Promoting Community Participation in Forest Landscape Restoration: Maintenance of a Forest Restoration Education and Training Site in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park
In collaboration with World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Thailand Program and with financial support from King Power, Chiang Mai University’s Forest Restoration Unit successfully implemented the project “Promoting Community Participation in Forest Landscape Restoration: Maintenance of a Forest Restoration Education and Training Site in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park” from 1st June 2006 until 31st May 2009. The main aim of this project was to develop a forest landscape restoration (FLR) demonstration site, to promote the concept to visiting groups. This involved developing and maintaining a tree nursery, to produce 40,000 framework species trees and planting them to add 60 rai of the restored forest to a wildlife corridor, linking two forest remnants in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. In terms of education, the demo site has been a great success, attracting a very wide range of groups interested in forest restoration, from international workshops to local school children. Visitor numbers have increased substantially over the project period.
This project was sponsored by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and King Power.
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