Project Grant NR200211XXXXG003

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...

The Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service awarded a $175,000 cooperative agreement to the Xerces Society Inc. under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. The award will support pollinator conservation efforts across multiple states from March 2023 through March 2025. As part of the EQIP program's goal of promoting agricultural production, forest management, and environmental quality as compatible goals, the Xerces Society will work to optimize...

The National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, awarded a $310,302 Cooperative Agreement to Pollinator Partnership, doing business as Coevolution Institute, under the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902). The award, with a performance period from January 5, 2024 to March 30, 2027, supports the "URBAN FARMING FOR POLLINATORS" project. Pollinator Partnership, a woman-owned non-profit organization focused on...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program provides $147,013 to North Carolina State University (NC State) to conduct climate change vulnerability assessments for at-risk insect pollinator species in the Southeastern U.S. and U.S. Caribbean. The key activities include: 1) convening an advisory committee of state, territory, and tribal partners to identify priority pollinator...

This federal Project Grant award of $649,999 from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research to develop methods for determining the value of pollination services by wild and managed pollinators, as well as efficient levels and locations of wild pollinator habitat preservation and managed pollinator stocking rates. The project, which will be carried out by the University of Maryland, College Park, the...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $156,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Stewardship Program (CFDA 15.944) to the Save The Dunes Conservation Fund Inc. (Save Dunes) for a project to enhance native pollinator habitats across 115 acres in the Indiana Dunes region. The objective is to increase connectivity of pollinator habitat by improving marginal lands to serve as corridors. Key activities include invasive species management, converting turf to prairie, and planting...

The Xerces Society Inc. will receive $524,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service to expand pollinator and beneficial insect outreach and education to gardens nationwide. Funded through the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production federal grant program (CFDA 10.935), this three-year award beginning May 25, 2023 will support the Xerces Society's collaboration with the USDA People's Garden Initiative....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The purpose of this 5-year award is to incentivize private landowners in Texas to restore native warm-season grasses, forbs, and pollinator plants on tamed pastures or hayland. These habitat restoration efforts will aim to reverse declines in grassland wildlife species by improving ground cover,...

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will conduct field surveys, early season milkweed seed collections, and pesticide sampling of milkweed leaf material under a $100,038 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The award is part of the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), which provides funding to prevent species extinction and support recovery activities. Specifically, the Garden will identify locations of early...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, under the Threatened and Endangered Species program (CFDA 15.246), provides $394,579.44 to the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV) non-profit organization. The objective is to document the seasonality of monarch butterfly presence and activity within the Cosumnes River watershed in California over a two-year case study period ending December 2027. This will involve surveys and monitoring plots to...