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No place for dams in parks
Oped, Editorial, Published on 25/01/2025
» The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry's plan to allow dam projects in conservation areas, such as national parks, has triggered concerns over potential adverse impacts.
Unesco urges re-zoning of park
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 16/09/2023
» Unesco's World Heritage Committee has asked Thailand to follow the World Heritage Convention to re-section Thap Lan National Park to prevent its adjacent national park, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, from being listed as a World Heritage in Danger.
Dam threatens World Heritage status
Oped, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 14/09/2023
» Seated in a four-wheel drive vehicle, I could see a few big trees on the edge of Khao Yai National Park. Crossing one creek after another, I learned how they help mitigate fast-flowing waters from flooding towns further downstream.
Prevention is the best medicine
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 11/01/2022
» In the late 1980s, a US study at the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) in Minnesota showed that many elderly people did not display symptoms of Alzheimer's due to their lifestyle. Nuns at SSND were physically active and even those in wheelchairs still exercised. After going through journals written by nuns, the study found that those who used more complicated sentences in their writing had a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's.
Forest evades WHC 'in danger' status
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/07/2021
» Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex has been spared from being put on the World Heritage in danger list.
Ban Mae Kerb not on official registries
News, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 18/01/2021
» A controversy over a YouTube video which showed the fundraising effort and solar cell donation by net idol Pimrypie, or Pimradaporn Benjawattanapat, has shed light on the relatively unknown village of Ban Mae Kerb -- a village just like thousands other villages in the North which has yet to be connected to the state's electricity grid.