Trans-boundary Partnership Engagement on Preventing Illegal logging and Biodiversity Conservation.., Presented by Chamnien Vorratnchaiphan.,PhD. IUCN Thailand Country Representative.

1. Trans-boundary Partnership
Engagement on Preventing Illegal Logging
and Biodiversity Conservation
Chamniern Vorratnchaiphan PhD
IUCN Thailand Country Representative
Rama Gardens Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
17-19 December 2014
Regional Dialogue on Preventing Illegal
Logging and Trading of Siamese Rosewood

2. 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.

3. A Mission of Partnership and Dialogue
to Banteay Chhmar
December 10-13, 2014
Local Government Officers
Provincial Administrators
Civil Society
IUCN
Missing National Government Officers

4. 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

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

6. Reality and Partnership in the field

9. Lam stone
30 km, flow
through 11
villages
O kam bot
river in
Cambodia

10. 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. Komet
Phetkomol, Kamnan Tambon
Tap Ratch, Mr. Winai
Tocharoen, Acting district chief
of Ta Phraya district, Colonel
Niwat Hanprasop, Nayok Aor
Bor Tor Ta Phraya

11. Lam stone
30 km, flow
through 11
villages
O kam bot
river in
Cambodia
It is an Ecological Corridor of Conservation and Development

12. Community and landscape

13. Paddy field in Banteay Chhmar

14. Degraded area in Traperng Thlork CPA, one out of six CPAs in Banteay
Chhmar 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

15. 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

16. Law Enforcement, Capacity Building
Barefoot Lawyers: inspecting, monitoring, educating, informing

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19. World Ranger Day, July 31

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