• OPINION

  DNP needs major audit

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/12/2023

  » The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Conservation's (DNP) move to cancel the e-ticket system last week in order to reinstate it yesterday casts a much needed spotlight on the way the state conservation agency handles revenue it collects from entry fees at national parks across the country.

• 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.

• OPINION

  It's time to take care of our national parks

  News, Editorial, Published on 25/10/2015

  » The recent controversy over the encroachment on Phu Thap Boek mountain is simply another example of the uncontrolled growth of tourism in Thailand. In the past couple of years, many resorts and tourist lodges had sprung up at the top of Phu Thap Boek mountain in Phetchabun, which was originally meant to be preserved for Hmong resettlement and kept as a natural upstream habitat.

• 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

  Hidden realities of carbon credits

  Editorial, Published on 31/03/2024

  » Thai governments -- be they Prayut Chan-o-cha's or Srettha Thavisin's -- have hailed carbon credit programmes as vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, they can become wolves in sheep's clothing if they favour businesses, leaving local communities and nature vulnerable to exploitation. Despite promises to mitigate greenhouse gases, carbon credit programmes often sideline local communities and worsen social and environmental injustices.

• OPINION

  Angkhana fights on after 20 long years

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/03/2024

  » During the peak of the violence in the Deep South, prominent human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit was abducted and disappeared without a trace on March 12, 2004. Despite two decades having passed, truth and justice remain elusive, compounding his family's pain stemming from an unjust justice system.

• 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

  Military largesse

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/03/2024

  » The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) on Monday agreed to hand over its 360-rai Kantarat golf course to the Airports of Thailand Plc so it can be developed as an extension of Don Mueang airport.

• OPINION

  Deep roots to land row

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/02/2024

  » The dispute concerning approximately 2,900 rai of forest land within Khao Yai National Park involving the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation and the Nakhon Ratchasima Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro), highlights concerns regarding a land reform policy aimed at upgrading Sor Por Kor land -- formerly non-transferrable plots allocated to impoverished farmers -- into title deeds.

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