Myanmar - Global Tiger Initiative

5.4 Improving forestry management to reduce intrusions oflocal people into tiger habitat, and improve planning to avoiddevelopment in tiger critical areas 175.5 Establishing protected area, ecological corridors and prioritymanagement areas to protect wild tigers and their habitat 185.6 Improving international cooperation and establish transboundaryprotected areas to maintain connectivity of tiger habitat acrossinternational boundaries 195.7 Monitoring the status of tiger and prey population to assessthe effectiveness of conservation efforts 195.8 Improving public awareness of the importance of tigerconservation to increase support from local people 205.9 Defining roles and responsibilities of personnel responsiblefor tiger conservation 21PART 6: Historical data, field methods and analysis 236.1 Past distributions of tiger in Myanmar 236.2 Quality and reliability of information 236.3 Characteristics of past distribution 246.4 Potential tiger areas 246.5 Rationale for tiger status survey program 256.6 Training and selection of Tiger Team members 266.7 Methodology 276.8 Results 32LITERATURE CITED 36List of FiguresFig. 1. Forest cover, existing and proposed protected areas of Myanmar– 2002 2Fig. 2. Historical (pre-1999) records of tiger occurrence in Myanmar 4Fig. 3. Tiger skin for sale in Tachileik market, Shan State 6Fig. 4. Wildlife for sale at Mongla market, Shan State 7Fig. 5. Logging reduces available habitat and alters habitat quality for tigers 7Fig. 6. Road construction opens up the forest facilitating access to poachers 7