Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative
Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative
Thailand is one of the fast growing economies in Southeast Asia. Thetrade-off, however, is that the current forest cover is 28% of the countryarea, which is among the lowest in the region. Fortunately, Thailand beganestablishing wildlife and national park laws and a protected area systemalmost 50 years ago. The current protected area system covers about18% of the country area, and the Thai government has already invested inestablishment and running of 123 national parks and 58 wildlifesanctuaries. Besides protection of landscapes and their depending wildlifespecies, the government also undertakes various interventions includingnature education, alternative livelihood, and wildlife crime suppression.Despite the significant efforts and investments, the recent rigorousmonitoring systems have revealed that wild tigers are surviving inrecoverable numbers only in protected landscapes with a strong history ofprotection, especially in areas with active park guards and good patrolsystems. The on-going intensive population monitoring program hasrevealed that only one landscape, the Tenasserim-Western ForestComplex (Tenasserim-WEFCOM) can be counted as a “tiger source site”.More than 100 adult tigers have been photographed in this landscape overthe last 5 years. Tenasserim-WEFCOM about 25,000 km 2 on Thailand’sside, with habitat in Myanmar is a globally important tiger landscape. Thecore area is also a world heritage site.Another landscape that can qualify as a “potential source site” based oncamera-trapping evidence is Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex(DP-KY); also a world heritage site. About 8 adult tigers have beenphotographed from this 6,100 km 2 landscape. These two represent thelandscapes with the greatest potential for tiger recovery in Thailand.The success of the 12-year plan of wild tiger recovery is very muchdependent on: strengthening landscape-scale conservation interventionsin these two landscapes; rigorous research and monitoring; transboundaryconservation ties being strengthened to effectively control cross-bordertrade; and law and policy reforms to support the efforts to reach the visionand goals as stated in the action plan.Chote TrachuPermanent SecretaryMinistry of Natural Resources and EnvironmentThailand
PrefaceAs the Director General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife andPlant Conservation with the main responsibility to protect and manage thenation’s natural heritage, especially wildlife and its ecosystem, I ampleased with this new Tiger Action Plan. The new plan will be usedeffectively as guidance to implement the conservation intervention andmonitoring programs to reach the goal of increasing the tiger population by50 percent in priority landscapes together with other landscapes inThailand by the next tiger year in 2022.There are many challenges and threats to the tiger that we have toovercome in order to be successful. The most important threats arepoaching of the tiger and their prey in our national parks and wildlifesanctuaries, habitat destruction, and illegal wildlife trade. We must dealwith these problems with better tools and approaches. In Thailand, thetiger population only exists in a healthy number in Huai Kha Khaeng andThung Yai Wildlife Sanctuaries. This is not only because our managersand park rangers have been dedicated and brave in protecting tigers, butalso because they have been inventive and adopting new concepts andtools in conservation. It has been clearly proved that science-basedconservation and management is a very effective approach to save suchan endangered species as tigers. The successful model needs scaling upto the whole Western Forest Complex landscape and other potential tigerlandscapes. On the international cooperation front the Department ofNational Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation will continue working withpartners to reduce trafficking in international wildlife trade that isthreatened tigers and other wildlife in the region.The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation standsfirm in our duty to protect tigers and other wildlife. We are also pleased towork with local and international partners to implement Thailand TigerAction Plan. Together, I am strongly convinced that we can save andrestore wild tigers and other endangered and threatened wildlife and theirhabitats for the benefits of our future generations.Sunan ArunnopparatDirector GeneralDepartment of National Parks, Wildlife andPlant Conservation
- Page 1: Thailand Tiger Action Plan2010-2022
- Page 5: Tiger conservation has gained a mom
- Page 9 and 10: Executive SummaryClassified as enda
- Page 11 and 12: Abbreviations and AcronymsASEAN-WEN
- Page 13 and 14: IntroductionThe tiger, Panthera tig
- Page 15 and 16: Why is it Important to Save the Tig
- Page 17 and 18: Resource and Environmental Crime Su
- Page 19 and 20: Tigers moving through an area usual
- Page 21 and 22: Threats to the TigerThe most signif
- Page 23 and 24: The Status of Tigers in ThailandTo
- Page 25 and 26: Together, these areas can support o
- Page 27 and 28: self esteem among park rangers. Tig
- Page 29 and 30: VisionBy 2022 tigers have recovered
- Page 31 and 32: Priority action 3: Strengthening mo
- Page 33 and 34: Activity 4:Activity 5:Activity 6:Wo
- Page 35 and 36: Objective 5:Challenge:Support local
- Page 37 and 38: Activity 28: Discourage illegal act
- Page 39 and 40: Objective 12: Maintain long-term ti
- Page 41 and 42: Objective 16: Ensure that the co-be
- Page 43 and 44: Policy Change to Support the Object
- Page 45 and 46: Literature CitedCat Specialist Grou
- Page 47 and 48: large mammal conservation: The tige
- Page 49 and 50: Appendix 1 Actions, Indicators and
- Page 51 and 52: 1.2.4 Maintain natural and existing
- Page 53 and 54: 1.6.3 Strengthen bi-lateral coopera
- Page 55 and 56: 2.1.3 Establish technical andenforc
PrefaceAs the Director General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and<strong>Plan</strong>t Conservation with the main responsibility to protect and manage thenation’s natural heritage, especially wildlife and its ecosystem, I ampleased with this new <strong>Tiger</strong> <strong>Action</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>. The new plan will be usedeffectively as guidance to implement the conservation intervention andmonitoring programs to reach the goal of increasing the tiger population by50 percent in priority landscapes together with other landscapes in<strong>Thailand</strong> by the next tiger year in 2022.There are many challenges and threats to the tiger that we have toovercome in order to be successful. The most important threats arepoaching of the tiger and their prey in our national parks and wildlifesanctuaries, habitat destruction, and illegal wildlife trade. We must dealwith these problems with better tools and approaches. In <strong>Thailand</strong>, thetiger population only exists in a healthy number in Huai Kha Khaeng andThung Yai Wildlife Sanctuaries. This is not only because our managersand park rangers have been dedicated and brave in protecting tigers, butalso because they have been inventive and adopting new concepts andtools in conservation. It has been clearly proved that science-basedconservation and management is a very effective approach to save suchan endangered species as tigers. The successful model needs scaling upto the whole Western Forest Complex landscape and other potential tigerlandscapes. On the international cooperation front the Department ofNational Parks, Wildlife and <strong>Plan</strong>t Conservation will continue working withpartners to reduce trafficking in international wildlife trade that isthreatened tigers and other wildlife in the region.The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and <strong>Plan</strong>t Conservation standsfirm in our duty to protect tigers and other wildlife. We are also pleased towork with local and international partners to implement <strong>Thailand</strong> <strong>Tiger</strong><strong>Action</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>. Together, I am strongly convinced that we can save andrestore wild tigers and other endangered and threatened wildlife and theirhabitats for the benefits of our future generations.Sunan ArunnopparatDirector GeneralDepartment of National Parks, Wildlife and<strong>Plan</strong>t Conservation
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