Thailand’s national parks may be closed for three months each year

 

Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation
 

Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering closing the country’s 157 national parks for three months each year, to allow the environment there to regenerate naturally and without human disruption.

 

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varavuth Silpa-archa said today that the idea stems from the reemergence of many wildlife species during the past two months, when all the parks were declared off-limits to visitors as part of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.

 

Land and marine wildlife have been spotted grazing and frolicking in their pre-tourism natural habitats with more frequency and in greater numbers. These include banteng, or tembadau, wild elephants, mountain goats, tigers, black-tipped reef sharks, killer whales, bottle-necked dolphins and sea turtles.
 

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More important than closing them would be to limit the maximum number of daily visitors. This is not so important for the National Parks at land, but for the marine parks. Some places, especially in the high season are overcrowded.

10 minutes ago, andre47 said:

More important than closing them would be to limit the maximum number of daily visitors. This is not so important for the National Parks at land, but for the marine parks. Some places, especially in the high season are overcrowded.

Some place limit already. eg Similian. Make more same.

And close for 3+ months

And close some area 100%

Plus, make sure poachers are treated equally by the law, irrelevant of how much money they have....

Makes sense but i'd imagine won't happen due to lost revenue.

 

 

Honestly I hate commercialized and industrialized tourism. We all had good life without that BS. This mass tourism, especially Chinese and Korean in the bus, really destroys natural beauty and disrupt life in quite small town.  

Still seeking an official announcement that Chiang Rai national parks and waterfalls are open for hiking with social / government safety measures? Just looking for facts not opinions and typical forum blahhhh. Appreciate a confirmed link. Thank you.

In Isaan area these parks are 6 months a year totally dead. So I don't think it will impact anything if it is scheduled out of main season.

This is great news indeed! Wildlife is so important and necessary in this fractured world.  Going back to nature by closing the parks for at least 3 months a year, say from March to June will allow the natural flora and fauna of the parks, both on land and at sea to rejuvenate and increase.  I just hope that this opportunity is not lost in the pursuit of money!

 

2 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

This is great news indeed! Wildlife is so important and necessary in this fractured world.  Going back to nature by closing the parks for at least 3 months a year, say from March to June will allow the natural flora and fauna of the parks, both on land and at sea to rejuvenate and increase.  I just hope that this opportunity is not lost in the pursuit of money!

 

 

Would be good if they did a proper evaluation of the best months to close different parks.

Closing all parks at the same time would probably not be the best idea.

Depending on breeding cycles for native animals etc

 

I been walking for 3 years 10kms a day around large reservoir 1 km from our house. Last 2 months area closed to outsiders completely.

I walk every morning and now nobody to be seen as fishing totally banned.

Amazing amount of bird species reappearing in large quantities.

The trash plastic good bags and bottles ect no longer thrown about everyday.

Close for 4 months give extra month clean up the garbage.

Shoot poachers on sight problems solved.

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Close them down for good, well, except for the special people.

9 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

Plus, make sure poachers are treated equally by the law, irrelevant of how much money they have....

Dual price was one of ways to limit the number of visitors,

by still giving priority to domestic tourism,

but it doesn't depend of how much money you have ??

11 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Makes sense but i'd imagine won't happen due to lost revenue.

 

 

Yep, can't imagine them worried about the animals when there's money to be made.