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Suan Mali reforestation project The
sloping land below the cliff and the creek
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October 1997 - Year 2:
Where rainwater used to erode the sloping land below the cliffs bananas
and rattan are now stopping erosion.
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October 1998 - Year 3:
The sloping land below the cliffs.
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October 1998 - Year 3:
The creek has only water in the rainy season, when Joy grows wet-rice.
On the ploughed land fruit-trees were planted, but most of them are dead
now. The wilderness took over.
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The slope and the tall trees
behind the bananas and papaya is a part of Suan Mali (app. 50 %), but
left on its own due to lack of funds. And is burned down every second
year. The photo is a photo-registration in order to see if trees
disappear, which they do. |
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At the lowest part of Suan Mali a natural spring starts a creek with
water running all year round.
Before the rainy season the flow is slow, but
after the first heavy rain the flow becomes faster within a few days.
The rock is porous and any fertilizer or pesticide used top hill will
reach the drinking-water supply within a week after the first rain.
The stream
continues and together with other streams end up down in Kaeng Nang
Village and ultimately in the Mekhong River.
In the beginning of the 90'es fish were
abundant in Kaeng Nang and the water was a temptation to swim in. But
that has changed totally.
The
author is trying to implement, that washing of clothes does not happen
directly in the stream: Carry the water for washing some 10 meter and
let the used water go to a little well to be filtered passing the rock layers
in the underground. Then at least the pollution is postponed (!).
Alternatively wash clothes in the village.
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April 2001: Mother and daughter collecting
the delicious eggs of the big red ants.
Last upgraded: November
2003 |
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