The four-day Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop starts in Kathmandu. Kathmandu, Nepal. 26/10/2009. Nepali Prime Minister Madav Kumar Nepal inaugurated the workshop and promised to extend protected areas for tigers in Nepal. Students wearing tiger masks at an awareness rally marking the start of the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop.
Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar, stated that the government would establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee. saying, “The solutions will be area specific, but the future of conservation will depend upon how we act now and how we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communities.”
The workshop is be attended by over 200 participants comprising policy and decision-makers, scientists, conservationists from all the tiger range countries, partner organizations and individuals who have dedicated themselves to the conservation of the wild tiger.
The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop is the first in a series of political negotiation meetings occurring throughout the year and leading up to a final Heads of State Tiger Summit in September 2010, which is the Year of the Tiger. WWF welcomes the announcement, which was made at the inaugural session of the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop.
The key partners of the workshop include CITES Secretariat, Global Tiger Forum, Global Tiger Initiative, World Bank, Save the Tiger Fund, National Trust for Nature Conservation and WWF Nepal. The main goal of the four-day workshop is to define strategic actions to save the wild tiger from extinction.
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