national tiger recovery priority

Summary of National Consultations on

Anand Seth, Global Tiger Initiative

Habitat Encroachment

Prey & Tiger Poach

Inst. Strengthening

Conflict & Cmmty

Control Illegal Trade

Reduce Demand

Sci. Monitor

Bangla-desh

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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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

$12M; 3 Priority Actions in NTRP Institutional Strengthening Tiger Human Conflict & Community

Engagement Controlling Illegal Trade Scientific Monitoring

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

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

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

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)

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)

$6M, 4 Priority Actions in NTRP Controlling Habitat Encroachment Institutional Strengthening Tiger Human Conflict & Community

Engagement Scientific Monitoring

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)

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

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

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

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)

$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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strengthen conservation and monitoring of tiger populations and habitats

Improve infrastructure, including monitoring stations where lacking and replenish equipment

Cost $500,000

Staff training to enforce hunting ban and stop poaching; research to understand tiger ecology for conservation

Cost included in 0.7 Million for enforcement

Socio-economic development of local communities for conservation support

Compensation mechanism for wildlife depredation and mitigation of crop damage

Awareness programs for tiger protection

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

Habitat Protection Capacity Building Community Engagement Control Trade

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

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

Link sustainable livelihood support to tiger conservation

Minimize tiger-human conflict Improved field delivery system to

efficiently converge economic returns from line departments

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

$20M, 4 Priority Actions Controlling Habitat Encroachment Institutional Strengthening Tiger Human Conflict & Community

Engagement Controlling Illegal Trade Reducing Demand Scientific Monitoring

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.

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

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.

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

Obtain commitment of countries involved in international trade of tiger, its parts and derivatives to stop.

Cost: US$ 100,000

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

Adopt law enforcement and tiger monitoring standards

Habitat protection Scientific surveys and monitoring Capacity building

Standardize use of MIST and tiger monitoring in protected areas and across projects

Installation of MIST and staff training Cost: US$0.24 million

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

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

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

Strengthen law enforcement in and around the core tiger habitats

Enhance landscape connectivity Science-based monitoring Capacity building

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

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

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

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

Habitat Protection Poaching Scientific monitoring Institutional strengthning

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

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

Establish baseline for tiger and tiger prey species using standardized monitoring protocols

Implement MIST across both Tiger landscapes

Cost $US 2.0 million

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

Policy Population and habitat conservation Sustainable financing Capacity buiding Building local community stewardship

for conservation

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

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

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

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)

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

Trade control Habitat conservation Amur tiger population studies and

monitoring Human-tiger conflict prevention and

settlement

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

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

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

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

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

Control illegal trade and poaching Capacity building Scientific monitoring Community engagement Sustainable financing

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

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

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

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

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.

$83.5; 6 Priority Actions in NTRP Controlling Habitat Encroachment Controlling Prey and Tiger Poaching Institutional Strengthening Controlling Illegal Trade Reducing Demand Scientific Monitoring

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)

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

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

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..

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.

Strengthen tiger and prey monitoring systems in tiger protected areas

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