Project Grant F16AP00328

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 $1,079,005 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, awarded under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), aims to increase human-elephant coexistence in Asia through behavior change education and community-managed portable seasonal electric crop fences. The key objectives are to: 1) Provide human-elephant safety education workshops to gain community trust, 2) Train communities on the use of seasonal electric crop fences to protect homes...

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 $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 U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, through the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620), awarded a $435,118.95 Project Grant to the African People & Wildlife Fund, Inc. The grant will fund a 3-year initiative to address escalating human-elephant conflict in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem of Tanzania. Key activities include collaring and monitoring 12 elephants to better understand their movements, deploying human-elephant conflict resolution officers to...

The Foundation For Ecological Research Advocacy And Learning (F.E.R.A.L.) received a $225,799.20 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The funding supports the "Capable and Functional Elephants: A Capabilities Approach for Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict in the Brahmagiri-Nilgiri-Eastern Ghats Landscape of Southern India" project under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) federal grant program. The...

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...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), awarded a $653,349 project grant to Trunks & Leaves Inc. on August 1, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year effort to explore alternatives to conflict-prone food crops in areas where human and elephant habitats overlap in Thailand. The project aims to develop elephant-friendly agricultural products and sustainable models for coexistence, with a focus on movement...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $584,550 project grant to the Hutan Kinabatangan Orang-Utan Conservation Project (doing business as Hutan Kocp) to support landscape conservation efforts for the Bornean elephant population in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah Borneo from October 13, 2021 through August 8, 2022. This award was made under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.621), which provides financial assistance to support...

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....