PM encourages people to plant more trees

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Wednesday is Thailand’s National Tree Day. The Prime Minister today invited members of the public to plant more trees to benefit the climate and the environment, as part of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s campaign.

 

PM and Minister of Defence Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today received iron wood tree sprouts from the Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Varawut Silpa-archa, in a ceremony held at Government House in Bangkok, accompanied by executives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE).

 

For National Tree Day this week, the MNRE has handed out sprouts to the Prime Minister as well as other Cabinet members to be planted, in a campaign encouraging the public to plant more trees for the environment.

 

The Prime Minister said today that Thailand is considering tree planting campaigns with neighboring countries along shared borders as part of the Thailand Plus One policy, as well as working towards a reduction of farmland burning which affects the environment.

 

He invited the public to plant more trees in order to offset environmental degradation, and hoped for the MNRE to achieve success in this campaign, as well as the campaign to plant 100 million trees to celebrate the auspicious occasion of His Majesty the King’s coronation.

 

Thailand’s National Tree Day falls on the same day as the Buddhist holiday Visakha Bucha. The MNRE’s campaign on this day is aimed at promoting public participation in limiting climate change and mitigating air pollution through an increase in the number of trees throughout the nation.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-05-25

 

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[Pattaya Spotter]

Why...so the electric company and other government agencies can just cut them down (or hack them to shreds) whenever they have some work they're doing?

Edited May 25, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[fishtank]

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

[bojo]

2 minutes ago, fishtank said:

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

What is it with their love affair with cement? They must associate cement with progress? It's almost as if it has status.............Pattaya's expansion without any green is one of the reasons that it doesn't appeal to me as a place to live in

[fondue zoo]

 

7 minutes ago, bojo said:

What is it with their love affair with cement?

 

Who owns the largest cement company in Thailand....

[pixelaoffy]

Just for public image. Total BS. As Bangkok concretes over every green space developers and  can pay whoever it needs to do so !

[sammieuk1]

Banana trees for the general preferably just after the taxi ????

[connda]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Wednesday is Thailand’s National Tree Day. The Prime Minister today invited members of the public to plant more trees to benefit the climate and the environment, as part of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s campaign.

But don't plant trees in parks because the parks remain closed because of Covid.  If you go outside to a park in the fresh air and sunshine you may contract Covid and die.  ????

(Don't think - just believe Uncle Tu and your betters)

[connda]

Anyway, here in the North the locals will just set the forests on fire during the hot season so they can collect mushrooms this time of year.  If you plant a tree it probably will just become more combustibles for the yearly PM 2.5 burns that Thais simply must do each and every year.  So?  Why bother.  People who enjoy buying and selling mushrooms don't give a rip about trees or the environment.  And given Thailand's inability to slow down the burning, neither does the government.  Lots of show and photo-ops. 

[mikebell]

'PM encourages people to plant more trees' instead of protesting against his illegal Government.

[Retiredandhappyhere]

When I lived in the Nakhon Sawan province, the village members were gathered together each year to plant trees (presumably provided by the Amphur office) about ten metres apart all alongside the village roads.   Then later the locals would "cut" their grass in the usual way by setting fire to it and destroying most of the trees in the process.

 

Guess what happened the following year?  A bit like repairing a newly built highway, it is an ongoing lucrative process. 

[George Aylesham]

12 hours ago, fishtank said:

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

 

46 minutes ago, Retiredandhappyhere said:

When I lived in the Nakhon Sawan province, the village members were gathered together each year to plant trees (presumably provided by the Amphur office) about ten metres apart all alongside the village roads.   Then later the locals would "cut" their grass in the usual way by setting fire to it and destroying most of the trees in the process.

 

Guess what happened the following year?  A bit like repairing a newly built highway, it is an ongoing lucrative process. 

 

12 hours ago, fishtank said:

So that Thais can cut them down and replace them with cement.

Thais hate trees.

Do they really? I keep on seeing buildings with holes cut in the roof so that existing trees can continue to flourish.

[Sticky Rice Balls]

My hot dog tree is coming along nicely----pass the grey poupon please...Hiso

[thequietman]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Prime Minister today invited members of the public to plant more trees

Ohhh, I wud luv to plant a tree in him. ????

[alien365]

I thought they were already planting banana trees and the like on new plots of land to get around the land tax.

[Wongkitlo]

In Pattaya they are pulling out trees to build a car park.

[Crossy]

At least he didn't say planting trees will protect you from COVID. 

He didn't did he?

 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Wednesday is Thailand’s National Tree Day. The Prime Minister today invited members of the public to plant more trees to benefit the climate and the environment, as part of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s campaign.

Make it hardwood trees so officials can benefit later.

[ttkeric]

Isn't anybody going to lament the great number of trees sacrificed for every visa renewal or is that getting too old?

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

'PM encourages people to plant more trees' instead of protesting against his illegal Government.

Trees are needed to supply the paper for all that unnecessary paperwork that this illegal government requires every time someone enters an office whether it's an IO or any of the many other government offices. Many still don't have the mentality to operate computers.

[ScotlandtheBrave]

Does anyone understand why so many landowners are cutting down most or all of the trees to avoid some kind of land tax? What is this tax? Maybe the General could change the law to stop this harmful destruction of trees that I have seen is so many areas of Pattaya in recent years.

[Tich]

This should help counter the 10's of thousands of established trees he had ordered to be cut down on his road widening schemes up and down the kingdom.

[Blue Muton]

I hope Mrs BM doesn't read this, she'll be wanting to demolish my garage to get some more in, not that she pays much attention to the PM anyway.

[Blue Muton]

9 hours ago, mikebell said:

'PM encourages people to plant more trees' instead of protesting against his illegal Government.

 

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Trees are needed to supply the paper for all that unnecessary paperwork that this illegal government........

You (and I) may not be supporters of them and you may consider them to be illegitimate but they are the legal government nonetheless.

[Crossy]

Madam takes in stray plants, if anyone has a plant that's become too big or surplus to requirements it lands on our doorstep.

 

Our home is called "29 Palms" after the Robert Plant track, well out of date now.

 

At last count we had well over 100 trees of various flavours, many of them fruit bearing (there really is a limit to how many mangoes, jackfruit, mulberries, starfruit, rose apples etc. etc. one can eat or give away).

 

She heard the PM and wants to go shopping this weekend!! (for more trees)

 

With luck something else will catch her attention! Please!

 

At least she's not taking in stray dogs although we do seem to have been adopted by a couple of moggies.

 

And I love her to bits!!