Project Grant F22AP00420

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Broad Agency Announcement (CFDA 11.015) provides $242,735 to The Ocean Foundation to conduct research and conservation efforts focused on sea turtle populations. The key objectives of this project are to: Collect genetic samples from sea turtle nesting populations (leatherbacks, greens, and hawksbills) to expand baseline datasets and define population boundaries. Compile and analyze existing...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Ecolibrium, Inc. a $205,573 Project Grant under the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) program. The grant, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, aims to promote holistic sea turtle conservation efforts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and wider Caribbean. The key objectives are to: 1) strengthen and coordinate international networks and conventions that advance multi-scale sea turtle conservation,...

The Ocean Ecology Network Inc. was awarded a $402,000 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) to coordinate, develop and implement sea turtle research and conservation initiatives in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. As part of the NOAA Unallied Science Program, which provides grants for biological, socio-economic and physical science research on fishery and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) provides $285,011.71 to Traffic International, a UK-based non-profit organization, to implement a multifaceted project aimed at reducing threats to marine turtle populations in Malaysia and Vietnam. The key objectives include: 1) Increasing enforcement capacity and closing regulatory gaps to combat wildlife trafficking, 2) Implementing behavior change...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded the Marine Research Foundation (MRF) a $227,500 Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) grant to mitigate bycatch of endangered sea turtles in shrimp trawl fisheries in Sarawak, Malaysia. The two-year project, commencing on August 1, 2024 and concluding on July 31, 2026, aims to introduce and provide turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to local fishers, raise their capacity to adapt TEDs to single and double net vessels, and develop enforcement...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded The Ocean Foundation $341,906 under the Broad Agency Announcement federal grant program (CFDA 11.015) to support genetic sampling and data compilation efforts for sea turtle nesting populations from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The key products and services to be delivered include collecting genetic samples from leatherback, green, and hawksbill sea turtle nesting sites to expand baseline nesting datasets defining...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) program, awarded a $135,413 project grant to the Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation. This grant, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support conservation efforts for six highly threatened tortoise and freshwater turtle species in Bangladesh. The Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation will utilize a three-pronged approach of conservation breeding, rewilding, and community engagement to...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $127,017 Project Grant under the Broad Agency Announcement (CFDA 11.015) to The Ocean Foundation to collect sea turtle genetic samples. This will contribute to conservation and management planning efforts, and improve stock assessments and status reviews for sea turtle populations. The project will run from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024. Sea turtles are important components of healthy ocean and coral reef...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $138,770 Project Grant under the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) federal grant program to World Wildlife Fund, Inc. for the period of February 1, 2023 through April 30, 2025. The grant aims to promote recovery of the critically endangered Asian Giant Softshell Turtle in central Laos through community surveys, market surveys, workshops, and an action plan developed with government institutions...

This National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology award for $138,000 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024 to examine the molecular mechanisms of migratory behavior in sea turtles. The fellowship supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate whether patterns in an animal's genetic code relate to its migratory behavior. The fellow will sequence whole genomes of loggerhead sea turtles with known migratory patterns...