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 Jee and his senior rangers managed to decipher the traces and footprints using their knowledge and experience. Their skill has become the art of blending intricate human knowledge with GPS technology, the interplay creating a set of information valuable to protection of the country’s precious forests.
Piyaporn Wongruang
