Project Grant SINLEC22GR0449

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $134,785.62 Cooperative Agreement to Birdlife International, a global non-profit conservation organization, under the Combating Wildlife Trafficking Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.679). The project aims to enhance collaboration among recipients of the Species Conservation Catalyst Fund, strengthen their capacity, and raise public awareness to reduce illegal and unsustainable international songbird trade, with a focus on...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement awarded a $1,018,080.12 Project Grant (CFDA 19.705 Trans-National Crime) to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to strengthen the agency's ability to respond to combat wildlife trafficking and poaching, with a focus on the Queen Elizabeth Protected Area in Uganda. The project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, aims to build on the long-term partnership between WCS and the Ugandan Wildlife...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (CFDA 19.705 Trans-National Crime program) provides $2,123,278.10 to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) to deliver specialized training, supplies, mentorship, and cross-border collaboration mechanisms to wildlife authorities, judicial police officers (OPJs), the judiciary, and prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola. The project aims to strengthen law...

This $122,327 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an interdisciplinary collaboration to advance techniques for discovering, analyzing, and disrupting wildlife trafficking networks. Led by researchers at the City University of New York's John Jay College, the three-year award period from August 2022 to July 2025 will develop new algorithms and tools to automatically collect wildlife trafficking data from multiple online platforms on an...

The Wildlife Conservation Society received a $121,697 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program. The grant supports the "Conservation of Tigers Through Law Enforcement, Volunteer Network, and Wildlife Student Training in the Western Forest Complex, Thailand, Year 12" project providing $121.7k in funding from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The project...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was awarded a $450,930.54 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Trans-National Crime federal grant program (CFDA 19.705). The award period is from April 6, 2021 to April 6, 2023. Under this award, WCS will implement a set of activities to improve the counter-wildlife trafficking commitment and capacity of frontline staff in Indonesia. The Trans-National Crime program aims to minimize the...

The Tiger Research And Conservation Trust was awarded a $220,524 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.619). The grant will support efforts to reduce human-large carnivore conflict and facilitate coexistence of people and wildlife in the buffer forest of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025. Key deliverables include...

The Wildlife Conservation Society received a $123,185.61 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to support conservation efforts of tigers in Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia. The grant was awarded under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.619), which provides financial assistance for projects focused on long-term conservation of rhinoceros and tiger populations. Specifically, the grant will...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded $527,053 under the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.619) federal grant program to the Wildlife Trust of India. The project aims to reduce human-wildlife conflict involving tigers and leopards in four high-conflict villages in India through efficient response mechanisms, trained frontline staff, and increased community engagement in conflict management and conservation activities. Specifically,...

The Wildlife Conservation Society received a $121,897.60 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to support conservation of tigers in Bukit Barisan Selatan, Indonesia. Funded through the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.619), this award will support improved law enforcement and reduced human-tiger conflict from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund program aims to...