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With social media and academia, villagers save ancestral forest

Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 29/09/2020

» CHIANG RAI: The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in Chiang Khong district of this northern province had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.