Project Grant F20AP11023

The Saint Louis Zoo will receive $475,300 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) federal grant program to propagate and headstart two critically imperiled salamander species. Specifically, the Zoo will modify indoor streams, address temperature control issues in propagation equipment, and increase staffing to care for captive Ozark hellbenders and Eastern hellbenders from the Missouri Distinct...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), supports a comprehensive conservation research initiative focused on recovering the endangered Louisiana Pinesnake. The $232,668 award, granted to the Memphis Zoological Society, will fund several key activities over a 2-year period from June 2024 to May 2026. These include: improving cryopreservation and...

This $156,067.53 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program will support research and conservation efforts focused on the invasive Ozark dusky salamander (Desmognathus monticola) in Oklahoma. The grant will be sub-awarded to the University of Tulsa to: 1) assess the potential for the dusky salamander to spread throughout Oklahoma based on climate data, 2) conduct population surveys of native Ozark...

This Federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program will provide $340,717 to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The funding will enable CDFW to raise early life stage Ranid frogs (Rana sierrae and R. boylii) to adulthood at the San Francisco Zoo. These captive-reared frogs will be used to augment existing threatened and endangered frog...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608) provides $1,261,900 to MT. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS), a non-profit organization, to eradicate the American bullfrog from the Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge and a surrounding 2-mile buffer on private lands. The goal is to eliminate the invasive bullfrog's impacts on the federally threatened Oregon spotted frog population. The award...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $108,170 to the University of Montana to evaluate threats to at-risk amphibian species in the western United States. The project aims to investigate how factors such as drought, non-native predators, habitat loss, and pathogens are impacting the distribution and abundance of priority amphibian species including the Northern Leopard Frog, Arizona Toad,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $439,307.02 Cooperative Agreement to the San Diego Natural History Museum to support conservation efforts for the federally threatened California Red-Legged Frog (Rana draytonii). The project aims to expand populations of the Baja California lineage of the frog through reintroductions in southern California, promote breeding and habitat management in Baja California,...

This $355,123 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to genetically modify the immune system of the African clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) to improve its resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus. The goal is to identify how altering the frog's major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes affects its ability to fight off this pathogen and survive infection. The project includes a sub-award to the University...

Mississippi State University and its partners, the Fort Worth Zoo, North Carolina Zoo, and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, will use a $100,006 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire and train students from underserved communities to transition into leadership roles focused on biological collections management. Through November 2022, students will research amphibian collections at the partner organizations to learn...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, provides $213,333.34 to the State of Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks (MDWFP) for a 3-year intensive long-term study of alligator snapping turtle (AST) populations. The project has two main components: 1) mark-recapture surveys at five established AST populations across four major river...