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Community-based Western Hoolock Conservation in Pauk Sa Mountain Range The project will accomplish the following objectives to help conserve endangered western hoolock gibbons and their habitats in Burma: (1) Assess the status of western hoolock gibbons in the contiguous northern extension block of Pauk Sa Mountain; (2) Replicate community-based conservation agreements for the Hoolock Gibbon populations in the northern extension area and establish a community managed conservation area; and (3) Develop alternative livelihood interventions based on community-based conservation stewardship agreements, community forestry, agroforestry and other appropriate alternative livelihood interventions. Activities under the stated objectives include the following: (a) gibbon population surveys; (b) habitat mapping; (c) community awareness programs; (d) formation of village conservation groups; (e) facilitate village conservation agreements; (f) facilitate the development of village land use plans; (g) distribute small village development grants for sustainable livelihood interventions to the new village conservation groups and existing groups that have been established in the first phase. Anticipated outputs are a comprehensive gibbon conservation status assessment for Myanmar and a community conservation agreement for northern extension. The conservation benefits include improved livelihoods for local communities through a reduced dependency on shifting cultivation, and improved habitat protection of gibbons in Myanmar.
Great Apes Conservation Fund Community-based conservation of Western hoolock gibbons in Pauk Sa Mountain, Myanmar
Long-term protection and monitoring of the Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range, Myanmar This three-year project aims to maintain and enhance the protection of wild Asian elephants in the Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range (RYER) in Myanmar through continued engagement with Elephant Protection Units (EPU), provision of training and support, and patrol gear to improve patrol performance and morale. Project activities include: 1) increase the operational effectiveness of existing EPUs and expand coverage by hiring additional captive Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE) elephants; 2) upgrade ranger substations and provisions of boats; 3) increase effectiveness of patrols through adaptive SMART patrol methodology; 4) identify elephant distribution and hotspots; and 5) regular analysis of satellite imagery to monitor and respond to forest encroachment and shifting cultivation within RYER. This project will maintain and enhance the protection of wild elephants and other wildlife of the RYER through the use of SMART-managed patrolling and development of staff capacity to allow government and local staff to carry out their duties. This award is provisionally approved for three phases or years funding, with each phase or year's funding dependent upon performance and financial management of the previous phase or year, meeting technical and financial reporting requirements, and availability of ASECF funds...You and your organization are not representatives of the United States Government or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. You should not hold yourself or your organization out to be representatives of the United States Government or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. You are not to engage in any kind of intelligence gathering activities or do work or activities in a law enforcement capacity. Prohibited intelligence gathering or law enforcement activities include, but are not limited to, buying or purchasing of intelligence, evidence, or information; engaging a person to be an informant and/or paying an informant; gathering information by persons who conceal their true ident
CONSERVATION OF THE BURMESE PEACOCK SOFTSHELL TURTLE The purpose of this project is to establish a community-based conservation program to address threats to.this critically endangered species from the meat trade, local consumption of eggs and meat, fisheries.bycatch, and habitat degradation from agricultural encroachment of riverbanks, pollution, and gold.mining. This species is endemic to Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy River basin with no known nesting and rare.sightings from bycatch in Indawgyi. Activities include: (1) conducting interviews with fisher sand.community members along the mainstream Ayayeyarwaddy and Sittaung Rivers to determine relative.presence or absence of this and other softshell species and nesting sites; (2) conducting assessments of the.commercial trade and threats; (3) preparing a status assessment from activities 1 and 2 and disseminating.to key stakeholders; (4) facilitating a stakeholder workshop to develop a species action plan; (5).developing a behavior-change strategy and communication plan focused on fishersand local communities;.(6) facilitating the designation of a new Ramsar site to reduce threats
Conservation of the Burmese Roofed Turtle, Batagur trivittata, on the Upper Chindwin River,..Myanmar Conservation of the Burmese Roofed Turtle, Batagur trivittata, on the Upper Chindwin River, Myanmar. In partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society, this project will support conservation efforts that will put the Batagur trivittata on a trajectory towards a genetically diverse, self-sustaining wild population. Specific activities include: (1) incubation of trivittata eggs; (2) create modern facilities to host head-starting turtles and a captive assurance population; (3) conduct surveys of the Chindwin River and tributaries in the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary for hitherto over-looked populations; (4) expand nest protection, head-starting, and threat abatement programs to encompass new areas found to be inhabited by B. trivittata; (5) initiate a trial release program of juvenile B. trivittata; (6) increase the safety of those released hatchlings through patrols, education, and incentives for turtle protection.
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Providing Support for the Secong Regional Asian Elephant Veterinary Workshop
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to, (1) provide specific protection for elephant populations through the creation of Elephant Protection Units (EPUs), (2) implement law enforcement monitoring using the SMART conservation software tool, and (3) map the distribution of elephants and threats to elephant populations, especially from changes in forest area and configuration.
Long-Term Protection and Monitoring of the Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range, Myanmar. This three-year project aims to maintain and enhance the protection of wild Asian elephants in the Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range (RYER) in Myanmar through continued engagement with Elephant Protection Units (EPU), provision of training and support, and patrol gear to improve patrol performance and morale. Project activities include: 1) increase the operational effectiveness of existing EPUs and expand coverage by hiring additional captive Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE) elephants; 2) upgrade ranger substations and provisions of boats; 3) increase effectiveness of patrols through adaptive SMART patrol methodology; 4) identify elephant distribution and hotspots; and 5) regular analysis of satellite imagery to monitor and respond to forest encroachment and shifting cultivation within RYER. This project will maintain and enhance the protection of wild elephants and other wildlife of the RYER through the use of SMART-managed patrolling and development of staff capacity to allow government and local staff to carry out their duties. ..This award is provisionally approved for three phases or years funding, with each phase or year's funding dependent upon performance and financial management of the previous phase or year, meeting technical and financial reporting requirements, and availability of ASECF funds...You and your organization are not representatives of the United States Government or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. You should not hold yourself or your organization out to be representatives of the United States Government or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. You are not to engage in any kind of intelligence gathering activities or do work or activities in a law enforcement capacity. Prohibited intelligence gathering or law enforcement activities include, but are not limited to, buying or purchasing of intelligence, evidence, or information; engaging a person to be an informant and/or paying an informant; gathering information by persons who conceal their true ide
Wildife Without Borders-Critically Endangered Animals Conservation of the Burmese Roofed Turtle, Batagur trivittata, on the Upper Chindwin River, Myanmar. In partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society, this project will support conservation efforts that will put the Batagur trivittata on a trajectory towards a genetically diverse, self-sustaining wild population. Specific activities include: (1) incubation of trivittata eggs; (2) create modern facilities to host head-starting turtles and a captive assurance population; (3) conduct surveys of the Chindwin River and tributaries in the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary for hitherto over-looked populations; (4) expand nest protection, head-starting, and threat abatement programs to encompass new areas found to be inhabited by B. trivittata; (5) initiate a trial release program of juvenile B. trivittata; (6) increase the safety of those released hatchlings through patrols, education, and incentives for turtle protection.
THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THE MYANMAR GOVERNMENT TO HELP DEVELOP MORE EFFECTIVE HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT (HEC) MITIGATION, ANTI-POACHING, AND ELEPHANT CONSERVATION POLICIES. Funds under this award are to be used to provide information to the Myanmar government to help develop more effective human-elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation, anti-poaching, and elephant conservation policies. Data will be collected systematically across many sites in Myanmar and will assist in establishing if there is an interaction between pressures from HEC and poaching on conservation attitudes, contributing to more positive or negative views of elephants in certain areas. Specifically, the specific types and severity of direct and indirect impacts of (HEC) participants are experiencing across different landscapes and socio-economic groups will be assessed. Participant knowledge of and perceptions of elephant poaching-related activities (e.g., tusk and skin harvesting, storage and sale such products) occurring in the study area and across different socio-economic groups will be determined. An assessment will be made of how different types of HEC and poaching influences elephant conservation attitudes. Lessons learned will help the government develop more successful conservation plans and policies. Additionally, determining which communities hold attitudes and beliefs that are most favorable towards elephant conservation initiatives will be vital in determining priority locations for elephant conservation efforts.
PHASE III: BUILDING CAPACITY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND CONSERVATION OF MYANMAR MARINE TURTLE POPULATIONS THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO SUPPORT A PARTNERSHIP OF GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY, NGO, PRIVATE ENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP A SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION PROGRAM IN MYANMAR TO RECOVER DEPLETED BUT HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT REGIONAL POPULATIONS OF OLIVE RIDLEY, GREEN AND HAWKSBILL SEA TURTLES. THE INTENT IS TO SUPPORT A NEWLY FORMED SEA TURTLE WORKING GROUP OF THESE AFOREMENTIONED PARTNERS TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL AND GRASSROOTS CONSERVATION PROGRAM TO ADDRESS THE THREATS OF POACHING OF EGGS AND TURTLES AND THREATS OF BYCATCH FROM ARTISANAL AND INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES. ACTIVITIES INCLUDE 1) ORGANIZE THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MARINE TURTLE WORKING GROUP OF GOVERNMENT, NGOS, UNIVERSITY AND PRIVATE SEA TURTLE STAKEHOLDERS 2) CONDUCT TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR SEA TURTLE SURVEYORS IN THREE REGIONAL LOCATIONS OF THE COAST 3) IMPLEMENT MONITORING AND NEST PROTECTION PROGRAMS AT SIX KEY NESTING SITES 4) DEVELOP EDUCATION AND AWARENESS MATERIALS ABOUT PROTECTED STATUS OF SEA TURTLES, THREATS AND SAFE RELEASE OF ACCIDENTALLY CAPTURED SEA TURTLES IN FISHING GEAR AND DISTRIBUTE TO FISHERMAN, TRADERS AND AT SCHOOLS 5) CONTINUE TO ASSESS HATCHERY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, AND IMPLEMENT BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND 6) FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL ACTION PLAN WITH ALL KEY STAKEHOLDERS.
Great Apes Conservation Fund Community Based Conservation of Eastern Hoolock Gibbon and its habitat in Karen State
Empowering local ethnic communities to conserve tigers and their habitats in Myinmoletkhat Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) "The purpose of this project is to empower local community representatives in monitoring tigers, their prey and their habitats and in establishing baseline information on other wildlife and habitats; and establishing a collaborative wildlife protection system between local communities, the Forest Department (FD) and the Karen National Union (KNU) and to support the establishment of a protected area...This will be done by: 1) providing training on camera trapping to the local ethnic communities (Karen, Dawei and Mon); 2) conducting a camera trap survey in Myinmoletkhat Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) with these communities; 3) analyzing the data and presenting it to these communities; 4) providing training on threat monitoring and data recording on standardized forms to the local communities, the FD and KNU; 5) establishing collaborative mechanisms between the local communities, FD and KNU to take actions on illegal activities in Myinmoletkhat KBA; 6) supporting the proposed establishment by KNU and FD of a co-managed protected area in Myinmoletkhat KBA; and 7) applying SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) to assess the spatial distribution of threats in Myinmoletkhat KBA.."
Building Capacity for the Assessment and Conservation of Myanmar Marine Turtle Populations. The recipient will: form a Marine Turtle Working Group of government, ngo, university and private sea turtle stakeholders; 2) conduct training workshops for sea turtle surveyers in three regional locations of the coast; 3)implement monitoring programs at key nesting sites; 4) conduct suveys of fishing communities to gather information on marine turtle harvest; 5) assess hatchery management practices, determine needed improvements and advise on best management practices; and 6) facilitate drafting of National Action Plan with all key stakeholders.
Setting new conservation priorities for Asian elephants across their Southern Myanmar landscape The purpose of this project is to advance conservation of Asian elephants in the Southern Myanmar landscape. Project activities will include: 1) assess the status of elephants and their threats in the landscape via development and training of monitoring protocol landscape occupancy surveys; 2) manage human-elephant conflicts (HEC) by compiling HEC data and developing a mitigation strategy that engages oil palm companies; 3) raise elephant conservation awareness by documenting customary rules towards wildlife protection and delivering outreach to forest-edge communities; and 4) identify priority elephant locations in the landscape for future protection and conduct conservation priority setting workshops that plan for their implementation. This project will help ensure the survival and increase the population of and habitat of Asian elephants in Myanmar through landscape-level action that includes the establishment of the proposed Tanintharyi National Park, Lenya National Park, and connecting forest corridors.
Community-led conservation of Asian elephants in Myinmoletkhat Key Biodiversity Area, Myanmar This project will contribute to the conservation of wild Asian elephants through the establishment of community conserved areas in Myinmoletkhat Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), Myanmar. Project objectives include: 1) building the capacity of the Conservation Alliance Tanintharyi (CAT) to collect baseline information on elephants, habitats and threats for long-term conservation; and 2) establishing a local community elephant surveillance system to support existing Forest Department (FD) and Karen National Union (KNU) law enforcement systems to reduce threats to elephants and their habitat. Specific project activities will include: 1) train CAT to assess the distribution and seasonal movements of elephants, document the status of elephant habitats, and the distribution of the main threats they face; 2) support CAT to conduct key informant interviews and field surveys to assess the distribution and seasonal movements of elephants, habitat quality and threats; 3) collate, analyze data and present to the local communities for future action; 4) establish a local elephant surveillance system by recruiting local wildlife guardians to support existing FD and KNU law enforcement system to reduce to elephants and their habitat; and 5) inform national policies on protected areas to enable community based conservation using Myinmoletkhat KBA as a model.
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to: 1) Provide ranger teams with resources to conduct patrolling year round, focusing on elephant hotspots identified through a survey that will be conducted during October December 2013; 2) Implement the new SMART conservation software as a law enforcement tool, allowing managers to use evidencebased approaches for adaptively managing enforcement operations at the MIKE sites; 3) Map the distribution of elephants and threats to elephant populations, especially from changes in forest area and configuration Map the distribution of elephants and threats to elephant populations, especially from changesin forest area and configuration.
Grt Ape Postal Grant-Species Conservation Grant Conservation Management of Eastern Hoolock Gibbon in Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sancutary, Burma
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Conservation of wild elephants and elephant habitat in the Hukaung Valley, Burma: Year 4
Protection and Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) at key sites in Burma : Year 1 of 3 The purpose of this project is to, (1) provide specific protection for elephant populations through the creation of Elephant Protection Units (EPUs), (2) implement law enforcement monitoring using the SMART conservation software tool, and (3) map the distribution of elephants and threats to elephant populations, especially from changes in forest area and configuration.
Rhinoceros & Tiger Conservation-Species Conservation Grant Reinforcing Patrolling and Law Enforcement Systems in Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary and the Proposed Extension Area to Protect Tigers
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Protection and Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) at key sites in Burma : Year 1.of 3
Great Apes Conservation Fund The purpose of this project is to contribute to the conservation of the globally endangered western hoolock gibbon through interventions to assist local communities in one priority site to address immediate threats to the species. This will be done by: 1) forming at least five village conservation groups in the lower slopes of the Pauk Sa range; 2) facilitating village conservation agreements for a core conservation zone with the 5 villages including resource use mapping to establish the extent of swidden agriculture, mapping key landscape features used by villagers to identify their fields, digitizing these maps and including land cover data to identify a core conservation area (will utilize a participatory workshop to accomplish this); 3) facilitating development of village land use plans (needed to provide a mechanism to control village land use, and to better cooperate with the Forest Department and other government departments on village development and sustainable forestry); 4) facilitating VCGs in the development of community forestry licenses (needed to allow for a mixture of production, protection and regeneration on state forest lands such as Reserve Forests and is intended as a mechanism to divest responsibilities and benefits of sustainable forest management to local communities); 5) distributing small village development grants for sustainable community forestry, agroforestry, and sustainable agriculture; 6) carrying out a conservation awareness effort (through village consultation efforts) to increase understanding of the values and threats to Myanmars natural history, and to justify the interventions proposed under the project; 7) mapping the habitat of the gibbons; 8) using standard population sampling techniques to estimate/confirm the populations of all groups in conjunction with habitat mapping under item 7; 8) habituating one gibbon group for ecological studies; and 9) studying tree phenology and carrying out baseline ecological surveys.
Investigating poaching and human-elephant conflict in Myanmar provide information to the Myanmar government to help develop more effective human-elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation, anti-poaching, and elephant conservation policies. Data will be collected systematically across many sites in Myanmar and will assist in establishing if there is an interaction between pressures from HEC and poaching on conservation attitudes, contributing to more positive or negative views of elephants in certain areas. Specifically, the specific types and severity of direct and indirect impacts of (HEC) participants are experiencing across different landscapes and socio-economic groups will be assessed. Participant knowledge of and perceptions of elephant poaching-related activities (e.g., tusk and skin harvesting, storage and sale such products) occurring in the study area and across different socio-economic groups will be determined. An assessment will be made of how different types of HEC and poaching influences elephant conservation attitudes. Lessons learned will help the government develop more successful conservation plans and policies. Additionally, determining which communities hold attitudes and beliefs that are most favorable towards elephant conservation initiatives will be vital in determining priority locations for elephant conservation efforts.
Protection and Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) at Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range, Myanmar Biological Corridor protected area staff to
CONSERVATION OF THE BURMESE PEACOCK SOFTSHELL TURTLE The purpose of this project is to establish a community-based conservation program to address threats to this critically endangered species from the meat trade, local consumption of eggs and meat, fisheries bycatch, and habitat degradation from agricultural encroachment of riverbanks, pollution, and gold mining. This species is endemic to Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy River basin with no known nesting and rare sightings from bycatch in Indawgyi. Activities include: (1) conducting interviews with fisher sand community members along the mainstream Ayayeyarwaddy and Sittaung Rivers to determine relative presence or absence of this and other softshell species and nesting sites; (2) conducting assessments of the commercial trade and threats; (3) preparing a status assessment from activities 1 and 2 and disseminating to key stakeholders; (4) facilitating a stakeholder workshop to develop a species action plan; (5) developing a behavior-change strategy and communication plan focused on fishersand local communities; (6) facilitating the designation of a new Ramsar site to reduce threats
Scientific Verification and Conservation Planning for Western and Eastern Hoolock Species in Northern Myanmar The purpose of this project is to test scientific evidence of the eastern and western Hoolock species in northern Myanmar and study the nature of the contact zone between them, and to improve the conservation of both species in key protected areas around the contact zone in northern Myanmar. Grantee will conduct line transect-based auditory survey and record morphological differences using large zoomed cameras, where possible collect DNA samples from feces and other available samples to conduct phylogenetic analysis, document main threats to both species and their habitats, develop a law enforcement plan and community surveillance plan and integrate together, and implement focused law enforcement and community surveillance plan.