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FINAL REPORT Tiger <strong>HCVF</strong> <strong>Supplemental</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> – Serapung FMU Figure 6. An index of relative effort of all surveys, including rapid assessments, in Serapung I and adjacent area. Maximum survey effort 5 is represented by dark blue shading. Areas for which no surveys were conducted are not shaded. Figure 7. An index of relative effort of rapid assessments surveys only in Serapung I and adjacent area. Maximum survey effort 5 is represented by dark blue shading. Areas for which no surveys were conducted are not shaded. Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program Pg 26/68
FINAL REPORT Tiger <strong>HCVF</strong> <strong>Supplemental</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> – Serapung FMU 3.6 Secondary Tiger Reports from Local People In support of the ecological work, other teams carried out over 20 field days of detailed questionnaire-based surveys of the local communities and groups living both in close proximity to the study area and in the wider forest block. The main aims of the sociological component of this assessment were to provide the following types of data: (1) Reports of tiger sightings relating to historic/current tiger presence and distribution; (2) Reports relating to past and recent tiger-human conflict events, including poaching and tiger attacks on humans and livestock; (3) General knowledge of local people relating to tigers, including perspectives and attitudes regarding tiger-human conflict. Conflict between tigers and humans is both clear evidence of tiger presence, and also a critical determinant of the likely viability of tigers in the future. Occurrences of conflict between humans and tigers, particularly where deaths of people or material losses occur (e.g. livestock) are, by their nature, events which are usually well remembered by local people. Tiger-human conflict events occurring in the FMU region during the recent past were identified by questioning of a wide range of local people, company employees and seasonal inhabitants of the local area. Reports of specific conflict events were treated as preliminary data until they had been confirmed by identification and follow-up interviews with direct eye-witnesses. For all data arising from local people considerable effort was expended in the process of confirming and cross-checking reports via multiple independent sources and the seeking of first-hand witnesses wherever possible. While hundreds of local people were interviewed during the assessment, detailed witness accounts and reliable respondent questionnaires were obtained from 49 individuals representative of the key adjacent regions (see Figure 8 below). Respondents were not randomly selected from the communities but were specifically targeted individuals considered most likely to represent their communities and/or likely to have a specific knowledge of tigers and their habitat. Figure 8. Map of Serapung FMU area showing the main settlements and concentrations of local people interviewed during the assessment. Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program Pg 27/68
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