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Look that! Eagle, right?

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Let's get to know our Hornbill Steward

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My name is Zainal Abidin from Merapoh. I 
am married and have four children.

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My previous job as tour guide started in 
the year 1991 until 2005.

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But now I work at Merapoh as a food seller, 
selling Roti Canai and various other food.

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Assalamualaikum and Good Morning.

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My name is Sabri. I am tour guide at Taman 
Negara Merapoh. Now I work with MRS as a 
Hornbill Steward.

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When I work as a Hornbill Steward, I can 
learn a lot of knowledge, specially to recognize 
many species of bird

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and other animals.

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One more thing, I can bring my children to 
see the hornbill.

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To see how the hornbill feed their chick 
and their nesting behaviour. I can teach 
my children by observing them.

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Before this, I really want to be a birder.

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Luckily now, I am a Hornbill Steward and 
get a chance to see many types of bird and 
learn about it.

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There are many teachers from MRS that teach 
me about sound of bird, ways of identifying 
type of bird species and their habitat.

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Long time ago, there are many animals. I 
stay far away from people, at Kampung Bekong.

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Long time ago, there are many animals at 
there. In the old days, when I open the land.

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We can see elephant and tiger. But now, it 
is quite difficult to see again this type 
of animal.

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When I was young, my childhood memory is 
playing a lastik and bird or squirrel become 
the target.

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But now the bird population at here slowly 
decreasing. For example, Straw-headed Bulbul.

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In this village, this bird may be gone, but 
hopefully it will be at Taman Negara. This 
is what I saw.

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Now I’m aware that play a lastik before was 
wrong.

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This is because we can lead to decreasing 
bird population and extinction.

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I would like to educate my children to know 
the animals in

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the surrounding area such as birds, squirrels 
and other animals.

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I joined the Hornbill Steward in Merapoh.

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My experience as Hornbill Steward, I’m so 
lucky to see the nesting of hornbill.

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I already found two species of hornbill. 
The first species is Rhinoceros Hornbill.

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Second, Black Hornbill or known as Enggang 
Gatal Birah in Malay.

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We observe the nesting of hornbill to study 
their diet and their behaviour.

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The period of time taken by the chick to 
fledging out from the nest and type of food 
they eat.

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I learned many things from there.

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I’m very happy when I have a chance to saw 
the chick fledging out from their nest in 
front of my eyes.

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I saw the chick successfully fledging out 
its body from its nest through a small hole.

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That’s the best thing I’ve seen.

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I also learned the way male hornbill feed 
on female and their chick that are in the 
nest. This is a very valuable experience 
for me.

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What is the greatness of Gods power.

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To saw the male feed the female and their 
chick and the way male survive outside.

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Now, I am very excited to see Helmeted Hornbill.

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I really want to see what the Helmeted Hornbill’s 
nest of looks like and its eating behaviour.

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For now, we have not found a Helmeted Hornbill 
nest here.

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Helmeted Hornbill or known as Burung Enggang 
Tebang Mentua. The Helmeted Hornbill’s sound 
is unique.

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This hornbill has their own fairy tale story. 
Burung Enggang Tebang Mentua, the story is 
start

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When he was married, he lived with his parents-in-law.

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One day, there was a fight going on between 
them and he decided to cut down his house.

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When his house collapsed, he laughed contentedly. 
From this story, this hornbill got its name.

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From observation at Hornbill Valley, I found 
that Hornbill also eat Durian fruit, something 
I had never known before.

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This is very rare. Another type of diet, 
they eat squirrels and rats.

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They have their own diet preference and make 
them different from other birds. Eagles will 
eat meat as their food.

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Black Hornbill always play and fly in high 
areas and I think their nest will also be 
in tall trees.

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When I saw the nest, the nest very low from 
the ground around 2-3 feet. This is very 
rare for me.

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I came to the Taman Negara to do a Hornbill 
census.

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I was able to identify many species of birds 
and bird sounds. I learned a lot of things.

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From one point to the next point, I found 
many animals, such as deer.

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My favourite experience was when using this 
trail, I saw a Wrinkled Hornbill or Enggang 
Berkedut.

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As a birder, seeing the Wrinkled Hornbill 
is very rare, and I was very lucky to have 
the chance to see it.

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Before this, I only saw it without knowing 
what kind of bird.

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But after I worked with MRS and learned about 
bird, I was able to figure out what species 
of bird it was when I discovered it.

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Now I know the types of birds that are categorized 
as rare species.

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We need to tell the public how important 
our research is to this project.

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If people do not know the importance of wildlife 
to humans.

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This is very good for future generations, 
if we do not take care it from now on.

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The next generation does not know it. For 
example, my children do not know some animals.

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Like, deer. They do not know.

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So, we need to give exposure to them. For 
future generations

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and for all generations. If we only give 
exposure to children and their parents do 
not know. This will not work.

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Therefore, we need to teach all generation 
to understand, why wildlife very important.

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If not, if we just tell the children and 
the parents do not know. They will also kill 
the animals.

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They go out hunting. If parents knew, they 
would tell their kids.

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This is very important for future generations. 
This is my opinion and we need to tell them.

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A good example is a flying squirrel. Without 
them, pollination for Durian trees and other 
trees would not have taken place.

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Another example is the bat, if the bat goes 
extinct it is possible that the Durian tree 
will no longer bear fruit.

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We must together with NGOs and PERHILITAN 
provide information and exposure. Invite 
locals to know this and know its importance.

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We need together to raise the awareness among 
local community.

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Efforts are indeed to explain and provide 
knowledge to the local community about the 
importance of environment and animals.

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The people here really love animals and forests 
because our foundation is tourism.

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The first generation opened up the land and 
also did activities like hunting, but the 
second generation was different.

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They will be thinking of the consequences 
for every action they take. In this field 
of ecotourism, we love forests.

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Cooperation between the villagers and the 
NGO is very important.

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Sometimes, NGOs does not understand what 
locals want and do not want.

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Actually in this case, we should not only 
meet with the village head.

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But we need to meet everyone from various 
levels and explain the purpose of the NGOs 
being here, Merapoh.

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NGOs have a good purpose for the locals when 
they are here.

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I urge everyone to take care our environment, 
wildlife, and plants in Malaysia.