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Revoke the licence to kill our oceans
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/03/2024
» Despite efforts to rein in rogue trawlers and overfishing in the past decade, the Thai seas are still in crisis. And if the Srettha government has its way, things will go from bad to worse.
Verdict a blow to customary land rights
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/06/2018
» Ask the centenarian Ko-ee Mimee and other Karen forest dwellers what they want and why they sued Kaeng Krachan National Park officials who burned down their homes and violently evicted them from their ancestral land, and their answer is always the same: "We just want to be back home."
No poison paradise for toxic farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/09/2017
» The refusal to ban two highly toxic farm chemicals by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) is not only scandalous, it makes the agency complicit in a crime against public health and the environment.
As poor are evicted, the rich get an island
Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/08/2017
» What do you get from fighting for land rights in Thailand? You cannot ask Den Khamlae, 65, a prominent grassroots land rights activist. He mysteriously disappeared in a forest reserve near his rickety home in Chaiyaphum last year.
Prayut must make good on UN promises
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/09/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said all the right things in his speech at the UN summit. Congratulations. The question is whether he will make good on his promises to do the right things to make the world a better place. The challenge is right here at home.
Land 'gift' to the poor is anything but
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/12/2014
» The Prayut government has announced that it will allocate 53,000 rai of state land to poor, landless farmers as a present to celebrate New Year. Time to celebrate? Not so fast.
At sea in illegal fishing battle
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/10/2012
» It's crunchy. It's delicious. It's deep fried baby mackerel, a popular calcium-boosting snack that is quickly annihilating mackerel stocks in the Gulf of Thailand.
Some stay organic
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/08/2012
» When the government pays almost 50 per cent more than the domestic market price for "every single grain" farmers produce, they naturally pump farm chemicals into their paddy fields to push up yields and grow as much rice as they can. Not Somboon Daeng-aroon, however.