The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,092,648 Project Grant under the African Elephant Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.620) to The International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc. (doing business as The Wild Foundation), a non-profit conservation organization. The grant will support the Mali Elephant Project, which aims to develop and apply models of inclusive, community-based natural resource management to protect the internationally important population of desert-adapted elephants in the Gourma region of Mali. Key activities include habitat and natural resource protection and restoration, income-generating activities to incentivize sustainable resource management, and engaging youth as catalysts to diffuse the conservation models. The 2-year project will help address increasing human pressure, resource degradation, and human-elephant conflict in the region, which is home to one of only two desert-adapted elephant populations and the northernmost in Africa.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/24/24 |