Project Grant F16AP00932

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) provides $1,621,075 to the South Luangwa Conservation Society in Zambia to support comprehensive conservation efforts for the elephant population in the South Luangwa National Park. The key products and services to be delivered through this 2-year grant include: Enhancing anti-poaching capabilities through year-round foot patrols, specialized K9 units, and aerial...

This $749,697 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) supports an elephant conservation effort in Mozambique's Maputo Province. The key activities funded through this 5-year project include: Deploying 8 new elephant GPS collars and 140 camera traps to improve corridor planning and design. Supporting operations of human-elephant conflict rapid response units. Conducting annual social...

This federal Project Grant award of $435,118.95 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) supports a 3-year initiative led by the African People & Wildlife Fund, Inc. to address escalating human-elephant conflict in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem in Tanzania. The project aims to collect data on elephant movements, monitor and evaluate human-elephant conflict, implement human-elephant coexistence strategies,...

This $746,242 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) program will strengthen protection and human-elephant conflict response capacity for the Nyerere National Park and Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Key activities include providing aerial support for anti-poaching patrols, maintaining patrol vehicles to improve ranger mobility, and supporting the monitoring of elephants to inform...

This $2,093,420 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) program supports a four-year initiative to strengthen long-term security for elephants and their habitats in the Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem of Tanzania. Key activities include: Enhancing the capacity and professionalism of 155 rangers and village game scouts through skills training and equipping response teams to mitigate...

This Project Grant award, with ID F24AP02949, was provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) program. The $1,618,099 award to Conservation Lower Zambezi, a foreign non-profit organization, supports a 4-year conservation effort in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park and surrounding areas. The project aims to conserve the region's population of approximately 20,000 African savanna elephants by...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) provides $1,861,237 to support conservation of the Tsavo elephant population in Kenya. The key activities funded through this 5-year award (6/1/2024 - 5/31/2029) include: Providing enhanced aerial and ground security patrols and monitoring to protect the Tsavo elephant population, Kenya's single largest herd of approximately 16,000...

This $760,640 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) supports an elephant conservation effort in Zambia's North Luangwa National Park and surrounding game management areas. Key activities include providing rations for extended anti-poaching patrols, refurbishing an aircraft to enable sustained aerial monitoring, and procuring vehicles and fuel to respond to human-wildlife conflict...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,655,565.91 Project Grant under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) to Big Life LIMITED, a non-profit organization in Kenya. This funding supports a 5-year effort to conserve African savanna elephants and their habitat by addressing poaching, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict in the Amboseli-Chyulu Hills ecosystem. Key activities include implementing voluntary conservation land lease programs,...

This U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Project Grant award under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) provides $1,110,258.42 to support an elephant conservation effort in Gabon. The purpose is to reduce human-elephant conflict and improve local livelihoods, addressing the impacts on the African forest elephant population, which is estimated at over 95,000 individuals and represents more than half of the remaining forest elephant population. Key...