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Reduce poaching of key species within the Chinko, CAR and Garamba, DRC landscapes/protection areas, with a specific focus on security, intelligence, law enforcement, and park management THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ACHIEVE AHIGHER STANDARD OF PARK MANAGEMENT
Establishing Wildlife Law Enforcement across Multiple African Countries The purpose of this project is to support a conservation effort across countries in Central Africa by improving law enforcement and cross-border collaboration in the fight against transnational wildlife crime. This project is intended to conserve forest elephants, great apes, and other targeted species by addressing the illegal commercial trade in wildlife. Specific activities of this five-year Cooperative Agreement include: (1) investigation of significant wildlife traffickers, defined as those that employ or control poachers and play a significant role in at least one of the following: trafficking across national borders, engaging in or enabling corruption, and/or using sophisticated criminal methods; (2) facilitation of arrests of traffickers with the appropriate local law enforcement authorities; (3) legal follow-up of wildlife crime cases, including working with prosecutors and the judicial system to apply the law effectively and to ensure sentences are served; (4) media exposure of wildlife trafficking and penalties applied to deter others from engaging in wildlife crime; and (5) expansion of the organizational model to other countries to adapt to changes in wildlife trafficking routes and activity.
EIA training and capacity building guide for wildlife enforcement officers Funds will support the production of a film to be used for training law enforcement personnel and customs officers around the world about the plight of the elephant, the fight against poaching and the illegal trade in ivory. The film will include interviews with rangers risking their lives to protect elephants, representatives of international treaties and transnational law enforcement bodies, and experts on forensic techniques and wildlife crime in order to make officers aware of the toll poaching is taking on elephants and on ways that traffickers can be intercepted and successfully prosecuted.
Curbing the impact of trade-motivated poisoning on Critically Endangered vultures in southern Africa In southern Africa, vultures are threatened by poisoning related to both illegal trade in vulture parts for belief-based uses and direct persecution by poachers who attempt to eliminate vultures to disguise illegal hunting of elephants or other wildlife. To address the illegal killing of vultures, this two-year grant will support: 12 training sessions for law enforcement and conservation staff from six southern African countries (Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique) in the effective management, investigation, and decontamination of poisoning incidents to reduce losses and prevent further impacts to the environment; production of a guide for law enforcement and conservation staff when responding to poisoning incidents; issuance of poisoning response kits for use by law enforcement and conservation staff to conduct crime scene investigations and decontaminate the environment to prevent any future poisoning; production of an awareness tool to highlight the threat to human health posed by the use of poison on wildlife; and distribution of the awareness tool in known wildlife poisoning hotspots in target countries.
Identifying the level of funding needed to protect elephant populations across Africa and other key species. Identifying the level of funding needed to protect elephant populations across Africa and other key species.
Marine Turtles Postal Grant-Species Conservation Grant Scientific and Technical Support to Countries Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa and Oman
Determining the provenance of ivory using mitochondrial DNA Genetic markers can be used to determine relatedness of elephant populations and to identify the provenance of confiscated illegal ivory. With previous support from USFWS, a system to extract and analyze mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been developed to identify geographic origin of ivory samples more reliably and economically than previous methods. This method has now been applied to recent seizures in Asia, and the grantee proposes to improve this software by adding mtDNA information from elephant tissue from countries and localities in Africa that have not previously been sampled (to improve resolution and accuracy), to create an interface for researchers and investigators to more easily analyze their specimens and to generate tables of provenance reports from the mtDNA sequences, and to train law enforcement officials in African elephant range states to use the system.
Rhino & Tiger Contributed Funds This cooperative agreement will convene technology developers and field practitioners for the first time, to identify high tech tools that are available and could be adapted or customized for rhino conservation activities in order to ensure that all African range states and rhino custodians have access to the best technology available to protect wild rhinos. Specific activities will include convening approximately 40 key representatives of field programs and military, police, and customs authorities from all eight African rhino range states in Namibia in November 2012. Technology developers, including the manufacturers of RFID tags, transmitters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and remote sensing equipment will also be invited to present their equipment and to help identify new features that could facilitate rhino protection.
Rhinoceros & Tiger Conservation-Species Conservation Grant Supporting the costs of the 11th African Rhino Specialist Group meeting, to be held in February 2013 in the Laikipia District, Kenya
Supporting core activities of the Secretariat of the IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group Specific activities will include: maintaining the African component of the African and Asian Elephant Database, provide technical support and advice on elephant conservation and management, Provide technical support to the implementation of continental, sub-regional, national, and transboundary elephant conservation strategies and action plans, and provide technical assistance to multilateral environmental agreements, meetings and other conservation programs.
Great Apes Postal Fund The purpose of this collaborative agreement is to ensure the survival of the Cross River gorilla by 2020 through support to a network of core protected areas and corridors across the Afi Kagwene landscape managed in collaboration between local communities and government. The Recipient will develop a coordinated plan of action that strengthens ties and planning between all partners involved in work to conserve the Cross River gorilla; elaborate a landscape level approach that identifies key habitats and corridors to achieve an overall population objective for the Cross River gorilla; strengthen the protection and management of core protected Cross River gorilla sites; improve the survival prospects for Cross River gorillas living in unprotected forest sites; create a sustainable financing mechanism for Cross River conservation; and build the capacity of key stake-holders in order to assure the long term survival of the Cross River gorilla.
AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION GENETICS III The purpose of this project is to support a range-wide elephant conservation effort, with a focus on West.and Central Africa by improving African elephant genetics research and strengthening the capacity of.African research institutions. This project is intended to conserve African forest and savanna elephants.and their habitat by addressing the impacts of existing genetics research gaps and supporting evidence.based decision making by conservation managers. Specific activities include: (1) conducting genomic.sequencing of forest elephants and analysis of West versus Central African forest elephants to determine.the degree of genetic distinctiveness; (2) conducting genomic assessment of elephants at the extremes of.their range to determine genetically distinct populations worthy of separate conservation plans; (3) testing.a novel elephant dung DNA collection method with GenSaver cards; (4) expanding the capabilities of the.Loxodonta Localizer software tool; and (5) providing capacity development support for African elephant.range country laboratories.
MENTOR African Manatee Program This project establishes a new USFWS MENTOR Signature Initiative to develop the capacity of a transdisciplinary team of conservationists from Central African nations who by working together will create dedicated research, management and conservation actions for the African manatee. The project is intended to conserve the African manatee (Trichechus sengalensis) by training and mentoring a team of manatee conservationists who can problem solve together and determine innovative approaches to addressing threats such as high levels of direct bushmeat hunting, incidental capture in fishing nets, hydroelectric and agricultural dams that isolate populations and kill manatees in their control structures, and increasing habitat destruction. Specific activities include: 1) identifying the team of eight MENTOR-Manatee Fellows who are already enrolled in formal educational programs in Central Africa, 2) conducting training at field sites on team building and conflict management, practical experience in the field (conducting boat and interview surveys, a manatee necropsy, sample collection, use and care of field equipment), data entry and analysis, program design and adaptive management, stakeholder relationship building, communication / media, law enforcement, educational outreach, project planning and adaptive management,3) determining team projects, 4) providing on-going mentoring, and 5) implementing projects and conducting evaluation.
CREATING SYSTEMS TO MONITOR WILD CHEETAHS AND DETERMINE DRIVERS OF ILLEGAL TRADE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA CHEETAHS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA (HOA) ARE UNDER IMMENSE THREAT FROM INTENSE HUMAN ACTIVITIES, BUT ESPECIALLY FROM THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE PET TRADE. CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUNDS (CCF) WORK IN THE HOA HAS REVEALED THAT AS MANY AS 300 CUBS WERE REMOVED FROM EAST AFRICA EACH YEAR BETWEEN 2010 2019 TO SUPPLY ILLEGAL DEMAND. IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY TO CONSERVE THE POPULATION. HOWEVER, PROPER CONSERVATION PLANNING IS NOT POSSIBLE DUE TO LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON POPULATION STATUS AND DRIVERS OF POACHING. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN INTENSIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MONITORING AND ANALYSES STRATEGY FOR CHEETAHS TO UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE OF CHEETAH CUBS AND DRIVERS OF THE CUB TRADE IN THE HOA. OUR PROJECT WILL PROVIDE ROBUST SCIENTIFIC DATA TO GOVERNMENTS IN SOMALILAND, SOMALI REGIONAL STATE (SRS) OF ETHIOPIA, AND PUNTLAND (SOMALIA) TO ENABLE DEVELOPMENT OF DATA DRIVEN NATIONAL CONSERVATION PLANS TO REDUCE CHEETAH TRAFFICKING, POACHING, AND HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT IN THE HOA. IN OBJECTIVE 1, WE WILL CONDUCT CAMERA TRAP SURVEYS TO ESTIMATE POPULATION DENSITY AND OCCUPANCY OF CHEETAHS, THEIR PREY, AND COMPETITOR CARNIVORES IN THE AWDAL REGION, SOMALILAND. WE WILL DETERMINE THE DENSITY OCCUPANCY RELATIONSHIP FOR CHEETAHS IN AWDAL AND APPLY IT TO OTHER REGIONS IN THE HOA WHERE LESS INTENSIVE CAMERA TRAP SURVEYS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO
Vaccines for Conservation A Meeting to Explore the Desirability and Feasibility of The purpose of this project is to hold a robust stakeholder meeting to scientifically evaluate the potential use of EVD vaccines in great apes and if great ape vaccination is deemed desirable and feasible, develop consensus-based guidelines for potential EVD vaccine use to protect one or more to-be-defined subsets of great apes in Africa under various scenarios. Specific activities include: 1) evaluating the basic challenges and issues associated with deploying EVD vaccines to protect at-risk ape populations; 2) if there is reasonable consensus that vaccination against EVD is feasible and needed, producing guidelines for deploying an EVD vaccine for use in great apes in Africa in clinical trials and potentially beyond; and 3) evaluating the meeting format and productivity via feedback from participants.
MAPPING ILLICIT TRAFFICKING NETWORKS AND STRENGTHENING LAW ENFORCEMENT CAPACITY TO COMBAT CHEETAH TRADE IN EAST AFRICA AND THE ARABIAN PENINSULA Funds under this award are to be used for (1) updating range maps for wild cheetah populations in Somaliland and East Africa to increase knowledge of their distribution and potential sources for trafficking; (2) developing cheetah trafficking models to map patterns of probable transport routes from wild populations in East Africa to buyers in the Arabian Peninsula; (3) increasing the capacity of Somaliland law enforcement and judiciary authorities to investigate, interdict, prosecute and prevent trafficking of cheetahs in the field and the courts; and (4) using cheetah trafficking models and developed skill sets to guide law enforcement interventions and increase arrests and prosecutions of traffickers in Somaliland.
African elephant taxonomy: Identifying African elephant populations classifications for decision-making and recommendations for conservation 1. To collect and analyze genetic data from locations prioritized for research. 2. To compile and synthesise information on the classification of all African elephant populations as forest, savanna, hybrid, and/or unknown based on available genetic, morphological, or other research. 3. To use this research and associated products to engage the AfESG membership in revisiting the AfESG statement on taxonomy, including recommendations. 4. To provide technical information and advice on the conservation and management of Africas elephants in the context of this issue to the following: a. range State government agencies, b. non-governmental organizations, including both international and African-based organisations, c. inter-governmental organizations, and d. non-range State governments; 5. To identify future directions for taxonomic research and related conservation questions.
Supporting the core work of IUCN SSC's African Rhino Specialist Group's Secretariat at a time of extreme pressures on African rhino populations This grant will support a portion of the core services provided by the Secretariat of the IUCNs African Rhino Specialist Group including compiling continental data for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and other meetings, providing impartial advise to range states, and maintaining timely communications among range states and experts on emerging issues.
Isotopic Verification of Region & Year (IVORY) This project aims to develop techniques which will allow forensic investigators to more accurately determine the provenance of seized ivory and the date when the poaching event occurred. Activities will include 1) analyzing carbon 14 isotopes on 240 ivory samples from twelve recent seizures that have already been imported to the US for forensic investigation in order to estimate the date when each elephant was poached, and 2) mapping spatial variation in carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and strontium from 100 ivory samples of known origin from various sites in Africa (already held by natural history museums and scientific collections in the USA) in order to develop a refined spatial map that could assist in pinpointing the origin of seized ivory.
AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION GENETICS III THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT A RANGE-WIDE ELEPHANT CONSERVATION EFFORT, WITH A FOCUS ON WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA BY IMPROVING AFRICAN ELEPHANT GENETICS RESEARCH AND STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF AFRICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO CONSERVE AFRICAN FOREST AND SAVANNA ELEPHANTS AND THEIR HABITAT BY ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS OF EXISTING GENETICS RESEARCH GAPS AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING BY CONSERVATION MANAGERS. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: (1) CONDUCTING GENOMIC SEQUENCING OF FOREST ELEPHANTS AND ANALYSIS OF WEST VERSUS CENTRAL AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANTS TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF GENETIC DISTINCTIVENESS (2) CONDUCTING GENOMIC ASSESSMENT OF ELEPHANTS AT THE EXTREMES OF THEIR RANGE TO DETERMINE GENETICALLY DISTINCT POPULATIONS WORTHY OF SEPARATE CONSERVATION PLANS (3) TESTING A NOVEL ELEPHANT DUNG DNA COLLECTION METHOD WITH GENSAVER CARDS (4) EXPANDING THE CAPABILITIES OF THE LOXODONTA LOCALIZER SOFTWARE TOOL AND (5) PROVIDING CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN ELEPHANT RANGE COUNTRY LABORATORIES.
African Elephant Conservation Fund Supporting core activities of the Secretariat of the IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group
USAID-MENTOR Initiatives This project establishes a new USFWS MENTOR Signature Initiative to develop the capacity of a transdisciplinary team of conservationists from Central African nations who by working together will create dedicated research, management and conservation actions for the African manatee. The project is intended to conserve the African manatee (Trichechus sengalensis) by training and mentoring a team of manatee conservationists who can problem solve together and determine innovative approaches to addressing threats such as high levels of direct bushmeat hunting, incidental capture in fishing nets, hydroelectric and agricultural dams that isolate populations and kill manatees in their control structures, and increasing habitat destruction. Specific activities include: 1) identifying the team of eight MENTOR-Manatee Fellows who are already enrolled in formal educational programs in Central Africa, 2) conducting training at field sites on team building and conflict management, practical experience in the field (conducting boat and interview surveys, a manatee necropsy, sample collection, use and care of field equipment), data entry and analysis, program design and adaptive management, stakeholder relationship building, communication / media, law enforcement, educational outreach, project planning and adaptive management,3) determining team projects, 4) providing on-going mentoring, and 5) implementing projects and conducting evaluation.
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund Supporting the African Rhino Specialist Group Secretariat, for the benefit of African rhino conservation
MENTOR-BUSHMEAT: DEVELOPING A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY TEAM OF CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS TO ADDRESS THE BUSHMEAT TRADE AND APPLY CONSERVATION ACTIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICA Funds under this award are to be used to support a conservation effort in Cameroon and Central Africa by developing the capacity of a team of early career Central African professionals who will work together to design and deliver results-orientated actions to reduce the trafficking of protected species in the illegal commercial bushmeat trade in urban centers. Specific activities include supporting a team of regional conservationists who will have the knowledge and skills to design and implement field actions to address the illegal national and transborder trafficking of wildlife for luxury meat and to implement novel actions on legal systems, policy, and demand reduction.
Asian Elephant Conserv-Species Conservation Grant Preparing a comprehensive document on human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Asia
Coordinating Long-term Regional Conservation of the Endangered Western Chimpanzee The purpose of this project is to prevent the further decline in numbers of the western chimpanzee by ensuring the regional action for conservation of the endangered western chimpanzee is targeted on key threats, coordinated amoungst stakeholders and supported in the long-term. Specific activities include: 1) evaluating the impact of the previous 10-year plan upon the conservation status of the western chimpanzee; 2) reviewing and agreeing upon any amendments to priority sites and their conservation status; 3) developing with regional stakeholders an agreed 10-year action plan for the conservation of the western chimpanzee; and 4) facilitating development of long-term national and regional support for the action plan.
Enhancing African rhino range state capacity and the formulation of rhino conservation plans through the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Groups Secretariat To provide objective, up-to-date information to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species; to facilitate information sharing on rhino-related issues amongst Range States and civil society through enhanced communication and awareness activities; to assist in investigation and prosecution efforts for crimes related to wildlife; To assist in the development and implementation of continental, regional, and national rhino conservation plans, strategies and policies.
AAAS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY POLICY FELLOWSHIPS The purpose of this grant is for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to select two AAAS fellows to assist with the USFWS Division of International Conservations (DIC) work in Central Africa. With an expected budget of $17.5 million for 2015 for USFWS activities in Central Africa (an increase from nearly $8 million in 2014), the fellows will be play a key role in meeting the Africa Branchs increased workload. The fellowships are renewable for a second year if agreed to by the sponsoring agency and the fellow. This will be the first time USFWS has hosted an AAAS fellow and therefore an opportunity to evaluate whether the agency could benefit from the program in the future.
TRANSHUMANCE AND CONSERVATION AT A CROSSROADS - COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION ACROSS WEST-CENTRAL AFRICAN LANDSCAPES OF GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY SIGNIFICANCE The purpose of this new two-year grant is to understand the threats posed by the seasonal movement of mobile pastoralists and their livestock (i.e., transhumance) to wildlife populations in priority conservation landscapes in southern Chad (e.g., Zakouma National Park) and the Central African Republic (CAR; e.g., Manovo-Gounda-St. Floris National Park, Chinko Reserve), and identify lessons learned from the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) protected area complex in West Africa that can improve the compatibility of protected area management and transhumance in Central Africa. This project will contribute to the conservation of USFWS trust resources, including federally protected species, such as African elephants. Specific activities include (1) conducting an institutional analysis of transhumance governance in southern Chad and CAR in relation to the WAP conservation complex; (2) producing a transhumant mobility analysis in the Chadian regions of Moyen-Chari and Salamat; and (3) conducting geospatial analysis of pastoral resource distribution and connectivity across southern Chad and CAR. The funding source is a 632(a) transfer from USAID; transfer responsibilities include implementation of the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE).
AERIAL SURVEY OF ELEPHANTS IN THE KAVANGO ZAMBEZI (KAZA) TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREA (TFCA) IN ANGOLA, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, ZAMBIA, AND ZIMBABWE THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT AN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION EFFORT IN THE KAVANGO ZAMBEZI TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREA (KAZA TFCA) BY STRENGTHENING BIOLOGICAL MONITORING. THE KAZA TFCA SAVANNA ELEPHANT STRONGHOLD IS HOME TO APPROXIMATELY 192,500 ELEPHANTS, REPRESENTING MORE THAN HALF OF THE REMAINING SAVANNA ELEPHANTS. THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO CONSERVE AFRICAN SAVANNA ELEPHANTS AND THEIR HABITAT BY ADDRESSING THE IMPACTS OF EXISTING ELEPHANT POPULATION RESEARCH GAPS AND SUPPORTING EVIDENCE BASED DECISION MAKING BY CONSERVATION MANAGERS. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES INCLUDE (1) PLANNING AND EXECUTING AN ACCURATE, SYNCHRONIZED AERIAL SURVEY OF ELEPHANTS IN THE KAZA TFCA.
USAID-Law Enforcement Wildlife law enforcement in central Africa - model replication and regional enforcement