Ethnic Karen community evicted from ancestral site wants to return fear that the new World Heritage listing will bring new threats to their ability to live in harmony with the forest as they have always done.
Category: Thailand
Another Great Flood looming for Thailand? Experts weigh the risks
With the overflowing Chao Phraya flooding more provinces, Thais are worried their worst fears could soon be realized – a recurrence of the Great Flood of 2011, which claimed more than 600 lives and caused damage worth a whopping Bt1.44 trillion.
Energy crossroads
The Thai government recently announced a policy to increase the share of renewable energy to at least 50% of the country’s total needs, from about 15 percent now. B.Grimm Power itself is moving toward realising net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
New plant species found in national park in Thailand’s Ranong province
Being a species found only in a very specific area and which could be at risk of extinction, the research team is considering cooperation with the department and local officials to propagate the species through the use of bio-technological techniques.
Beating back the floods
Dams not always ideal solution to climate change, say experts
Belt and Road starts and stops in China’s backyard
Beijing is seeking to showcase the China-Lao train, and incorporate the stop-and-go progress on a similar rail line in Thailand and a port project in Myanmar, both of which are key to the BRI’s vision of a better-connected regional economic sphere with China at its powerful center.
Untold impact on northern Thailand’s wildlife from Mekong dams
Otters, fish and birds along the Ing and Ruak rivers face threats from hydropower dams on the Mekong, but understanding is lacking of the true impacts on the ecology of these Mekong tributaries
Farmers warned they need to adapt
With results showing that under combined stressors of climate change and land-use change, the research team suggested the duration of agriculture droughts of a 10-year return period will increase by 50% and the severity of droughts will increase by more than 150%.
Bangkok on alert as 70,000 homes flood in Thailand
In the past, farmland and rice paddies in low-lying areas absorbed flood water but the city’s expansion has led much converted to real estate. The city’s flood prevention masterplan, involving underground reservoirs and tunnels, has not been fully built because of problems acquiring land, according to local media.
The challenge of water management in Thailand
The recent centralized water planning restructuring has not been desirable. It ignores core principles of integrated water resources management, which require local participatory planning and action based on local knowledges and understanding of water-related issues, the agency mostly just focuses on mega-projects.