Opportunity Information: Apply for F17AS00026
The African Elephant Conservation Program (Funding Opportunity Number F17AS00026) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, aimed at supporting on-the-ground and strategic efforts that improve the survival prospects of African elephant populations across their range. Funding is provided through grants and cooperative agreements under CFDA 15.620, and it is designed to back practical conservation work that directly reduces threats to elephants, strengthens the ability of local partners to manage and protect them, and improves long-term planning for elephant conservation.
Projects funded through the African Elephant Conservation Fund are expected to advance conservation in several key ways. A major focus is enhanced protection of at-risk elephant populations, including activities that improve anti-poaching capacity and overall security in elephant range areas. The program also prioritizes reducing human-elephant conflict, recognizing that coexistence challenges can drive retaliatory killings, undermine community support for conservation, and threaten both livelihoods and elephant populations. Habitat conservation and management is another core theme, including actions that maintain, restore, or better manage elephant habitat, as well as protected area or reserve management in important elephant range where improved operations, staffing, infrastructure, and management systems can lead to better outcomes.
The opportunity also supports strengthening local capacity to implement conservation programs, meaning proposals can emphasize training, institutional development, and equipping local organizations and wildlife authorities so they can sustain conservation results beyond the grant period. Transfrontier elephant conservation is explicitly included, reflecting the reality that elephant populations often move across national borders and therefore require coordinated management, data sharing, and joint protection strategies among neighboring countries. In addition, the program includes support for wildlife inspection, law enforcement, and forensics skills, which can cover training and tools that help authorities detect, investigate, and prosecute wildlife crime connected to elephant poaching and ivory trafficking.
Education and outreach are eligible and encouraged components, particularly conservation education and community outreach efforts that build local support, reduce incentives for poaching, and promote safer ways for people and elephants to share landscapes. The fund also backs applied research that is necessary to inform protection and management, including surveys and monitoring that help quantify elephant populations, understand movement patterns, track poaching pressures, and evaluate whether interventions are working. Related to this, the program supports the development and execution of elephant conservation management plans, including the design of practical, implementable plans and the actions needed to put those plans into effect.
Another emphasized area is the development of innovative technologies with the potential to improve elephant protection. This can include new or improved tools for monitoring, detection, communications, data collection, enforcement support, and other technologies that measurably strengthen conservation outcomes. All supported work is expected to align with and reinforce compliance with applicable treaties and laws that prohibit or regulate the taking or trade of elephants, as well as those governing habitat use and management. Finally, the opportunity explicitly targets efforts to reduce demand for and trafficking of illegal ivory products, supporting initiatives that disrupt supply chains, improve enforcement against traffickers, and reduce consumer demand that fuels illegal killing.
Eligibility is limited to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education) and private institutions of higher education. The opportunity was created on November 17, 2016, with an original application closing date of January 17, 2017. The maximum award amount listed is $400,000, and the program anticipated making around 20 awards, indicating a competitive process with multiple funded projects rather than a single large award. Overall, the grant is structured to support a broad set of complementary conservation approaches, from field protection and habitat management to community engagement, planning, research, enforcement capacity, and anti-trafficking demand reduction, as long as the proposed work clearly contributes to measurable improvements in African elephant conservation.Apply for F17AS00026
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the education, environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "African Elephant Conservation Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.620.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 17, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 17, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $400,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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