Directorate of Environmental Services - Ministry of Forestry

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Tiger Habitat and Protected Land Management: Workshop Training Posted: 09 Oct 2014 11:42 PM PDT Wildlife and Natural Resource Preservation is one of the key transnational management issues on the agenda of the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI). Regional cooperation and coordinated multi-national policies and programs are required to support sustainable ecosystem management and preservation of endangered species and their habitats, while enabling strong economic growth and human well-being. In order to focus on conservation of tiger population, tiger habitat and protected land management in South East Asia, particularly known as Lower Mekong area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Thailand Office collaborate and supported with some many others organization will conduct the workshop training on Tiger Habitat and Protected Land Management.  The training will be conducted at Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University – Thailand from October 6th – 17th 2014, will focus on key issues and technical approaches to ecosystem management, leading to understanding gaps and development bottlenecks, and formulation of policy recommendations. Participant will do field trip to visit Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary and research station on October 11th and 12th. The workshop will include three components addressing three interconnected goals: (1)    Improve technical capacity of research, management and planning personnel of protected areas, including nature reserves and national parks, with a special focus on endangered species and their habitat (tiger habitat, in particular), forest management, and landscape sustainability. (2)    Examine bottlenecks and gaps in skills, available technologies and data, and other capacity components as revealed during the first part of the workshop, and develop recommendations for additional capacity-building and related management and policy actions. (3)    Present the findings to policy makers and executives participating in the LMI and propose a comprehensive set of recommendations for further capacity building and improvements in protected area management. These recommendations will be summarized in a report on training and gap analysis components of the workshop, to be discussed within the LMI leadership as a contribution to the LMI Environment and Water Pillar. The main topics that will be addressed during the training part of the workshop include: (1)    Wildlife monitoring, modeling, decision-making and adaptive resource management.  (2)    Integrated land use planning to maximize habitat conservation and optimize the use of ecosystem services. (3)    Advanced information technologies in wildlife monitoring, information management, preservation, and decision-making.  The workshop will engage 25-35 trainees from tiger habitat countries: mostly researcher, planner and mid-level management personnel of national parks and other protected areas, and relevant NGOs from Thailand, Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, attended by Agung Nugroho (Directorate of Biodiversity Consevation – MoF), Kuswandono (Gunung Leuser National Park – MoF), and Kholis Munawar and Deni Wijaya from WCS Indonesia Program. The training workshop will be jointly presented by instructors representing the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), United States Forest Service (USFS), United States Geological Survey (USGS), Scanex/Transparent World, and University of California San Diego (UCSD), such as: Dr. James D. Nichols, Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, Dr. Varun R. Goswami, Devcharan Jathanna, Dr Geoffrey Blate, Joe Koloski, Mary M. Long, Thuy Anh Cao, Chalermpol Benz Samranpong, Dr. Dmitry Aksenov, Dr. Elena Yulaeva, Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky and others. Workshop coordination is done by Community Commons and WCS-Thailand. [text & pic ©wcs 2014| pic 3 & 4 ©koeszky |10102014 | koeszky]

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