Project Grant F14AP00748

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608) provides $1,261,900 to MT. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS), a non-profit organization, to eradicate the American bullfrog from the Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge and a surrounding 2-mile buffer on private lands. The goal is to eliminate the invasive bullfrog's impacts on the federally threatened Oregon spotted frog population. The award...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $802,620 project grant to Asociacion Mesa De Ongs Comanejadoras De Areas Protegidas De Honduras (MOCAPH), a non-profit organization in Honduras, under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (CFDA 15.635) program. The two-year grant aims to save the wintering habitat of the golden-cheeked warbler in critical areas of Honduras through habitat conservation, species monitoring, and environmental education activities....

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was awarded $246,154 under the State Wildlife Grants Formula Grant program by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to support conservation efforts for the Cascades frog in California's Lassen region through December 2026. The award will fund three key initiatives. First, CDFW will use anti-fungal treatment of juvenile frogs to enhance growth rates of remnant populations threatened by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Second,...

Pronatura Sur, A.C., a non-profit community development organization, has been awarded a $793,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635) to support conservation efforts for the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler in Mexico. Through this 2-year grant, Pronatura Sur will: Protect 1,300 hectares of indigenous community forest habitat and establish a legal conservation mechanism on 2,000 additional hectares of communal...

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...

This Project Grant award of $821,354.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635) supports the conservation of Central American pine-oak forests and protection of wintering habitat for the golden-cheeked warbler. Key activities include: Establishing 4 nurseries (1 in Guatemala, 3 in Honduras) to produce 50,000 native plants for restoring 50 hectares of pine-oak forest. Strengthening 7 fire brigades...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $577,302 Project Grant to Fundacion Proaves De Colombia, a non-profit organization, under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635). This two-year grant, effective from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, supports the expansion and protection of 5,660 acres of critical migratory bird habitat in Colombia's El Dorado and Chamicero de Perij reserves. Key activities include monitoring populations of cerulean,...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, provides $400,000.00 to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to continue and expand long-term monitoring and management of endangered, threatened, and special status amphibian species in California's North Central Region. The primary objectives are to obtain current data on the distribution and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $1,375,534 project grant under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Fort Worth Zoological Association, doing business as the Fort Worth Zoo, to support the conservation and recovery of the endangered Puerto Rican crested toad. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Establish an in situ conservation center to increase captive breeding and genetic diversity of toads for reintroduction, 2)...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $439,307.02 Cooperative Agreement to the San Diego Natural History Museum to support conservation efforts for the federally threatened California Red-Legged Frog (Rana draytonii). The project aims to expand populations of the Baja California lineage of the frog through reintroductions in southern California, promote breeding and habitat management in Baja California,...