The Global Tiger Forum (GTF), in collaboration with USAID and WCT, organized a trans-boundary consultation between Malaysia and Thailand on Addressing Illegal Wildlife Trade and Trafficking at Aloft Hotel, KL Sentral, Malaysia on 7 – 8 August 2019. The workshop was attended by representatives from the Perak State Parks Corporation (Malaysia), Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources (Malaysia), Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Malaysia), Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (Thailand), National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), U.S. Embassy (Kuala Lumpur), WWF, UNDP, TRAFFIC and GTF.
The two-day consultation focused on key areas for collaboration between the two countries, including assessment of tiger/wildlife in the Royal Belum-Hala Bala-Bang Lang landscape, status of wildlife crime across the two countries, past actions, and suggestive framework for trans-boundary collaboration, including draft agreement/MoU between Malaysia and Thailand.
The consultation concluded with a strong commitment from partners for working towards the signing of the MoU between Malaysia & Thailand and strengthening transboundary cooperation towards tiger & wildfire conservation in a global tiger priority landscape.
