1. In May 2009, the six Coral Triangle heads of states (incl. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste) made a historic and precedent-setting commitment to work together to protect marine environment and resources, ensure the food security of their people, and build climate change resilience. The Coral Triangle leaders' declaration launched the most detailed regional action plan for ocean conservation ever seen, and the countries individually announced new commitments on finance, law and marine protected areas. President Yudhoyono and PM Dato' Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak made a personal plea to conserve the marine environment.
2. In a historic commitment, Sumatra's 10 governors and four government ministries of Indonesia commited to a sustainable development model based on ecosystem-based spatial planning. This agreement commits Sumatera to protect areas with high conservation values, restore important ecosystems on the island and reestablish connectivity between forests and habitats. Sumatera is home to Sumateran tiger, rhino, orang utan and Asian elephants.
3. Led by World Bank, the Global Tiger initiative brings together the Smithsonian Institution, WWF, Save the Tiger Fund, and other partners with the objective of gaining the support of tiger range state leaders for effective conservation of the severely endangered species, Panthera tigris. The total tiger populations have plummeted from 30,000 in the 1980s to an estimated 4,000 today. In December 2008, Malaysia launched a national Tiger Action Plan with the aim to double Malaysia's tiger (Panthera tigris jacobii) population to 1,000 by 2020. It is worth noting that EMKAY Foundation had partially supported Mark Ryan's work on the tiger in the Belum-Temenggor forests in Perak. The human-tiger conflict in Jeli, Kelantan is still on.
4 comments:
how to stop the big cat from extiction, while our logger still keep on logging..
Dear Khairil
This is a good question. Big mammals, such as tigers, need large range to find their shelter, foods and habitat to reproduce. All these are disappearing with activities such as deforestation. In addition, the foods are getting scarce and contacts with human are getting for frequent. Their plights in Sumatera, Indochina, Thailand, India, bangladesh etc are similar. That is why the World bank put some investments in this project
but pakteh, dr melvin gumal said in his talk at our faculty ...he told that logging activity support some species like tiger to survive and populated...what's ur comment?
Dear Khairil
Logging does open up the thick forest making more gaps that support new youn shoots for the herbivores. These small herbivores are the foods for the tigers. As I said tigers don't only require foods to survive but the range to breed and shelter. In Indochina tigers do survive in disturbed forests,
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