U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces Latin America Regional Program 2021

Deadline: 30-Apr-21

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is inviting eligible entities for its Latin America Regional Program to conserve priority species, habitats and ecological processes across landscapes with high biodiversity value in the region.

The Latin America Regional program is soliciting proposals to reduce threats to key wildlife and ecosystems and to strengthen local individual and institutional capacity to sustain conservation processes in the long-term.

Proposals should describe specific conservation actions that will foster sustainable resource use, mitigate human-wildlife conflicts, and/or combat wildlife poaching and trafficking. Proposed project activities that reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on conservation goals and promote climate change adaptation and resilience are also welcome.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Funding: $ 1,500,000;
• Maximum Award: $ 200,000;
• Minimum Award: $ 100,000.

Thematic & Geographic Eligibility

• Mexico:
  • California condor: Sierra de San Pedro Martir National Park.
  • Jaguar: Sonora, Pacific Southwest, Yucatan peninsula, and Greater Lacandon system.
  • Monarch Butterfly: Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
  • Scarlet Macaw: Veracruz and Greater Lacandon system.
• Central America:
  • For all landscapes, projects should address one or more of the following themes: addressing drivers of deforestation, especially uncontrolled cattle ranching; strengthening management of protected areas, community forests, and indigenous territories; improving alternative livelihoods; and mitigating threats to jaguars, tapirs, macaws, and peccaries.
  • Maya Forest – Maya Mountains Massif – Chiquibul – Central and Southern Corridor (Guatemala and Belize).
  • Rio Plátano – Tawahka – Patuca – Bosawas (Honduras and Nicaragua).
  • Rio Indo Maíz (Nicaragua).
  • La Amistad (Costa Rica and Panama).
  • Darién Gap (Panama).
• South America:
  • Sustainable Resource Use and Wildlife Trafficking: Tropical Andes (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).
  • Sustainable Resource Use and Human-Wildlife Conflict: Patagonia (Chile and Argentina).
  • Sustainable Resource Use: Gran Chaco (Dry Chaco ecoregion of Paraguay).

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants under this program can be multi-national secretariats, foreign governments, U.S. and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations, community and indigenous organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, and U.S. and foreign public and private institutions of higher education.
• Individuals are not eligible to apply under this Notice of Funding Opportunity.

For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=332290