African Elephant Conservation Fund

Funding Opportunity Number: F15AS00085 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: Natural ResourcesCFDA Number: 15.620Eligible Applicants IndividualsOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DOI-FWSClosing Date: Feb 03, 2015Award Ceiling: $37,736Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Jan 27, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: 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. This is a notice of intent to award a grant without competition to an individual recipient. The recipient is being engaged to conduct an economic analysis of the value of wildlife trophy hunting in Tanzania that can be used to better understand the importance and the economic value of the sector in relation to overall Tanzania Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This consultancy is being awarded in response to a specific request for assistance from Tanzania's Wildlife Division and the Ministry of Tourism, and USAID-Tanzania. Because elephants were, until recently, sport-hunted by American clients in Tanzania, the results ha...
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