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FY 2013 Elephant Projects U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service African and Asian Elephant Conservation Funds FY2013 Elephant conservation in the Lac Tele Projects: Community Reserve. In partnership with the Wildlife Awarded 58 Chad Conservation Society. The grantee supports anti-poaching patrols and Zakouma National Park anti-poaching is establishing three basic camps to grants totaling and rapid intervention. improve security for elephants and other In partnership with the African Parks endangered species (including gorillas $3,570,140 with Network. Funding will support essential and chimpanzees) in and around the Lac anti-poaching activities including ranger Tele Community Reserve. $7,189,206 in training and installing a radio network FWS: $108,597 in Zakouma, Chad. Savannah elephants Leveraged funds: $53,451 on the northern extent of Central Africa non-Federal were decimated in the years preceding Democratic Republic of Congo 2008, but through recruiting able-bodied matching funds. rangers, professional training, regular Deployment of a bloodhound unit for provision of supplies and improved elephant protection in Virunga National effectiveness poaching has decreased Park. drastically and elephant numbers have In partnership with the African stabilized. Conservation Fund. Funds will be used FWS: $115,350 to support the final phase in training and African Elephant Leveraged funds: $300,028 deployment of a team of five bloodhounds and handlers from the national park staff Conservation Fund Republic of Congo in Virunga National Park. These teams are specifically trained to track poachers Securing a refuge for elephants in and have already been successful in Summary: Conkouati-ouli National Park through locating poachers, weapons and ivory. ecotourism development and informed FWS: $75,177 • Awarded 29 grants totaling anti-poaching efforts. Leveraged funds: $115,363 $1,922,777 and non-Federal match of In partnership with the Wildlife $4,725,477. Conservation Society. This project Gabon supports anti-poaching activities and foot • Grants will support field projects at surveys to identify elephant population Long-term acoustic monitoring of 23 sites in 12 African countries. trends and areas of poaching, and critical forest elephant populations. infrastructure to promote tourism to the In partnership with Cornell University. • Funds will support one project area in southwestern Republic of Congo. The grantee is developing and expanding involving all African elephant range FWS: $122,089 the use of acoustic recording devices in states and two projects in consumer Leveraged funds: $88,980 providing information about imperiled countries. forest elephants that are very difficult or Conservation of forest elephants in the costly to monitor by direct observation • The Save Vanishing Species semi- Ogooue-Leketi National Park - Phase IV. or traditional transects. The grant will postal stamp (issued by the U.S. In partnership with the Wildlife train Gabonese and Congolese students Postal Service in partnership with Conservation Society. The grantee in monitoring and analyzing elephant U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) is continues to monitor elephants in the activity at five sites (Jobo/Djoumou River, specifically designed to help fund Congo side of the Bateke landscape, Precious Woods, Langoue Bai, Kessala, conservation programs abroad, in addition to training local students and northern Congo bais), and is further including two grants totaling and conservationists, and providing developing a tool to analyze elephant $127,621.48 (with $209,931.50 protection through observer presence at calls on recordings to interpret data more matching funds) for African elephant sensitive sites frequented by elephants. easily and rapidly for long-term elephant conservation projects. FWS: $113,268 population monitoring. Leveraged funds: $45,232 FWS: $114,278 Leveraged funds: $53,721 Kenya costs of anti-poaching scouts in two forest Monitoring the long-term effects of reserves that serve as one of the last poaching on elephants in southern Prevention of illegal killing of elephants refuges for elephants near Lake Malawi. Tanzania. for ivory in the Laikipia ecosystem. Specific activities include operating In partnership with the Udzungwa In partnership with Space for Giants. costs for the team of twenty scouts Elephant Project. In response This grant supports an initiative to and a manager, rations and equipment to widespread elephant poaching coordinate wildlife security efforts across for patrols, installation of a new radio throughout southern Tanzania, this private ranches, community areas and communications system, basic training, organization is working to protect a key nationally protected areas in Laikipia, and agricultural extension work and population near Tanzania’s elephant Kenya. Activities include establishing a fence maintenance to minimize conflict strongholds of Selous and Ruaha. security network across properties and with local farmers. Activities include training staff from agencies in collaboration with the Kenya FWS: $68,286 Tanzania’s wildlife research institute, Wildlife Service, providing support to Leveraged funds: $69,440 TAWIRI, assessing four elephant a new mobile rapid response team, and populations for early warning signs of increasing community support for wildlife The Mali Elephant Project, Phase III: decline, and training national park staff protection initiatives through outreach Managing Human-Elephant Contact. in monitoring elephant populations and activities. In partnership with the WILD conducting anti-poaching activities. FWS: $89,344 Foundation. This program works with FWS: $34,792* Leveraged funds: $140,917 local pastoralists and farmers to secure Leveraged funds: $73,840 access to forage and water for Africa’s Wildlife patrols on Mount Kenya: the northernmost elephant population in Support for aerial operations and law joint wildlife protection team. the Gourma region. Building on past enforcement activities for Selous Game In partnership with the Mount Kenya successes in spite of regional instability, Reserve. Trust. This grant supports joint law activities include continuing expansion In partnership with Grzimek’s Help enforcement efforts of the Mount Kenya of the community resource management for Threatened Wildlife, Inc./Frankfurt Trust and Kenya Wildlife Service to program into additional areas. Zoological Society. The Selous, formerly decrease poaching of elephants and FWS: $49,993 the second most numerous elephant other illegal activities on the slopes Leveraged funds: $447,709 population in Africa, has been heavily of Mount Kenya. Specific activities hit by poaching this past decade. This include training and supporting teams South Africa project will reinvigorate anti-poaching to conduct anti-poaching patrols; collect efforts in the Selous by supporting information on poaching activities and The Trans-boundary Elephant Research operating expenses for an aircraft to wildlife presence; combat illegal land Program with Great Limpopo National conduct aerial surveillance, for patrol clearing and cultivation within the park; Park. vehicles and for basic equipment for construct housing for wildlife personnel; In partnership with Save the Elephants. rangers throughout the reserve. and support outreach activities including This project analyzes elephant FWS: $54,780 wildlife clubs in schools. movements and long-term patterns Leveraged funds: $51,250 FWS: $49,720 within Kruger National Park, South Leveraged funds: $48,224 Africa’s largest elephant population, and Supporting village game scouts on Waga outside into village land and hunting Wildlife Management Area in the Ruaha Support the purchase of a motor vehicle blocks to better understand elephant ecosystem. to improve the security and monitoring habitat needs and how management In partnership with the Wildlife of the elephants in Mpus Kutuk decisions alter elephant behavior and Conservation Society. In order to Conservancy, Northern Kenya. distribution. improve patrol efficiency, this project In partnership with the Northern FWS: $65,018 funds village game scout anti-poaching Rangelands Trust. The grantee will Leveraged funds: $2,058,454 patrols and the pilot phase of a spatially expand the coverage and effectiveness explicit law enforcement monitoring of ranger patrols to reduce poaching in Tanzania technique, SMART (Spatial Monitoring Mpus Kutuk Community Conservancy and Reporting Tool), in the community- in Kenya’s northern rangelands through Assessing patterns of poaching risk owned Waga Wildlife Management the provision of a vehicle to enhance in relation to resource-constrained Area bordering Ruaha National Park in ranger mobility and response, facilitate distribution of Mikumi elephants for Tanzania. the coordination of cross-conservancy a long-term elephant protection and FWS: $71,783* patrols, and improve elephant monitoring management strategy. Leveraged funds: $48,892 and protection. In partnership with the Animal Behavior FWS: $47,000 Research Unit in Mikumi National Park. Uganda Leveraged funds: $35,574 This project supports Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) to improve their Protecting the recovery of elephants in Mali ability to protect elephants by assessing southern Murchison Falls Conservation elephant distribution and habitat use, Area. Operations support for the Wildlife threats and poaching activity, and In partnership with Uganda Action Group - Malawi for the protection deploying patrol effort effectively within Conservation Foundation. This project of the Thuma Forest
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