Project Grant F21AP00757

This $290,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 will fund habitat improvement and conservation efforts to increase the likelihood of tolerance and survival of red wolves on private lands within the five-county North Carolina red wolf recovery area through July 2027. Under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation will work with private landowners and conservation partners to improve...

This $118,081 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to The Trustees of Princeton University supports collaborative research to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids to revive genomic variation in the endangered red wolf. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of red wolf "ghost" ancestry in coyote...

This federal Project Grant award of $251,552, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports collaborative research at Mississippi State University to identify unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids that carry red wolf "ghost" ancestry. The project aims to develop a non-invasive genetic tool to monitor and assess the ecological conditions that promote the persistence of this red wolf genetic variation...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $207,612 to Michigan Technological University to conduct research on identifying unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of Gulf Coast canids to revive genomic variation in the endangered red wolf. The project aims to develop non-invasive genetic tools to monitor the persistence of red wolf "ghost" ancestry in coyote populations, and use this...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $1,375,534 project grant under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Fort Worth Zoological Association, doing business as the Fort Worth Zoo, to support the conservation and recovery of the endangered Puerto Rican crested toad. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Establish an in situ conservation center to increase captive breeding and genetic diversity of toads for reintroduction, 2)...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $115,666 Cooperative Agreement to Tangled Bank Conservation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660). Through this 3-year award from June 2023 to June 2026, Tangled Bank Conservation will sequence existing tissues and gather additional tissues to assess the threat of hybridization and quantify population sizes across the range of the Alabama...

The National Park Service, through its Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945), awarded $200,851 to North Carolina State University for a cooperative agreement terminating December 31, 2025. Under this award, the university will provide population estimates and monitor the movement and behavior of coyotes within Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras National Seashores through DNA analysis of scat and GPS tracking collars. Beneficiaries include...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports the development and implementation of a sustainable captive rearing program for the endangered Island Marble Butterfly. The $150,000 award will enable Woodland Park Zoo, the primary awardee, to conduct a captive rearing partner workshop in 2024 and establish a long-term captive rearing program to produce approximately 125...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $548,021 to Revive & Restore, a non-profit conservation organization, to develop new biobanking methods to enhance recovery and management of threatened amphibian species, with a focus on the endangered Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri). The key goals of the project are to: (1) cryopreserve and recover live amphibian...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $132,710 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Biopark Society Inc. effective February 1, 2024 for a 3-year project. The goal of the project is to develop husbandry techniques and establish captive breeding programs for two federally endangered springsnail species - the Roswell springsnail and Koster's springsnail. This will provide a contingency plan in case the wild...