https://cambodia.wcs.org RSS feeds for WCS Cambodia 60 https://cambodia.wcs.org/about-us/latest-features/id/15948/nest-protection-in-the-northern-plains.aspx#Comments 0 https://cambodia.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=8535&ModuleID=46005&ArticleID=15948 https://cambodia.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=15948&PortalID=133&TabID=8535 https://cambodia.wcs.org/about-us/latest-features/id/15948/nest-protection-in-the-northern-plains.aspx The "Bird Nest Protection Project" encourages local people in the Northern Plains landscape to locate, report and monitor nest sites, and therefore reduces the exploitation of eggs and chicks by these communities. The project also increases the breeding success of threatened water birds.This highly effective project provides benefits to local communities to conserve threatened birds. Under the project, local people are offered a reward for reporting nests, and are paid to monitor and protect the birds until the chicks successfully fledge. They receive a direct benefit at a low cost relative to the conservation benefits. The mechanism for this project is simple. If a community member locates a nest (and indicates to monitoring rangers its location) and chooses to protect the nest, they receive $2.5 per day to protect the nest, until the chicks successfully fledge. If the protected site is a colony with many nests, then two or more people protect it and receive benefits.The wildlife monitoring manager and monitoring rangers check each protected nest and colony regularly to ensure that high quality protection effort is maintained. This enables them to verify that community nest protectors are carrying out their work as well as enabling effective monitoring of bird populations.Efforts in previous years have indicated how successful this project can be. From 2003-2008, numbers of threatened bird nests in the Northern Plains have increased from 46 to 410 and numbers of chicks fledging from nests have increased from 53 to over 700. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:52:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:15948 https://cambodia.wcs.org/about-us/latest-features/id/15947/important-sites-for-waterbirds.aspx#Comments 0 https://cambodia.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=8535&ModuleID=46005&ArticleID=15947 https://cambodia.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=15947&PortalID=133&TabID=8535 https://cambodia.wcs.org/about-us/latest-features/id/15947/important-sites-for-waterbirds.aspx Recent data analysis has confirmed that Prek Toal is the most important breeding site for waterbirds in and around the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve (TSBR), while also highlighting several additional sites that are important for waterbirds. It also suggests that Prek Toal is not only a breeding site, but that significant numbers of Spot-billed Pelican, Oriental Darter and Lesser Adjutant stay in the area the whole year round.The data suggest that Boeung Tonle Chhmar is an important feeding site in the dry season and early wet season for most large waterbirds that breed colonially in the TSBR; this was also suggested in the 2008 review but has been reinforced by the new data. The Stung Sen Core Area seemed to be visited by waterbirds more in the wet season than in the dry season. At present the data do not indicate any exceptional value of this site for large waterbirds compared to other areas of the inner floodplain, with the possible exception of Spot-billed Pelicans.Dey Roneath continues to be of interest as a potential breeding colony but lacks year-round monitoring data. Veal Srongai was seen to be important for many of the large waterbirds that breed colonially in the TSBR. The nearby area of Krous Kraom, which was once grassland but is increasingly dominated by intensive agriculture, continues to be much used by many species considered in this report. The Integrated Farming & Biodiversity Areas (IFBAs), including the Stoung-Chikraeng IFBA group, contain a wide diversity of species, including Black-necked Stork and Woolly-necked Stork. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:50:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:15947