Endangered Species Conservation

The Department of the Interior's Endangered Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.612) has not awarded new grants since September 2007, making this program inactive for pursuing. The portfolio shows 16 total federal grants awarded between 1997 and 2007, with combined federal dollars obligated of $577 thousand. The most recent award was a Cooperative Agreement in September 2007 for $135,177 to implement the manatee habitat working group warm water habitat assessment checklist; no grant opportunities are currently posted or have been posted in the recent period.

Award activity was concentrated in the early 2000s, with five awards in 2001 and five in 2001, declining to one award each in 2002 and 2007. The assistance-type mix is predominantly Project Grants (94 percent of awards) with a single Cooperative Agreement. All funding came from the Department of the Interior.

Recent representative awards illustrate the program's scope: a Project Grant in April 2003 for $10,000 to administer the sea turtle online bibliography; a Project Grant in April 2003 for $19,895 to conduct genetic assessment of loggerhead populations in southeastern U.S. nesting areas; and a Project Grant in 2000–2001 for $60,816 supporting research on eastern indigo snakes at Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina. Earlier awards funded propagation and reintroduction technology for endangered mussels in the Coosa River drainage, protection and restoration of riparian habitat, and monitoring of goldline darters and other fish species in Florida.

Typical award sizes ranged from $10,000 to $80,000. The program funded field research, species monitoring, propagation and reintroduction initiatives, habitat assessment, and conservation agreement implementation directed at federally listed endangered and threatened species. With no awards disbursed in nearly two decades and no open solicitations, this program appears dormant and should not be prioritized for business development efforts.