MALAYSIA 1.Political Will National Tiger Conservation Action Plan (NTCAP) accepted at National Biodiversity Council chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Tx2 of tiger population in Malaysia announced by DPM on 4 th Nov 2009 developed through consultation; federal government; state governments and NGOs through Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT) Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Malaysia appointed as secretariat implementation of NTCAP Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) main implementation agency

MALAYSIA 2. Good Practices – Smart Green Infrastructure Central Forest Spine (CFS) master plan developed to create corridors linking fragmented habitats through smart green infrastructure 32 linkages identified as primary and secondary links The implementation of the NTCAP will a be strategy to implement the linkages A pilot linkage project being implemented at the north- eastern part of Taman Negara National Park with 3 wildlife viaducts The Malaysian government spent US$10 million to develop this corridor Indicators: corridor 15,000 ha designated; wildlife movement; habitat enriched

MALAYSIA 3. Good practices to scale up: Three priority Actions Enhanced patrolling of Taman Negara National Park a source tiger habitat (434,000ha) Formation of mobile patrol unit to curb poaching of wildlife and tigers at Belum State Park at the Malaysia- Thailand borders Capacity building for tiger conservation through the Institute of Biodiversity (IBD; DWNP)

MALAYSIA 4. Way forward Have national consultation meeting to enhance the implementation of NTCAP Speed up the formation of the secretariat under NRE to coordinate the implementation of the NTCAP Some external funding to implement the NTCAP; especially the priority actions Funding to have a national consultation meeting