Forest communities can help Thailand fight climate change: Experts

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Forest Communities Can Help Thailand Fight Climate Change: Experts
By Evan Gershkovich

Khaosod English

BANGKOK — Empowering local communities to take care of the country's forests is necessary to combat the increasingly devastating effects of climate change in Thailand, forestry experts and academics say.

"Climate change is already here," Dr. Peter King of USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific said at a panel discussion in Bangkok on Tuesday. "It’s already affecting many communities throughout Thailand and the rest of the world, and we’ll all have to adapt one way or another."

The lecture, titled "Adapting to climate change – how can we foster innovative ideas that work?" was co-hosted by The Royal Forest Department of Thailand and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, a Thai NGO.

According to RECOFTC, countries across the Asia and Pacific region are experiencing increasing flooding, landslides, droughts, and storms, as well as an average temperature increase of 0.76 degrees C and a 1-3 mm rise in sea levels annually.

Many scholars say the region will be hit hardest by the effects of climate change, with the rural poor expected to suffer the most.

Enlisting the help of rural communities to take care of Thailand's forests is therefore necessary for both humanitarian and ecological reasons, forestry practitioners and academics at the panel said.

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-- Khaosod English 2014-09-25

[Costas2008]

Stop cutting the trees from the forests, to make money from the wood.

Stop taking over forest land to build houses or use it as farmland.

Try to implement a proper water management system.

And then you can speak about climate change and flooding in Thailand.

I'm not any expert, but you only have to use your common sense.

[clockman]

The only mantra they know is greed!

[Jeremy50]

Unfortunately- for as long as you have humans in the equation, the planet will continue to die.

[Robby nz]

Nothing to do with climate change but they should, must, start making use of the knowledge of the forest communities by employing them in forest management.

Instead of trying to kick them out give them jobs as rangers, train the bright ones in forest management, give scholerships to the kids to the forestry university (Yes there is one).

Give them incomes so they don't have to rely on hunting, gathering in the forests or clearing trees for gardens.

Treat them as friends of the forests they have lived in for generations not enemies.

[Chang_paarp]

Did anyone actually do a quick check to see if this will make any more difference than the burping (or was that farting ) cows?

[JDGRUEN]

Another useless topic thread on Global Warming Morphed into Climate Change .,.. Thailand does not need to do anything about a political agenda controlled by LEFTISTS around the world -- to work against Capitalism ... What level of sheep mentality do you Climate Change Addicts have anyway ? You are part of the Natural Occurrence Deniers mentality ... Just more NOD's who worship the God of the unseen - and the not provable ... Get a Life!

[JDGRUEN]

Weather Channel Founder John Coleman Explains Liberal Global Warming Hoax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k#t=16