Global Tiger Workshop concludes
We believe that collective political commitment from all levels of governments is the first and most important action required to save wild tigers
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KATHMANDU, OCT 30 - A four-day Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop (KGTW) 2009 concluded on Friday with experts from 13 out of 14 tiger range countries aiming to achieve the goal of doubling the population of the wild tigers within the next ten years.
The wild tiger population has fallen from 100,000 to about 3,500 today over the past century in around 14 tiger range countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Russia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam among others.
"We believe that collective political commitment from all levels of governments is the first and most important action required to save wild tigers," concluded participants from tiger range countries who attended the workshop. The wild tiger will disappear forever from the world without immediate, urgent and transformation actions.
The KGTW also recommended celebrating 2010 as the Year of Tiger throughout the world to create global awareness of the critical plight of the wild tiger and enlist broad and deep support for its conservation.
Strict protection of wild tigers and their core breeding areas, conservation and management of buffer zones and corridors that connect core tiger breeding areas in tiger landscapes are also among other recommendations of the KGTW.
Other recommendations are: tiger range countries stop infrastructure projects in core tiger breeding areas and finance institutions avoid financing development projects that adversely affect critical tiger habitats and empower local communities that live in and around tiger landscapes with sustainable economic incentives and appropriate technologies to minimise human-tiger conflict.
The workshop also recommended the need to intensify regional cooperation for better management enforcement in transboundary tiger landscapes.
These recommendations will be presented to the ministers of the tiger range countries, who will meet in Thailand in January, 2010.
Posted on: 2009-10-31 12:25
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