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Defining Strategic Actions to Save
the Wild Tiger from Extinction
Concept and outline of the workshop in Kathmandu,
Nepal, 27–30 October 2009
Objectives
The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop (KGTW) aims to
start the process of preparing for a success-ful Year-of-the-Tiger
Summit planned for the second half of 2010, through
a Asia Ministerial Confer-ence planned to be hosted
by Thailand in January 2010.
The objective of the 2010 Tiger Summit is to bring
together stakeholders at high political levels with
practioners and experts and to commit to national
and international actions that can help reverse the
current threat of extinction of the wild tiger in
the next decade. The Tiger Summit will invite Heads
of Governments from the Tiger Range Countries (TRCs)
to take stock of and further support a concerted set
of priority actions, which are expected to be largely
agreed at the Asia Ministerial Conference in Thailand.
The KGTW aims to learn from existing plans and experiences
and to integrate new ideas and start the process of
creating a platform of sustained worldwide cooperation
to save the wild tiger. KGTW will be focused on the
challenges, experiences and strategies of the TRCs
and putting these in the context of global experiences
and best practices. The aim is to enable TRC to review
their experi-ence to date and revalidate and update
their strategies, identify urgent policy actions and
activities as well as to define support to be marshalled
from international groups and institutions to help
them stop further decline of wild tiger populations.
TRC updated strategies are expected to include actions
to mitigate immediate threats, to integrate tiger
conservation into the broader development objectives,
to make wild tiger conservation economically sustainable,
and to enhance and better align international support.
General approach
The proposed approach will focus on sharing the challenges,
experiences and current strategies of TRCs and putting
these in the context of global experiences of the
experts in various fields from the Range States and
the international community. The workshop will approach
the issue from two perspectives:
1. TRC Perspectives: Where are TRC and where
would they like to go?
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Goals and Indicators: What are
desired goals and effective monitoring indicators
for conser-vation and management of tigers, prey
and habitat including trans-boundary requirements?
2. Global Perspectives: What are relevant
global experiences and concepts to further strengthen
TRC plans?
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Smart green infrastructure and
land use: How can we assure that infrastructure
devel-opment is consistent with wild tiger conservation,
integrity of the habitat and maintenance of prey
populations within national and across international
borders
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Tigers, communities and the
poverty trap: How to mitigate conflicts between
tigers and local people, motivate local people
to protect wild tigers and habitats?
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Detecting and preventing crime
of poaching and illegal trade: How to detect, control
and prevent killing of tigers on the level of poachers,
traders, and consumers?
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Developing innovative financing
mechanisms: How to target current and create new
resource flows to fill funding gaps without depleting
resources for human development?
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Enhancing national capacity: How
to build capacities in research, monitoring, management,
and communication skills?
Proposed Workshop organisation
The workshop will be organised as a series of presentations,
plenary and working group sessions. Questions to be
addressed by the working groups will be identified in
advance and based on na-tional input documents and background
technical papers (TPs). Working groups will report their
findings and conclusions back to the plenary for incorporation
in workshop conclusions.
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