Opportunity Information: Apply for F19AS00065
The Marine Turtle Conservation Fund and Combating Wildlife Trafficking Strategy and Partnerships Program (Funding Opportunity Number F19AS00065) is a discretionary grant opportunity run by the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), through its International Affairs Program. The overall intent is to fund targeted, practical projects that produce measurable conservation outcomes by tackling a specific wildlife trafficking problem: the illegal harvest and trade of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in East and Southeast Asia. Hawksbills are listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, and the program frames trafficking as not only a conservation crisis but also a broader security and governance issue tied to corruption and transnational criminal networks.
This particular Notice of Funding Opportunity focuses on combating the trafficking of marine turtles, with an emphasis on hawksbills being poached and traded for their shells, meat, and eggs. The geographic scope is explicitly regional and includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and China. Projects are expected to intervene along the trafficking chain, from poaching at nesting beaches to movement through transit points to end-market demand, with the goal of reducing illegal killing and trade pressure on remaining hawksbill populations.
USFWS signals four main priority result areas that proposals should address (one or more). First, it prioritizes reducing illegal killing and trafficking through stronger community-based protection on key nesting beaches, reflecting the idea that local stewardship, monitoring, and on-the-ground protection can directly cut poaching. Second, it prioritizes improving understanding of trafficking routes and major transit points, which points to support for intelligence gathering, investigative analysis, mapping of supply chains, and other work that helps enforcement agencies focus limited resources where they will have the greatest impact. Third, it prioritizes enhancing the application and enforcement of existing laws and prohibitions against marine turtle trafficking, suggesting an interest in projects that strengthen enforcement capacity, interagency coordination, case development, prosecutions, and compliance with current legal frameworks rather than creating entirely new laws. Fourth, it prioritizes the development and promotion of evidence-based behavior change strategies to reduce consumer demand for marine turtle products, meaning proposals can focus on social and behavioral research, demand-reduction campaigns, and interventions that are tested and grounded in data rather than awareness raising alone.
From a funding and competition standpoint, the opportunity is structured as a grant with an award ceiling of $200,000 and an expectation of about five awards. The original posting dates indicate it was created on December 18, 2018, with an original closing date of February 19, 2019. The assistance listing is under CFDA 15.679, and the activity category is Environment and Natural Resources, which signals the program sits within federal financial assistance mechanisms used for conservation and related international work.
Eligibility is broad and includes most common applicant types that might carry out international conservation and anti-trafficking projects. Eligible applicants include state, county, city or township, and special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status; individuals; for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. In practice, that means proposals could come from conservation NGOs, research institutions, community organizations, government agencies, or private sector entities, as long as they can credibly deliver anti-trafficking and conservation outcomes aligned with the program priorities.
In plain terms, the grant is designed to back focused projects that can show real-world reductions in hawksbill turtle trafficking by strengthening protection at nesting sites, improving trafficking intelligence and targeting, increasing effective enforcement of existing prohibitions, and reducing demand through tested behavior change approaches across key countries in East and Southeast Asia.Apply for F19AS00065
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Marine Turtle Conservation Fund and Combating Wildlife Trafficking Strategy and Partnerships Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.679.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 18, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 19, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Individuals, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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