African Wildlife Foundation

CENTRAL AFRICA FOREST ECOSYSTEMS CONSERVATION (CAFEC) MARINGA-LOPORI-WAMBA FOREST LANDSCAPE

INCREMENTAL FUNDING, INCREASE OF TEC, BUDGET REVISION AND REVISION OF 1 STANDARD PROVISION

TOURISM FOR BIODIVERSITY AND ECONIMIC GROWTH; COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

THIS IS A FOUR YEARS COOPERATIVE AGREMEENT WITH A TEC OF $8 220 000 AND INITIAL OBLIGATION OF $2 055 000

ENHANCING AFRICAN WILDLIFE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NETWORKING

UGANDA BRIDGE SUPPORT TO AFRICA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR A PROGRAM IN SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION APPROACHES IN PRIORITY ECOSYSTEMS (SCAPES).

COMBATING ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE THROUGH CROSS-BORDER COLLABORATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN KENYA AND TANZANIA

THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE SPECIALIZED TRAINING, SUPPLIES, MENTORSHIP, AND CROSS-BORDER COLLABORATION MECHANISMS TO WILDLIFE AUTHORITIES, JUDICIAL POLICE OFFICERS (OPJS), JUDICIARY, AND PROSECUTORS IN DRC AND ANGOLA.

THIS ACTION INCREASES THE TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT BY $80,000 AND OBLIGATE $545,000 TO THIS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

TO REDUCE THE ABILITY OF CRIMINAL GROUPS TO CARRY OUT AND PROFIT FROM POACHING AND TRAFFICKING OF PROTECTED ANIMALS AND THEIR BODY PARTS

STRENGTHENING CAPACITY TO COMBAT WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

TJIS IS A TWO YEAR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT, WITH A TOTAL ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $1,009,348

THIS GRANT IS TO WORK WITH THE ABCG CONSORTIUM TO IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION CHALLENGES IN AFRICA BY SUPPORTING THE ABCG SECRETARIAT AS IT CONTINUES TO DIVERSIFY ITS FUNDING MODEL AND ADOPTS NEW STRUCTURES AND OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES THAT WILL SUPPORT SUSTAINED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, AND OUTREACH FOR CONSERVATION OF AFRICA’S WILDLIFE.

TO INCREASE CWT EVIDENCE SECURITY IN KENYA AND UGANDA

KITENGELA CONSERVATION PROGRAM

STRENGTHENING LUMO CONSERVANCY TO PROTECT WILDLIFE AND PROVIDE COMMUNITY BENEFITS PROJECT

INCREMENTAL FUNDING (444,000), AND INCORPORATE BRANDING STRATEGY/MARKING PLAN

THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO COUNTER WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING MAINLY AT BOLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (BIA) BUT ALSO AT BAHIR DAR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (BDIA) AND

THE ILLEGAL TRADE IN CHEETAHS ACINONYX JUBATUS IS INCREASINGLY THREATENING THE EXISTENCE OF THE REMAINING POPULATIONS IN BOTH THE HORN OF AFRICA AND OTHER EAST AFRICAN RANGE STATES AN ESTIMATED 300 OR MORE CHEETAHS ARE TRAFFICKED THROUGH THIS REGION ANNUALLY, REPRESENTING AN UNSUSTAINABLE LOSS GIVEN THERE ARE LESS THAN 7000 CHEETAHS IN THE WILD GIVEN THE SCALE AND COMPLEXITY OF ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE IWT , CONSERVATION EFFORTS HAVE OFTEN FOCUSED ON SINGLE ASPECTS, FREQUENTLY ONLY BEING ABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS AT A NATIONAL LEVEL THE HORN OF AFRICA SOURCE AND ARABIAN PENINSULA DESTINATION REGIONAL COOPERATION THAT IS ESSENTIAL TO EFFECTIVELY DISRUPT TRAFFICKING NETWORKS HAS BEEN MINIMAL AND AD HOC, CONSTRAINED BY LIMITED RESOURCES, LOW PRIORITIZATION AND A COMPLEX AND MULTI LAYERED POLITICAL SITUATION THAT CAN MAKE EVEN ROUTINE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNICATION CHALLENGING THE SOMALI REGIONAL STATE SRS IN ETHIOPIA HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A CHEETAH TRAFFICKING HOTSPOT WHERE CUBS ARE TRAFFICKED OUT VIA NEIGHBORING SOMALILAND AND ON TO THE ARABIAN PENINSULA ENFORCEMENT INTERVENTIONS INITIATED TO DATE INCLUDE JUDICIAL AND PROSECUTORIAL TRAINING FOR ETHIOPIA S ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS MAJOR GAPS REMAIN IN ENFORCEMENT CAPACITY PARTICULARLY ON IDENTIFICATION, DETECTION, AND INTERDICTION OF WILDLIFE CONTRABAND CRIME SCENE MANAGEMENT WEAKNESS IN COLLABORATION AMONG EXISTING LAWS, POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS LACK OF A CENTRALIZED DATABASE FOR COLLECTING DATA ON CONFISCATION AND ILLEGAL CHEETAH TRAFFICKING CRIME CASES IS A HINDRANCE TO EFFECTIVE PROSECUTION OF IWT CASES IN ETHIOPIA AS IWT INVOLVES MANY LIVE ANIMALS, THERE IS A NEED TO ENSURE THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL HAVE APPROPRIATE TRAINING TO ENSURE THEIR OWN SAFETY AND THAT OF CONFISCATED ANIMALS THE AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION AWF IS PARTNERING WITH THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE IFAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND NETWORKS TO COUNTER CHEETAH TRAFFICKING FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA TO THE ARABIAN PENINSULA THROUGH STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OR CHEETAH MONITORING IN THE TWO REGIONS THE PROPOSED PROJECT BUILDS ON PAST AND ONGOING INTERVENTIONS BY BOTH PARTNERS SINCE 2014, AWF HAS TRAINED 69 LAW ENFORCERS IN ETHIOPIA ON PROPER EVIDENCE AND CASE MANAGEMENT AND SENSITIZED AIRLINE AND CARGO STAFF ON WILDLIFE CRIME AND CONTRABAND AWF IS ALSO SUPPORTING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES UNIT ECU TO DEVELOP STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES SOPS ON DEALING WITH WILDLIFE CRIMES IFAW HAS BEEN WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE WIDER GULF REGION SINCE 2007, TRAINING PERSONNEL ON SUBJECTS INCLUDING CITES IMPLEMENTATION, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, TRAFFICKING TECHNIQUES AND OTHER CUSTOMS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES THIS PROJECT WILL ADDRESS SEVERAL CRITICAL AREAS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY HAD INSUFFICIENT FOCUS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING WITH THE ENTIRE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THE NEED TO CATALYZE AND CREATE FORMAL AND INFORMAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE HORN OF AFRICA THE CONTINUATION OF EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE WORK OF REGIONAL MECHANISMS FOR FACILITATING INCREASED COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION TO COMBAT WILDLIFE CRIME VIA WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT NETWORKS WENS THE REQUIREMENT TO ESTABLISH COMMON MECHANISMS FOR DEALING WITH THE LARGE NUMBER OF LIVE CHEETAHS SEIZED, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON HANDLING, CARE EVIDENTIARY SECURITY AND REPATRIATION AND THE NEED TO ESTABLISH A CENTRALIZED DATABASE TO HOUSE ALL INFORMATION ON CHEETAH TRAFFICKING THROUGH ETHIOPIA ULTIMATELY, THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIFIC OUTCOME 2 OF THE NOFO THAT THE CAPACITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OR CHEETAH MONITORING NETWORKS ARE STRENGTHENED IN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND THE ARABIAN PENINSULA

BONOBO CONSERVATION PROJ.: WORKING TOWARDS GAZETTEMENT OF THE IYONDJE COMM BONOBO RESERVE IN THE DRC

EXTENDING AND IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN THE MARINGA-LOPORI-WAMBA (MLW) LANDSCAPE, AND DISINCENTIVIZING ILLEGAL HUNTING

ASSESSMENT OF BONOBO DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BIO-MONITORING CAPACITY IN THE MARINGA-LOPORI W

WWB AFRICA FY17

A SURVEY OF CHIMPANZEES IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA

SCHOLARSHIPS AND TECHNICAL CAPACITY BUILDING AT GAROUA ECOLE DE FAUNE, CAMEROON

STRENGTHENING WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT MEASURES IN BILI MBOMU FOREST SAVANNA WITHIN THE BILI UELE PROTECTED AREA COMPLEX

UGANDA-STAR SUPPORT PROGRAM

RECIPIENT WILL ENGAGE AND ELEVATE EMERGING VOICES IN THE KENYA FILM INDUSTRY, OFFERING TRAINING TO ENHANCE THEIR STORYTELLING SKILLS AND SUPPORT THEIR GOALS TO RAISE THE VISIBILITY OF CONSERVATION AS A SHARED VALUE FOR AMERICAN AND KENYAN AUDIENCES.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATIOS IS TO PERFORM A NON-COST EXTENSION TO THE AWF AGREEMENT, THEREBY CHANGING THE COMPLETION DATE OF THE AGREEMENTO TO J