2021 GRANT SLATE

Sea Turtles Program

NFWF CONTACTS Michelle Pico Program Director, Sea Turtles [email protected] 262-567-0601

PARTNERS

ABOUT NFWF Chartered by Congress in 1984, Leatherback hatchling the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) protects and OVERVIEW restores the nation’s fish, wildlife, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plants and habitats. Working with announced eight sea turtle conservation grants totaling over $740,00 in funding for the federal, corporate and individual 2021 slate of projects. These awards generated over $770,000 in match from the grantees, partners, NFWF has funded more providing a total conservation impact of $1.5 million. than 5,000 organizations and generated a total conservation These grants support NFWF’s Sea Turtles Business Plan which lays out a strategy for impact of $6.1 billion. investments under the Sea Turtles program. The plan focuses on strategies that are critical to stabilizing recovery trajectories for these populations but are also relevant to regional Learn more at www.nfwf.org threats other populations are facing.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Key conservation strategies for this program include reducing sea turtle bycatch in focal 1133 15th Street, NW Suite 1000 maintaining capacity for population-scale conservation. Washington, D.C., 20005 fisheries, nesting beach habitat restoration, protection and management, and building and 202-857-0166 (continued) 2021 GRANT SLATE

Hawksbill sea turtle hatchlings

Engage Fishers to Reduce Eastern Pacific Leatherback Work With Fishermen at Priority Ports to Reduce Turtle Bycatch Near Nesting Beaches in Mexico Leatherback Sea Turtle Bycatch in Peru Grantee: Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, AC Grant Amount: ...... $239,997 Grant Amount: ...... $77,294 Matching Funds: ...... $240,000 MatchingGrantee: Areas Funds: Costeras . . . . y. Recursos. . . . . Marinos...... $83,634 Total Project Amount: ...... $479,997 Total Project Amount: ...... $160,928 Identify and test collaborative solutions to reduce the Identify management approaches to bycatch reduction and proximity to their primary nesting beaches in Southern Mexico. Project will test LED lights on driftnets used in artisanal incidental capture of eastern Pacific leatherback turtles in recruit and train fishermen to reduce sea turtle mortality. gear.Project will reduce bycatch at two hotspots by working with promotefisheries inproper the ports turtle of handling the Ica region and release. and engage driftnet and local fishers and authorities to design and test modified fishing longline fishermen to increase sea turtle bycatch reporting and Reduce Impacts to Sea Turtles From Artisanal Fisheries Increase Nesting Beach Quality to Maximize Hatchling Along Pacific Costa Rica and Panama Output of Leatherback Turtles in Costa Rica Grantee: SUBMON Grant Amount: ...... $110,457 Grant Amount: ...... $70,000 Matching Funds: ...... $110,540 MatchingGrantee: The Funds: Leatherback ...... Trust ...... $75,000 Total Project Amount: ...... $220,997 Total Project Amount: ...... $145,000 seaImplement turtle mortality an official from training bycatch. program Project for will longline assess fishermen bycatch throughIncrease climatehatching mitigation and emergence strategies, success predation of leatherback and poaching sea ratesalong atthe suspected Pacific coasts hotspot of Costa ports Rica and andestablish Panama a government to reduce reduction,turtles in Costa and by Rica. decreasing Project will light increase pollution. nesting beach quality and release techniques of captured sea turtles. recognized training program for fishermen in the best handling(continued) 2021 GRANT SLATE

Hawksbill sea turtle

Aid Hawksbill and Leatherback Turtle Population In-Water Surveys to Assess Juvenile Hawksbill Sea Turtles Recovery in Nicaragua Through Threat Reduction in Gorgona Natural National Park, Colombia Grantee: Fauna & Flora International Grantee: CIMAD Grant Amount: ...... $95,175 Grant Amount: ...... $17,939 Matching Funds: ...... $95,176 Matching Funds: ...... $30,010 Total Project Amount: ...... $190,351 Total Project Amount: ...... $47,949 Provide a comprehensive conservation program for eastern

ProjectReassess will the conduct hawksbill in-water sea turtle surveys aggregation to provide at Gorgonaan updated nestingPacific leatherback and hatching and success hawksbill at three sea turtlespriority in sites, Nicaragua. and National Park to evaluate potential changes in population size. contributeProject will to reduce regional bycatch monitoring in key foragingprograms. grounds, improve evaluate its importance as a foraging site to the population. baseline along this coastal area of the Colombian Pacific to Hawksbill Sea Turtle Conservation in Machalilla National Population Viability Analysis of Eastern Pacific Park and Surrounding Beaches in Ecuador Hawksbill Turtles Grantee: Equilibrio Azul Grantee: The Ocean Foundation Grant Amount: ...... $35,999 Grant Amount: ...... $93,947 Matching Funds: ...... $43,800 Matching Funds: ...... $94,000 Total Project Amount: ...... $79,799 Total Project Amount: ...... $187,947

Protect primary nesting and foraging habitats for hawksbill survivalDevelop atthe priority first comprehensive nesting and foraging population sites viability and incorporate analysis turtles in and around Machalilla National Park in Ecuador. informationfor eastern Pacific on reproductive hawksbills. parameters Project will and estimate bycatch annual rates to SouthProject America. will protect and monitor the only known consistent formulate a population model that can evaluate conservation nesting beaches for the eastern Pacific hawksbill population in scenarios and validate population viability.