Project Grant F16AP00740

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...

The Forum Konservasi Leuser received a $137,556 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The award was made under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support protection of Sumatran orangutan populations and their habitats in three research stations within the Western Leuser Ecosystem of Aceh, Indonesia. Specifically, the funding will be used to support applied research and conservation activities focused...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $225,794.27 Project Grant to Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support the reintroduction and protection of wild Bornean orangutan populations in Indonesia by expanding orangutan reintroduction and post-release monitoring efforts in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest. It will also enhance the capacities of local government...

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...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $706,836 Project Grant to Planet Indonesia through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Planet Indonesia's efforts to protect Bornean orangutans, white-bearded gibbons, and Abbott's gray gibbons in West Kalimantan, Indonesia from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. As stated in the program description, the Great Apes Conservation Fund aims to support conservation...

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 Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded Wildlife Asia Limited $687,857.30 under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025. The key products and services to be delivered through this Project Grant funding are improving community protection of orangutans and their forest habitat near three research stations in Indonesia by establishing and enhancing community patrol teams. Specifically, the...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $764,425 Project Grant to the Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt VON 1858 E.V. doing business as the Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt to support conservation and monitoring of Sumatran elephants in Bukit Tiga Puluh, Indonesia from October 13, 2021 through December 31, 2026. This award supports the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program objectives to provide long-term conservation of Asian elephants...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), awarded a $748,691.07 project grant to Panthera Corporation. The grant will support a 3-year initiative to increase site protection for Bornean elephants in the Deramakot landscape of Malaysian Borneo. Key components include: Assisting the establishment of a community-managed conservation area to close a critical gap in landscape protection and deter poaching from...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded $235,021.52 under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621) federal grant program to Fauna & Flora International for a project titled "IMPROVING HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT MITIGATION AND SECURING SUMATRAN ELEPHANT POPULATION IN ULU MASEN, SUMATRA." The three-year project, which commenced on November 19, 2021 and is set to conclude on December 31, 2024, will focus on applied research,...