitat areas that support IMB and...

This $124,665 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) aims to restore the endangered Behrens and Myrtles Silverspot butterflies on the Sonoma-Mendocino coast by expanding the coverage of their larval host plant, Viola adunca, in Fort Ross State Historic Park. The project will test the effectiveness of two restoration methods - seed dispersal and planting mature...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program provides $1,128,200.00 to expand the Motus wildlife tracking network and study the migratory patterns and habitat use of four species of greatest conservation need in the Pacific and Intermountain Western U.S. regions. Specifically, the grant will fund the installation of 30 new Motus stations and the retrofitting of 50 existing stations to detect transmitters and track the...