20 December 2016
A Massey University researcher is going to Cambodia to study how feeding people can help keep wildlife alive.

Jessica Hiscox was awarded a Rutherford Scholarship to investigate the relationship between Cambodian people in extreme poverty and endangered wildlife whose habitat is being damaged.

Hiscox will study a PHD in geography at Cambridge University and will visit the Cardomom Mountains regularly to undergo the research.

"It's going to be really intense, but there's a need for this research," she said.

She will work alongside Flora and Fauna International, which runs a project in the mountains that helped people come up with alternative sources of protein and farming practices to reduce poverty.

Hiscox's project will focus on how the poverty-reduction programme helps endangered crocodiles and elephants survive.

The villagers converted forest and rice paddocks into farmland, which made the area inhabitable for siamese crocodiles, Hiscox said.

Fewer than 250 adult siamese crocodiles and between 400 and 600 wild elephants remain in Cambodia, following decades of hunting and habitat loss.

Increasing the availability of food would decrease competition between villagers and animals for food sources, she said...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standar ... n-cambodia

The crocodiles and elephants are, doubtless, overjoyed that a fearless white saviour has arrived at long last.

it's going to be real intense, and there really is a need for this research"... and to spew off this wisdom one really should have to seek a PHD.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote:20 December 2016
A Massey University researcher is going to Cambodia to study how feeding people can help keep wildlife alive.

Jessica Hiscox was awarded a Rutherford Scholarship to investigate the relationship between Cambodian people in extreme poverty and endangered wildlife whose habitat is being damaged.

Hiscox will study a PHD in geography at Cambridge University and will visit the Cardomom Mountains regularly to undergo the research.

"It's going to be really intense, but there's a need for this research," she said.

She will work alongside Flora and Fauna International, which runs a project in the mountains that helped people come up with alternative sources of protein and farming practices to reduce poverty.

Hiscox's project will focus on how the poverty-reduction programme helps endangered crocodiles and elephants survive.

The villagers converted forest and rice paddocks into farmland, which made the area inhabitable for siamese crocodiles, Hiscox said.

Fewer than 250 adult siamese crocodiles and between 400 and 600 wild elephants remain in Cambodia, following decades of hunting and habitat loss.

Increasing the availability of food would decrease competition between villagers and animals for food sources, she said...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standar ... n-cambodia