Project Grant F22AP00266

The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) will receive $460,436 under a three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The grant is part of the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629), which supports projects focused on long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats. PASA will conduct surveys, fecal analysis, botanical surveys, habitat mapping, and reforestation efforts to support protection of endangered...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Great Apes Conservation Fund (CFDA #15.629), awarded a $897,128 Cooperative Agreement to the non-profit organization Re:wild. The objectives of this 5-year project, spanning from October 2023 to September 2028, are to: (1) maintain a comprehensive database on great ape populations, (2) increase capacity to assess conservation intervention effectiveness, and (3) produce bi-annual publications to communicate great ape distribution, status, and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded $510,885 to the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation - Germany E.V. under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The project aims to protect western chimpanzees in Liberia through establishing the Krahn-Bassa proposed protected area as the country's largest national park. Key activities include increasing community ecomonitoring teams for smart...

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 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 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...

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...

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 Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $121,248.83 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 Northern Plains of Cambodia Pileated Gibbon Conservation Project: Phase 7, which focuses on the effective long-term conservation of great apes and their habitats through applied research on ape populations and...