Project Grant F17AP00515

This $140,250 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) supports Envirosurvey Inc., a Puerto Rico-based minority-owned non-profit organization, in implementing operational field strategies to promote habitat connectivity between remnant mature native forests and surrounding agricultural landscapes. The key objectives and activities include: 1) Identifying at least 5 coffee plantation properties...

This Project Grant award of $185,629 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (CFDA 15.635) program supports habitat restoration and community engagement in Colombia's Western Andes. The funding will enable the recipient, Saving Nature, Inc., to reforest 594 hectares with over 650,000 native trees by 2024, expanding non-breeding habitat for 18 species of neotropical migratory birds, including 5 priority species. To...

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...

This Project Grant award of $821,354.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635) supports the conservation of Central American pine-oak forests and protection of wintering habitat for the golden-cheeked warbler. Key activities include: Establishing 4 nurseries (1 in Guatemala, 3 in Honduras) to produce 50,000 native plants for restoring 50 hectares of pine-oak forest. Strengthening 7 fire brigades...

The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,350,485 Project Grant through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (NMBCA) program to Fundación Para El Ecodesarollo Y La Conservación (Fundaeco) to support a 3-year project focused on "Improved Neotropical Migratory Bird Habitat Conservation through the Expansion of Fully Protected Zones and Connectivity Between Protected Areas in Caribbean Guatemala." The project aims to expand fully protected zones and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...

This $382,800 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) aims to strengthen indigenous conservation capacity in the Yura, Inuya, and Sepahua watersheds of Peru. The key objectives and activities include: (1) enhancing community vigilance and monitoring through equipment, training, and technology; (2) improving management of the Yura communal conservation concession; (3) implementing new...

Organizacion Vida Silvestre, A.C. received a $1,006,816 two-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program. This grant will enable Organizacion Vida Silvestre, A.C. to deliver critical on-the-ground conservation activities in Mexico like habitat protections and restoration, species monitoring and inventories, and environmental training programs from June 2023 through June 2025....

This $201,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640), will support conservation efforts for the critically endangered yellow-naped Amazon parrot in eastern El Salvador. Key objectives include: Protecting parrot nests through community-based monitoring and conservation incentive payments in the San Miguel and Usulután departments. Engaging local community members in a ranger...

Organizacion Vida Silvestre, A.C. was awarded a $925,835 Project Grant through June 13, 2025 by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The grant supports the "Reduction of Threats of Priority ANM, Altiplano Potosino, Fase III" project under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program. Through this funding, Organizacion Vida Silvestre, A.C. will deliver critical on-the-ground conservation activities in Mexico's Altiplano Potosino...