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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The International Affairs Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is pleased to announce a new 2016 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Combating Wildlife Trafficking. Please see below and visit <a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gHVQhHPhVOIGYvPvyPCNjTV-A_uX-vKx6bPDP23I6VVzNgveNno9CfH7lSUmTjpPqAcC3VJEcPexqKjoQ33mCOWDxHiRH72YpBG0-jaac_a-q5Ysf6Bbl0omEDdnZDYGlLgjM_7xTuQj-tF3ye-s3s2xZ5PueU4xlqV6nSKPyHQzfHItcLtoTi7st3z6xewf-S4WC6uNNlDQqYCzz0Vf1yWd0R1W8lOp6AQ7y35AOXuT4ObMsIMeWA==&c=H4clBdHCFBCbjVNlHWm8sfasS5TQiNAuX9lOguCVEK3eUkllmFfkfw==&ch=APkY7IsPrKXJ33W7uypW6DK2syLAuLNoLWQ1avJjiW0F5D9LJa6-OA==" alt="http://www.fws.gov/international/grants-and-reporting/how-to-apply.html" target="_blank">our website</a> for more information and for Spanish and French versions of the NOFO.</span></div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">USFWS has developed a NOFO to provide financial assistance to projects that advance counter-wildlife trafficking activities (wildlife defined to include terrestrial and aquatic species and timber) as outlined in the Next Steps of the Implementation Plan </span>of the National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">.</span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px"><br></span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">Priority will be given to projects related to the following <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Objectives</span>:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">1. Strengthen enforcement: Global enforcement</span></div>
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<div><strong><em>Illegal wildlife products, including a pangolin, on display at the Ivory Crush in Times Square. Credit: Kelsey Williams/USFWS</em></strong></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px;font-size:9pt"> a. Support governments in building capacity</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px"> b. Support community-based wildlife </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px;font-size:9pt"> conservation</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px"> c. Support development and use of effective </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px"> technologies and analytic tools<br> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">2. Reduce demand for illegally traded wildlife</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:16.8px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"> a. Raise public awareness and change behavior</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:16.8px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"> b. Promote demand reduction efforts globally<br> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">3. Expand international cooperation and commitment</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:16.8px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"> a. Strengthen international agreements and </span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:16.8px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"> arrangements that protect wildlife</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:16.8px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif"> b. Cooperate with other governments</span></div>
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<br><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:15.3333px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The USFWS is providing this funding opportunity to enhance, not replace, the support available for combating wildlife trafficking via other programs such as the Multinational Species Conservation Funds. Priority will be given to proposals that address wildlife trafficking issues and sp</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;line-height:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ecies not otherwise captured by the other programs. Applicants are encouraged to apply to this Notice of Funding Opportunity if the proposal directly addresses one of the Objectives from the National Strategy and Implementation Plan identified above.</span></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white">Sincerely, </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Daphne Carlson Bremer, DVM, PhD</span></p>
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