Leveraging Local Community Partnerships to Combat Nature Crimes

The goal of this program is to increase global civil society engagement in the United States’ effort to combat wildlife trafficking and other nature crimes by taking advantage of local knowledge, as well as build the capacity of local communities to proactively target specific and alarming nature crime trends in key source, transit, and destination countries.

OES welcomes applications from U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations with or without 501(c) (3) status of the U.S. tax code; foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO); Public International Organizations; Foreign Public Organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses.