# F24AS00060 Protecting and Conserving African Elephant Priority Populations

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/f24as00060-f24as00060-protecting-and-conserving-african-elephant/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/350366

> Fish and Wildlife Service offered grants of up to $1.3 million (at least $200,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make $8.0 million in total. Applications closed on November 27, 2023.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | F24AS00060 |
| Agency | Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | November 27, 2023 |
| Award ceiling | $1.3 million |
| Award floor | $200,000 |
| Expected awards | not stated |
| Total funding | $8.0 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 15.620 |

## Who can apply

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

Applicants may be multi-national secretariats, U.S. and foreign non-profits, non-governmental organizations, community and Indigenous organizations, and U.S. and foreign public and private institutions of higher education.

## What the grant funds

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The International Affairs Program delivers 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. African elephant (Genus: Loxodonta) numbers in the wild have fallen from as many as 26 million individuals at the end of the 18th century to an estimated 415,000 today, due to poaching for ivory, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict. 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 in support of projects that will enhance sustainable conservation programs to ensure effective, long-term conservation of African elephants. In 2021, the African elephant was re-classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) as two separate species, with the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) now listed as “Critically Endangered” and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) listed as “Endangered” under the IUCN’s 2020 African elephant Red List Assessment. The 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 states. The goal of the Service’s African Elephant Conservation Fund Program is to ensure healthy African elephant populations in the wild, while improving pathways for human-elephant coexistence. We achieve this through stewardship of a three-decade-old financial assistance program, convening and connecting partners, informing conservation decision making with technical expertise and data, and cultivating long-term partnerships and relationships with field projects and other key stakeholders across African elephant range states.

## Questions people ask

### Is F24AS00060 still open?

No. It closed on November 27, 2023.

### Who can apply for F24AS00060 Protecting and Conserving African Elephant Priority Populations?

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 F24AS00060 Protecting and Conserving African Elephant Priority Populations?

Closed November 27, 2023. 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 $1.3 million each. About $8.0 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.