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 World Wildlife Fund, Inc. received a $222,131.87 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support efforts to recover the last viable population of endangered white-handed gibbons in Nam Poui National Protected Area in Laos from November 2021 through December 2024. Key activities to be undertaken by WWF-Laos under a sub-award include facilitating...
The Wildlife Alliance Inc. was awarded a $659,930.94 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to strengthen local capacity for gibbon conservation in Cambodia. This funding supports the organization's delivery of products and services aligned with the Great Apes Conservation Fund program's goal of effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats through applied research on ape populations and habitats. Specifically,...
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 $121,645.60 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 $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 $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 Project Grant award, 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), will continue supporting the Sabah Wildlife Department in Malaysia to enhance its investigative, enforcement, and prosecutorial capacities to combat wildlife trafficking. The $1,610,769.58 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to October 1, 2026, will fund technical assistance, training, and...
This two-year, $773,117.71 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters, under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629), will support improved forest and peatland management and conservation of threatened ape populations in target landscapes in Indonesia. The Borneo Nature Foundation International will work to strengthen landscape governance and local stakeholder coordination, increase community autonomy over forest...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement, under the Trans-National Crime program (CFDA 19.705), provides $796,354.15 to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to enhance the capacities of the Malawi Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) rangers and the judiciary (judges, magistrates, and prosecutors) to combat wildlife trafficking in Malawi. The project aims to provide critical support to the DNPW...