September 2011 Newsletter

Reconnecting One of the Last Elephant Corridors

Deforestation threatens thousands of species and has devastating consequences for humans. Forest loss jeopardizes human food and water security, threatens plants and animals with extinction, and contributes to climate change, putting communities and wildlife at increased risk of floods, droughts, infectious disease, and other natural disasters.

Wildlife Alliance’s reforestation project combats the impact of illegal logging and slash-and-burn farming practices while providing jobs to local residents. Eighty-two workers, primarily women, work in our tree nursery and care for the saplings year-round. Another 150 workers are employed seasonally during the planting season.

Under our Million Tree Nursery Project, more than 640,000 native tropical plant seeds have been collected and sowed in 2010 and 2011, with 460,000 trees planted. That is over 1,100 acres of rainforest that have been reforested and maintained in the last 2 years alone! Learn more about Wildlife Alliance’s Million Tree Nursery Project here.

Our goal is to plant 1.8 million trees over 3,200 acres in Phnom Tangnorl by 2012, continuing with an additional 700,000 trees in 2012-2013. Support our work and help us preserve one of the last elephant corridors remaining in Southeast Asia.

“Save Vanishing Species” Postage Stamp Issued

Wildlife Alliance is thrilled to support the issuance of a new U.S. postage stamp whose sales will benefit the conservation of tigers, rhinos, great apes, Asian and African elephants, and marine turtles.

The new “Save Vanishing Species” semi-postal stamp will allow Americans to show their support for the conservation of these endangered species and their habitats simply by sending a letter. Each stamp will cost 55¢ - the base rate of 44¢ for a first-class stamp, plus an 11¢ additional rate that will go directly to support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s grantmaking programs under the USFWS Wildlife Without Borders program and the Multinational Species Conservation Funds (MSCF), from which Wildlife Alliance receives support for our work with Asian Elephants and Great Apes.

Only the fourth of its kind, this stamp became available at the nation’s 37,000 post offices on September 20, 2011 and will remain on sale for at least two years.

President Obama signed the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act into law in 2010, providing an opportunity for the public to support USFWS’ mission to save imperiled species globally.

Stamps can be purchased at your local U.S. Post Office, or online via the U.S. Postal Sevice website.

New Lessons and Summer Learning for the Kouprey Express Staff

The Kouprey Express Environmental Education Project provides environmental educational outreach and extension activities to teachers, schoolchildren, and communities living around protected areas. Activities are based on teacher workshop, teaching directly by Kouprey Express staff to students, conducting community night show, and organizing Phnom Tamao visits. These are all aimed to increase environmental awareness and promote conservation of Cambodian wildlife. To reach this aim, the KE staff provides training to teachers on Environmental Education Materials based on six modules such as weather, water and sanitation, waste and sanitation, energy, conservation and biodiversity, and livelihood to the target schools in Koh Kong province. This summer, the Kouprey Express staff are focusing on capacity training, developing new species-specific lessons and creating new games for the children.

Teacher Capacity Building

Capacity Biulding for the Kouprey Express StaffDuring the summer holidays when schools are not in session – a 3-month period from July to October – the KE staff is focusing on capacity building and training. This includes English lessons to increase their English skills at the Australian Centre for Education (ACE), the top English school in Cambodia, as well as computer lessons on Access, Photoshop, and Excel at Asia Euro University. These classes will finish at the end of September, just in time for the new school year to begin in Koh Kong.

Developing New Lessons

Historically, thGibbon educational flip charte KE staff  use environment flip charts to teach teachers and students. To expand the project, and add more concepts about Cambodia’s endangered species to increase awareness of those species, the threats facing them, and promote the wildlife rescue hotline number through species-speicifc lesson plans.

The species-specific lessons focus on Asian Elephants, apes, pangolins, tigers, bears, and reptiles. The team will provide lessons that include information on the species’ physical characteristics, habitats, threats, how to conserve them, and have a Question & Answer element as well. Two games are also created which accompany each lesson: My Home and Biodiversity games.

New Learning Games for Students

Biodiversity Game

Students are divided into groups and share pieces of paper with an animal’s name written on it. We then hide the animal’s picture somewhere in the room/location and students are given 5 minutes to search for the animal’s picture which matches the sheet of paper. Who matches it fastest is the winner.

My Home Game (similar to dodge ball)

My Home GameStudents are divided into three groups: group one are trees, group two are animals, and two individuals are hunters. The tree group stands around the animal group, which is standing in the circle while the hunters try to hunt animals by throwing the ball from outside the circle line. The job of the trees is to help protect the animals from the hunters. As with dodgeball, those hit with ball are ‘out’. As the trees are hit, the animals become more exposed and easier for the hunters to hit.  If the animals can dodge the ball and avoid being hit, the animals are the winner, but if they get hit, the hunters are the winner. Play is 5 minutes.

Planning Phnom Tamao Visit

The new schools in the first half of 2011 proved to be difficult to reach for large buses so PTWRC field trips have not been as many as we hoped. Instead, the team is interested in coordinating with local orphanages and schools in Phnom Penh. The trip(s) will hopefully happen in early September. 

Event Recaps and Future Event Opportunites

Wildlife Alliance staff have been crisscrossing the country appearing at some of the key meetings for species and habitat conservation. It has been great to see so many of our partners and donors! At the Association of Zoos and Aquariums conference in Atlanta, we coordinated on our wildlife rescue and education programs with important donors including the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, and the Landry’s Aquariums. Thank you to all of them for their steadfast support! At the launch of the “Conservation Council of Nations” in New York, we were honored to meet with leading government, NGO, and corporate partners in global conservation, working to integrate species and habitat conservation goals into the global agenda.

In the next week: Meet Nick Marx in Singapore at a happy hour hosted by Advisory Board member Carmen Pang, followed by a speaking engagement on his work in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation at the National University of Singapore.

We will also be tabling at the Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco on Oct. 1st. The Expo is a great opportunity to learn about species conservation programs around the world, and meet with organizations and wildlife experts working to save wildlife from extinction. We encourage you to join us in Singapore or San Francisco!

Meet Roly Poly: A Rescued Sunda Pangolin

The Sunda pangolin is an amazing animal - a scaly mammal that eats ants and termites, hides in dense forest, and rolls into a tiny ball when scared. We have never before tried to keep pangolins when they arrive at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC). If they are uninjured, we release them immediately far away from human habitation. If they are injured or too young to fend for themselves, we send them to the Angkor Centre for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Siem Reap, where there is a specialist pangolin care program. Even so, many do not survive – pangolins are fussy eaters feeding only on ants. They are also very susceptible to stress and are extremely difficult to keep in captivity.

Our pangoRoly eating tree antslin, Roly Poly, was rescued from a wildlife trader in Kampot, suffering from a badly broken leg. The veterinarian was unable to save Roly’s leg and was forced to amputate. Two young trainee keepers were given the job of finding termites and tree ants for Roly to eat every day. Against all the odds, Roly our three legged pangolin, has survived and still lives in our Quarantine Area.

 

The Sunda Pangolin, Manis javanica, is native not only to Cambodia, but across Southeast Asia. However, there is virtually no information available on population levels of any species of Asian pangolin. Pangolins are rarely observed in the wild due to their secretive and solitary habits. Anecdotal reports from hunters suggest that pangolins have been in decline since 1990, when the commercial trade began to escalate. A massive illegal trade is driving Roly’s friends to extinction in the wild. Pangolins are intensively hunted for their skin, meat and scales, which serve a variety of illegal markets throughout Asia. As a result, the Sunda pangolin and all pangolin species in Asia are recognized as Endangered.

Like other pangolins, Roly is nocturnal, solitary and eats primarily ants and termites. How can you help Roly and his friends? Help Wildlife Alliance care for Roly and other rescued pangolins by sponsoring him with a monthly donation of $45 to provide him with all the live termites and ants he needs for one month.

To sponsor Roly, visit our Sponsor an Animal page.

Learn more about Asian pangolins at the Pangolin Conservation Support Initiative, and make sure that you aren’t inadvertently contributing to the loss of pangolin habitats!

Comments

[Rob Brown]

Why does the reforestation site look like a commercial forestry project? Does Cambodia need more tidy forests. Can you plant the tree's in a more natural way?

[T. A. Henize]

And where is the biodiversity? Not only does this have the appearance of a commercial forestry replant, it also looks like a single species. Trees are good, but monocultures only help the Co2 element, and little else.

[Wildlife Alliance]

@Rob and T.A.- Thanks you for your comments. The areas being replanted are not single species. We have planted 63 native species of trees, planted randomly to mimic natural forest conditions.

In a typical month the reforestation program works with dozens of different species of trees, starting from seeds and nuts they have collected in the neighboring forests. This ensures that we re-create the abundance and diversity of native plant and tree species. By planting a variety of sizes and types of trees, the reforestation program provides a variety of habitats for birds, mammals, and other wildlife, as well as provide critical ecosystem services such as water storage, ground cover, and anti-erosion.

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