Project Grant F16AP00778

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $599,924.02 Cooperative Agreement under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) to Re:wild, a non-profit organization, to combat the illegal collection and international trafficking of endemic and globally threatened wildlife in the Lesser Antilles. Over an 18-month period, Re:wild will collaborate with law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent the Grenadines to: 1)...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement awarded a $3,515,740 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) under the Trans-National Crime Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.705). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support WCS's efforts to enhance legislation and regulations to prevent wildlife trafficking, improve law enforcement capabilities to deter, detect, investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate wildlife trafficking cases, and develop...

This two-year, $227,885 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters, under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional CFDA program, will support the Wildlife Conservation Society in developing the capacity of a newly-formed community association in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve to sustainably manage a forestry concession. Specifically, the grantee will design and implement a community-based biological monitoring program to evaluate...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was awarded a $450,930.54 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Trans-National Crime federal grant program (CFDA 19.705). The award period is from April 6, 2021 to April 6, 2023. Under this award, WCS will implement a set of activities to improve the counter-wildlife trafficking commitment and capacity of frontline staff in Indonesia. The Trans-National Crime program aims to minimize the...

This 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), provides $845,597.17 to the Endangered Wildlife Trust (It6247), a South African non-profit organization, to strengthen law enforcement and judicial capacity in South Africa to effectively tackle wildlife crimes. The grant aims to improve transparency, coordination, and prosecution capabilities at the national and...

This 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) provides $346,856.49 to the Wildlife Protection Society of India to enhance the capabilities of authorities in the target area to prevent and reduce wildlife crimes. The project will deliver optimized resources, including actionable intelligence, skills, knowledge, and link analysis capabilities, to support successful...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (CFDA 19.705 Trans-National Crime program) provides $2,123,278.10 to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to deliver specialized training, supplies, mentorship, and cross-border collaboration mechanisms to wildlife authorities, judicial police officers (OPJs), the judiciary, and prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. The project aims to strengthen law...

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...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $1,020,196 Cooperative Agreement under the Combating Wildlife Trafficking (CFDA 15.679) federal grant program to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to build capacity among emerging herpetologists in Kenya to combat the illegal hunting and trade of reptiles and amphibians. Through this three-year project, ZSL will select 10 fellows and co-develop a comprehensive training curriculum with input from key stakeholders such as the National...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement awarded a $508,466.12 Project Grant under the Trans-National Crime Federal Grant Program (CFDA 19.705) to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The grant aims to address gaps in previous interventions by developing an innovative technological tool and empowering law enforcement agencies to combat wildlife and natural resource crime effectively in Mongolia. The award period is from October 1, 2024, to September...