Ex-Poachers and Thai SchoolChildren: A Day with the WildAid Community Outreach Team December 18th 2006 It's not every day an ex-poacher demonstrates animal trapping techniques used to catch endangered species, but we were lucky enough to meet Kuman, a former poacher who now works with the WildAid Community Outreach Team near Khao Yai National Park.
Kuman is the village leader of a very poor village on the edge of the park where at one point most of the adults in the village (including the women) ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Khao Yai NP A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
This is a travel blog to share with the friends of Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. In December 2006, I will be traveling with a zookeeper and a zoo educator to Vietnam and Thailand to see the work of the Clouded Leopard Project, a great conservation project to preserve this mysterious cat.... full info