Thailand Tiger Action Plan - Global Tiger Initiative

Opportunity: High standard trainings with tiger conservation focushave existed in Huai Kha Khaeng and Thung YaiWildlife Sanctuaries for many years.Expected outcome: The quality of trainers and trainees are improvedwith high standard courses.Duration and locations: 12 years, Tenasserim – WEFCOM as thetiger source site and DP-KY as the potential source site.Activities necessary to accomplish this objective:Activity 33: Strengthen the local instructor capacity for conductingtraining courses for tiger research and conservation forThai and international audiences.Activity 34: Establish a national standard as sufficient resources fortiger conservation training.Priority action 3: Strengthening monitoring, research andinformation managementObjective 11: Monitor tiger and prey populations in prioritylandscapesChallenge:Populations of tigers and prey in the core areas ofpriority landscapes need intensive monitoring systemswith up-to-date technologies to be able to speak withconfidence on population trends.Opportunity: The rigorous population monitoring systems of tigersand prey have been run in the core area of WEFCOMfor many years with collaborative support.Expected outcome: The success of tiger conservation activities canbe strongly linked to the target, which is the occurrenceof tigers and their prey.Duration and locations: 12 years, Tenasserim-WEFCOM as the tigersource site and DP-KY as the potential source site andother protected areas for a nation-wide survey.Activities necessary to accomplish this objective:Activity 35:Activity 36:Activity 37:Maintain and establish high standard annual populationmonitoring systems for tigers and their prey in tigersources and potential source sites in the prioritylandscapes.Establish landscape scale occupancy monitoringsystem for tigers and prey throughout the two prioritylandscapes.Implement a nationwide survey and reporting system ontigers and prey occurrence based on scientific methods.