Trans-boundary Partnership Engagement on Preventing Illegal Logging

and Biodiversity Conservation

Chamniern Vorratnchaiphan PhDIUCN Thailand Country Representative

Rama Gardens Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand17-19 December 2014

Regional Dialogue on Preventing Illegal Logging and Trading of Siamese Rosewood

Trans-boundary Partnership

• Permanent sovereignty of states over their natural resources creates rights that each

• state exercises to manage its resources and does no harm to other states.

• Many natural resources cannot be protected without inter-state cooperation.

• Transfrontier of natural resources, ecosystem conservation and sharing of benefits.

• Trans-boundary partnership and engagement: Dialogue and Enforcement are at borders at local levels.

A Mission of Partnership and Dialogue to Banteay ChhmarDecember 10-13, 2014

Local Government OfficersProvincial AdministratorsCivil SocietyIUCN

Missing National Government Officers

Breakfast meeting with Mr. Seng Sath, Deputy Director General , Department of Administration for Natural Conservation and Protection, Ministry of Environment (11 Dec 2014), before meeting with the Provincial Governor of Banteay Meanchay

Meeting with the Provincial Governor of Banteay Meanchay, and the District chief of Tmar Puok district

Reality and Partnership in the field

Lam stone30 km, flow through 11 villages

O kam botriver in Cambodia

O Kombot River, this point is about 500 meters to the border near Tambon Tap Ratch. The head water call “ Lam Stone” in Thailand flow from Ta Praya National park pass through 11 villages, 3 sub districts, the length of the river in Thailand is about 30 km

From left, Mr. KometPhetkomol, Kamnan TambonTap Ratch, Mr. WinaiTocharoen, Acting district chief of Ta Phraya district, Colonel Niwat Hanprasop, Nayok AorBor Tor Ta Phraya

Lam stone30 km, flow through 11 villages

O kam botriver in Cambodia

It is an Ecological Corridor of Conservation and Development

Community and landscape

Paddy field in Banteay Chhmar

Degraded area in Traperng Thlork CPA, one out of six CPAs in BanteayChhmar Protected Landscape . Total area of this CPA is about 307 hectares, the total area for agricultural land for 50 families is 70 hectares. (There are all together 6 CPA in BTC protected landscape)

A Joint landscape management: Reforestation, Agriculture, Livelihood Improvement, Poverty Reduction

This road know as “Charcoal Road” as some part of the road fill up with charcoal ash, where charcoal from Banteay Chhmar transport to market in Thailand

Law Enforcement, Capacity Building

Barefoot Lawyers: inspecting, monitoring, educating, informing

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World Ranger Day, July 31

Nature, Culture and Community: What we have and what we live by and where legal framework should rely on.