Transcript Lao PDR - Global Tiger Initiative

Pre Tiger Summit Partners Dialogue
Meeting: Bali, July 12-14, 2010
National Tiger Recovery Program
LAO PDR
Presented by: Bouaphanh Phanthavong
8 Tiger Conservation
Landscapes
- Areas: over 125,000 km2
Goal
recover and maintain
viable breeding
populations of tigers
in all Class 1 and 2
tiger landscapes, and
to ensure connectivity
between all tiger
landscapes in Lao
PDR, by 2020
Objectives
1. Increase public awareness and support for the
recovery and conservation of wild tigers and their
habitats
2. Identify and demarcate totally protected zones
(TPZs) in protected areas and corridors for
connectivity between TPZs in TCLs
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3. Increase and make effective the enforcement of
national regulations and international conventions
to stop killing of tigers and to regulate illegal
harvest and trade of tiger prey
4. Strengthen protected area organization, capacity
and sustainable financing to effectively implement
management activities to reduce threats to tigers
and prey at priority source sites in Class 1 and 2
tiger conservation landscapes
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5. Increase national cross-sectoral cooperation for
the recovery and conservation of wild tigers and
their habitats
6. Increase international cooperation to reduce the
illegal trade of tiger and prey to neighboring
countries
7. Monitor and reduce human-tiger conflict in tiger
conservation landscapes
Priority Actions Programs
• Establish inviolate core
zone at the currently
confirmed tiger
population in Nam Et
Phou Louey NPA (and at
any other TCL confirmed to have
tigers).
3,000 km2
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• Confirm that tigers
are present or
absent in all Tiger
Conservation
Landscapes (TCLs).
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- Adopt law enforcement and tiger monitoring
standards to measure our success.
- Strengthen institutions and cooperation to protect
tigers, tiger prey and habitat.
- Establish connectivity between TCLs
Program Indicator (2015)
1. Inviolate core zone in NEPL has been
established, demarcated in maps and on-ground
and recognized by district, provincial and central
government
2. Field surveys following standards for tiger
monitoring conducted in the TCLs where status of
tigers is not yet confirmed, thus achieving baseline
of tiger population status for Laos.
3. Publish data on the status of tiger populations in
ALL TCLs Class 1 and 2
4. Lao WEN is established and operational, Tiger
Taskforce is established and operational, such that
there is collaboration amongst sectors as well as top
level support, and accountability lines, for tiger
conservation
Program Indicators (2022)
1. Tiger density - increase tiger population at NEPL by
50% by 2020 (from the current 2004 estimated figure of
7- 23 tigers)
2. Prey abundance index – double prey population
from the current prey abundance index of 3.25
ungulates per sq. km (2008 data) to support sufficiently
the increased tigers.
3. Formalized protection of movement corridors that
connect NEPL to other TCLs, and have these
demarcated on maps and on ground.
NEPL Landscape
and other TCLs in a
region
- Only confirmed source
site in Indochina
Thank you!