Transcript NTRP Synthesis Matrix - Global Tiger Initiative

Summary of National Consultations on
NATIONAL TIGER RECOVERY PRIORITY
Anand Seth, Global Tiger Initiative
NTRP SYNTHESIS MATRIX
Habitat
Encroach
ment
Prey &
Tiger
Poach
Bangladesh
Inst.
Strengthe
ning
Conflict &
Cmmty
X
X
X
X
Bhutan
X
Cambodia
X
X
X
China
X
X
X
India
X
X
Indonesia
X
Laos
X
X
Control
Illegal
Trade
Reduce
Demand
X
Sci.
Monitor
Portfolio
Size
($ M)
X
12
X
6
X
X
X
20
X
X
X
X
3
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
16
X
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NTRP SYNTHESIS MATRIX
Habitat
Encroach
ment
Prey &
Tiger
Poach
Inst.
Strengthe
ning
Conflict &
Cmmty
X
Malaysia
X
X
Myanmar
X
X
X
Nepal
X
X
Russia
X
X
Thailand
Vietnam
Global
Support
Program
X
Control
Illegal
Trade
X
Reduce
Demand
X
Sci.
Monitor
Portfolio
Size
($ M)
X
26
X
X
6
X
X
X
43
X
X
X
44
X
X
X
98
84
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS SINCE HUA HIN
A+ : Working in Tandem, Nearly 100%
Completion and Selectivity
 Most Desired Policy Support Actions
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 Making
Core Breeding Areas/Corridors Inviolate
 Wildlife Law Reforms
 Balancing development & conservation: legally
establishing sound sectoral policies.
 Empowering Communities
 Payment for eco-services/valuation of landscapes.
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS SINCE HUA HIN
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Primary Cross Boundary Actions.
 Arresting
Illegal Trade.
 Eliminating Demand.
 Joint Management of 10 Shared Landscapes
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Key Areas of Institutional Development
 Shift
focus from Production Forestry to Conservation.
 Create Specialized Wildlife Conservation Units
 Professionalize Protection & Monitoring Units.
 Unify Approach to Wildlife Crime.
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS SINCE HUA HIN
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B +/-- : Costing Needs Better Harmonization
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Order of Magnitude Costing Only.
Huge Range among TRCs and Themes.
Major Outliers:
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Landscapes: 8 TRC; 80% in 2.
Law Enforcement: 10 TRC; 60% in 2.
Prof Mgmt: 9 TRC; 60% in 3.
Cap Build: 7 TRCs;70% in 1.
Time Horizon from 2 to 12 years.
Recurrent v/s Capital.
A+ : 60% Self Financing.
Foundation Exists for Global Tiger Recovery Program.
GTI “MATCH-MAKING” STARTS….
South Asia: IDA Regional project on wildlife
illegal trade and capacity building.
 China: GEF5 for Restoring Amur Tiger.
 Vietnam: GEF4 for Demand management.
 India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar,
Cambodia, Russia, Vietnam: “Interest” in GEF5
 Channel Partners to Priorities, Facilitate
Preparation and avoid Duplication.
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SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS
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Better Harmonize Costing Work.
 Normalize
to 5 years.
 Review/Revise major Outliers
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Implement Policy Actions before Summit
 National
Pledges.
 Summit Declaration.
Prioritize Trans-boundary Landscapes.
 “Match” Demand and Emerging Supply.
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BANGLADESH
$12M; 3 Priority Actions in NTRP
 Institutional Strengthening
 Tiger Human Conflict & Community
Engagement
 Controlling Illegal Trade
 Scientific Monitoring
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BANGLADESH:
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
A dedicated institution for wildlife conservation
and management with appropriate training and
logistical support.
 Go from production forestry to conservation
within FD with organizational change, clear
vision and objectives across all layers of staff
 Cost: Staffing, incentives and risk insurance
US$ 1 million; Infrastructure 4 million
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BANGLADESH:
TIGER HUMAN CONFLICT
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Conflict Tiger Response Teams to: respond and monitor
conflict and problem tiger presence; compensation for
depredations; insurance support.
Awareness programs to: encourage safer behavior inside
forest; need for tiger, prey and habitat conservation;
stigmatize poaching and consumption; link AIG to
conservation
Community-led anti-poaching teams, crime reporting system,
and monitoring
Cost: US$ 1 million (anti-poaching and conflict mitigation)
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BANGLADESH:
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND STEWARDSHIP
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AIG linked to wildlife and healthy habitats to: reduce
the dependency on forest products; minimize activity
in forests, reducing potential for conflict and habitat
degradation.
Forest co-management committees to build forest
management partnerships between local
communities and the FD for local community
stewardship
Update co-management guidelines, policy, and rules.
Cost: US$ 1 million for community stewardship and
forest management; US$ 6 million for AIG
BANGLADESH:
CONTROLLING ILLEGAL TRADE
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Create a mechanism for trans-boundary collaboration to curb
cross-border poaching, smuggling and trade of tigers/parts
and other wildlife.
Inter-Ministerial Policy decisions to strengthen collaboration
with the police, coast guard and local administrations.
Include wildlife crime in cross border law enforcement MOU
between Bangladesh and India
Cost: US$ 7 million for protection logistics (includes
mobility/patrolling, communication, monitoring/MIST)
BANGLADESH:
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
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Recruit and train wildlife conservation cadre with
logistical support for patrolling and monitoring. (fast
boats, fuel allowances, communication devices, guard
posts and housing with essential facilities; training in
MIST, radio-tracking)
Coordination with police, coast-guard, local
administration, local communities, and media.
Cost: US$ 7 million for protection logistics (includes
mobility/patrolling, communication, monitoring/MIST)
BHUTAN
$6M, 4 Priority Actions in NTRP
 Controlling Habitat Encroachment
 Institutional Strengthening
 Tiger Human Conflict & Community
Engagement
 Scientific Monitoring
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BHUTAN:
CONTROLLING HABITAT ENCROACHMENT & FRAGMENTATION
A proactive assessment of
planned/proposed infrastructure and climate
change-related impacts on intact habitat,
especially corridors.
 Appropriate policy to discuss, develop,
coordinate, and implement mitigations with
line agencies and ministries.
 Cost: Classifying and zoning tiger landscape
US $1.5 million (includes boundary marking)
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BHUTAN:
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
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Better linkages among the different units (Division and
National Parks) of the Department of Forests and Park
Services (DoFPS) and clear conservation mandates.
Recruit and train additional staff dedicated to wildlife
conservation in monitoring, PA management.
Strengthen DoFPS partnerships with other relevant
government sectors (law enforcement agencies, national
environment commission, UWICE, NRTI, NGO, Local
communities, BTFEC, etc.)
Cost: Enhancing institutional capacity of DoFPS US$ 1.3
million
BHUTAN:
TIGER-HUMAN CONFLICT
Community-based livestock insurance
programs.
 Human wildlife coexistence education and
awareness programs.
 Cost: included in AIGs and other incremental
costs.
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BHUTAN:
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND STEWARDSHIP
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Community participation & engagement through community
forestry in appropriate management zones in protected areas
and corridors to facilitate conservation and protection.
AIGs and PES as compensation for opportunity costs
associated with living in tiger conservation areas.
Joint anti-poaching programs and intelligence networks with
communities.
Decentralization/co-management policies to involve local
communities and institutions.
Cost: US$ 2 million and incremental costs by other donors in
sustainable livelihoods and PES
BHUTAN:
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
Scientifically defensible nationwide baseline
and monitoring system to track status of tiger
population and progress towards goal.
 Cost: nationwide monitoring program for tigers
and prey, US$ 1 million (5 years)
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CAMBODIA
$3.5 M; 4 Priority Actions in NTRP
 Controlling Habitat Encroachment
 Controlling Prey and Tiger Poaching
 Institutional Strengthening
 Controlling Illegal Trade
 Reducing Demand
 Scientific Monitoring
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CAMBODIA:
CONTROLLING HABITAT ENCROACHMENT & FRAGMENTATION
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At least one inviolate source site secured and
zoned to create a ‘safe haven’ for future reintroduction and restoration of wild tigers in
Cambodia
Design and implement awareness raising-program
for the tiger source site.
Sub-decree to legally designate inviolate source
site.
Inter-ministerial cooperation and coordination to
ensure sustainable management of land-use
across the Eastern Plains Landscape.
CAMBODIA:
CONTROLLING PREY AND TIGER POACHING
Adequate, effective patrols and law
enforcement, with operational resources,
to prevent hunting of tiger and prey
species, logging and other land clearance,
and human disturbance
 monitor law enforcement and
management effectiveness in potential
source sites
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CAMBODIA:
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
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Forestry Administration (Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries) and General
Department of Administration for Nature
Conservation ad Protection (Ministry of
Environment) will establish and resource at
least 50 full-time, dedicated, well-trained and
equipped law enforcement officers to secure
inviolate tiger habitats
CAMBODIA:
CONTROLLING ILLEGAL TRADE
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Trans-boundary agreement between Cambodia
and Vietnam for cooperation on combating
wildlife crime across the border
CAMBODIA:
REDUCING DEMAND
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Greater awareness of threats and improved
perception of conservation value of tigers
among local communities.
CAMBODIA:
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
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Integrate MIST into tiger and prey monitoring to
assess overall impact of the tiger recovery
program
CHINA
Habitat Conservation
 Capacity Building
 Control Poaching
 Engagement of Local Communities
 Control Wildlife Trade
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CHINA:
HABITAT CONSERVATION
Habitat and pray population restoration,
including hunting bans in tiger areas
 Connectivity between core areas
 Prepare pilot sites for release of captive bred
Amur tigers
 Cost $1,000,000
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CHINA:
CAPACITY BUIDING
Strengthen conservation and monitoring of
tiger populations and habitats
 Improve infrastructure, including monitoring
stations where lacking and replenish
equipment
 Cost $500,000
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CHINA: CONTROL POACHING
Staff training to enforce hunting ban and stop
poaching; research to understand tiger ecology
for conservation
 Cost included in 0.7 Million for enforcement
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CHINA: ENGAGEMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Socio-economic development of local
communities for conservation support
 Compensation mechanism for wildlife
depredation and mitigation of crop damage
 Awareness programs for tiger protection
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CHINA: CONTROL WILDLIFE TRADE
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law enforcement over smuggling and illegal trade of tiger
products
Strengthen staff of regional law enforcement agencies, with
logistical support
Propaganda and education to guide public to resist using
tiger products
International seminars, international professional training
and friendly natural reserves will be used to strengthen tiger
conservation and experiences exchange to promote joint
enhancement of conservation management
Artificial reproduction of tigers are under strict supervision
with permits system
Cost $700,000
INDIA
Habitat Protection
 Capacity Building
 Community Engagement
 Control Trade
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INDIA: HABITAT PROTECTION
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Securing tiger habitat from encroachment and
economic development
Core areas free from development and anthropogenic
impacts
Buffer zones and corridors for functional landscapes
Protect tiger/prey base from poaching through smart
patrolling
INDIA: CAPACITY BUIDING
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Scientific adaptive management tools in tiger
conservation
Robust mechanisms for monitoring progress towards
achieving goals
Institutional framework to provide training to frontline
staff and build capacity
System for performance-based management
assessment and incentives
INDIA: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Link sustainable livelihood support to tiger
conservation
 Minimize tiger-human conflict
 Improved field delivery system to efficiently
converge economic returns from line
departments
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INDIA: CONTROL TRADE
Enforcement of laws and follow up on wildlife
crimes
 Sensitize criminal justice system on wildlife
crimes
 Improve trans-boundary collaboration on illegal
wildlife trade issues
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INDONESIA
$20M, 4 Priority Actions
 Controlling Habitat Encroachment
 Institutional Strengthening
 Tiger Human Conflict & Community
Engagement
 Controlling Illegal Trade
 Reducing Demand
 Scientific Monitoring
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INDONESIA:
CONTROLLING HABITAT ENCROACHMENT & FRAGMENTATION
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Secure source sites and maintain landscape integrity by
mapping concession areas for connectivity, with and legal
backing to protect tiger habitat outside of protected areas
Integrate source sites into park management plans; priority
landscapes into provincial and district spatial planning.
Legally binding protocols for best management practices of
forest industry land uses to ensure contribution to tiger
conservation
Cost: US$ ~ 1.26 million to mainstream tiger and habitat
protection through National Development Program and create
a legal basis to protect tiger habitat outside of protected
areas.
INDONESIA:
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
Add 30 well-equipped Species Protection Units
 Create well-trained Elite Investigation group (100
staff) within the Ministry of Forestry to investigate
wildlife law infringement investigations.
 Establish national tiger advisory board with
Ministerial decree
 Cost: included in conflict mitigation, trade control,
and landscape planning
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INDONESIA:
TIGER HUMAN CONFLICT
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A comprehensive strategy for human-tiger conflict mitigation with
practical guidelines for animal handling, transportation,
translocation, release, and euthanasia.
Establish three Rescue Teams for capturing, pre-conditioning, and
relocating problem tigers
Establish Conflict Mitigation Coordinating Team in provincial level and
Response Unit at district level to address human-tiger conflict.
Programmatic trainings on human-tiger conflict mitigation techniques
and tiger conservation in general for UPT PHKA, local government
officers, general public, and other relevant institutions.
Cost: US$ ~8.4 million.
INDONESIA:
CONTROLLING ILLEGAL TRADE
Replicate specialized tiger law enforcement and
conflict mitigation units.
 Upgrade legal basis for arresting suspected
poachers with higher penalties
 Establish high-level inter-agencies command unit
(Police, Customs, Justice, Interpol, UNODC, and
WCO) to interdict and prosecute wildlife traders
operating across state and national boundaries
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INDONESIA:
REDUCING DEMAND
Obtain commitment of countries involved in
international trade of tiger, its parts and
derivatives to stop.
 Cost: US$ 100,000
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INDONESIA:
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
Robust system to monitor trends of tiger and
prey populations for adaptive management in
priority landscapes.
 Patrolling capacity for MIST and spatial
monitoring framework in priority landscapes.
 Cost: US$ ~ 6.1 million
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LAO PDR
Adopt law enforcement and tiger monitoring
standards
 Habitat protection
 Scientific surveys and monitoring
 Capacity building
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LAO PDR:
ADOPT LAW ENFORCEMENT & TIGER
MONITORING STANDARD
 Standardize use of MIST and tiger monitoring in
protected areas and across projects
 Installation of MIST and staff training
 Cost: US$0.24 million
LAO PDR: HABITAT PROTECTION
Establish inviolate core zone at Nam Et Phou
Louey NPA
 Habitat establish and maintain connectivity
between other neighboring TCLs
 Manage land concessions and infrastructure
development in TCLs to comply with PA
management plans and zoning
 Ensure cross-sectoral compliance with PA TPZs
and corridors
 Cost: US$12.5 million
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LAO PDR: SCIENTIFIC SURVEY AND MONITORING
Confirm that tigers are present or absent in all
Tiger Conservation Landscapes (TCLs)
 Conduct scientific surveys in all TCLs by 2020
 Make core area of TCLs where tigers are
confirmed inviolate from human activities
 Cost: US$0.7 million for surveys
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LAO PDR: CAPACITY BUILDING
Capacity building in DoFI, , customs staff, border
staff, economic police and CITES MA and SA
(training, equipment)
 Establish Lao WEN
 Establish a Prime Minister’s Commission on
Endangered Species and under the PM
Commission (housed in the PM Environment
Committee) and under MAF create a Tiger
Taskforce
 Cost: US$ 0.5 million
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MALAYSIA
Strengthen law enforcement in and around the
core tiger habitats
 Enhance landscape connectivity
 Science-based monitoring
 Capacity building
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MALYASIA: STRENGTHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
Strengthen enforcement teams (more patrol
teams; greater empowerment under new and
existing federal laws)
 Strict enforcement of wildlife and wildlife trade
laws
 Cost: US$ 6 million
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MALAYSIA:
ENHANCE LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY
Priority areas strictly protected, expanded, or
sustainably managed.
 Ecologically sound land use compatible with tiger
conservation outside the strict protected areas
 Sustainable financing mechanism to mitigate
human-tiger conflict.
 Linkages and smart infrastructure to facilitate
wildlife crossing with monitoring
 Cost: US$ 20 million
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MALAYSIA: SCIENCE-BASED MONITORING
Science-based occupancy/density surveys of
tigers and prey
 Research to inform conservation and management
in multiple-land use landscapes
 Institutionalize mechanism in Ministry to
coordinate and monitor the development,
maintenance, and functioning of corridors for tiger
movement
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MALAYSIA: CAPACITY BUIDLING
Control organized wildlife crimes Malaysia.
 Multi-agency coordination.
 Strengthen and improve transnational cooperation
(Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand) and with
ASEAN WEN to curb trade in tigers and parts.
 Enhance informant networks at local level.
 Cost: included in strengthening law enforcement in
and around the core tiger habitats
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MYANMAR
Habitat Protection
 Poaching
 Scientific monitoring
 Institutional strengthning
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MYANMAR: HABITAT PROTECTION
Landscapes with appropriate extensions and
corridors legally protected
 Tiger surveys in unprotected areas around both
TCLs
 Nominate important tiger areas for legal protection
 Integrate “ Tiger conservation” as a priority in the
development agenda of the government
 Cost $US 0.3 million
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MYANMAR: POACHING
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Capacity building: more FD staff in wildlife conservation
and law enforcement, monitoring techniques, field
equipment, funds for operations, infrastructure, and
maintenance
Increase patrolling and integrate with database (e. g
MIST) for effective management
Review of existing development policies to strengthen
support for Tiger Conservation, with increased penalties
for tiger related offences
Cost $US 3.0 million
MYANMAR: SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
Establish baseline for tiger and tiger prey
species using standardized monitoring
protocols
 Implement MIST across both Tiger landscapes
 Cost $US 2.0 million
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MYANMAR: INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHING
Improved national and trans-boundary
cooperation
 Improved national policies to support Tiger
conservation
 Transboundary dialogue and agreements with
India, Thailand, and China for cooperation on
tiger and wildlife crimes
 Cost $US 0.7 million
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NEPAL
Policy
 Population and habitat conservation
 Sustainable financing
 Capacity buiding
 Building local community stewardship for
conservation
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NEPAL: POLICY
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Amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act
and Forest Act, with relevant regulations, and enactment
of a Landscape Level Conservation Policy for effective
conservation and management of the TAL.
Establish and empower National Tiger Conservation
Committee (NTCC).
Place TAL conservation as a high-profile feature in the
political agenda.
Effective transboundary cooperation with India and
China.
Cost: US$ ~ 0.2 million
NEPAL: POPULATION & HABITAT CONSERVATION
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Protect core areas, corridors, and buffer zones, including
several transboundary corridors
Periodic, structured population monitoring using cameratrapping and occupancy surveys at 3 year intervals.
Strengthen anti-poaching mechanisms: in PAs with highlymobile patrol teams; MIST, Intelligence netoworks and
community-based teams.
Assess all large economic and development projects planned
in the TAL for impact on tigers, prey, and habitat.
Cost: US$ ~ 16 million
NEPAL: SUSTAINABLE FINANCING
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Create a Tiger Conservation Fund as a source of
sustainable:
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Carbon-related funds (from REDD+, biogas, carbon credits
for forest restoration, and financial offsets from smart
infrastructure) for tiger and tiger habitat conservation and
management.
National and international cooperation for payments for
water and other hydrological services from the river system
to support tiger conservation in the TAL.
Cost: US$ 0.5 million for developing strategy
NEPAL: CAPACITY BUILDING
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Form and empower: Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)
and South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) to
reduce poaching and to control transnational trade in tigers
and tiger-parts.
Adequate human resources/ capacity in the field and centre
for research, smart patrolling, intelligence, judiciary
procedures (e.g., scene of crime).
Infrastructure related to park and forest management and
patrolling
Cost: US$ 19 million (includes 15 million for infrastructure)
NEPAL: BUILDING LOCAL COMMUNITY
STEWARDSHIP FOR CONSERVATION
Public awareness programs and rapid-response
teams to reduce/alleviate conflict
 Integrated/alternative livelihood programs related
to, and compatible with tiger habitat conservation,
as compensation for opportunity costs and elicit
conservation stewardship.
 Payments for conservation of
ecological/environmental services and
conservation offsets to local communities.
 Cost: US$ ~ 7 million + other funding
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Trade control
 Habitat conservation
 Amur tiger population studies and monitoring
 Human-tiger conflict prevention and settlement
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RUSSIA: TRADE CONTROL
Establish trans-boundary reserves for cross-border
tiger and other wildlife movement
 International coordination actions to suppress
smuggling of Amur tiger products.
 Require legal policies to prevent people
advertising tiger skins for sale and buy products
on the internet
 Cost: US$ 1 million
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RUSSIA: HABITAT CONSERVATION
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Strengthened protected area network connected with
ecological corridors and with protection zones restricting
natural resource use on land adjacent to Pas.
Expand the area of the existing nature reserves and national
parks in the Amur tiger range.
Public support to PAs to backup their inspection teams,
including salary increases and logistical support
Policy and laws to prohibiting logging Korean pine trees and
restricting the cutting of oak trees
Cost US$ 32 million
RUSSIA: AMUR TIGER & MONITORING
International cooperation for technological and
knowledge transfers and research
 Improved monitoring and surveys methods
following the Guidelines for Amur Tiger Counts in
the Russian Federation as approved by the MNR in
its Order # 63 of March 15, 2005.
 Policy to improve and increase prey capacity
through economic incentives for game
management units
 Cost US$ 6 million
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RUSSIA:
HUMAN-TIGER CONFLICT & SETTLEMENT
Awareness programs to avoid conflict situations
 Radio- track monitoring of Amur tigers;
 Good performance of Tiger Special Inspection
Program (a federal institution) under the
Conflicting Tiger Component
 Amur Tiger Recovery Centre as temporary shelter
and care to rehabilitate problem tigers
 Cost US$ 4 million
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RUSSIA: PUBLIC AWARENESS & EDUCATION
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Targeted PR campaigns for various social groups living
in the Amur tiger habitats
Preserve and promote traditional knowledge, rituals and
customs aimed at conserving and respecting the Amur
tiger
Promote sustainable nature resource management
practices for tiger and prey conservation
Tougher laws and punishments for illegal trade in Amur
tigers and publicize negative connotations of tiger
poaching
Cost US$ 2 million
THAILAND
Control illegal trade and poaching
 Capacity building
 Scientific monitoring
 Community engagement
 Sustainable financing
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THAILAND: CONTROL ILLEGAL TRADE &
POACHING
Strengthen and standardize direct conservation
action and enforcement
 MIST-based and Smart Patrol Systems to secure
the tigers in Tenasserim-WEFCOM and DP-KY
Landscape from poaching.
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Establish wildlife crime units outside the priority
landscapes to reduce demands of wild meat
 Cost: US$ 83.4 million (Govt contribution $ 49.1
million; external $ 34.3million) over 5 years
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THAILAND: CAPACITY BUIDING
Use HKK as the center to train officers and
park rangers for country and region in research,
patrolling, and other capacity building
 Cost: US$ 2.2 million (Govt contribution $ 0.7
million; external $ 1.5 million) over 5 years
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THAILAND: SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
Use up-to-date techniques to annually or regularly
monitor trends of tigers and prey (camera
trapping, transect and distance sampling,
occupancy survey etc) in Tenasserim-WEFCOM and
DP-KY Landscape and other landscapes.
 Tiger ecology studies to understand the homerange and habitat use of tigers in the two
landscapes.
 Cost: partially included in conservation action
budget of US$ 83.4 million
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THAILAND: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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Promote education, awareness, and public
participations
Tiger focused education and awareness campaigns in
communities around the two priority landscapes.
Create platforms or projects (e.g., ecotourism) for
concrete public participations through protected area
and community committees
Cost: US$ 7.0 million (Govt contribution $ 1.7 million;
external $ 5.3 million) over 5 years
THAILAND: SUSTAINABLE FINANCING
Create long-term financial support within the
government budget by giving tiger conservation
and recovery a national priority and pride.
 Seek collaborations and opportunities at the
international level for large scale and long-term
international funding sources.
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VIETNAM
$83.5; 6 Priority Actions in NTRP
 Controlling Habitat Encroachment
 Controlling Prey and Tiger Poaching
 Institutional Strengthening
 Controlling Illegal Trade
 Reducing Demand
 Scientific Monitoring
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VIETNAM:
CONTROLLING HABITAT ENCROACHMENT & FRAGMENTATION
Priority sites for tiger conservation officially
recognized and management and protection
strengthened to prevent further habitat loss,
degradation, and fragmentation
 With Lao and Cambodia, conduct feasibility
studies and create trans-boundary protected
areas for tigers (across from Yok Don, Chu
Mom Ray and Bu Gia Map)
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VIETNAM:
CONTROLLING TIGER AND PREY POACHING
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With Lao and Cambodia prevent hunting
of tigers and prey in trans-boundary
protected areas (Yok Don, Chu Mom Ray
and Bu Gia Map)
VIETNAM:
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
Increase management capacity of protected
areas with adequate investment for wildlife
conservation, better collaboration with local
stakeholders, and incentives to protect wildlife.
 Train enforcement officers—rangers, police,
customs and border security—to combat
(transboundary) wildlife crime
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VIETNAM:
CONTROLLING ILLEGAL TRADE
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Prevention, detections and suppression of organized tiger
and wildlife crimes is significantly strengthened.
Vietnam Interpol NCB to dismantle trans-boundary criminal
networks illegally trafficking tigers into Vietnam; prosecution
of traders (involving the regional and national Interpol
Environmental Crimes officers and ASEAN-WEN)
Implement strict and effective management of captive tiger
facilities with strategic conservation-breeding plans and
transparent monitoring; immediate punishment for those
found trading from captive tiger facilities; close such
facilities where trading has occurred..
VIETNAM:
REDUCING DEMAND
Prohibit the promotion of use of tigers and other
endangered species in traditional medicine (e.g.
remove from pharmacopoeias, official training
curricula and documents) and promote alternative
products instead.
 Clear government policy to prohibits breeding
tigers for commercial profit.
 Program of innovative behavior change campaigns
to reduce demand for tiger and tiger prey products
and derivatives.
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VIETNAM:
SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
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Strengthen tiger and prey monitoring systems
in tiger protected areas
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