Grants / Department of the Interior / Fish and Wildlife Service

F24AS00320: Invasive Species Eradication Funding Opportunity

Closed Closed May 27, 2024 Opportunity F24AS00320 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: F26AS00104 State ANS Management Plan 2026 (F26AS00104). Status: Closes December 16, 2026 (39 days left). It is in our archive of Fish and Wildlife Service notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Award floor$50,000
• Total funding$3.0 million
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to any type of organization.

• Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

Federal entities are not eligible for funding under this funding opportunity.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species awards averaged $279,895; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (51% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Invasive species pose a significant threat to the ecological, economic, and cultural integrity of America’s lands and waters and the communities they support. Once invasive species are established, it is often challenging and costly to control or eradicate those infestations. In some cases, however, eradication – the removal or destruction of an entire population of invasive species from a defined area – is both possible and feasible, resulting in substantial ecological and economic benefits. This can include eradication of a founding population of invasive species (e.g., a newly introduced species to a specific area) or eradicating a well-established population. Eradication, while it represents the ideal outcome in most cases, requires consideration of the available eradication techniques, cost, likelihood of success, likelihood of re-invasion, public support, complexity of environmental compliance, and availability of resources. This latter consideration is frequently a barrier to implementing eradication measures that can lead to restoring ecosystem health. Furthermore, successful eradication efforts are often dependent on the use of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, making well informed decisions, and applying a collaborative approach. IPM is defined as an approach to managing pests that uses biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a way that minimizes health, environmental, and economic risks. Collaboration with relevant parties, such as state, federal, local, tribal, territory, private, and other land managers, is often essential for successful eradication projects. For eradication to be an option, resource managers must have access to effective tools. Therefore, it is important to support both on-the-ground eradication efforts and also the research into and development of tools where they do not exist. DOI encourages leveraging science and technology to increase the likelihood of eradication of invasive species and increase the likelihood of long-term success. As such, proposals will be considered for on-the-ground projects that eradicate an invasive species or those projects that advance research that increases the effectiveness and near-term availability of eradication tools. For example, studies that lead to the development of genetic interventions and physical, mechanical, chemical, and biological eradication tools would be eligible.

Category: Environment.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, F26AS00104, which is open now.

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