Three years on patrol – protecting Tiger in the Eastern Plains of Cambodia
Presented by: Craig Bruce, Protected Area and Enforcement Specialist – WWF Tiger Initiative
Crystallizing the Cambodian enforcement experience.
Some challenges are universal
Acknowledging contexts do differ and models need to be adapted.
Underrated and unappreciated
The plight of enforcement rangers is sadly similar. They remain underpaid, under equipped, poorly trained and generally poorly led.
These are the men and women we ask to put their lives on the line everyday in the conservation war.
Nothing new under the sun
It not rocket science proved solutions often work best.
Effective protection cannot be achieved without patrols on the ground.
Some other simple things
Discipline, training and motivation.
Passionate leaders.
Strategically planned patrols.
Monitoring
Engage the legal system
Intelligence
Some things the rangers can’t changeLack of understanding and wariness about
enforcement.
Enforcement the single most important factor.
The bad news about cyclic funding.
Who steps into the gap.
In the end or is it really the beginning
Enforcement a conservation cost.
An attitude change the willingness to engage.
Increasing level of threat = better protection.
Ability to measure effectiveness of enforcement.
Co-opt the judiciary
Expand and use intelligence
The way forward for Tigers
Local information gathering(proactive
intervention)
Effective legal action at judiciary
levelOther
management interventions e.g.
CET, SF and research
Monitored enforcement
efforts•MIST
Effective planned strategic
enforcement
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Landscape Approach
(enforcement)
Broad information
gathering e.g. trade and markets
MIST the things we can measure
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The recipeTo save tiger we have to be willing and able to train, motivate, empower, equip and inspire the people who
protect tiger.
Thank you