Pacific Seabird Program RFP Grant

Pacific Seabird Program RFP Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Amount: US $50,000 - US $1,000,000
Last Updated: July 18, 2025

Summary

The Pacific Seabird Program RFP, managed by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, invites proposals aimed at enhancing seabird conservation from 2022 to 2027. This initiative seeks to address the threats faced by at-risk seabird species through habitat restoration, invasive species management, and reducing bycatch in fisheries. Projects within four specific Pacific regions are eligible, focusing on long-term resilience and population recovery for these vital species.

Overview

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Since our creation by Congress in 1984, NFWF has grown to become the nation’s largest private conservation foundation. We work with both the public and private sectors to protect and restore our nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats for current and future generations. NFWF supports conservation efforts across all 50 states and U.S. territories. Since our founding, we've funded over 23,300 rigorously evaluated projects, awarded to both large environmental organizations and small local initiatives. Pacific Seabird Program RFP Overview The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is accepting proposals that implement actions and fill information gaps in support of business plan focal seabird species. The Pacific Seabird program 2022–2027 business plan leverages the lessons learned from the 2021 impact assessment and 10 years of programmatic experience to develop a framework for advancing conservation of atrisk seabirds. The overarching vision of the Pacific Seabird Program Business Plan is to address the impacts of terrestrial and marine threats on focal seabird species (a full lifecycle conservation approach) towards reducing extinction risk and sustaining resilient populations. Specifically, the goal of the plan is to increase population size through improved survival and reproduction. The anticipated changes in productivity and survival are expected to increase the long-term resilience of populations to anthropogenic threats. By directly addressing threats through supporting actions that implement 1) management of nonnative invasive species; 2) restore breeding habitat; 3) reduce seabird bycatch in fisheries, and 4) build conservation capacity and fill knowledge gaps—this business plan aims to slow or reverse population declines Geographic Focus The 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP) will consider projects from four broad geographies within the Pacific: 1) California Current, 2) Hawaiian Archipelago, 3) Humboldt Current, and 4) locations in the central tropical Pacific supporting priority species listed in the business plan.

Eligibility

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