Ign. Kristianto Muladi

Known as International tourism destination, communities in Bali tend to have higher awareness to conserve their cultural and natural resources. Nowadays, Bali still hold 23% coverage area with forest and the best achiever to maintain it’s area from deforestation. The research team has finished digitalizing land coverage area from satellite imaginary as planned. The digitalizing process also reviewed by ground survey which done with ten days travelling around Bali.

Since November 2008, our team managed to live in one of the biggest orange-headed thrush agents in Bali. This live in process are important to gain widely access and information to mapping the Orange headed thrush harvesting practice in Bali respectively. We also had succeeded to located 4 harvesting area of orange-headed thrush. The short documentation can be seen on the YouTube film below. All location took place in communities coffee plantation.

We finished the documentation of orange-headed thrush harvesting practice by farmers and its breeding biology in a documentary film and booklet by the end of June 2009. Both media are essential to communicate the research findings to farmers and bird-keeping hobbyists.

We have already circulated the booklet to farmers within the study areas. Mainly we have used an online forum at www.kicaumania.org to share the research findings with the bird-keeping hobbyists and songbird contest organisers. The forum has more than 10,000 members with more than 1000 active members each month. The documentary film can be seen on the www.youtube.com using the link below:

In July 2009 we will publish our research findings in a weekly tabloid newspaper and finalize the final report of the project.

Read more about the activities undertaken and findings of this project in the final reports below.