News Headline
Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2021-01-11
Srongpol Chantharueang remembers his parents telling him as a boy always to protect the local wetland forest when he grew up. They told him that the ecosystem would be important for his life and that of his community. “I didn’t understand what they meant at the time,” he told Mongabay via a video call in December 2020. “I didn’t understand what the true value of the wetland forest was.”