Project Grant F21AP02671

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...

The Zoological Society of San Diego, doing business as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, will rear Laguna Mountains skipper butterflies for reintroduction under a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. Under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance will breed and raise Laguna Mountains...

This $124,665 three-year 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) aims to restore the endangered Behrens and Myrtles Silverspot butterflies on the Sonoma-Mendocino coast by expanding the coverage of their larval host plant, Viola adunca, in Fort Ross State Historic Park. The project will test the effectiveness of two restoration methods - seed dispersal and planting mature...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $487,120 Project Grant under the Competitive State Wildlife Grant (C-SWG) Program to the Guam Department of Agriculture (GDOA) Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, in partnership with the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability. The two-year grant project aims to propagate captive Mariana eight-spot butterflies (MESB) to augment wild populations, assess available habitats and risks, propagate and out-plant host plants to enrich MESB...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $225,000 Project Grant under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the Minnesota Zoo. The grant funds a study to assess pesticide prevalence in habitats of three federally protected butterfly species - the Poweshiek skipperling, Mitchell's satyr, and Dakota skipper. The research aims to close knowledge gaps about pesticide exposure in currently occupied, extirpated, and potential reintroduction sites across the...

The San Juan Islands Conservation District will implement ten new Island Marble Butterfly habitat projects totaling $151,918.84 through December 2026 under a Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. Funded by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, the projects will create fenced habitat plots and permanent open spaces on private properties in San Juan and Lopez Islands, Washington to expand existing habitat and connect areas for...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded $5.55 million under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) federal grant program to the State of Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources. The funding will support major expansion of the Maui Bird Conservation Center managed by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance in partnership with state and federal wildlife agencies. The award will fund planning, design, permitting, land clearing, and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $4,347,652 to Fresno's Chaffee Zoo Corporation to recover the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila) in California's Central Valley. The primary objectives are to: Establish a successful captive breeding program and release up to 100 lizards annually into remnant habitat, with the goal of establishing a...

This $1,900,227.09 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports a multi-faceted project to aid recovery of the endangered Taylor's checkerspot butterfly in the Pacific Northwest. The key components of the project include: Funding three captive rearing programs in Washington and Oregon to bolster existing butterfly populations. Conducting sustained habitat...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $100,232 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the San Juan Preservation Trust, a private non-profit land conservation organization, to expand and maintain habitat for the federally endangered Island Marble Butterfly (IMB) on San Juan Island, Washington. The project aims to transform approximately 10 acres of degraded pastureland into suitable habitat areas that support IMB and...