Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative

Objective 7:Challenge:Strengthen national laws, policies, and enforcement oftiger related crimesEnforcement and punishment of wildlife crimes are notstrong enough to significantly reduce illegal activities ontigers and wildlife.Opportunity: Wildlife Reservation and Protection Act and NationalPark Act have been in place for Thailand for 50 yearsas the main laws to protect tigers and their habitats.Expected outcome: Wildlife crimes are given priority at the policylevel.Duration and locations: 12 years, National level.Activities necessary to accomplish this objective:Activity 22:Activity 23:Activity 24:Activity 25:Activity 26:Strengthen enforcement on wildlife crime under the WildAnimal Reservation and Protection Act B.E.2535 (1992)to make sure that an offender convicting the highestpenalty of Wildlife Laws and related legislations.Strengthen Thailand Wildlife Enforcement Network(Thailand-WEN) information sharing capacity.Strengthen investigative capacity and judiciaryeffectiveness on wildlife crime cases.Strengthen communication campaigns on wild tigerconservation.Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with military,police, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education to bestrengthened and implemented for better collaborationand training for enforcement.Objective 8:Challenge:Support national and international efforts to managecaptive tigers responsiblyLegal and illegal tiger zoos in Thailand are becoming achallenge for the government to control illegal tigertrade.Opportunity: DNP has started using the tiger stripe database tocontrol tigers in the zoos and is trying to curb illegaltiger trade.Expected outcome: Public at large have a better understanding of thedifference between wild tiger conservation and illegalcaptive tiger business that harms tiger conversation.Duration and locations: 6 years, places with illegal captive tigers,zoos, and amusement parks.Activities necessary to accomplish this objective:Activity 27: Design and enforce the control programs for captivebreeding of tigers in legal tiger zoos with a captive tigerdatabase of individual tracking records.