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Province to allow encroaching hotels to stay in business
Post Reporters, Published on 21/11/2019
» PHETCHABUN: Provincial authorities have agreed to allow hotels proven to be encroaching on public forests to continue operating, to avert a slump in the local economy.
Toxic control
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/04/2020
» Re: "Forests doomed by power and prejudice," (Opinion, April 2).
Community Forest Bill won't benefit all, campaigners say
Reuters, Published on 21/02/2019
» The Community Forest Bill aims to give villagers more say in managing natural resources but is too limited in its scope and risks further marginalising those living outside areas covered by the act, land campaigners said on Thursday.
Scapegoating not a solution to haze
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 25/04/2019
» Despite feeling bitter from being arrested and falsely condemned as an arsonist, 56-year-old Boonpan Saenkhammuen went back to fight the raging fires on Doi Luang Mountain in Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary the next day.
Tasmania, Australia: Enchanted isle beyond down under
Christopher Lombardi, Special publications, Published on 30/10/2019
» Tasmania, or Tassie as it is known by locals, is an isolated island lying about 300 km south of the Australian mainland across the turbulent Bass Strait. Despite it being Oz’s smallest state, more than 40% of the island’s 68,401 sq.km is dedicated to world heritage areas and protected parklands brimming with nature sites like sparkling alpine lakes, unspoiled rivers and mist-shrouded peaks.
Forest project might be legal but is it right?
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/04/2018
» 'People and forests can live in harmony." I believe this saying is true and practical for guarding forests in a long run. Ironically, government officials have recently cited it in their defence of a new housing project for judicial officials that involved massive forest clearance.
Mangrove forest seized from encroachers
Post Reporters, Published on 17/08/2020
» More than 200 rai of fertile mangrove forests was seized from encroachers in Samut Songkhram on Monday, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources said.
Technology brings SDG goals closer
News, Zhimin Wu, Published on 22/07/2024
» In the face of escalating threats to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the global community stands at a crossroads.
Park law must aid forest guardians
Editorial, Published on 23/07/2023
» Our forest laws have inflicted immense hardship on more than 10 million people living in national forests.
Protect forest, fresh water resources
Oped, Jong-Jin Kim, Published on 21/03/2024
» United we stand, divided we fall -- it's an old cliché, but when talking about access to fresh water in this Asia and Pacific region, it's worth reminding ourselves how imperative it is to work together, within countries and across borders, to share and protect this precious resource.