This project is the continuation of the ITHCP Phase I project Tanintharyi Tiger Conservation Landscape project, which was implemented between 2015 and 2020.

The project focuses on selected target villages surrounding the Ngawun/Lenya forest complex and Ywahilu area.

Overall objective

To monitor tigers and their prey as well as wildlife crime through community-based networks, and to improve livelihood opportunities of local village communities to reduce dependency on natural resources.

Project activities

• Support community-based wildlife crime monitoring and community patrolling;
• Monitor tigers and their prey through camera trapping;
• Monitor landscape-level threats through remote sensing;
• Establish livelihoods development support for community groups in forest-fringe villages to reduce the dependency on forest resources.

This project is implemented by Fauna & Flora International Myanmar.