Support an elephant conservation effort on communityowned land between amboseli and chyulu hills national parks kenya by strengthening elephant protection securing habitat connectivity and enhancing…
Active Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- F24AP02560
- Recipient
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Big Life LIMITED UEI HHYXEFAF1V36
- Awarding agency
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DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters Region 9
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
- Obligated
- $1,655,566
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 15.620 African Elephant Conservation Fund
- Completion date 49% complete
- Funding
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- $748,700.34 Federal
- $906,865.57 Non-federal
- Place of performance
- Kenya
Award details come from USAspending.gov.
Description
Support an elephant conservation effort on communityowned land between amboseli and chyulu hills national parks kenya by strengthening elephant protection securing habitat connectivity and enhancing humanelephant coexistence. As part of the kenya rift valley savanna elephant stronghold this ecosystem is home to approximately 12814 elephants. This project is intended to conserve african savanna elephants and their habitat by addressing the impacts of poaching habitat loss and humanelephant conflict HEC. Specific activities INCLUDE1 implementing voluntary conservation land lease programs that reduce habitat fragmentation and provide benefit sharing and livestock grazing access for landowners 2 equipping and deploying community ranger patrols e.g. fuel and rations for monitoring landuse regulation compliance and conducting antipoaching and HEC mitigation efforts 3 developing and facilitating conservancy governance and management mechanisms for marite and nairrabala conservancies 4 creating and deploying a multiagency habitat protection unit comprised of the national environment management authority nema kajiado county government KCG and kenya wildlife service KWS 5 developing a fencing plan to mitigate HEC on the northern boundary of the greater amboseli ecosystem GAE and 6 provisioning vehicle fuel to KWS to improve HEC response capacity.
Quick answers
Who received award F24AP02560?
F24AP02560 was awarded to Big Life LIMITED by DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters Region 9 (Fish and Wildlife Service) on May 1, 2024.
How much is award F24AP02560 worth?
$1,655,566 has been obligated on F24AP02560: $748,700 in federal funding and $906,866 in non-federal funding.
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