Summary Report
ESABII TRAINING OF TRAINERS (ToT) ON CITES POLICIES AND
IDENTIFICATION OF THREATENED SPECIES
24 February - 27 February 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Outline of the workshop
Date: 24 February - 27 February 2019
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Kuala Lumpur
Trainee: 16 persons from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand
and Vietnam
Resource Persons:<Specialist of CITES>
1. Mr. Rod Hay (New Zealand, former staff of CITES secretariat)<Specialist of orchid>
2. Dr. Irawati (Indonesia, LIPI)
3. Mr. Ong Poh Teck (Malaysia, Orchid Specialist)
Organizers:*Biodiversity Center of Japan, MOE-J (ESABII Secretariat)

Day 1
The workshop began with the opening ceremony by Mr. Yusuke Saito, survey specialist
representing the MOEJ, officiated the ToT course with a brief speech, and also introduced Mr. Rod
Hay from New Zealand, Dr. Irawati from LIPI, Mr. Ong Poh Teck from Malaysia. He encourageddelegates to participate and share experiences with each other as the course provides a useful
opportunity for networking among the Southeast Asian and other Asian nations. After the openingceremony, there was selfintroduction from each participant as an ice break, and a preliminary
questionnaire was held by Rod Hay to grasp the degree of comprehension of each participant about
CITES .
The Training of Trainers (ToT) course then continued with Mr. Rod Hay providing key techniquesand sharing experiences on how to organize a successful training programme. It began with a quick
overview of the ToT, providing the objectives of the course, the agenda and expectations of both theorganizers and the participants. The next session, ‘Introduction to CITES’, explained CITESAppendices and how CITES works for Wildlife Crime.
The afternoon session was also organized by Mr. Rod Hay with “CITES Legal requirements, Scienceand management.” In this topic, Mr. Rod Hay gave specific lecture on Science and Management ofCITES Appendices and explained what was in the list and how to use the list, and continued on
permission and non ‐ detriment. Mr. Rod Hay also referred to the CITES Investigation andenforcement.
Day 2
The second day provided more on the Orchid species after the last lecture of Mr. Rod Hay with using
actual specimens. Dr Irawati conducted her lecture on ‘CITES and Plants’and ‘CITES and Slipper
Orchids’ which explaining the outline of Orchid species in CITES appendices and how to apply theskill of identification. Dr Irawati again summarized CITES appendices mainly about the role of CITES
appendices especially on the orchid species.
Since orchid has 25,000 different species as the most common plants species in the world, trainees
needed more technical and scientific skills as future trainers. ESABII secretariat requested Mr. Ong
Poh Teck as a specialist of orchid taxonomy and he provided lectures on various taxonomies
concerning Orchid plants were conducted. In addition, Mr. Ong continues to explain the Orchid
research in Malaysia and the outline of the orchid nursing in the country.
The participants were able to get readied with enough knowledge for the site visit on
the following day.
Day 3
On the third day, participants visited Kama Nursery Centre for one ‐ day field study on theidentification of CITES listed orchids. With the guidance by an owner of nursery, Mr. Hj Nazarudin
En Nazar who accompanied whole way of field trip, participants were able to found many rare wildorchids and brought to the laboratory where the actual nursery stocks planted. The specialist took leadof this exercise supported by the staff of nursery centre and participants were able to see and touch theactual objects which were listed on the CITES appendices.
After the field trip to Kama Nursery Centre, participants went back to the hotel and have short
discussion in each group how to reflect this activity into their group work for the presentation to bedelivered in the following day.
Day 4
The fourth day mainly focused on the group discussion supported by all lecturers. Organizer andresource persons already divided all participants into four groups. Participants had a discussion on thebase of intention of this training implemented with the two tasks of identification and instructor
training as the pillars, after discussing discrimination of species using the identification sheet which
was given by the lecturer the day before, conducted training in each country. They exchanged ideas
on tasks and the like assuming cases to be implemented.
With being supported by the lectures, each group had discussed about the process of the managementon the CITES identification such as species identification, population survey and regulation procedure
to the exporting.
In the closing ceremony, Mr. Yusuke Saito from MOEJ concluded the four‐day workshop with hisappreciation for the participation of each delegates and contribution of lecturers. All participants wereduly appreciated with the certificate given from organizer represented by Mr. Saito. Organizer also
provided each participant with USB devise containing presentation materials, resource documents,and photos.

Group Photo

Field Study at Kama Nursery Centre

Instruction by lecturers

Group Discussion