According to the party, if projects are completed, the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex may reduce its status as a world heritage site.
PUBLISHED: 5 Nov 2024 at 18: 33
Environmentalists have requested that a House committee look into two pond construction projects that they fear could threaten the Unesco World Heritage site, the Dong Phayayen–Khao Yai Forest Complex.
According to Suthee Rattanamongkol, head of the Khao Yai Forest Conservation Network, the Klong Madue pond construction project in Nakhon Nayok and another dam project close to the forest advanced should both be looked into.
According to Mr. Suthee, the House committee on area, natural resources, and environment should look into the tasks the Royal Irrigation Department has proposed, which could result in the forest advanced losing its status as a world heritage site.
” If the tasks are allowed to go back, more than 20, 000 ray of the jungle complex, which is essential to the ecological system, will disappear, and forest animals will lose their natural environments”, he said.
The World Heritage Committee requested from the Thai authorities to “finally cancel plans for any design of dams with reservoirs” within the jungle advanced and to conduct a proper economic evaluation for the river basin during its 44th session in China in 2021.
The forest advanced was designated a normal World Heritage site in 2005. It starts at Khao Yai National Park and travels for 230 kilometers to Ta Phraya National Park, which edges Cambodia.