Project Grant F12AP00130

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $120,500 Project Grant to the Wildlife Areas Development And Welfare Trust through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Phase VIII of a partnership between February 2021 and January 2025 to improve protection of the Western Hoolock Gibbon population in Jeypore, India. As part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund's mission to support applied research and conservation...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $106,986 project grant to Wild Earth Allies, Inc. under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support conservation efforts for the endangered Pileated Gibbon in Cambodia from June 2021 through May 2022. The project focused on applied research and conservation activities to benefit the Pileated Gibbon population within Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Given the program's purpose of...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $121,248.83 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant supports the Northern Plains of Cambodia Pileated Gibbon Conservation Project: Phase 7, which focuses on the effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats through applied research on ape populations and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $121,645.60 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant supports the Replacement Awards for FY2019 - LAR Gibbon Protection in Thailand's Western Forest Complex project. This project focuses on effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats through applied...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $120,461.31 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant funding supports the Wildlife Conservation Society's efforts to strengthen and further expand community-led patrolling models to protect northern white-cheeked gibbon populations in Laos. The Great Apes Conservation Fund...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $648,492.87 Project Grant to the Borneo Nature Foundation through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support protecting ape habitat in two critical rainforest landscapes in southern Borneo from March 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023. The Great Apes Conservation Fund program aims to provide financial assistance for effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats, with a...

This $496,130 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration program (CFDA 15.658) will support the acquisition and permanent protection of 1,112 acres of tropical rainforest habitat within the Cerro San Gil Watershed Protection Reserve in Guatemala. American Bird Conservancy will work with local partner Fundacion Para El Ecodesarollo Y La Conservacion (Fundaeco) to add the acquired land to the...

This $471,220 project grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) aims to conserve elephant populations and their habitats in Northeast India. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting research to understand elephant ecology, such as genetic connectivity, movement patterns, physiological stress, and feeding habits. Restoring 200 hectares of degraded elephant habitats in Assam...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $706,836 Project Grant to Planet Indonesia through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Planet Indonesia's efforts to protect Bornean orangutans, white-bearded gibbons, and Abbott's gray gibbons in West Kalimantan, Indonesia from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. As stated in the program description, the Great Apes Conservation Fund aims to support conservation...

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...