Our campaign will help increase the tiger population in the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary by persuading community members to avoid purchasing wild meat and to report wild animal poaching in order to protect the tigers’ food supply.
— Angkana Makvilai, Campaign Manager
A noticeable reduction in the hunting of tiger prey in the HKK Wildlife Sanctuary and a measurable increase in community knowledge about the tiger population and the potential benefits of tiger conservation.
Our symbol of pride is the Indochinese Tiger.
Tiger pride campaign run radio program for promote the campaign.The program called " Voice from Huai Kha Khaeng".
The program is show at FM.103.75 Mz. on 4pm to 5pm between Monday to Friday.
The campaign billboard that presented behind the main road in Lansak district.
We had 3 billboard designed on first time and promoted only in the municipality area. However, we plan to produce more and chooses 1 design for 6 sub district (2 pieces/area).
The campaign and our partners such as the public health unit of Lansak municipality, Huai kha khaeng wildlife sanctuary and Wildlife crime unit had worked with food shop for wild meat inspection and contaminated food on 27th of April. We had checked 25 restaurant and food shop and not found any evidence with wild meat trade. We plan to inspection 3 time on campaign period and this is first time. We get a good response from the shop owners.
Many thanks for the great inspection team !!!
Restaurant owners and food shop owners is the one group of the campaign target audience.
We works with the Public health unit of Lansak District to arranged workshop with restaurant and food shop owners.
At the workshop we had presented about the campaign and focused on there action that can help to conserved wildlife especially tiger and tiger's prey.
We also talked about the Clean food good taste project that will be help to promote their shop in the future.
They had got the apron and chef's hat on this workshop. Finally , everyone promised they will be help to do everything for conserved Tiger and tiger prey.
Visit Lansak Market with our mascot "Baby tiger"
It was an activity that we had done on March. We had volunteer training with students form local school before went to promote the tiger pride campaign in community area.
We selected the local market called "Lansak Market" is the target area. Tiger Baby met food shop owners and general people about 1,200 people. We were gave the campaign material such as stickers and posters to audiences. Many people especially kids wanted to take a photo with the mascot. It was great activity to work with people. Many thanks for our volunteers , rangers from Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuary , staffs from Huai Kha khaeng education center and also staffs from public health unit of Lansak Municipality that participated with the campaign.
Say hello to our new Pride campaign mascot, Baby Tiger. Baby Tiger is standing next to campaign manager Angkana Makvilai.
Executive Director for Science and Exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo discusses his new book which details his efforts to create the world's largest tiger reserve in Myanmar's Hukaung Valley. (From the New York Academy of Science Podcasts http://www.nyas.org/whatwedo/scpodcasts.aspx)
