Project Grant F13AP00457

The Wildlife Conservation Society received a $121,697 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program. The grant supports the "Conservation of Tigers Through Law Enforcement, Volunteer Network, and Wildlife Student Training in the Western Forest Complex, Thailand, Year 12" project providing $121.7k in funding from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The project...

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 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....

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $615,919.64 Project Grant to Wildlife Conservation International LIMITED, doing business as Forests For People, under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program. The grant will support the continuing development of elephant and wildlife veterinary teaching, training, and research capacities at the Veterinary Faculty of Kyiah Kuala University in Indonesia from October 13, 2021 through December 31, 2024....

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 $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 $635,122 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) aims to address the critical threats of illegal trade and poaching facing the endangered Asian elephant population. The primary objectives are to: 1) Assess the nature, scope, and scale of illegal trade threats to Asian elephants, 2) Conduct a policy and implementation gap analysis to promote compliance with CITES and other relevant...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $610,500.62 Project Grant to Wildlife Alliance Inc. from October 25, 2021 to December 31, 2024 under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) federal grant program. The grant will support Wildlife Alliance Inc.'s efforts to reduce consumer demand for ivory in Cambodia through strengthened wildlife law enforcement capacity, community engagement initiatives, and applied research including surveys 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 $535,746 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Trans-National Crime Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.705) aims to combat wildlife trafficking in Pakistan. The key interventions include: Enhancing law enforcement capabilities by developing tailored training curricula for rangers on wildlife crime prevention, crime scene investigation, wildlife handling, and ranger health and safety. Strengthening judicial capacity...