Description:
"2017 has been a year of
considerable progress in
the Dawna Tenasserim
Landscape (DTL). This report
highlights WWF’s successes
on the Myanmar side of the landscape, and demonstrates how
donor support is helping us to setup and develop projects that are
and will continue to contribute to the overall goals for this vast
and ecologically rich landscape.
Across the board, WWF is working to show the significance of
the DTL and to protect it. Biodiversity surveys have shown that
key species including tiger and Asian elephant roam the DTL’s
critical corridors, demonstrating to partners this landscape’s
biodiversity values. Four Wildlife Protection Units (WPUs) have
been established to enhance the protection of these animals and
the areas in which they live. Together with partner organisations,
a project collaboration has been established, leading to the
development of a land use and management plan for the
Tanintharyi Landscape Corridor which will secure its vital
long-term protection. As funding for the landscape programme
has also increased, WWF has now secured crucial support
for the protection and effective management of the proposed
Tanintharyi National Park. WWF’s signing of an MoU with the
Karen National Union exemplifies the strong partnerships that
are being developed in the DTL, and our growing credibility
has enabled us to secure funding to begin rubber-focussed
conservation work.
The DTL is an inherently transboundary landscape, straddling
the Myanmar-Thailand border. Critical corridors enable the free
movement of key populations of terrestrial species. For example,
where Thailand has lost its forested corridor connecting Kaeng
Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC) to the Western Forest Complex
(WEFCOM), connectivity between these two significant forested
areas is preserved by the Tanintharyi Landscape Corridor on
Myanmar’s side of the DTL. Species moving between the two
forest complexes have no choice but to move back and forth over
the border.
This is a critical moment for progress in this spectacular
landscape. Though we are at an early stage of engagement,
funding has enabled us to embrace this key time frame, initiating
and scaling up engagement whilst allowing us the flexibility to
move on opportunities and deliver concrete support to local
partners..."
Source/publisher:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Date of Publication:
2018-08-11
Date of entry:
2019-07-22
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
2.55 MB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good