African Elephant Conservation Fund FY14

Funding Opportunity Number: F13AS00357 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementGrantCategory of Funding Activity: EnvironmentNatural ResourcesCFDA Number: 15.620Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: DOI-FWSClosing Date: Dec 02, 2013Award Ceiling: $75,000Expected Number of Awards: 30Creation Date: Sep 13, 2013Funding Opportunity Description: The African Elephant Conservation Fund is accepting project proposals for the conservation of elephants in Africa. In 1988 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 to support projects that will enhance sustainable conservation programs to ensure effective, long-term conservation of African elephants. The African Elephant Conservation Fund supports projects that promote conservation through: • Enhanced protection of at-risk elephant populations; • Efforts to decrease human-elephant conflict; • Habitat conservation and management; • Protected area/reserve management in important elephant range; • Strengthening local capacity to implement conservation programs; • Transfrontier elephant conservation; • Wildlife inspect...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Environment Natural Resources Source Type: funding