# African Elephant Conservation Fund

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/f21as00490-african-elephant-conservation-fund/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/333115

> Fish and Wildlife Service offered grants of up to $400,000 (at least $100,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make $5.3 million in total. Applications closed on June 25, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | F21AS00490 |
| Agency | Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | June 25, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | $400,000 |
| Award floor | $100,000 |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | $5.3 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 15.620 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Applicants can be individuals; multi-national secretariats; foreign national and local government agencies; non-profit non-governmental organizations; for-profit organizations; public and private institutions of higher education; U.S. territorial governments; and Tribes and Tribal organizations.

## What the grant funds

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The International Affairs Program delivers on this mission through its financial assistance programs by supporting strategic projects that deliver measurable conservation results for priority species and their habitats around the world. In 1988, the U.S. 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. Recently, the African elephant was re-classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) as two separate species[1], with the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) now listed as “Critically Endangered” and the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) listed as “Endangered” under the IUCN’s 2020 African elephant Red List Assessment [2-3]. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) works closely with national governments, U.S. agencies, and a range of other partners to ensure a strategic, results-based approach to conservation of both elephant species across Africa’s 37 elephant range countries. This funding opportunity aligns with the Service mission.

## Questions people ask

### Is F21AS00490 still open?

No. It closed on June 25, 2021.

### Who can apply for African Elephant Conservation Fund?

Fish and Wildlife Service accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for African Elephant Conservation Fund?

Closed June 25, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $400,000 each. About $5.3 million in total.

### Who has won African Elephant Conservation Fund grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt Von 1858 E.V., Southern Tanzania Elephant. The program made 54 awards worth $22.5 million in that time.