THE WORLD BANK
World Bank-Smithsonian Institution Partnership
Global Tiger Initiative
Executive Leadership Forum
Sharpening National Action Plans for Biodiversity and Tiger Conservation—
the Road to Vladivostok
Results of the Country Work (Day 5)
Washington, D.C. area
April 21, 2010
How can political will for Tx2
be best enhanced in your
TRC?
Good Practices/success stories
Key Performance Indicators to
monitor
Three good practices need to
be scale up to achieve Tx2
How should NASP be prepared
TIGER RESPONSE TEAM
(Formation of Tiger Response
Team; Team comprises of
villagers of impact zone, forest
department and local
government; Raise awareness
by motivation to reduce human
tiger conflict)
COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION (Involves
stakeholders, NGOs, local
government, law enforcement
agencies, village leaders;
Participate in forest
management planning process
and implementation; Sort
funding and organize AIG
activities; Revenue sharing
with the communities)
Record of forest crime (no. of
incidences increase/decrease)
Statistics on annual resource
harvest (monitor dependency
on forest resources)
Periodical monitoring of prey
and tiger population
Monitoring of vegetative growth
improvement by setting
permanent plots
None
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
Bhutan
Existing strong political support
of tiger conservation in general
Constitutional mandate of 60%
of forest cover
Gross National Happiness
Development Philosophy, and
Balancing conservation with
development, raising
awareness among locals.
Establishment of Bhutan
Biological Corridor Complex
in 1999. Setting aside another
9% of area as biological
corridors. A total of 51.44% of
area as protected area. (this
corridors were established
based on tiger presence survey)
A well established database
system on tiger distribution
and its prey.
Reduction in the number of
Human-Tiger Conflict
incidences.
Improved habitat quality of
tigers.
Upscale livestock compensation
through the mechanism of
livestock insurance reduction
in retaliatory killing
Establish community based ecotourism better appreciation of
landscape conservation.
Regular patrolling: need for
better systematic patrolling
(adopting MIST patrolling)
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
Cambodia
GTI communication / invitation
to higher level of government
WB / GTI group to visit
Cambodia to bring attention to
Ministers of MoE and MAFF
Use of scent dogs to enhance
occupancy surveys for tiger in
TCL’s
MIST/SMART Patrolling
Decreased wildlife poaching in
TCL’s
Increasing in tigers numbers in
TCL’s
Decrease wildlife trade (tigers
Protect tigers, prey, habitat
trough MIST/smart patrolling
Sustainable livelihood support
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
Bangladesh
Demonstrating importance of
tiger in context to forest
conservation
Enhancing credibility of the
country in global context
How can political will for Tx2
be best enhanced in your
TRC?
Russia PM to send invitation
letter to counterparts ASAP
China
Existing strong political support
of tiger conservation in general
Rasing awareness among locals
through media campaigns: how
large is the investment? Will
tiger conservation benefit
livelihood of locals? Will we
lose some traditions?
Including tiger conservation into
the 12th five year plan
Policy research on the strategy to
coordinate tiger conservation
and some concerned traditions
India
Existing strong political support
of tiger conservation in general
Institutionalized legislation
monitored by wildlife boards
headed by CM in states and by
PM in centre
Indonesia
Convincing that conserving
tigers, its habitat and prey will
be benificial for the local
communities and their
environment
Dialog with Coordinating Board
of national Spatial Plannning
Good Practices/success stories
Key Performance Indicators to
monitor
Three good practices need to
be scale up to achieve Tx2
How should NASP be prepared
and prey)
Habitat encroachment reduced
Increased stakeholder
participation
Fuel material changing project
Compensation
Successful ecotourism, etc.
Area extension for wild tigers
Number of wild tigers
Ecosystem improvement
including forest, water and
prey
Income and life change for locals
and their attitude
Good patrolling and monitoring
Anti-smuggling
Compensation
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation: On our
own with some help from
international technical team
RANTHAMBHORE tiger
reserve
KALAKADUMUNDATHURAI tiger
reserve
KAZIRANGA tiger reserve
KANHA tiger reserve
Increase in number of tigers
Reduction and control of
poaching
Creation of inviolate spaces for
founder population of 22
breeding females in an area of
at least 1000 sq km
Increase in prey base density
Involvement of local
communities and other
stakeholders
Make critical habitats inviolate
Ensure buffer zones and
corridors functional in the
landscape
Protect tigers, prey, habitat
through smart patrolling
(b) Send drafts for review
Proposing Rimba TCL (lay
within 3 provinces:Riau, South
Sumatra, West Sumatra)
Tiger population survey integrated patch occupancy
survey within Sumatra Island
by involving all related NGOs,
Rimba TCL is on 3 province’s
spatial planning map;
SMART Patrolling is
implemented
Ensure available intellegence is
used (< killing & trafficking)
Defining and sustaining critical
tiger habitats and their
corridors
Securing tiger and its prey by
increasing management
capacity (i.e: training and
implementation of MIST, skill
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
How can political will for Tx2
be best enhanced in your
TRC?
to conserve at least 40% of
forest area in Sumatra Island
and the biodiversity of tropical
raid forest
Implementation of the
Declaration of 10 Governors
within Sumatra Island and 4
Ministers regarding the Saving
Sumatra Island Ecosystem
Dialog with National
Development Planning Agency
and MoF on budget allocation
for priority species
conservation and on innovative
funding sources for TCL
management
Lao PDR
Russia PM to send invitation
letter to counterparts ASAP
Dialog with M of Agriculture
and Forestry to improve forest
management
Dialog with Water Resources
and Environment
Administration on the
environmental impact
assessments
Dialog with M. of Planning and
Investments on mechanisms
for foreign investments,
approval of project
investments
Dialog with M. of Energy and
Mining on better planning and
coordination of mining
projects
Malaysia
"Existing strong political support
of tiger conservation in
general: National Tiger
Good Practices/success stories
Key Performance Indicators to
monitor
Three good practices need to
be scale up to achieve Tx2
Sustainable livelihood support
of intellegence, implementing
effective law enforcement
Resolving human-tiger conflict ?
happy human happy tiger
MIST/SMART Patrolling
Work with military
Work with communities
Policies on PES
Number of staff in PAs
Number of updated management
plans in Pas
Number of pilot projects on
sustainable financing
Number of educated specialists
in Pas (wildlife management)
Number of joint trans-boundary
anti-poaching operations per
year
MIST addressing poaching
Work with Military
Work with communities
(b) Send drafts for review
Smart Green Infrastructure
Central Forest Spine (CFS)
Corridor 15,000 ha designated
Wildlife movement
Enhanced patrolling of Taman
Negara National Park, a source
(a) on our own
coordinated by Forum
HarimauKita
How should NASP be prepared
How can political will for Tx2
be best enhanced in your
TRC?
Conservation Action Plan
(NTCAP) accepted at National
Biodiversity Council chaired
by the Deputy Prime Minister
of Malaysia
"
Tx2 of tiger population in
Malaysia announced by DPM
on 4th Nov 2009
Developed through consultation;
federal government; state
governments and NGOs
through Malaysian
Conservation Alliance for
Tigers (MYCAT)
Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment (NRE)
Malaysia appointed as
secretariat implementation of
NTCAP
Department of Wildlife and
National Parks (DWNP) main
implementation agency
Good Practices/success stories
Key Performance Indicators to
monitor
Three good practices need to
be scale up to achieve Tx2
How should NASP be prepared
master plan developed to
create corridors linking
fragmented habitats through
smart green infrastructure
32 linkages identified as primary
and secondary links
A pilot linkage project being
implemented at the northeastern part of Taman Negara
National Park with 3 wildlife
viaducts
Habitat enriched
tiger habitat (434,000ha)
Formation of mobile patrol unit
to curb poaching of wildlife
and tigers at Belum State Park
at the Malaysia-Thailand
borders
Capacity building for tiger
conservation through the
Institute of Biodiversity (IBD;
DWNP)
Nepal
Institutionalizing current
political will is needed
Educational campaigns on
conservation for politicians
and law makers
Community based conservation
Ecotourism
Long term tiger population
monitoring program
Establish intelligence network
Smart patrolling
Infrastructure development for
patrolling
Political will
Scientific study of tiger and its
prey base
Intelligence networking
Smart patrolling
Infrastructure facilities
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
Russia
Existing strong political support
of tiger conservation in general
Resolving organizational and
funding issues related to Amur
tiger conservation
Ensuring the protection of Amur
Restoration experience of tiger
population between 1940 and
2005
Establishement of the PAs'
network
increasing quantity and quality
of tiger population
NPA area, sq km
NPA created, %
number of people targeted
through awareness campaigns
Compensation for the damage to
local communities
Compensation to hunting leases
within tiger range
Compensation to logging
companies to cancel lease
(b) Send drafts for review
How can political will for Tx2
be best enhanced in your
TRC?
tiger habitat
Complete development of a
network of PAs in Amur tiger
range
Thailand
Recognition of the Global Tiger
Crisis and Global Awareness
in Tiger Conservation will lead
to the more attention from the
Thai Cabinet to support more
budget and concentrate in the
conservation effort
Russia PM to send invitation
letter to counterparts ASAP
Vietnam
MoNRE to send report to PM
office
Russia PM to send invitation
letter to counterparts ASAP
Need other Heads of
Government to go
Discuss through “Steering
Committee for Biodiversity
Conservation”
One-to-one Meetings with key
Ministers
Good Practices/success stories
Key Performance Indicators to
monitor
Three good practices need to
be scale up to achieve Tx2
How should NASP be prepared
contracts in core tiger habitats
MIST/SMART Patrolling
Long term tiger population
monitoring program
Tiger and Tiger’s Prey
Population Trend.
No of Cases (i.e. poaching,
enforcement)
Encroachment Areas
Protect tigers, prey, habitat
through smart patrolling:
Expand smart patrolling in all
core tiger breed areas.
Eliminate trade through effective
law and enforcement:
Strengthen Asian WEN and
promote awareness campaign
in wildlife trade.
Implement scientific systems of
estimating and monitoring
tigers and prey: Expand long
term tiger population
monitoring program into core
tiger breeding areas.
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation
Policies on PES
Benefit sharing mechanism
EIA and SEA
Number of Tiger
Patrol effort in No-go zones
Number of inter-ministerial
taskforce investigation
conducted.
Captive tiger monitoring:
facilities, births/deaths, purebred Indochinese,
hybrids/other subspecies
Annual attitude survey
Reducing illegal wildlife trade
through law enforcement and
demand reduction
Protecting 5 “Tiger Sanctuaries”
in Vietnam through law
enforcement
Making 5 “Tiger Sanctuaries”
inviolate to infrastructure and
mining
(c) Invite Technical Team for
National Consultation