A visit to Inle Lake, Myanmar

It was my opportunity to visit Myanmar in last June until July 2015 for a sponsored wetland training course in Mekong Region. I got a chance to visit Inle Lake which is located in Shan State since this site becomes our field sampling site for this course.

I was charmed by the beauty of its scenery during this visit and the friendliness of the people know as Intha people is another key point for my valuable experience in Inle Lake.

Since their life are depending on the lake, I had observed range of activities that liven up this area. Some of the activities that catch my eyes were boat rowing by using leg and floating garden. Here are some photos that I have taken during this visit for my collection.

We are entering the Inle Lake by a tourist boat from Taunggyi Town

Aquatic weed harvester

Water lotus

A local people near to the floating garden

One of the old pagoda near to Inle Lake

"The meaning of life is to find your gift.

                                           The purpose of life is to give it away."

          

                                        --- Pablo Picasso ---

Wildlife bridges

Does your project use wildlife bridges? Or do you know a project/investigator that does? Bridges can take all forms eg. rope bridges, natural fences...

Animal passage systems can be designed to facilitate movement of certain wildlife species across highways. Where the conservation of a particular species or group of species is concerned, specifically designed mitigation has proven successful for a number of species. In areas where road and highway density is high, conservation of particular species may be of lesser concern than the maintenance of overall habitat connectivity. While it is impractical to design mitigation projects that account for the specific requirements of all species affected by a highway, it may be possible to develop a generalized strategy for making highways more permeable to wildlife passage for a larger number of species. This strategy will require use of a variety of techniques given that the specific requirements for particular species may be contradictory. Some of the most effective techniques for facilitating wildlife movement (i.e. overpasses) are also quite expensive. A practical strategy for mitigating highway impacts on wildlife movement may dictate that expensive elements be reserved for areas that are identified as important travel corridors or connections between areas of significant habitat, while inexpensive elements (amphibian and reptile tunnels) can be used at appropriate areas throughout the highway alignment. In developed areas, corridors and habitat connections may be readily apparent. For highway projects affecting a significant amount of undeveloped land it may be necessary to conduct landscape analyses to identify “connective zones” for special mitigation attention.

Suggested Citation

Scott D. Jackson and C. R. Griffin. "A Strategy for Mitigating Highway Impacts on Wildlife" Wildlife and Highways: Seeking Solutions to an Ecological and Socio-economic Dilemma. Ed. T.A. Messmer and B. West. The Wildlife Society, 2000. 143-159.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/scott_jackson/5

So natural

Save orang utan!

PRESS RELEASE: 40 SHOTGUN PELLETS FOUND IN AN ORANGUTAN

One more victim as a result of conflict between the oil palm industry and wildlife. The BOS Foundation in Nyaru Menteng found more than 40 shotgun pellets in the body of an adult female orangutan delivered by the Central Kalimantan Conservation of Natural Resources Authority (BKSDA) on Thursday morning. The team did not manage to save her life.

Nyaru Menteng, Friday 5 December 2014. The team at the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan received an adult female orangutan in a horrific condition at around 3am on Thursday, 4 December 2014. Both of her legs and arms were broken and x-ray results showed more than 40 shotgun pellets in her body.

The orangutan when she first arrived in Nyaru Menteng

The orangutan was delivered and handed over to the BOS Foundation by Mr. Nandang from the Central Kalimantan BKSDA. She was discovered at Barunang Miri Estate or PT. Surya Inti Sawit Kahuripan (SISK), an oil palm company that is a subsidiary of Makin Group. Based on the chronology report prepared and signed by the representatives of the company, namely Mr. Arifin Susilo, Mr. Seno and Mr. Nyoto Suroso, the orangutan was found wounded and weak on Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at around 6.30 am in Block F37 – Sector 7 by Mr. Seno, a maintenance worker who at the time was doing some work in that location. The discovery was reported to BKSDA, who then evacuated and delivered the orangutan to the BOS Foundation in Nyaru Menteng the next day.

The orangutan was so thin due to malnutrition

The vet team in Nyaru Menteng immediately checked the state of this female orangutan and found that her right leg was broken at the thigh, her left arm was decomposing, her upper left arm was also broken with open wounds, and she was very thin due to malnutrition. The team estimated that her injuries were more than three days old. X-ray results also showed 10 shotgun pellets in her head, 8 pellets in her left leg and pelvis, 18 pellets in her right leg and pelvis, as well as 6 pellets in her chest and right arm.

Head x-ray result

The vet team conducted surgery on her and, upon approval from BKSDA, decided to amputate her badly decomposed left arm. Her right leg was cleaned and sutured. But despite the team’s best efforts, the orangutan finally died at 6.07 pm on Thursday, 4 December 2014, adding to the long list of victims resulting from the on-going conflict between industry and wildlife, as well as unsustainable practices of natural resource exploitation.

Nyaru Menteng vet team conducted surgery on the orangutan

The BOS Foundation already has a long list of orangutans they have rescued from various oil palm plantations owned by Makin Group. Until the time this news was released, the total number of orangutans rescued from Makin Group plantations is 166. A total of 100 individuals have been successfully translocated into protected forests in the surrounding areas. Nineteen individuals eventually died including this last victim. While 47 are still being cared for by BOS Foundation in Nyaru Menteng, 44 of which are releaseable and awaiting their turn to return to the wild, and 3 will not be able to be released and must remain in Nyaru Menteng for the rest of their lives.

This incident is no longer a big surprise. Similar incidents happen repeatedly all over Indonesia and often received serious attention from various parties. Orangutans are also officially protected by the Indonesian Law No. 5/1990. Conservation efforts for orangutans are neatly detailed in the Strategy and Action Plan for Indonesian Orangutan Conservation 2007-20017 launched by the former president of Indonesia, Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, during the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007. However, the success of orangutan conservation efforts heavily relies on the support from the concerned parties, including the government, the local communities, and the private sector; in this particular case, industries engaged in the exploitation of natural resources.

Several pellets that were successfully retrieved from the orangutan's body

The BOS Foundation expects commitment and real action from the Government, the public, and the private sector to protect orangutans, especially through practices of sustainable management of natural resources and through land allocation as suitable habitat for orangutans. The orangutan is an umbrella species which plays an important role in forest regeneration and furthermore a symbol of Indonesian’s wildlife and pride. It’s high time that all parties become more concerned about orangutan conservation efforts. Apart from protecting orangutans from extinction, preserving orangutan habitat also supports natural resource conservation and environmental benefits, which provide a decent quality of life and well being for humans.

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Media Contact: 

Monterado Fridman (Agung)

Nyaru Menteng Communications and Education Coordinator

Email: agungm@orangutan.or.id

Paulina L. Ela

Communication Specialist

Email: pauline@orangutan.or.id

>>>see more at http://orangutan.or.id/press-release-40-shotgun-pellets-found-in-an-orangutan/

Save the forest, save orang utan!

Malaysian palm oil chief misleads on deforestation

mongabay.com
September 10, 2014



Forest conversion for oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo in 2012.

One of Malaysia's top palm oil officials has once again misled the public on the state of forests in Malaysia.

Speaking at a recent conference on palm oil sustainability in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Palm Oil Council CEO Yusof Basiron asserted that 80 percent of Sarawak's forests are "still undeveloped", indicating "there's no issue of deforestation", as reported by the Malaysian Star.

Basiron's remark is undercut by recent scientific papers showing that less than 20 percent of Sarawak is covered by intact forest. Most of Sarawak's remaining forests have been heavily logged, while nearly 500,000 hectares of forest was converted to oil palm plantations between 1990 and 2010, according to a 2013 study. The state, which currently has more than a million hectares of oil palm, aims to covert nearly a million hectares of land for palm estates by the end of the decade. Native customary rights land is targeted for much of that expansion.


Chart showing forest loss in Borneo between 1973-2010.

Basiron has gained notoriety in recent years for making misleading claims about the environmental credentials of the palm oil industry, including asserting that palm oil has not resulted in forest conversion in Malaysia. In 2009, Basiron claimed that orangutans benefit from living in proximity to oil palm plantations by feeding on palm fruit that gives them "a healthy shining coat." Conservationists scoffed at the statement, noting that orangutans are commonly killed as pests in and around plantations, while oil palm expansion is one of the gravest threats to the wildlife in Borneo and Sumatra.

Basiron has also regularly criticized efforts to clean up the palm oil industry, hitting out at sustainability commitments and zero deforestation pledges by some of the world's largest palm oil buyers and producers. These measures have come in response to concerns about habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions from forest conversion for plantations.

Environmentalists have been campaigning to push new oil palm development to non-forest lands, like heavily degraded scrub areas and non-native grasslands. Given oil palm's high yield and widespread use as a cooking oil, conversion of non-forest lands for plantations is often viewed as a key strategy for boosting vegetable oil production worldwide.

Beyond Basiron's remarks, the sustainability conference highlighted efforts to reduce environmental impacts of palm oil production, including methane capture, reduced fertilizer and pesticide use, and maintaining corridors of natural forest along rivers and streams. .


Forest (dark green) and non-forest (white) in year 1973, and residual clouds (cyan) in Panel A. Areas of forest loss during 1973–2010 (red) in Panel B. Primary logging roads from 1973–2010 (yellow lines) in Panel C. Remaining intact forest (dark green), remaining logged forest (light green), and industrial oil palm and timber plantations (Black) in year 2010 in Panel D. Map and caption courtesy of Gaveau et al 2014..


 - See more at: http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0909-barison-misleads-the-public-again.html#sthash.y7N9A8qq.dpbs

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kepada yang suka mandi malam....
jom sedut Ilmu

3 WAKTU DILARANG MANDI :

A. 30 Minit Setelah Solat Asar.
B. Setelah Maghrib.
C. Setelah Isya' sehingga pukul 12 malam.
Penjelasan :
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B. Jantung kita setelah maghrib sudah mulai lemah untuk melakukan perkerjaan. Jadi, kajian menunjukkan bahwa ketika ini jika kita mandi akan menyebabkan paru-paru boleh dimasuki air dan boleh menyebabkan paru-paru basah.
C. Setelah solat isya, ini saatnya jantung kita berhenti dan melakukan istirahat, jika mandi ketika ini akan menyebabkan kerosakan jantung akibat kemasukan air.
Sebaiknya mandi setelah 1 jam dari jam 12 malam. Antara pukul 2 - 3 pagi, itu akan lebih memberikan energy kepada badan seperti mana bateri yang telah lemah di cas semula.
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