December 2011 Newsletter

A New Home in Sovanna Baitong

Lot 99, located in Phase I of the Sovanna Baitong village, home to our Community Agriculture Development Project, is a constantly buzzing family farm.  Husband and wife, Pok Yut and Tean Sokha, moved to Sovanna Baitong in 2004, just at Phase I was getting up and running.  Their plot has a variety of crops growing throughout all three growing cycles.  October and November constitute the first two months of Cycle 1, a four-month long growing cycle during the dry season.  This year, Yut and Sokha planted sweet potato, long beans, cucumber, wax gourd, and rice.  With their harvest as well as the sale of some chickens, their income was more than $200 in just two months.  The goal income per family per month is set at $40—Yut and Sokha have surpassed that, even despite the poorer growing conditions in the dry season. 

They have been dedicated farmers from the outset but, more importantly they have always had a dream for their family of seven—to build a big to live in.  When they came to Sovanna Baitong, they brought their small chamka (traditional hut made of wood and aluminum) and set it up on the 1.5 hectares of land provided to them through the project.  Year after year, they saved a portion of their income from the sale of produce and other agricultural products from their farm.  In 2011, they were finally able to realize their dream and recently completed construction on their big house.  Their original chamka remains a fixture on their plot—a constant reminder of what they have been able to achieve since leaving the forest and becoming sustainable, family farmers in Sovanna Baitong.

Three of their five children still attend school.  Sokha is an active member of the Education Service Group of the Community Agriculture Association.  The choice they made to come to Sovanna Baitong and the hard work they have put in since their arrival has resulted in the support of and involvement in their community, a better life for their family, and a better future for their children.

Everyday Heroes

Sometimes it is the small victories that remind us of why we all work so hard against such incredible odds.  This month, both our Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team and our Forest Patrol Team succeeded on small missions.  Yet, when these small missions are folded into the grand scheme of our work, they make a huge difference in our efforts to stop wildlife trade and return wild animals back to the wild.

Earlier this month, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team received word from a provincial Forestry Administration officer that two sun bear cubs had been captured by an ethnic minority group living in a very remote village.  The FA had confiscated the bears but needed the help of the WRRT to see them to safety.  Three WRRT members, Poev Sary, Kong Samroul, and Ou Vannareth, drove up to Ratanakiri, the most Northwestern province of Cambodia, to retrieve the cubs from the FA in Banlung village.  During the drive to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center—where the cubs were handed over to our partner organization, Free the Bears, who care for captive bears at PTWRC—Poev Sary bottle fed the babies every two hours.

In the first week of December, rangers at the Stung Proat station got a tip that a pig-tailed macaque was being held by a family living along Road 48, which stretches through protected forest in the Southern Cardamoms.  It was chained in their backyard like a dog.  Five rangers went to the house, confiscated the monkey, and brought to be released the same day.  They traveled along the Stung Proat River by boat until they spotted other macaques in the trees and released the formerly-captive monkey in an area well-known for friendly macaque populations.

To learn more about the work that the WRRT and Forest Patrol teams do, check out two of our recent news dispatches, here and here.

Kouprey Express Visits Andong Teuk

In November, our Mobile Environmental Education Unit, the Kouprey Express, visited Andong Teuk primary school to conduct lessons on wildlife protection and provide training to 6 teachers in conservation education.  Having previously visited this primary school, the KE team performed an evaluation of how the teachers had been using their flipchart education lesson plans and provided the teachers with constructive feedback as they continue to include KE’s lesson plans in their general education.  They followed this up with an interactive lesson for 222 students on wildlife protection, including a favorite game called Biodiversity.  In this game, students are split into groups and run around to match pictures of wildlife placed around the room with pictures on their sheets. 

Later that week, the KE team organized a Community Night Show on the grounds of the school for more than 300 community members.  The team demonstrated threats to and the importance of protecting wildlife with a slideshow and environmental movie.  After the show, there was a Q & A session complete with t-shirts for the winners.  The team finished up the month with a field trip for 30 students to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center, where Lucky the dancing elephant was a reliable highlight and the kids demonstrated a wealth of knowledge on conservation concepts.  All in all, a successful month for the Kouprey Express!

Funding Spotlight: Reforestation

The winter marks the start of a new growing cycle in the rainforest as well as the new planning cycle for our Reforestation program.  Going into 2012, an ambitious planting program is in place with an expected 300,000 trees to be planted over 300 hectares.  In order to reforest the land, we obviously need seedlings to plant.  Our program works solely with tree species indigenous to the area that are collected from the surrounding forest, sown in our nursery and then planted in our fields.  With a donation of $7,000, Wildlife Alliance will be able to cover the costs of seed collection for the whole year and continue our efforts to combat deforestation, diminishment of the watershed, and global climate change.

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