More than 250 tiger experts and participants from 13 of the 14 tiger range countries participated in Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop from 27-30 October 2009. The workshop was inaugurated by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. The workshop recommended following transformational actions that will stop the tiger’s decline and achieve the goal of doubling the population of wild tigers within the next ten years.
- Celebrate 2010, Year of the Tiger, throughout the world, to create global awareness of the critical plight of the wild tiger and enlist broad and deep support for their conservation.
- Strict protection of wild tigers and their core breeding areas
- Conserve and manage buffer zones and corridors that connect core tiger breeding areas in tiger landscapes.
- Tiger range countries stop infrastructure projects in core tiger breeding areas and finance institutions avoid financing development projects that adversely affect critical tiger habitats.
- Empower local communities that live in and around tiger landscapes with sustainable economic incentives and appropriate technologies to minimize human-tiger conflict.
- Make Core/Critical Tiger Habitats truly inviolate by incentive driven, generous, participatory and voluntary relocation.
- All countries implement CITES resolution Conf. 12.5 “Conservation of and trade in tigers and other Appendix I Asian big cat species.”
- Enhance the capacity of INTERPOL, the World Customs Organization (WCO), the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the CITES Secretariat and regional wildlife enforcement networks (including ASEAN-WEN) to more effectively and sustainably combat the illegal trade in wildlife at the international level and though relevant national agencies; and implement the Manifesto on Combating Wildlife Crime in Asia, decided in Pattaya, Thailand, in April, 2009.
- Conduct focused outreach to target audiences to reduce demand for tiger parts and enhance demand for live tigers living in the wild.
- The international community makes a financial commitment to support long-term behaviour-change campaigns with measureable outcomes on tiger conservation in the wild.
- Intensify regional cooperation for better management and enforcement in transboundary tiger landscapes.
- Implement capacity development programs to achieve effective landscape and protected-area management.
- Use innovative science and technology to closely monitor and protect wild tigers and their prey and habitats.
- Adopt innovative, sustainable mechanisms to finance wild tiger conservation.
- Generate collective support to tiger range countries from the international donor community to reverse the decline of wild tigers now.
More information at http://www.dnpwc.gov.np/kgtw