Community forest management and rehabilitation as means of biodiversity conservation: Case study at Thung Soong community forest in Krabi, Thailand

Objectives

• To find out the insight of biodiversity status of plants, insects and wildlife in all types of land use patterns at Thung Soong Village Community Forest.
  
• To study the ethnobotany of medicinal plant in the village as well as traditional uses of medicinal plants.
  
• To understand livelihood of the local people by means of socio-economical study.
  
• To find management guidelines for maintaining or increasing the biodiversity of tropical forests that are under the threat of degradation or deforestation and in need of rehabilitation with local community participation.

Research Theme

• Taxonomy and Systematics

Activities

• Forest inventory
  
• Ethnobotany study
  
• Socio-economic study
  
• Survey of terrestrial and aquatic insect
  
• Diagnosis and testing land-use pattern
  
• Monitoring introduced land-use pattern
  
• Rural community workshop
  
• Data analysis

Expected Outcomes

• Publications on " Biodiversity Related to Interaction Attributes in Tropical Rainforest "; "Biodiversity and Functional Group Attributes in Man-made Management Systems"; "Biodiversity of Terrestrial and Aquatic Insects in Thung Soong Community Forest"; "Diversity and Ethnobotanic of Medicinal Plant in Thung Soong Community Forest"; and "Distribution and Management of Endemic Tree Species in Thung Soong Community Forest".
  

Indicative Budget

• 100,000 euro

Duration

• Two years 6 Months

Project site

• Thung Soong Community Forest, Thailand

ARCBC Remarks

• Links with the research theme - Uses and Values. Good proposal.

Implementing Agency