months after the site lone the flood waters are still draining out of the landscape and into the pool a river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffeting effect very generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather the extremes of wind and the extremes of water and that s why we need those those big landscapes they also serve as a sense of or be or horse thing by a diversity they are hosting systems that are effective for their functioning but this natural paradise is under threat on nearby mt goran goes the residents have cleared huge swathes of forest for farmland forests have a key regulator a function of and releasing water it was clear that if the deforestation continued many of the springs that sustain the wetlands would disappear. so 6 years ago the park administration came up with an idea instead of subsistence farming residents