African Elephant Conservation Fund

Objective

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 Can Apply

• Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
• Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
• Anyone/general public

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.

Who Benefits

• Private nonprofit institution/organization
• Anyone/general public
• Public nonprofit institution/organization

Any African government agency responsible for African elephant conservation and protection and any other organization or individual with demonstrated experience in African elephant conservation.

Assistance Types

• Project Grants (Discretionary)

Program Contact

MSCF_AfricanElephant@fws.gov
(703) 358-1754