Project Grant F13AP00987

The federal Project Grant award of $699,761.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Trans-National Crime Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.705). The grant aims to strengthen wildlife policy and legislation, as well as the application of wildlife protection laws, in order to promote the investigation, arrest, prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of criminal organizations perpetrating wildlife crimes in Vietnam. The funding...

This $400,000 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) is supporting efforts to stabilize the endangered Asian elephant population in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam. The primary objectives include better understanding elephant population dynamics through GPS-collaring and monitoring, improving human-elephant conflict mitigation and community engagement, and enhancing habitat protection to ensure...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) provides $155,637 to the ENV Wildlife Conservation Trust to implement conservation activities targeting turtle, tortoise, and freshwater turtle (TFT) populations in Vietnam and the surrounding region. The key objectives include: 1) Eliminating critical threats to TFTs from hunting, trade, and trafficking through strengthening law enforcement, building stakeholder capacity, and...

This $498,664.30 federal 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 safeguard protected areas in Sarawak, Malaysia by providing technical assistance in the detection, monitoring, and confirmation of illegal wildlife activities. The grantee, Trace Wildlife Forensics Network LTD, a UK-based non-profit organization, will utilize the funding over a 2-year period...

This U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Project Grant award under the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) provides $285,011.71 to Traffic International, a U.K.-based non-profit organization, to implement a 2-year project aimed at reducing threats to marine turtle populations in Malaysia and Vietnam. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Increase knowledge, skills, and capacity for effectively interdicting wildlife trafficking operations through in-depth...

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement awarded a $1,799,898.95 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) under the Trans-National Crime program (CFDA 19.705) on September 30, 2023. The purpose of the funding is to strengthen criminal justice institutions in Laos to undertake successful enforcement, investigative, and prosecutorial functions for wildlife crimes. Key activities include building law enforcement capacity, enhancing...

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 $4,070,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program is intended to strengthen Vietnam's capacity at the subnational levels to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to epidemic-prone emerging infectious diseases through One Health approaches. The award, which runs from September 5, 2024 to September 4, 2029, is being implemented by the global health nonprofit...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement awarded a $1,722,563.36 Project Grant (CFDA 19.705 - Trans-National Crime program) to Traffic International, a non-profit organization, to bolster Malaysian law enforcement capacity to detect and interdict illegal wildlife at key ports. The grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025, will support activities such as providing training to counter wildlife poaching and smuggling,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA program 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants supports the development of advanced forensic methods to enhance the identification of leather materials derived from protected wildlife species. The $232,857 award to North Carolina State University will fund a study to design a custom hybridization panel to enrich severely fragmented DNA extracted from leather...