• OPINION

  Port saga never ends

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/04/2024

  » Governments have tried to move Bangkok Port in Klong Toey to Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri province many times.

• OPINION

  Wild jumbos not the issue

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/03/2024

  » To mark National Elephant Day -- which is celebrated every year on March 13 -- the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has rolled out a conservation plan to protect elephants. The highlight of this year's celebrations was a scheme by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife to develop "training centres" to tame "angry elephants", according to Attapon Charoenchansa, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP).

• OPINION

  Graft sours land reform

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 12/03/2024

  » The issue of Sor Por Kor plots in Khao Yai National Park has devolved into a conflict between the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) and the Department of National Parks over the map that the government uses to define which plots are Sor Por Kor and which are not.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Needless forest  evictions persist

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/01/2024

  » Amid the biological richness of Kaeng Krachan National Park, while forest authorities celebrate the importance of wildlife, a troubling practice of forcibly evicting native forest dwellers in the name of wildlife and biodiversity protection continues unabated. This violation of the forest dweller's rights must cease.

• OPINION

  Unesco label half the fight

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 21/09/2023

  » Without a doubt, the decision by Unesco's World Heritage Committee to list Si Thep Historical Park as the nation's seventh World Heritage Site brought smiles to many Thai faces.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Flood ritual dies hard

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/08/2022

  » Fears of flooding have returned again with news the Royal Irrigation Department (RID) will discharge more water from the Chao Phraya dam in Chai Nat to accommodate run-off from the North.

• OPINION

  New plan for old rail hub

  News, Editorial, Published on 23/11/2021

  » The State Railway of Thailand's (SRT) plan to close the 105-year-old Hua Lamphong Station in Bangkok is facing growing public resistance.

• OPINION

  Educate, not shame, litterbugs

  News, Editorial, Published on 20/09/2020

  » More than 20 million tourists visited the nation's 154 national parks in 2019, generating some 2.2 billion baht in revenue, according to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP). Besides providing a much-needed cash influx, human carelessness or perhaps ironically a lack of care for the environment also meant that these visitors brought with them rubbish -- and lots of it -- in the form of plastic, styrofoam, glass, metal and more.

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