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 The
Sumatran Tiger Project has its own steering committee, comprised
of the above Indonesia agencies and two non-Indonesian organizations
- The Tiger Foundation and the Minnesota Zoo Foundation, which is
located in Apple Valley, Minnesota. The steering committee is responsible
for the supervision, implementation, and evaluation of the project's
activities. The project's day-to-day activities are managed by The
Tiger Foundation through the following management units:
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Project Management Unit:
Provides overall coordination and management of the Sumatran
Tiger Project. The project manager is assisted by a financial/administrative
officer, responsible for maintaining accurate financial
accounts and timely reports, ensuring efficiency in all
project financial affairs and communications.
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Communication
and Public Relations Unit: Develops all public relations
materials, facilitates liaison with media and appropriate
organizations, and will ultimately develop and maintain
an Indonesian Tiger web site.
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Technical Information and Database Management Unit:
Develops GIS (Geographic Information System) tiger map of
Sumatra and coordinates the activities of the remote sensing
technical assistant. The database officer ensures integration
with national biodiversity databases.
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Field Operations Management Unit:
Responsible for field operations. Provides logistical support
and ensures standardization of field methods and census
data, helps coordinate PKA census operations and verifies
PKA census data. Attached to this unit will be two staff
from the PKA and Sumatran Tiger Project, who will be responsible
for coordinating first training activities of PKA rangers
and then ongoing field monitoring and protection activities
across Sumatra.
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Sumatra-Wide Tiger Status Evaluation and Field Information
Network: Rapid evaluation of tiger status and prey techniques,
using methodology developed in WKNP, will be employed throughout
Sumatra. This is a large-scale survey and census operation
that will be carried out by PKA Forestry rangers from all
areas of Sumatra, backed up by the technical support and
onsite collation and verification of data by the STP.
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 Trained
and well-equipped PKA ranger teams will assess tiger abundance,
prey availability, habitat characteristics and human disturbance
using a standardized rapid assessment methodology described in the
STP field handbook. The information collected by the ranger teams
will be collated by the tiger conservation team and transmitted
to the network coordinator. There, the information is processed
and integrated with information from other areas, allowing the generation
of wild tiger status reports that can be sent to the Tiger GIS and
Technical Information Database Unit. Data will be collected in a
manner fully compatible with PKA and LIPI's own ongoing biodiversity
databases.
 Other
types of tiger-related information will be collected from various
sources across Sumatra. This will present an opportunity to accumulate
a wide base of knowledge regarding poaching, human-tiger conflicts,
tiger sightings and other incidents. The resulting network will
also enable a rapid response to tiger crises where they occur, or
even in anticipation of the events themselves.
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