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 Reserve and Mikumi National Park. works with the Uganda Wildlife Dedza-Salima Forest Reserve elephant FWS: $38,955* Authority to improve security for population. Leveraged funds: $61,140 elephants in Murchison Falls National In partnership with the Wildlife Action Park. Funds support improved ranger Group. Funds support the operating coverage and law enforcement in the core elephant habitat, follow-up investigations Support for law enforcement activities Improving understanding of elephant when elephants are poached, and and protection of elephants in North and other large mammal populations establishing an outreach and education Luangwa National Park. through a sample aerial survey of the program. In partnership with Grzimek’s Help Lower Zambezi region. FWS: $39,460 for Threatened Wildlife, Inc./Frankfurt In partnership with Conservation Lower Leveraged funds: $56,160 Zoological Society. Funding will support Zambezi. This project improves wildlife the purchase of new equipment and management by providing updated and Zambia consumable supplies and support accurate information on the elephant and essential road maintenance for park large mammal population, and assessing Support for law enforcement officer management purposes in North the effectiveness of anti-poaching efforts housing improvements to enhance Luangwa National Park in Zambia. in the Lower Zambezi National Park, the protection of elephant, Loxodonta Funds will purchase rations for field Zambia. Africana, in North Luangwa National patrols, upgrade the radio system for FWS: $35,220 Park. law enforcement communications, and Leveraged funds: $68,334 In partnership with Grzimek’s Help improve park facilities. for Threatened Wildlife, Inc./Frankfurt FWS: $54,953 (Leveraged funds Zimbabwe Zoological Society. Funding will be used were reported in previous years and to build 24 houses for wildlife police cannot be counted again here.) Strengthening the protection of officers and their families at North elephants along target regions within Luangwa National Park’s headquarters Law enforcement and field support the Gonarezhou National Park to reduce at Mano. In order to increase anti- for African elephant conservation in poaching and enhance cross-border poaching patrols and security for the Nsumbu National Park. connectivity. region’s elephants and other wildlife, the In partnership with Conservation Lake In partnership with Grzimek’s Help Zambian Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) is Tanganyika. This grant will purchase, for Threatened Wildlife, Inc./Frankfurt transferring more staff to the area and equip, maintain and operate a patrol boat Zoological Society. The grantee is additional housing is required. for regular patrols and deployments by expanding ranger presence in the FWS: $8,640 (Leveraged funds were ZAWA Wildlife Police Officers to increase Zimbabwean portion of the Great reported in previous years and cannot be protection of elephants against poaching Limpopo Tranfrontier Conservation Area counted again here.) in Nsumbu National Park, along Lake by establishing new ranger bases and a Tanganyika. patrol regime along the boundary with Conservation lower Zambezi village FWS: $22,777 Mozambique. scout unit. Leveraged funds: $66,982 FWS: $55,880 In partnership with Conservation Lower Leveraged funds: $71,910 Zambezi. Funding will support the Conserving vital habitat for the elephant employment, training, and equipping of population of Kasanka National Park. Multiple Range States and twenty village game scouts in the Chiawa In partnership with the Kasanka Trust. Consumer Nations Game Management Area adjacent This project strengthens elephant to Lower Zambezi National Park in conservation in and around Kasanka Supporting core activities of the southern Zambia. These scouts will be National Park in Zambia by increasing Secretariat of the IUCN/SSC African trained and managed by an experienced law enforcement and community Elephant Specialist Group. anti-poaching officer; will be employed outreach capacity. Specific activities In partnership with IUCN (International through the local Community Resource include support to scout patrols and to Union for Conservation of Nature). Board; and will operate on joint patrols the HEC mitigation program, purchase This project provides ongoing financial with wildlife police officers from ZAWA. of a vehicle, and making elephant support to the African Elephant FWS: $79,030 monitoring and observation data useful Specialist Group (AfESG) Secretariat to Leveraged funds: $52,320 for land-use decisions. compile and synthesize information on FWS: $99,779 the conservation and status of the African Operational vehicles and aerial support Leveraged funds: $428,129 elephant, and to provide and improve for elephant (Loxodonta africana) technical information and impartial conservation in North Luangwa Utilizing critical village scout advice to range state and non-range National Park. ground patrols, aerial surveillance state governments, non-governmental In partnership with Grzimek’s Help and monitoring to improve elephant organizations and inter-governmental for Threatened Wildlife, Inc./Frankfurt protection in the South Luangwa Valley. organizations in order to improve Zoological Society. This grant will In partnership with the South Luangwa conservation effectiveness. support ongoing core operational and Conservation Society. Funding supports FWS: $50,050 anti-poaching expenses in and around ground patrols by village scouts in Leveraged funds: $19,700 one of Zambia’s most important wildlife Kakumbi and Mkhanya Chiefdoms in areas, North Luangwa. Funds will the Lupande Game Management Area be used to support operating costs of and aerial surveillance in and around the ground patrols conducted by ZAWA, and South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. operating costs of an aircraft for aerial Activities are conducted in collaboration patrolling and surveillance. with local Community Resource Boards FWS: $55,132 (Leveraged funds and the Zambia Wildlife Authority. were reported in previous years and FWS: $87,756 cannot be counted again here.) Leveraged funds: $248,038 Strengthening government action China against illegal ivory trade in the Projects: Philippines through targeted training. Sharing space with China’s elephants. In partnership with TRAFFIC Cambodia In partnership with International Fund International. This project is producing for Animal Welfare. The purpose of training materials and conducting Protecting the Asian elephants of the this project is the expansion of public training workshops to build the capacity Southern Cardamom Mountains. education programs for three target of enforcement agencies in Manila to In partnership with Wildlife Alliance. audiences in Yunnan: local communities, identify and take action against illegal The purpose of this project is to support tourist parks and schools. Elephant ivory trafficking. the Southern Cardamom Forest and human safety education will be FWS: $59,523 Protection Program rangers so they can carried out in Pu’er. During wildlife Leveraged funds: $14,681 continue their daily year-round patrols. protection education months (January Teams rotate to ensure coverage during and February) more tailor-made public Operation Cleanup - decreasing the public holidays because it is the peak service announcements will be provided illegal trade of tigers, elephant ivory and time for wildlife and timber transports to additional villages. There will be a rhino horn through targeted action in and traders expect ranger stations to be training workshop for about 60 tour Thailand, China and Vietnam. unattended during holidays. guides and managers at Wild Elephant In partnership with FREELAND FWS: $48,885 Valley, and for officials and tour operators Foundation. The purpose of this Leveraged funds: $246,967 from Pu’er Tourism Bureau on elephant project is to increase cross border conservation and animal welfare. information sharing on tiger, elephant Asian elephant conservation education FWS: $45,052 ivory and rhino horn trade between law through Kouprey Express. Leveraged funds: $85,555 enforcement agencies in Southeast Asia In partnership with Wildlife Alliance. and to improve performance of Thai, The purpose of this project is to continue India Vietnamese and Chinese law enforcement to provide environmental education to officers in identifying and arresting high rural and impoverished communities Conservation of Asian elephant through level tiger, elephant ivory and rhino horn living in the midst of wild Asian community participation in North traffickers. elephants in the Cardamom mountains Kanara Landscape, Karnataka State. FWS: $56,147 of Cambodia. The threats addressed In partnership with Wildlife Research Leveraged funds: $7,008 include habitat loss, poaching, and and Conservation Society. The purpose wildlife trade. of this project is to achieve conservation * Projects supported with funds from FWS: $58,742 of the Northern Karnataka elephant USAID-Tanzania Leveraged funds: $268,656 population through mitigation of HEC and knowledge-based conservation Building national consensus for Asian planning. By reducing crop damage Asian Elephant elephant conservation. in the project area, the organization In partnership with Fauna and Flora hopes to raise the tolerance of farmers International. The purpose of this to elephant presence and contribute Conservation Fund project is to ensure conservation efforts to conservation of elephants. HEC is for the Asian elephant in Cambodia are expected to increase as many farmers in Summary: enhanced through the development of a the project area plan to grow sugarcane. National Action Plan. The project will FWS: $32,850 also evaluate distribution and intensity of Leveraged funds: $1,250 • Awarded 29 grants totaling HEC and the effectiveness of mitigation $1,647,363 and non-Federal match of methods while strengthening local Save Asian elephants by empowering $2,463,729. management. community (SEEC): Phase II- an FWS: $58,943 initiative in the eastern part of Chirang • Grants will support field projects in Leveraged funds: $107,382 Ripu Elephant Reserve. eight elephant range countries. In partnership with Aaranyak. The Elephant conservation and capacity- purpose of this project is to secure the • The Save Vanishing Species semi- building in Seima Protection Forest: elephant corridor and prevent further postal stamp (issued by the U.S. Year 7. degradation; regain the willingness Postal Service in partnership with In partnership with Wildlife of community participation in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Conservation Society. This project will eastern part of Chirang-Ripu Elephant is specifically designed to help increase intensity of field monitoring Reserve through plantation; monitor the fund conservation programs by law enforcement staff in and movement of elephants in fragmented abroad, including six grants around elephant hotspots; improve habitat; and implement diversified HEC totaling $390,585.47 (with $248,014 capacity to monitor existing forest mitigation measures. matching funds) for Asian elephant encroachment; inform the project in FWS: $ 54,895 conservation projects. real-time of emerging threats; and adapt Leveraged funds: $ 12,230 management strategies accordingly. The project will also establish a community- based patrolling system to monitor remote parts of the project area under threat from deforestation, where there is infrequent ranger patrol. FWS: $57,461 Leveraged funds: $57,941 Improving the protection of Asian Park. It will restore community support to provide assistance to the government elephants and their habitat by setting for conservation of Asian elephants and and local communities living adjacent to up community-based GPS patrolling other wildlife. This project builds on a elephant habitat. This project empowers in Kachugaon Forest Division under previous successful grant. local communities through the operation Ripu Reserve Forests of Chirang Ripu FWS: $50,560 of CRUs, which are elephant-backed Elephant Reserve. Leveraged funds: $5,690 patrol units. In partnership with Aaranyak. The FWS: $54,000 purpose of this project is to strengthen Strengthen the protection measures for Leveraged funds: $93,350 the protection of the Asian elephant Asian elephants by involving fringe and its habitats through setting up villagers in Manas National Park - Revitalizing community capacity for GPS-based patrolling. The project Phase VII. customary-based conservation of the Ulu will train 100 conservation volunteers In partnership with Wildlife Areas Masen Forest in Aceh. and approximately 40 frontline Forest Development and Welfare Trust. The In partnership with Perkumpulan Department staff on GPS usage, data purpose of this project is to financially Rincong. The purpose of this project is to collections, including wildlife sightings, support volunteers who will work help local Mukim community institutions threats and mortality. Maps of key with Manas National Park Forest become recognized by district, provincial threats such as poaching and illegal Department patrol staff for 12 months. and national governments as holding the logging hot spots will be prepared. The volunteers help improve the rights and responsibilities for sustainable FWS: $58,150 overall security of Manas National Park management of their customary forest Leveraged funds: $99,342 elephants, rhinos and tigers and their areas throughout the Ulu Masen Forest habitat. in Aceh by 2016. The project will ensure Haathi goes to school in Assam. FWS: $36,740 communities surrounding the Ulu Masen In partnership with Aaranyak. The Leveraged funds: $58,900 Forest have the tools and capacity for the purpose of this project is to educate sustainable management of biodiversity teachers/NGOs about the cultural and Indonesia within their customary forest areas, and ecological importance of Asian elephants actively contribute towards protection of and conservation problems associated Saving the elephants of Bukit Tigapuluh the elephant habitat and populations in with elephants; teach these individuals (Sumatra) with GPS and GIS - Phase II. the Ulu Masen Forest by 2017. about the sensitive nature of HEC and In partnership with Grzimek’s Help for FWS: $49,627 coexistence; and create a trained group of Threatened Wildlife, Inc. The purpose Leveraged funds: $19,556 teachers/educators who will use teaching of this project is to promote a peaceful techniques that motivate students and coexistence between Sumatran elephants An innovative partnership program for local audiences to bring about attitudinal and people. Old and inactive elephant human-elephant coexistence and forest change in the community. collars will be removed and replaced, and conservation in Aceh. FWS: $49,992 elephant movements will be monitored In partnership with Asian Elephant Leveraged funds: $30,824 for habitat utilization, home range, Support. This project will be carried and human-elephant conflict. The data out in phases. In Phase I of the project Ensuring continued functionality of the will provide the information needed to a trans-disciplinary team will be critical Kanchanjuri-Amguri wildlife create and update management and established with skills necessary for corridor in Kaziranga Karbi Anglong conservation action plans, which will building an innovative model to address Landscape (Assam), through generating allow the Indonesian government and HEC. The team will conduct baseline community support. the private sector to implement elephant- assessment of HEC threats in target In partnership with WWF-India. The friendly management actions. districts. The model project will be based purpose of this project is to manage FWS: $41,580 on the results from threat assessments human elephant conflict (HEC) in Leveraged funds: $101,660 with key stakeholder consultation. the project area by forming Anti- Lessons learned and guidance for Depredation Squads (ADS), one in each Towards a peaceful coexistence between replication of successful and sustainable project village; train ADS members humans and elephants in Bukit human-elephant co-existence in an (40 people) and villagers by WWF Tigapuluh - Phase IV. agricultural landscape will be compiled and experienced Forest Department In partnership with Grzimek’s Help for into a comprehensive document, and this personnel; support a village in erecting Threatened Wildlife, Inc. The purpose will be developed into communication and maintaining an electric fence (3 of this project is to initiate, supervise material to be published and presented miles in length); and monitor and and support community based HEC to relevant stakeholders for potential evaluate the implementation of various mitigation in order to decrease losses replication in other areas. To increase HEC mitigation methods. The project and damages caused by elephants and the effectiveness of laws protecting will also support alternative livelihood thus the risk of elephants getting killed the biodiversity and natural resources opportunities for local communities. or injured by frustrated and/or ruined of Aceh, this project will promote the FWS: $50,000 farmers. creation of a cross-party, committed, Leveraged funds: $23,035 FWS: $39,070 knowledgeable and constantly expanding Leveraged funds: $28,740 legislator network called Aceh Sustainable women’s livelihood and Conservation Caucus, and establish the conservation of Asian elephants around Support for Sumatran elephant administrative and operational structure Manas National Park. Conservation Response Units (CRU). of the Aceh Conservation Caucus. The In partnership with Aaranyak. This In partnership with International project will include the design and project will strengthen women’s groups Elephant Foundation. The purpose development of a web portal with a to be self-sustainable by scaling up and of this project is to protect Sumatran thematic structure that meets the needs replicating successful livelihood models elephants and their habitat by continuing and motivations of lawmakers, while in adjacent areas around Manas National linking them with relevant environmental reduce degradation and fragmentation responsibilities of different stakeholders issues and priorities. The portal will also of elephant habitat through improved in mitigating HEC. provide information on environmental land use management in human-wildlife FWS: $51,830 issues, decision-making processes, conflict “hotspots;” control illegal logging, Leveraged Funds: $38,900 statistics and data, and serve as a forum poaching and other illicit activities; for participation and dissemination of the reduce crop raiding by elephants in Thailand work of the network of environmental industrial plantations and community legislators. Trained volunteer groups will areas; and enhance human resource Law enforcement, law enforcement conduct community outreach events. capacity and commitment to manage and monitoring, and human-elephant FWS: $196,000 conserve elephant populations in Sabah. conflict mitigation in Kaeng Krachan Leveraged funds: $15,000 FWS: $24,200 National Park (KKNP), Year 9. Leveraged funds: $43,340 In partnership with Wildlife Saving the Sumatran elephant through Conservation Society. The purpose of encroachment reduction and preventing WCS/GoM Peninsular Malaysia this project is to improve protection future deforestation. Elephant Project: Year 8, assessment and for elephants and elephant habitat in In partnership with Wildlife reduction of human-elephant conflict KKNP and to continue law enforcement Conservation Society. The purpose of (HEC) and capacity building in Endau- monitoring work to help enhance this project is to focus on encroachment Rompin. effectiveness of protection work, to prevention and protection of habitat In partnership with Wildlife reduce HEC by promoting standard through patrol and direct monitoring in Conservation Society. The purpose of mitigation methods as well as monitor the field. Specifically, the reduction of this project is to help the Government the effectiveness of those methods, and encroachment and other threats in areas of Malaysia develop a ‘holistic elephant expand elephant conservation education with key elephant populations, and an plan’ that will balance development in the area. improved understanding of deforestation and conservation, and help conserve FWS: $56,023 predictions in areas under threats of wild elephant populations in Taman Leveraged funds: $56,628 deforestation. Negara, Endau Rompin Landscape, and FWS: $100,775 elsewhere in Peninsular Malaysia. Elephant protection and education Leveraged funds: $111,624 FWS: $58,993 campaigns in the Western Forest Leveraged funds: $58,945 Complex and capacity strengthening of Protection of threatened mega- future protected area managers, Year 5. vertebrates by anti-poaching units in Myanmar In partnership with Wildlife Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Conservation Society. The purpose of Sumatra. Protection and onitoring the illegal this project is to maintain the SMART In partnership with International Rhino killing of elephants at key sites in patrol system in Thung Yai West; Foundation. The purpose of this project Myanmar : Year 1of 3. improve awareness in local communities is to provide support for patrol activities In partnership with Wildlife and schools close to Huai Kha Khaeng of Rhino Protection Units (RPU). RPUs Conservation Society. The purpose Wildlife Sanctuary through nature patrol Bukit Barisan Selatan National of this project is to provide specific education campaigns on elephant and Park, take appropriate action against protection for elephant populations wildlife conservation. This project attempts to shoot or poison elephants through the creation of Elephant also sets up an International House of in areas covered by the RPUs, ensure Protection Units, implement law Conservation to strengthen international that no traps are placed or remain open enforcement monitoring using SMART experience on conservation concepts long enough to entrap elephants, rhinos, software, and map the distribution and practices with focus groups of tigers, tapirs or other wildlife. RPUs of elephants and threats to elephant approximately 60 students annually apprehend or identify poachers, and populations. from Department of Conservation and provide the information to government FWS: $58,268 Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of authorities for further prosecution. Leveraged funds: $58,338 Forestry, Kasetsart University. FWS: $69,830 FWS: $56,257 Leveraged funds: $232,549 Sri Lanka Leveraged funds: $57,189

Malaysia Awareness program on human-elephant Improving protection of elephants in conflict. Salakpra and adjoining protected areas Support the community-based Wildlife In partnership with Center for in West Thailand, by strengthening the Warden and Conflict Mitigation Unit to Conservation and Research. The SMART Patrol Systems using spatial conserve elephants in the human-made purpose of this project is to create a Managment Information System landscape of Lower Kinabatangan. change in stakeholder perceptions technology. In partnership with HUTAN-KOCP. and attitudes on HEC mitigation and In partnership with Zoological Society of The purpose of this project is to monitor elephant conservation in Sri Lanka. The London. The purpose of this project is elephant population distribution, specific objectives include creating an to reduce threats to Salakpra’s elephants densities and conservation status in understanding amongst stakeholders and their habitat by facilitating more Kinabatangan; ensure policies based about the failure of traditional HEC effective policing & protection of the on scientific knowledge are formulated mitigation and elephant conservation protected areas and forest corridor and agreed on by stakeholders for strategies and tools; the current scale linking them to Western Forest long-term elephant conservation in and extent of HEC in Sri Lanka; future Complex. The project will train and help Sabah, and the Elephant State Action direction HEC mitigation and elephant protected area personnel implement Plan is implemented. The project will conservation needs; and the roles and a SMART Patrol System and ensure also reduce human-elephant conflict; proper reporting, establish a Teentok Community Protection Unit to patrol Range-Wide Asian Elephant Projects the Srisawat corridor area, and raise funds from Kanchanaburi companies, to Providing support for the second establish a ranger patrol support fund. regional Asian elephant veterinary FWS: $54,705 workshop. Leveraged funds: $477,823 In partnership with Asian Elephant Support. The purpose of this project is Institutionalizing support for Wildlife to help support regional veterinarians Guardians in Thailand’s forgotten attend and participate in the Second parks: Lasting protection for elephants Regional Asian Elephant Veterinary and their habitat through forest ranger Training Workshop to be held in training and community support in Myanmar. This workshop will greatly the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest increase the capacity of Asian elephant Complex. veterinarians, as well as increase their In partnership with FREELAND networking capabilities. Foundation. The purpose of this project FWS: $34,200 is to sustain protection for elephants Leveraged funds: $5,500 in Thailand’s Thap Lan and Pang Sida National Parks. The project will Grant Modifications provide sustainable professional skills development for rangers to safely carry Mitigation of human elephant conflict out their jobs in Thap Lan National in affected areas of northern Karnataka, Park, Pang Sida National Park and Dong India. Yai Wildlife Sanctuary; expand park In partnership with Wildlife Research management’s understanding of elephant and Conservation Society. This project (and other wildlife) population and will mitigate HEC by strengthening the distribution in Thap Lan National Park, capacity of the local community and the Pang Sida National Park and Dong Yai Forest Department in conflict mitigation Wildlife Sanctuary; and reduce human techniques in HEC-affected areas. elephant conflict around Thailand’s Thap FWS: $14,000 Lan National Park. FWS: $49,957 Establishing and providing for the Leveraged funds: $29,474 vital needs of the Sumatran elephant population within Way Kambas Establishing DNA-based monitoring National Park. of an elephant population in Kuiburi In partnership with Save Indonesia National Park. Endangered Species Fund/INIRADEF. In partnership with WWF-Thailand. The purpose of this project is to expand The purpose of this project is to collect and secure habitat and vital water fecal-DNA samples and conduct capture- requirements for elephants within Way mark-recapture analysis to estimate a Kambas National Park and decrease baseline Asian elephant population in human-elephant conflict at the edge of Kuiburi National Park. The project will the park. also promote fecal DNA capture-mark- FWS: $18,870 recapture analysis as the framework for Asian elephant monitoring in the Dawna Tennaserim Landscape through production and dissemination of a Thai language manual, and peer-reviewed publications. FWS: $49,778 Leveraged funds: $37,341

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