Their status as sacred creatures has not stopped some wild elephants from killing three Buddhist monks in three separate incidents in just a few weeks.
Category: Thailand
Thai Wildlife Officials Seize Five Young Tigers in Northeastern Thailand
The tiger cubs’ seizure is a follow-up from an early crackdown at the tiger park in January 2018.
Double trouble
Ahead of the cool season academic ward of dangers of PM2.5 and its potential to exacerbate the Covid-19 situation.
Northern Thailand harvests dead leaves for renewable energy
They have set a target, for 17 northern provinces, to convert 100 tonnes of dried leaves per day into solid fuel.
Ministry hears sea gypsy plight
Various problems, from alleged land encroachment by authorities to dwindling livelihoods, have beset the sea gypsies on Koh Lipe.
Ancient whale skeleton found in Thailand holds clues to climate change
“Relatively large sea level changes around 6,000 years to 3,000 years ago in the Gulf of Thailand, where the shoreline was up to tens of kilometres inland of the present coast”.
Rare clouded leopard snapped by camera trap for first time in 20 years
The camera traps had captured hog deer, Asiatic wild dogs, a Malaysian night heron, a leopard and, most significantly, a clouded leopard.
Govt warns over Lao dam plan
May not buy electricity from Sanakham dam in Laos after it learned the project might affect the Mekong River.
Cabinet nod for smart city project
The cabinet has approved Thailand’s participation in “Smart Green ASEAN Cities”, a regional project jointly coordinated by the European Union (EU) and Asean.
Pollution Control Department Launches National Haze Forecast Website
The new “Mekong Air Quality Explorer” platform, named after the area it was initially designed to monitor, developed with the US Agency for International Development.