Summary Report
ESABII TRAINING OF TRAINERS (ToT) ON CITES POLICIES AND
IDENTIFICATION OF THREATENED SPECIES
6 February - 8 February 2018
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Outline of the workshop
Date: 6 February - 8 February 2018
Venue: Vistana Kuala Lumpur Titiwangsa
Trainee: 11 persons from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Thailand andVietnam
Resource Persons:<Specialist of CITES>
1. Mr. Rod Hay (New Zealand, former staff of CITES secretariat)
2. Ms. Badiah Amed Said (Indonesia, CITES management department in the ministry ofenvironment and forest)<Specialist of orchid>
3. Dr. Irawati (Indonesia, LIPI)
4. Mr. Peter O’Byrne (Malaysia FRIM)
Organizers:*Biodiversity Center of Japan, MOE-J (ESABII Secretariat)

Day 1
The workshop began with the opening ceremony, with Mr. Rod Hay from New Zealand, Dr. Irawati
from LIPI, Mr. Peter O’Byrne from Malaysia and Ms. Baiah Said from Indonesia. Mr. Yusuke Saito,
survey specialist representing the MOEJ, officiated the ToT course with a brief speech, encouraging
delegates 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.
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 theorganizers and the participants. The next session, ‘Introduction to CITES, Wildlife Trade and Wildlife
Crime Awareness’, explained CITES Appendices and how CITES works for Wildlife Crime.
The afternoon session was initiated with “Orchid and CITES” by Dr. Irawati who explained how toidentify orchid species based on CITES appendices. Since orchid has 25,000 different species as themost common plants species in the world, trainees needed more technical and scientific skills as future
trainers. ESABII secretariat requested Mr. Peter O’Byrne as a specialist of orchid taxonomy and heprovided 6 topics such as evolution of orchid, classification, orchid anatomy based on taxonomic
perspective of orchid species.

The participants were able to get readied with enough knowledge forthe site visit on the following day.
Day 2
On the second 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 from LIPI
and FRIM took lead of this exercise supported by the staff of nursery centre and participants were ableto see and touch the actual objects which were listed on the CITES appendices.
Secretariats and resource persons had a dinner meeting after the site visit there we had fruitful
discussion how to make the training more effective and practical. All members agreed to change theoriginal agenda on the remaining third day which enable all participants to be more practical and active
engagement in the training. As a result of discussion, organizers decided to modify the time scheduleof the third day and provide more time for group discussion and output from the participants.
Day 3
The first session on the third day, Mr. Rod Hay gave lecture on Science and Management of CITESAppendices. Mr. Rod Hay also explained what was in the list and how to use the list, and continued
on permission and non-detriment. After the morning coffee break, another specialist, Ms. Badiah
Amed Said from Indonesia, who used to work in the department of CITES management in the ministryof environment and forest in Indonesian government.

After lunch, Dr. Irawati again summarized

CITES appendices mainly about the role of CITES appendices especially on the orchid species.
As mentioned above, organizer and resource persons already separated all participants into threegroups. Participants had a discussion on the scenario which provided by the lectures how to treat/behave in case of inappropriate export of the object such as Ginseng or sea horse etc. With being
supported by the lectures, each group had discussed about the process of the management on theCITES identification such as species identification, population survey and regulation procedure to theexporting.
In the closing ceremony, Mr. Yusuke Saito from MOEJ concluded the three-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.