Bio-diversity

Implementing NGO/CBO: Moon Watershed Conservation Network (MWCG). Founded in March 1, 2000 by staff members of Wildlife Fund Thailand, MWCG is mandated to manage a reforestation project in the Moon Watershed covering an area of 1,600 ha around Thablarn National Park. Community members from five villages in the area are targeted population of the network. Location of project: Hilly and mountainous terrain about 400-700 m. above sea level in Nakhornratchasima Province s Wang Nam Khiew District, mostly used for agriculture and known as watershed of two international water systems, i.e. Mekong River and South China Sea. Intensive quick cash crop and land speculation are imposing ecological threats to the location and its adjacent Thablarn National Park. Target Population: Community members from 11 villages with over 2,000 families in Tambol Thai Samakkhi whose majority earn their living by practicing agriculture, mainly cash crop such as corn and tapioca. The per capita income is THB: 30,000. The direct participating population is from two villages with 150 families, with 580 members. Main Activities: 1. Capacity building through meetings, seminars, open forum, and study tours 2. Demonstrating and putting into practice the built capacity 3. Conducting participatory evaluation 4. Disseminating project results to wider audiences Main Anticipated Result: 1. Increased management capacity of project members witnessed by an established working group and network persistently managing natural resources in the community with community regulation under observation 2. Demarcated 100 plots of family forest , approximately 24 ha in total under management with thriving seven species of nutritious , medicinal, pigment and aromatic value 3. Approximately 56 ha of buffer zone being under protection within five kilometers

Thailand