FWS Prize Activities

The Service anticipates announcing six prize competitions under the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize program in the coming months.  The competitions will center around:

  • prevention of wildlife poaching and trafficking,
  • the promotion of wildlife conservation,
  • the management of invasive species,
  • the protection of endangered species,
  • the nonlethal management of human-wildlife conflicts, and
  • reducing human-predator conflict.

In October, 2019, FWS announced a competition to help control white-nose syndrome, a devastating disease that is killing millions of hibernating bats across the United States and Canada.

In May, 2016, FWS announced the winners of the Crushed Ivory Design Challenge Prize to identify creative ideas to raise public awareness of wildlife trafficking and help reduce demand for elephant ivory and other illegal wildlife products.  

 

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