Assistance program
African Elephant Conservation Fund
$26.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 15.620
- What it does
- Provide financial and technical assistance to support projects that will perpetuate healthy populations of African elephants. The African Elephant Conservation Fund supports projects that promote conservation and sustainable natural resource management through: Applied research on elephant populations and their habitat, including surveys and monitoring; Development and execution of elephant conservation management plans; Compliance with applicable treaties and laws that prohibit or regulate the taking or trade of elephants or regulate the use and management of elephant habitat; Conservation education and community outreach; Protection of elephant population strongholds and unique and at-risk elephant populations; Efforts to decrease human-elephant conflict; Habitat conservation and management; Protected and conserved area management in important elephant range; Strengthening local capacity to implement conservation programs; Transfrontier elephant conservation; and Wildlife inspection, law enforcement, and forensics skills.
- Who benefits
- Any African government agency responsible for African elephant conservation and protection and any other organization or individual with demonstrated experience in African elephant conservation.
- Who applies
- Applications may be submitted by any African government agency responsible for African elephant conservation and protection and any other organization or individual with demonstrated experience in African elephant conservation.
- Authorized by
- African Elephant Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. §4201 et seq.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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Direct payments