V. CONCLUSION From the results of each resource studied in BTN and HS watersheds, we found that in terms of forestry, remaining forest cover was only 25-34%. Forest fires occurred in dry season every year contributing to lower forest quality. SIEP and adjacent area were in rainshadow, with infertile soil. The reduced annual rainfall (941.4 mm) results in less annual stream flow (which represented only 14-16% of the annual rainfall). This situation will cause a water shortage in dry season (dry-flow only 11% of total stream flow). Encouragingly, water quality was still in type 3 of surface water standard and therefore suitable for household water consumption. In terms of socio-economic involvement, the people in both watersheds showed moderate to low participation in action activities. Therefore, there was a greater need to encourage people participation in watershed management. VI. RECOMMENDATIONS Both BTN and HS watersheds would benefit from integrated watershed management in the following ways: 1. Providing opportunities to increase forest cover up to 40% of each watershed area especially on the hilly sites, where agricultural locations have poor soil and where misused land could be returned to forest areas. 2. Prevent forest fire in dry season based on people participation. 3. Increase water flow (during dry season/ dry flow) and retention by constructing check dams along the stream flow from the mountain in order to delay time of water flow to the sea. The optimal level of dry flow of both watersheds should be at least 20% of total flow. 4. Needs more people participation in watershed management by SIEP activities as follows: - provide training course in watershed management - provide study tour visit to other watersheds which has high people participation in watershed management and other King Bhumibol initiated projects. REFERENCES Department of Pollution Control 1994. Sur face water quality standard of Thailand, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Faculty of Forestry, 2008 Final Report: The study of biodiversity of Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Kasetsart University. Yamane, T. 1973. Statistics: An introductory analysis (3rded) Harper a Row, New York. Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 265 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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