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The Division of International Conservation of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service works with partners worldwide to conserve fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats, and maintain the integrity of ecological processes for present and future generations.

Through its Wildlife Without Borders programme the USFWS has provided over 2700 grants for international conservation totalling more than US$ 100 million since 1989 in 33 countries worldwide.  In 2011 the programme awarded US$ 593 822 in grants for 29 projects in 19 countries, targeting over 20 Critically Endangered species of birds, mammals, and reptiles.  The USFWS has worked with nearly 700 partners in developing countries who have contributed more than US $200 million in matching support for grant projects, tripling the impact of programme funding.

The Wildlife Without Borders programme has established the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Fund (CEACF) within its Species Programs to provide support for projects that work to protect species that meet the IUCN criteria for listing as Critically Endangered or Endangered in the geographical regions of Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania.  Due to the limited funds available, proposals requesting less than US$ 25 000 and demonstrating in-kind or financial matching support have a higher likelihood of being selected.

Nine (eight albatrosses and one shearwater) of the 30 species currently listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement fall into one of the two eligible threatened categories, of which several breed within the regions identified for funding, as does one of the two species currently up for nomination to the Agreement (the Critically Endangered Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia).

Ecuador's Critically Endangered Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata: eligible for funding

Photograph by John Cooper

The current application deadline for a CEACF grant is 1 May 2013 (click here).

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 1 April 2013