mark salmond's the chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly he says even several months after the cycle on the flood waters was still draining out of the landscape and into the poor way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffering effect very generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather extremes of wind and extremes of water and that's why we need those those big landscapes they also serve as a threat of war. or horse thing by a diversity there horse thing systems that are effective for their functioning but this natural paradise is under threat on nearby mt coren goes the residents have cleared huge swathes of forest for farmland forest subacute regulator a function absorbing and releasing water it with 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 could help restore the forest by planting coffee along with hardwood trees to provide shade for the crops to thrive project manag