Project Grant F19AP00039

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 $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 $120,500 Project Grant to the Wildlife Areas Development And Welfare Trust through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Phase VIII of a partnership between February 2021 and January 2025 to improve protection of the Western Hoolock Gibbon population in Jeypore, India. As part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund's mission to support applied research and conservation...

The World Wildlife Fund, Inc. received a $222,131.87 Project Grant award 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). The grant will support efforts to recover the last viable population of endangered white-handed gibbons in Nam Poui National Protected Area in Laos from November 2021 through December 2024. Key activities to be undertaken by WWF-Laos under a sub-award include facilitating...

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 $120,461.31 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant funding supports the Wildlife Conservation Society's efforts to strengthen and further expand community-led patrolling models to protect northern white-cheeked gibbon populations in Laos. The Great Apes Conservation Fund...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $106,986 project grant to Wild Earth Allies, Inc. under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support conservation efforts for the endangered Pileated Gibbon in Cambodia from June 2021 through May 2022. The project focused on applied research and conservation activities to benefit the Pileated Gibbon population within Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Given the program's purpose of...

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 Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $121,645.60 Project Grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022. The grant supports the Replacement Awards for FY2019 - LAR Gibbon Protection in Thailand's Western Forest Complex project. This project focuses on effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats through applied...

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...