LEOPARD HIDES AND BONES CONFISCATED

The officials of forest have detained an eight feet long leopard (Pantherapardus) skin, 150 bones of endangered species, and a skull of an unidentified animal from Bhangtar in Samdrupjongkhar district, southeastern Bhutan. It was being smuggled to Nepal through Siliguri. The two smugglers have been taken to the Jalpaiguri court in West Bengal.

April 23, 2015

http://www.kuenselonline.com/two-bhutanese-arrested-for-smuggling/#.VTieGPD5Hcs

RIVER PROMOTING BEAUTY

The Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang nature reserve known as sanjiangyuan has started to melt, promoting its beauty as spring entered in Qinghai, Tibet, central china. It covers an area of over 30 million ha, highland ecosystem comprising glaciers, meadows, wetlands and wildlife .Tibetan antelopes found have been found at 4,000 meters. Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence ……www. resourceshimalaya.org 3

April 21, 2015

http://eng.tibet.cn/2012sy/xw/201504/t20150421_2718809.html

WILD YAK SPOTTED

The wild yak (bos grunniens) was spotted after 50 years in Limi valley of Humla district, far western Nepal. It has been listed a under “The IUCN red list of threatened species, 2000 “. The endangered animal was seen at an aerial distance of 10 kilometers, which was far from the reach of national growth and modernization.

April 21                                                         

http://e.myrepublica.com/component/flippingbook/book/1905-republica-21-apr-2015/1-republica.html

NEW BIRD SPECIES IN CHITWAN

A new species of bird, Phusre Bhuim Robin has been found inside Chitwan National Park, central southern Nepal. The number of bird species has reached 628 in Chitwan.

April 21

http://therisingnepal.org.np/epaper/showimage?img=uploads/epaper/2015-04-21/94a2fd9e8ea922942aef6c4aceecb12b.jpg Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence ……www. resourceshimalaya.org 2

WILDLIFE PARK DEGRADATION - PAKISTAN

The Loi Bher Wildlife Park, Loi Bher, Rawalpindi, northern Pakistan has lost its attraction. It was established in 1992 covering an area of 278.019 ha. It was once the most attractive tourist area but at present the condition has been worsened due to inadequate maintenance. The number of visitors has decreased from 6,000 to 500 each month.

April 19

http://www.dawn.com/news/1176842/a-wildlife-park-only-in-name

Collaborative Partnership on Wildlife (CPW) launches sourcebook on bushmeat

Message from member organizations of the CPW on the occasion of World Wildlife Day - 3 March 2015/ 3 March 2015, Rome - The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) today launched the Bushmeat Sourcebook, an online resource, on the occasion of the second World Wildlife Day.

The term “bushmeat” used refers to non-domesticated meat from terrestrial wild mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians harvested for food or other purposes, including medicinal use, primarily in tropical and sub-tropical forests.

The sourcebook examines bushmeat’s vital contribution to food security, local livelihoods, and other aspects of human well-being in many parts of the world. It also shows, however, how unsustainable harvesting can affect the ecological stability of forest ecosystems, as well as human health.

Against this background, the sourcebook also looks at the options for management and regulation of bushmeat use at the community, national and international levels, including the recommendations of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Liaison Group on Bushmeat. “The sourcebook represents a valuable awareness-raising tool, which will help bring attention to key facts,” said Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Chair of the CPW and Executive Secretary of the CBD. “It also shows us how indigenous peoples and local communities can play a positive role in helping to sustainably manage our valuable wildlife resources. “The scale of the benefits that wildlife provides is a compelling reason for maintaining wildlife populations and habitats in a productive and healthy state, strengthening local capacities to use the resource sustainably and to mobilize international cooperation to help address specific needs,” Ferreira de Souza Dias added. “During the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, World Wildlife Day reminds us that it is important to do our utmost to preserve these key components of biodiversity.” Robert Nasi, Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research, said: "If we do not address upfront the use of wildlife for food, exemplified by the bushmeat issue, we are going to face hard times in many tropical countries.

“Wildlife populations will decrease while human populations will increase, creating an immense "protein gap" that in the short term cannot be filled by domestic animals without huge environmental costs,” Nasi explained. “It is therefore of the utmost importance to sustainably manage this often forgotten resource by conserving what needs to be conserved – large, slow-reproducing species – and sustainably use what can be used – fast-reproducing, resilient, smaller species. The sourcebook will be a reference for all those working on solving these wicked problems.” CPW Vice-Chair Jan Heino from the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) said: "Sustainable use of species that are well-suited for bushmeat harvest needs to be moving from the grey ground of illegality to a permitted activity. Only then one is able to introduce conditions to the use of bushmeat, which ensure sustainability."

The sourcebook was jointly prepared by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with contributions from other CPW members.
Bushmeat Sourcebook: http://www.fao.org/forestry/wildlife-partnership/bushmeat-sourcebook

MESSAGE OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BRAULIO FERREIRA DE SOUZA DIAS on the occasion of WORLD WILDLIFE DAY 3 March 2015

At the 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties recognized in Decision XII/18 the considerable scale of illegal trade in wildlife and its detrimental economic, social and environmental consequences. They also recognized the importance of embedding a livelihood and governance perspective to address the challenge.

This decision demonstrates that governments are coming to realize that monitoring and curbing wildlife crimes both in and outside protected areas requires a coherent and cross-sectoral approach that integrates wildlife values into policies and plans of relevant economic and social sectors. It requires us to go beyond enforcement policies and look at governance, institutions and empowerment, including of indigenous peoples and local communities.

The limited distinction between illegal activities driven by large scale profits, versus those driven by poverty poses serious threats to local communities. The challenge for many countries is to counter the strong economic forces in the illegal trade of wildlife that far outmatch incentives to conserve and sustainably use wildlife resources. The impact on livelihoods of declining wild populations of species that are important for subsistence use or income generation cannot be overlooked. In this context, empowering indigenous peoples and local communities and incentivizing them through co-management approaches to sustainably manage wildlife, will be crucial.

The words of Dr. Elinor Ostrom are instructive “we will all be the poorer if local, self-organized institutions are not a substantial portion of the institutional portfolio of the twenty-first century”  Communities themselves can often define ways to govern the commons to assure its survival for their needs and those of future generations. Communities develop monitoring mechanisms consistent with the customs that characterize the way in which those communities live. Effective examples of “governing the commons” have been reported in her research in Kenya, Guatemala, Nepal, and Turkey, to name a few.

Through the work of the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW), fourteen likeminded partners, including the CBD Secretariat, have been devising initiatives to safeguard biodiversity and sustainably use wildlife resources, strengthen local capacities and foster international cooperation where it matters most. The E-sourcebook on bushmeat launched today is an example of the type of joint awareness raising initiatives developed by the CPW.

On World Wildlife Day, as we seek to work to combat illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products, let us look at ways to combine enforcement with empowerment, and therefore protect the “Future we Want,” a future of life in harmony with nature.