OpportunityTitle: F24AS00060 Protecting and Conserving African Elephant Priority Populations
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Applicants may be multi-national secretariats, U.S. and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations, community and Indigenous organizations, and U.S. and foreign public and private institutions of higher education.
Description: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s (Service) mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The International Affairs Program delivers this mission through its financial assistance programs by supporting strategic projects that deliver measurable conservation results for priority species and their habitats around the world.African elephant (Genus: Loxodonta) numbers in the wild have fallen from as many as 26 million individuals at the end of the 18th century to an estimated 415,000 today, due to poaching for ivory, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict. In 1988, the U.S. Congress passed the African Elephant Conservation Act in response to the alarming decline of African elephant populations. The Act provides for the establishment of the African Elephant Conservation Fund to provide financial assistance in support of projects that will enhance sustainable conservation programs to ensure effective, long-term conservation of African elephants. In 2021, the African elephant was re-classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) as two separate species, with the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) now listed as &#8220;Critically Endangered&#8221; and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) listed as &#8220;Endangered&#8221; under the IUCN&#8217;s 2020 African elephant Red List Assessment. The Service works closely with national governments, U.S. agencies, and a range of other partners to ensure a strategic, results-based approach to conservation of both elephant species across Africa&#8217;s 37 elephant range states.The goal of the Service&#8217;s African Elephant Conservation Fund Program is to ensure healthy African elephant populations in the wild, while improving pathways for human-elephant coexistence. We achieve this through stewardship of a three-decade-old financial assistance program, convening and connecting partners, informing conservation decision making with technical expertise and data, and cultivating long-term partnerships and relationships with field projects and other key stakeholders across African elephant range states.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: mscf_africanelephant@fws.gov
GrantorContactText: Matthew Luizza, PhD&lt;br/&gt;mscf_africanelephant@fws.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Applications must be submitted electronically through GrantSolutions&#160;no later than 11:59 PM ET on the listed application due date.&#160;Applications must be submitted in English. Late applications will not be accepted. A confirmation email containing an assigned application number beginning with &#8220;FWS-&#8221; will be sent to applicants upon submission.&#160;If you do not receive this email within five days of the opportunity closing date, contact mscf_africanelephant@fws.gov.&#160;DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION MORE THAN ONCE. Duplicate applications will be discarded. Please see more information about submission requirements in section D7. Other Submission Requirements.&#160;