Environment and natural resources
Environmental and biodiversity protection
Marine Rangers: DMCR calls for volunteers to help protect marine treasures
The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) is calling for people – Thai or foreign – to volunteer as “Marine Rangers” in order to protect coral reefs and other coastal areas, including mangroves, from damage by irresponsible tour operators or other unscrupulous parties.Keep reading ...
Provincial chief prosecutor fights for clean beaches
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Wimolphan Puttiwattanasathaporn works as the provincial chief public prosecutor on weekdays and moonlights as a beach trash buster on Sundays. Residents in Muang district see her and other Trash Hero Prachuap Khiri Khan members walking for more than one kilometre along the ...
Chaiwat Satyaem and Saritdet Marukatat
River sanctuaries help giant fish recover in Southeast Asia
NGAO RIVER, THAILAND – It may run through a region riven by conflict, but western Thailand’s Ngao River, near the troubled border with Myanmar, is a peaceful haven to the more than 50 species of fish living in it. Below Ban Luiy, one of the ...
Bang Kachao's protection status to keep 'krapow moo' green
Bang Kachao, also known as Bangkok’s green lung, has received a shield against industrial and polluting activities after it was named an environmentally protected area. Keep reading ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
REPORT: Sustainable solution sought to human-elephant conflict
Fah Sai was only a month old when veterinarians from the National Parks Department found her trapped in a snare set on the edge of the Ang Rue Nai wildlife sanctuary in Rayong province in mid December.Keep reading ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Gov’t Moves to Protect Bangkok’s Famed ‘Green Lung’
The government on Thursday banned large-scale constructions or waste disposal in a river island south of the capital renowned for its lush nature.An order issued by the natural resources ministry said Bang Kachao area in Samut Prakan province is to be preserved as an environment ...
Wildlife plan sees footprints of success
With the construction of Highway 304’s wildlife corridors still underway, a survey has found wildlife footprints on top of the traffic tunnels, proving that animals are now adjusting to the presence of of the corridor and are able to cross over the road with more ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
SPECIAL REPORT: 'Smart Patrol' key to saving forests
The traces found on the dusty soil of the dry deciduous forest had become sparse and hard to track, while the footprints on a wet salt-lick in the creek were too washed out to easily identify which species were present. But slowly, 32-year-old forest ranger ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Loss of wetlands could be devastating: experts
Wetland are still being systematically destroyed in the Mekong River region despite wide international consensus that it is humanity’s best chance to avert a climate apocalypse, experts said. On Saturday, the world celebrated World Wetlands Day with this year’s theme being “Wetlands and Climate Change”. ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Marine endangered species injured or killed from sea garbage every 68 hours
Over the past year, 129 marine endangered species in Thailand have been injured or killed from sea garbage, which means every 68 hours one of them has been tortured or died from ingesting our rubbish.Marine specialist Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat says that, based on data from ...
