It hurts. Ah! It turned You are to be a ball. a Northern Are you small toad? Mr. Frog? Am I right? Yes, we are a Northern small Nowadays, we don’t have to be afraid toad. We are one of the kind of because these village is help and work frogs that was almost extinct. We live in watershed area which was with each other in order to destroyed by human. If these preserve the forest. Oh! villages did not reforest, So cute I would have died for sure. Hey! Kids, come on say hi. áͺê ͺê áÍêº áÍêº Hi. Hello. Not only us who come back to this forest, but also monkey, barking deer, and rare wild birds. 49
Cute! And rare species of tree also come Kids! back to life such as Manglietia garrettii It’s time for Craib and rubber wood because the bed. Hope to villagers have the duty to take care see you again. of the assigned forest area but do not possess the land. Bye Bye Good luck Oh! so proud! Your kids are adorable. Dream about me some. My stomach is rumbling. ?So hungry. Jok! Hey! Let’s find something Jok! to eat in the market. There are Too loud! a lot of agricultural stuffs. Wow! Luffa Let’s go! I’m hungry. gourd! Can I This is a bamboo shoot. You I can’t wait. eat it? have to cook it first. I’m starving. You can stir fry or make it as a curry. Jok! Jok! 50
Ok! We can go back to the It’s pretty good Dimension cross past to breakfast time of idea. Let’s go. to breakfast time of Huai Pla Lod. Huai Pla Lod. This land We have landed on is so soft. soft land. It didn’t It’s smooth this time. hurt at all. Is it eating time? This ground Tob is so bouncy. We dimension cross Waggg! back too far. Let’s get Dinosaur! out of here. Its dinosaur’s ? eating time. 51 Almost!
Now, we dimension cross Let’s find something to eat. I’m starving. Almost! to the right place and right time. Hey kids! What I apologize are you guys doing? that we have Get up here to have only sticky rice to dipp with some food. chili paste. Ah! We are lucky. See! I told you we come to the right time for breakfast. Eating like this We are in this situation because most will fill you up? people in this village do shifting cultivation and deforest which causes drought problem. Karen and Musoe people People are aware of make their living by growing this problem. So, they start to opium, but now the ground is collaborate to solve this problem by having community’s leader breaking up and anything as a representative to carry out. handly anything grows. 52
We still have a chance. We got to go. As long as we collaborate, we are able to solve all Good luck. the problem. We came from the future. First of all, I’m hungry Do you want to eat We know this village will this first? come back to life again, but I wonder how? Umm.. Dessert is made from our It’s Persimmon agricultural product that compote. still on pilot project. Aum! Try it kids. Ah! Thank you very much. Wow! It’s so delicious and smell very good. Can I eat them all? I will try it, too. Sure! 53
The villagers That’s right. We had the said soil become problem of deforestation, useless but why they opium planting, soil become still cultivate? useless and dry. In that time, we have to scramble for water. Later on, HM. The King has a royal remark to crop plants instead of opium to gain income. This is a crucial inspiration for conserving the forest. And then, the villagers crop coffee in the area and also plant bitter cucumber and Chayote round which bear fruit all year and generate income to the villagers. Before we leave, I have a young plant from plant nursery for you to crop. This is persimmon’s young plant. The villagers Wow! set boundary for Good. land use such as public forests and conservative It’s delicious forests. They also set time and sweet. to harvest in forest which helps the forest to restore itself. 54
See you guys later. Back to I know being hard working for the present. community will lead to success. Thank you for wishing us, well. This is not wishing. Mr. Frog! We have a gift for you from our We came from Mr. Frog! descendant. This is a grass crown. the future. To our Wait a minute! King’s Frog. Somebody called me. This will remind me of how we Seeing them collaborate to restore fight to conserving the forest. forest back to normal will remind me that forest still get a chance to Anywhere become rich again. Eiei. But, where do we want to go next? that have some foods. It’s really Let’s go to touched. community water resource Bye to you management all Northern small toads. area. 55
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