Deadline: 9-May-22
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the applications for the Species Conservation Catalyst Fund 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 on 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.
The Service’s Combating Wildlife Trafficking Program’s Species Conservation Catalyst Fund (SCCF) is a new initiative that aims to reduce wildlife trafficking within complex socialecological systems by supporting recipients to:
- provide a more empirical understanding of the contexts in which species are trafficked, and/or
- develop, implement, and evaluate activities that reduce the threat of trafficking to species populations.
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support existing or launch new strategies to reduce poaching and trafficking of two identified taxa:
- saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica and Saiga borealis) in Central Asia and Mongolia, and
- cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Horn of Africa.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $3,500,000
- Maximum Award: $1,000,000
- Minimum Award: $100,000
- Expected Award Funding: $100,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 10
Outcomes
- Saiga Antelop
- Saiga populations are protected and conserved in their native habitats.
- Saiga horn stockpiles are quantified and managed transparently.
- Demand for saiga horn is understood and reduced across consumer countries
- Cheetah
- Population monitoring data for cheetah in the Horn of Africa are used to inform conservation action plans.
- The capacity of law enforcement and/or cheetah monitoring networks are strengthened in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
- Drivers for cheetah poaching in the Horn of Africa are understood and addressed.
- Demand for cheetah in consumer countries is understood and addressed.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be individuals, multi-national secretariats, foreign, national, and local government agencies, non-profit non-governmental organizations, for-profit organizations, and public and private institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338645