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Chiang Mai University’s waste-management technology in full swing

October 25, 2019

Chiang Mai’s Energy Research and Development Institute – Nakornping, together with the faculties of Engineering and Agriculture, came up with a full waste-management technology in 2016 in line with the university’s green strategy.

DNP confirms ban on motor races within wildlife sanctuaries

June 10, 2019

A Facebook user, who had voiced objection to a motorcycle rally planned to be held this month in a national park in Tak’s Mae Ramat district, posted an update on Monday, thanking the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for confirming that motor races were banned in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

Forestry staff told to protect residents

WEDNESDAY, MAY 01, 2019

Forestry officials at the Royal Forestry Department (RFD) have been told to widen their duties beyond protecting trees and wildlife to assisting forest dwellers.

New e-Tree app enables online registration for trade in teak, rosewood trees grown on private land

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019

Forbidden trees like teak and rosewood grown on private plots can now be registered online for trade purposes, thanks to a new application that became available to the public on Monday.

SPECIAL REPORT: EU-driven timber certification raises hopes for sustain forest management and forest

FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2019

With Potentially high benefits at stake, Thailand is moving toward allowing the harvesting of some tree species, which is currently banned unless special permission is obtained.

Forest Act to be amended to encourage felling and growing of rare trees

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019

LANDOWNERS will be able to cut down up to 171 “reserved” and “rare” timber species growing on their properties without having to seek permission from the authorities, once an amendment to the Forest Act is published in the Royal Gazette in the next two months.

REPORT: Changes give forest protection centre more authority, ease in identifying encroachers

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2019

CHEEWAPAP Cheewatham recently stepped down as leader of Thailand’s most powerful forest suppression taskforce, Phaya Prai, after nearly five years at the helm.

Stung by evidence of internal graft, Forest Department launches purge

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 09, 2019

Seeking to purge all the “bad apples”, the Royal Forest Department (RFD) is trying to determine whether six of its officials recently sacked for selling protected phayung (Siamese rosewood) to a Chinese investor had links to a transnational logging and smuggling gang and whether any other officials were involved.

SPECIAL REPORT: New forest policy over conflicting claims needs widening public participation

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018

Somsak Saelao’s community of Pang Kob is isolated, situated close to the top of the Khun Nan mountain, and follows the traditional way of life of the Hmong hilltribe.

Report: Forest governance needed to ensure good cuts of greenhouse gases and healthy forests, says e

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2018

SOMSAK SAE-LAO, an assistant village chief in the small Nan community of Pang Kob, still has no idea whether his villagers could be subject to any benefits for helping protect surrounding forest under a global scheme known as REDD+, if implemented here.

New RFD chief hits out over ‘slanderous’ bribery accusations

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2018

THE ROYAL Forestry Department is going after some people who had released three letters accusing its former deputy director-general of being involved in bribery in a high-profile logging case for his promotion to the position of director-general.

RFD fires Kamphaeng Phet forest patrol officer after teak log falls from his pickup during chase

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Royal Forestry Department (RFD) has sacked another forest patrol officer, this time in Kamphaeng Phet province, after a teak log was found to have fallen from a pickup truck allegedly driven by him during a chase.

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