Project Grant F22AP00529

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $706,836 Project Grant to Planet Indonesia through the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629). The grant will support Planet Indonesia's efforts to protect Bornean orangutans, white-bearded gibbons, and Abbott's gray gibbons in West Kalimantan, Indonesia from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. As stated in the program description, the Great Apes Conservation Fund aims to support conservation...

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 $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 Forum Konservasi Leuser received a $137,556 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The award was made under the Great Apes Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.629) to support protection of Sumatran orangutan populations and their habitats in three research stations within the Western Leuser Ecosystem of Aceh, Indonesia. Specifically, the funding will be used to support applied research and conservation activities focused...

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 $584,550 project grant to the Hutan Kinabatangan Orang-Utan Conservation Project (doing business as Hutan Kocp) to support landscape conservation efforts for the Bornean elephant population in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah Borneo from October 13, 2021 through August 8, 2022. This award was made under the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.621), which provides financial assistance to support...

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's Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.621), awarded a $748,691.07 project grant to Panthera Corporation. The grant will support a 3-year initiative to increase site protection for Bornean elephants in the Deramakot landscape of Malaysian Borneo. Key components include: Assisting the establishment of a community-managed conservation area to close a critical gap in landscape protection and deter poaching from...

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...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $764,425 Project Grant to the Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt VON 1858 E.V. doing business as the Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt to support conservation and monitoring of Sumatran elephants in Bukit Tiga Puluh, Indonesia from October 13, 2021 through December 31, 2026. This award supports the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund program objectives to provide long-term conservation of Asian elephants...