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September 1, 2005, Mr. Nopparat, followed by Dr. Anak Pattanavibool, Mr. Pali, Mr. Pairoj Simcharoen, WFCC officers, and a group of news correspondent attended the opening ceremony of “Home of the Tiger Natural Trail” at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary. Mr. Saksit Simchareon gave a speech of the primary cause of the project.
“Regarding the 15th commemoration of Seub Nakasatiean, it is my determination to build up the Home of the Natural Trail in order to benefit students, researchers, and public people on the study of ecology and Tiger’s behavior which is the serious threatened carnivore and now nearly extinct.”
“Until now, wildlife researchers has usually paved sand trap to observe wildlife’s behavior through their territories. The sand trap paved along wildlife track will effectively support their footprint anywhere they walk on, since sand can serve a clear sharpen mark after anything stepped on. This method is useful for observation and studying their physical features, also their behaviors, with least disturbance. Along the sand trap here, we can see leopard’s footprints which stepped pass this trap a few nights before. Also, we can see there were some other wildlife using the same track; such as elephant, banteng, and porcupine.”
“Besides the footprints, wildlife naturally left other marks such as; marks of soil scratch, feces, urinal sprays on the bole of trees, tumbling marks, trunk scratches, etc. The important of these clues are not only to imply their primary behaviors through the mark itself; it can identify behavioral interaction of territory instinct between the wildlife themselves as well.”
“The clues of soil scratches and urinal sprays of tiger can imply its species and gender. Refer to statistic research, in 60 days, a tiger spray more than 300 times at average. The tree they choose to spray is mostly with rough bark. However, it may depend on some other factor such as in specific geographic of track junction, tigers may also spray to another kind of tree. Anyway, why don’t we test its specific smell?…………” Mr. Saksit persuaded. Then, many participants orderly approached the tree trunk closely to smell the spray a tiger has left.
“During researching process, we may need to use infrared sensor camera for automatic record. Moreover, sometimes we may need to catch them to keep record by hanging tags or installing electronic following equipments before releasing them back to the nature. However, whatever we do is only for study purpose so that we will get a lot understanding and information of how we can plan and manage tiger-reserve mission effectively in the most appropriate direction, since there are only 200 tiger remains in Thailand, and 90% of them resides in this 11.7 million Rais of the Western Forest Complex.”
Remarks: Mr. Saksit Simchareon, the head of Khao Nangrum Wildlife Research Center, is the researcher of Tiger for Conservative Purpose in Thailand Project which was originally established in Russia. Dr. Dave, a tiger expert from America, assumed that in the next 50 years, if natural tiger has not been totally extinct, there would be only two resources left in the world that tiger could exist; one in Russia forest, and one in Thailand Western Forest Complex, since tiger requires large area for living and retaining their species. Therefore, the realization and cooperation from each partial society, organizations, including population around and nearby is very important; not only to assure the existence of tigers in the Western Forest Complex, also, in the same time, it can retain several other wildlife species, plants, ecosystems, and other natural resources, regarding tiger’s existence.
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