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activities  that  will  be  accomplished  by  students. Generally  they  lack  a  good  toilet  system. Therefore,  the  toilet  equipment  for  all  families  and  litter  bins  made  of  bamboo  for  plastic  litter  cleaning  were  arranged.  Now  they  are  following  this  practice  such  as  using  litter  bins and  toilet  units. III.  RESULTS The  results  show  three  different  aspects:  Biodiversity  conservation  practices;  Socio- economic  practices;  and  Agroforestry  practices  in  this  conservation  steward  program. 1.  Biodiversity  Conservation  As  the  Chin  villagers  themselves  are  skilled  trackers,  can  recognize  animal  track  and signs  well,  and  have  a  thorough  understanding  of  local  wild  flora  and  fauna,  it  was  easy  to  train  the  people  to  do  surveys  of  elephants  and other  large  mammals.  They  also  have  become  good  patrollers  for  RYES  together  with  better  relationship  between  sanctuary  and  FD  staff  to  monitor  wildlife  and  deter  hunters  while  at  the  same  time  establishing  the  basis  of  a  cost- effective  monitoring  system.  Participation  in  anti-poaching  and  mitigation  of  human-elephant conflict  (HEC)  are  active  and  as  a  very  good  result,  the  Chin  people  had  already  sold  their  hunting  dogs  and  stopped  hunting  because  the  key  to  the  survival  of  wildlife  species  in  RYES is  preventing  the  entry  of  hunting  dogs.  In  addition,  some  wildlife  appears  to  be  relatively abundant  and  number  of  illegal  poaching  elephants  is  decreased  year  by  year  in  RYES.  In  2013,  BBC  team  consisted  of  many  scientists selected  our  project  site  for  film  making  on  wild  elephant  and  other  wildlife,  and  the  team  used  Chin  people  which  FOW  supported  as  local  field  experts.  2.  Socio-economics The  Chin  people’s  livelihood  style  started  to  change  through  improved  capacity  building  in  terms  of  knowledge,  attitude,  behavior,  practice,  project  management,  agro- forestry,  and  communication  and  facilitation  skills  as  well  as  awareness  improvement  on  issues  of  sustainable  natural  resource  management and  environmental  protection.  Generation  of  income  for  Chin  families  already  became  different  from  the  past  and  is  now  getting  through  CF  establishment,  crop  plantation  and  livestock  farming  rather  than  illegal  hunting  wildlife  in  RYES.  Better  and  sustainable  education  system  for  Chin  children  supported  by  this  program  and  Basic  Education  Department put  a  stop  to  children  becoming  hunters  in  future  and  child  labor  in  restaurants.  Education is  humanity’s  best  hope  and  most  effective  means  to  achieve  sustainable  development  (Educating  for  a  Sustainable  Future,  UNESCO  report,  1997). 3.  Agro-forestry  The  Chin  who  never  had  any  land  got  official  permission  to  live  there  for  30  years  through  land  tenure  certificates  by  FD  together with  community  forest  plantation;  high-value  timber  plantation  and  watershed  plantation.  Moreover,  they  are  now  familiar  with  agroforestry works  as  they  became  to  know  that  sustainable agroforestry  generates  income  and  helps  to  protect  the  environment.  4.  Challenges There  were  two  major  challenges  :  1)  the  first  one  was  all  bamboo  forest  flowered  and  died  in  2010-2011.  Then  many  rats  came  out  and  destroyed  the  crops  in  southern  Rakhine Yoma.  It  was  a  natural  disaster.  All  Chin  families  loss  their  crops  and  money  saved. Proceedings  of  the  International  Conference  on  Climate  Change,  Biodiversity  and  Ecosystem  Services  for  the 165 Sustainable  Development  Goals  (SDGs):  Policy  and  Practice  27-29  June  2016,  Cha-am,  Phetchaburi,  Thailand


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