A capacity building workshop for tiger range countries was organized by the Global Tiger Initiative Council, in association with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF), World Bank, Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with technical support from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Sariska, India. The workshop was attended by senior frontline officials from South Asian Tiger Range Countries (Bhutan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal) and representatives from the WWF, WCT and the state forest department of Rajasthan as well as many post graduate diploma trainee officers of WII. The workshop was organized with a view to provide a detailed insight and gather country level inputs and feedback leading to the following working drafts:
- A manual on economic valuation approaches/methodology for practitioners
- Technical Guidelines for Habitat and Prey Restoration
- Protocols for Habitat Quality and Wildlife Populations