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Rock quarry plan upsets Satun locals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 23/04/2022
» More than 300 families of the Khao Toh Krang community in Satun's Khuan Don district are living in fear that a nearby rock quarry concession will destroy livelihoods and harm the area's rich natural resources.
Forest chiefs defend renewal of Saraburi mining permit
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/03/2019
» The Royal Forest Department on Friday came out to defend the latest cabinet resolution allowing the country's biggest cement-processing company to continue limestone mining in an ecologically-rich watershed area in Saraburi province.
Grappling with pollution
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 27/01/2019
» SARABURI: It was one fine day for Nong Ormsin, a seven-year-old student from Ban Khung Khao Khiew School in tambon Na Phra Lan in Chalerm Prakiat district, one of the areas with the worst air quality nationally as the area has served as a hub of rock-blasting mines for decades.
New court to assess crimes against nature
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 17/04/2018
» The country's first environmental court will have to calculate the financial losses for crimes that are committed against nature when it opens in 2022, according to Buntoon Srethasirote, a spokesman for the National Reform Committee for Natural Resources and the Environment.