National Tiger Recovery Priority

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National Tiger Recovery Priority

• Summary of National Consultations on

Anand Seth, Global Tiger Initiative
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NTRP Synthesis Matrix
Habitat Encroachment Prey Tiger Poach Inst. Strengthening Conflict Cmmty Control Illegal Trade Reduce Demand Sci. Monitor
Bangla-desh X X X X
Bhutan X X X X
Cambodia X X X X X X
China X X X X X X X
India X X X X X X
Indonesia X X X X X X
Laos X X X X X
Portfolio Size( M)
12
6
20
3

16
14
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NTRP Synthesis Matrix
Habitat Encroachment Prey Tiger Poach Inst. Strengthening Conflict Cmmty Control Illegal Trade Reduce Demand Sci. Monitor
Malaysia X X X X X X
Myanmar X X X X
Nepal X X X X X X
Russia X X X X X
Thailand X X X X X
Vietnam X X X X X X
Global SupportProgram X X X X
Portfolio Size( M)
26
6
43
44
98
84

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Significant progress since hua hin

• A Working in Tandem, Nearly 100 Completion
  and Selectivity
• Most Desired Policy Support Actions
• 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.

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Significant progress since hua hin

• Primary Cross Boundary Actions.
• Arresting Illegal Trade.
• Eliminating Demand.
• Joint Management of 10 Shared Landscapes
• 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.

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Significant progress since hua hin

• B /-- Costing Needs Better Harmonization
• Order of Magnitude Costing Only.
• Huge Range among TRCs and Themes.
• Major Outliers
• Landscapes 8 TRC 80 in 2.
• Law Enforcement 10 TRC 60 in 2.
• Prof Mgmt 9 TRC 60 in 3.
• Cap Build 7 TRCs70 in 1.
• Time Horizon from 2 to 12 years.
• Recurrent v/s Capital.
• A 60 Self Financing.
• Foundation Exists for Global Tiger Recovery
  Program.

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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

• Better Harmonize Costing Work.
• Normalize to 5 years.
• Review/Revise major Outliers
• 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

• 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)
• Continue to Community Engagement Slide

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BangladeshCommunity Engagement and Stewardship

• 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

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BangladeshControlling Illegal Trade

• 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)

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BangladeshScientific Monitoring

• 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)

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Bhutan

• 6M, 4 Priority Actions in NTRP
• Controlling Habitat Encroachment
• Institutional Strengthening
• Tiger Human Conflict Community Engagement
• Scientific Monitoring

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BhutanControlling 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

• 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

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Bhutan Tiger-Human Conflict

• Community-based livestock insurance programs.
• Human wildlife coexistence education and
  awareness programs.
• Cost included in AIGs and other incremental
  costs.
• Continue to Community Engagement Slide

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Bhutan Community Engagement and Stewardship

• 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

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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

• At least one inviolate source site secured and
  zoned to create a safe haven for future
  re-introduction 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.

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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

• 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

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Cambodia Controlling Illegal Trade

• Trans-boundary agreement between Cambodia and
  Vietnam for cooperation on combating wildlife
  crime across the border

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Cambodia Reducing Demand

• Greater awareness of threats and improved
  perception of conservation value of tigers among
  local communities.

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Cambodia Scientific Monitoring

• Integrate MIST into tiger and prey monitoring to
  assess overall impact of the tiger recovery
  program

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China

• Habitat Conservation
• Capacity Building
• Control Poaching
• Engagement of Local Communities
• Control Wildlife Trade

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ChinaHabitat 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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ChinaCapacity 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

• 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

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India

• Habitat Protection
• Capacity Building
• Community Engagement
• Control Trade

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India Habitat Protection

• 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

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India Capacity Buiding

• 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

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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

• 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.

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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

• 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.

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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 US0.24 million

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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 US12.5 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 US0.7 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 Ministers 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

• 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

59
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

• 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

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Nepal population habitat conservation

• Protect core areas, corridors, and buffer zones,
  including several transboundary corridors
• Periodic, structured population monitoring using
  camera-trapping and occupancy surveys at 3 year
  intervals.
• Strengthen anti-poaching mechanisms in PAs with
  highly-mobile 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

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Nepal sustainable financing

• Create a Tiger Conservation Fund as a source of
  sustainable
• 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

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Nepal capacity building

• 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)

66
Nepal building Local communitystewardship 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/environmen
  tal services and conservation offsets to local
  communities.
• Cost US 7 million other funding

67
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

69
Russia habitat conservation

• 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

70
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

• 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

73
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.
• 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

75
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

76
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
  home-range and habitat use of tigers in the two
  landscapes.
• Cost partially included in conservation action
  budget of US 83.4 million

77
Thailand community engagement

• 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

78
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)

81
Vietnam Controlling Tiger and Prey Poaching

• With Lao and Cambodia prevent hunting of tigers
  and prey in trans-boundary protected areas (Yok
  Don, Chu Mom Ray and Bu Gia Map)

82
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 officersrangers, police,
  customs and border securityto combat
  (transboundary) wildlife crime

83
Vietnam Controlling Illegal Trade

• 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..

84
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.

85
Vietnam Scientific Monitoring

• Strengthen tiger and prey monitoring systems in
  tiger protected areas

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Habitat Encroachment Prey Tiger Poach Inst. Strengthening Conflict Cmmty Control Illegal Trade Reduce Demand Sci. Monitor
Bangladesh X X X X
Bhutan X X X X
Cambodia X X X X X X
China X X X X X X X
India X X X X X X
Indonesia X X X X X X
Laos X X X X X
Malaysia X X X X X X
Myanmar X X X X
Nepal X X X X X X
Russia X X X X X
Thailand X X X X X
Vietnam X X X X X X