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Hands off our parks!
Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/02/2024
» The latest attempt by the government to carve out 260,000 rai of Sor Por Kor land plots out of Thap Lan National Park has sparked concerns about the potential misuse of national resources to fulfil the administration's populist promise to hand out land to local villagers.
No will to stop encroachers
News, Editorial, Published on 29/07/2019
» Demolition orders recently issued by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for 11 resorts, including the controversial 88 Garmonte which was found to have encroached on a national park, invite a sense of deja vu. These infringements have been an unsolved problem in Thap Lan National Park for almost 40 years.
Parks, fast cars a bad mix
News, Editorial, Published on 26/10/2018
» Kaeng Krachan National Park, a proposed Unesco world heritage site, is no stranger to controversy.
Give wildlife right of way
News, Editorial, Published on 05/01/2018
» Record numbers of visitors at Khao Yai National Park, especially during the New Year holidays, would not be a reason for concern if tourists had not increased the hazards for wild animals. The most pressing danger comes with personal car use which has resulted in crashes which have killed and injured many wild animals over the past decade.
Time to take road carnage seriously
News, Editorial, Published on 12/03/2017
» The picture of the wreckage of a double-decker bus that plunged into a ravine in Prachin Buri province, which appeared on several newspapers' front pages, must have broken the hearts of many readers. The doomed bus carried some 50 high school students and teachers from the northeastern province of Khon Kaen who were on a study trip to a royal development study centre in Tha Mai district of Chanthaburi. The trip was a reward for the students after completing their final exams.