https://thailand.wcs.org RSS feeds for WCS Thailand 60 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/23030/Great-News-for-the-Endangered-Tiger-A-250-Percent-Increase-in-Tiger-Numbers-Recorded-in-Thailand.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=23030 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=23030&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/23030/Great-News-for-the-Endangered-Tiger-A-250-Percent-Increase-in-Tiger-Numbers-Recorded-in-Thailand.aspx “We see very strong correlations between better law enforcement and the recovery of tigers.” Pornkamol Jornburom, Director of WCS Thailand krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:31:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:23030 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13761/WCS-Chinese-ban-on-the-sale-of-wildlife-in-markets-restaurants-and-over-e-commerce-needs-to-be-permanent.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=13761 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=13761&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13761/WCS-Chinese-ban-on-the-sale-of-wildlife-in-markets-restaurants-and-over-e-commerce-needs-to-be-permanent.aspx The Wildlife Conservation Society issued a statement concerning China’s announcement to temporarily ban the sale of wildlife in markets, restaurants and over e-commerce. krijiravanich@wcs.org Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:54:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:13761 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11965/WCS-President-and-CEO-visit-HKK.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=11965 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=11965&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11965/WCS-President-and-CEO-visit-HKK.aspx  Cristián Samper, WCS President and CEO visit Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 13 Mar 2019 07:54:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:11965 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11889/Smart-Patrol-key-to-saving-forests.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=11889 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=11889&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11889/Smart-Patrol-key-to-saving-forests.aspx SPECIAL REPORT: 'Smart Patrol' key to saving forestsFebruary 16, 2019 01:00By PIYAPORN WONGRUANG THE NATION WEEKEND THAILAND’S FOREST PROTECTION SYSTEM WITH GPS RECORDING WIDELY APPLAUDEDTHE TRACES found on the dusty soil of the dry deciduous forest had become sparse and hard to track, while the footprints on a wet salt-lick in the creek were too washed out to easily identify which species were present.But slowly, 32-year-old forest ranger Jee and his senior rangers managed to decipher the traces and footprints using their knowledge and experience. Their skill has become the art of blending intricate human knowledge with GPS technology, the interplay creating a set of information valuable to protection of the country’s precious forests. “Some people would say remote sensing or other high technology could one day replace the Smart Patrol work, but in reality, information such as the weak or washed out impressions left by wild animals in the forests cannot easily be detected with a blink of sky-high remote sensing,” said Dr Anak Pattanavibool, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society-Thailand Programme, a co-initiator of the Smart Patrol system. “It needs real people to walk through the real landscapes, observe them through their filters of knowledge and experience, and more critically, to build up the body of knowledge critical to protecting our country’s forests.”Rangers look for signs of wild animals and record them during the recent Smart Patrol training at Huai Kha Khaeng. Making a start The “Smart Patrol” was first introduced to Thailand as a new forest protection system over a decade ago. Through hard work and scientific proofs of success, the system has been internationally accepted as one of the world's most effective forest patrol and protection systems to detect critical poaching activities that remote sensing cannot. Anak, one of the key pioneers in launching the system, still remembers how it was first hatched. The origin story has a lot to do with the survival of the country’s first natural World Heritage site, the Thung Yai-Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuaries, which form a core of the entire 18,000-square-kilometre western forest complex, the country’s most fertile forest patch.Seub Nakhasathien, Huai Kha Khaeng’s chief in late 1980s, proposed integrating all of the western forests into one large patch to increase the survival of the species there, before shooting himself on September 1, 1990. His vision and dream has been carried on by successors, including Chatchawan Pitdamkham, who followed Seub, as well as Anak and other junior chiefs.Chatchawan, as manager of the Western Forest Complex project in the early 2000s, attempted to connect those 17 wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. He introduced ecosystem-based management to the areas and initiated “smart patrolling” to protect them using new technology including GPS along with systematic monitoring and reporting.Forest rangers were then trained before the work was discontinued after the project finished, partly because there was no computer program available to support systematic data collection for further planning and management.The attempt was renewed again when Chatchawan was back at Huai Kha Khaeng in the mid-2000s. Anak, as Chatchawan’s WEFCOM staff before leaving to direct WCS Thailand, helped the renewed attempt.He sought help from staff at the Southeast Asia office of CITES MIKE (The Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephant program under the Convention of Internaitonal Trade in Endangered Species, which addresses issues around trade in endangered species).They allowed him to modify the law enforcement monitoring program and database that they used to track illegal elephant killings (MIKE). With a couple of generations of modifications by Chatchawan’s team and various organisations, the program was later developed into the current flexible SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) forest protection systm, able to monitor various species and threats."Smart Patrol", as called by Chatchawan, has become known and further developed among global conservation community as such since. Other related work frames were then shaped up to fit the Thai circumstances, including patrol patterns, resulting in the new forest protection system unique to Thai forests.Huai Kha Khaeng’s forest rangers were the first to be trained to use new technologies like GPS, along with systematic working procedures, so that they could collect, record and report in detail the critical factors in the forests, including threats to wildlife.Within a few years from 2005, Huai Kha Khaeng became the Smart Patrol site for training rangers from other nearby protected areas. Its reputation grew steadily, drawing attention from international community, including the Smithsonian Institute and the Global Tiger Initiative, which sent rangers from tiger range countries to recieve the Smart Patrol training. “At that time, we did not think that the work would expand to what it is now, because the critical challenge of this system was still human,” recalled Anak. “Conservation work needs facts [to help guide management] but in the past officials chose not to speak the truth. The Smart Partrol has just shifted their work principle to transparency and accountability.” A banteng feeds on grass comfortably at Huai Kha Khaeng's safe ground. Tigers the flagsOver time, rangers from the entire complex were sent to Huai Kha Khaeng for training, and then dispersed to collect information critical to the future forest management. From 2006 to 2012, rangers from Huai Kha Khaeng alone were forced to patrol in different tracks, increasing the covered areas and distances from around 7,000 kilometres per year to 15,000km.The result of their years-long systematic patrol is the collection of a body of data that has helped to create a big-picture profile of the western forests, including its internal critical threats.To boost the system’s effectiveness, Anak borrowed the idea of “landscape species” to guide ecosystem management, identifying key species like tigers as the flags of the operation. In consultation with various conservation organisations, including Seub Nakhasathien foundation and noted conservationists like Dr Amy Vedder (primatologist Dian Fossey’s assistant), Anak improved the Smart Patrol.He introduced key species like tigers as the goals of the operation, with Khan Nang Ram Wildlife Research Station's monitoring of populations of both tiger and its prey acting as the guideline and assessment.Through those distance-long patrols, the Smart Patrol demonstrated that the approach could help to suppress critical threats, including poaching in the forests. As patrols intensified, the number of arrests were reduced, along with discoveries of poaching hides and camps.The monitoring by Khao Nang Ram also showed that the tiger population in Huai Kha Khaeng and Thung Yai had stabilised, and had even increased to over 60 animals, and 100 for the entire WEFCOM.Tracking since 2011 found the population was spreading to the adjacent Mae Wong and Khlong Lan national parks, pointing to success in providing blanket protections through the Smart Patrol.The programme has since been expanded to other large forest patches, including the second World Heritage site of Dong Phaya Yen-Khao Yai Forest Complex.Dr. Anak. The challengeJee stood up after helping his senior fellows identify the traces and footprints in the dirty soil and the wet salt-lick. Some belonged to mature tigers.A fourth-year undergraduate student at Kasetsart University’s Forestry Faculty, 22-year-old Jutamad Srikongruk, then joined with her friends to mark the locations with GPS and record them on patrol forms. The Kasetsart programme is the primary source of future park managers throughout the country.Amid their chats and exchanges during the recent fifth Phayak Prai and Smart Patrol training at Huai Kha Khaeng, Anak expressed hope for the system, including its sustainability.As a realist, he realises the patrol system will weaken if not adequately sustained. The critical factor remained the quality of personnel, he said.In recent years, the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department (DNP) has adopted the system and its training into its regular work, and plans to have it cover all protected forests under its new smart patrolling reform plan. The faculty where Anak once taught, meanwhile, also aims to teach its students the system. These young people need to be well equipped in this time of rising domestic and cross-border poaching threats and remote-sensing technology.The forests, he said, need to be walked through, with their rugged terrain recorded and learned along with the details of their elusive wild animals. And that’s something that Smart Patrol can do much better than remote sensing tech.In 2017, leading conservationists assessed 1, 960 protected areas in 149 countires and published the result in the journal of the US based Society of Conservation Biology. An Assessment of Threats to Terrestrial Protected Areas paper found that unsustainable hunting occurred in 61 per cent of all protected areas. More critically, many of the most serious threats to these areas are "difficult" to monitor with remote sensing from space, it noted. “Some people may say we can use such technology [as satellites] to help monitor our forests, but that would be speaking without understanding our forests. It is impossible to take care of our forests without hard work and hard walking – and an understanding of our forests that leads to proper protection would never have a chance,” said Anak, now a member of the department’s reform committee.  “The challenge is, how we get our people to work hard and walk hard, being tough in this area of work.” krijiravanich@wcs.org Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:55:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:11889 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11496/WCS-Offers-Tribute-to-Dr-Alan-Rabinowitz.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=11496 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=11496&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11496/WCS-Offers-Tribute-to-Dr-Alan-Rabinowitz.aspx WCS Offers Tribute to Dr. Alan Rabinowitz NEW YORK (August 6, 2018)--The following tribute was issued upon the passing of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, a world authority on big cats. Dr. Rabinowitz was the co-founder of the big cat conservation organization Panthera.The Wildlife Conservation Society mourns the loss of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, one of the world’s foremost experts on big cats.Dr. Rabinowitz worked tirelessly to save wildlife through decades of field research, science, and international diplomacy. His long career in conservation started in the early 1980s with a survey of jaguars in Belize. His efforts to follow and protect jaguars in Belize’s dense rainforests would produce a new understanding of the ecological needs of these big cats in the wild and helped to establish the world’s first jaguar sanctuary. Dr. Rabinowitz’s work in setting up the world’s first protected area for jaguars was the basis of, Jaguar: One Man’s Struggle to Establish the First Jaguar Preserve. More recently, Dr. Rabinowitz helped to establish the Jaguar Corridor Initiative, a multi-national effort to protect jaguar populations throughout the Western Hemisphere.In addition to his work with jaguars, Dr. Rabinowitz studied a wide range of other species around the world, including tigers, clouded leopards, leopard cats, and Sumatran rhinos, while helping to establish protected areas in Taiwan and Thailand. Dr. Rabinowitz’s efforts in the northern reaches of Myanmar brought attention to the largely unknown biodiversity of that country. His work in Myanmar produced discoveries, including a deer species previously unknown to science: the leaf deer (Muntiacus putaoensis). Dr. Rabinowitz helped to inform the creation of a number of protected areas in Myanmar, including the world’s largest tiger reserve in the Hukaung Valley. We extend our condolences to his wife, Salisa and their children, Alexander and Alana. John G. Robinson, Ph.D.Executive Vice President, Conservation & ScienceWildlife Conservation Society#AlanRabinowitz krijiravanich@wcs.org Tue, 07 Aug 2018 03:07:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:11496 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11114/Italian-Thai-boss-charged-with-hunting-in-sanctuary.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=11114 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=11114&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11114/Italian-Thai-boss-charged-with-hunting-in-sanctuary.aspx A park ranger stands guard over Italian-Thai Development Plc president Premchai Karnasuta, sitting, and the other suspects at their hunting camp in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province. (Photos supplied by Piyarach Choncharoen)Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta has been arrested for allegedly hunting wildlife in the World Heritage Thungyai Naresuan sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province. Park rangers arrested Mr Premchai, the 63-year-old president of the huge SET-listed construction company Italian-Thai Development (ITD), in a no-camping area of Huai Pachee forest in the western part of the Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in tambon Chalae of Thong Pha Phum district late on Sunday night.Credit: Bangkok Post, Feb 6, 2018 krijiravanich@wcs.org Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:26:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:11114 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10972/A-Team-of-Conservationists-Has-Been-Killed-in-an-Ambush-in-Cambodia.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=10972 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=10972&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10972/A-Team-of-Conservationists-Has-Been-Killed-in-an-Ambush-in-Cambodia.aspx (PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) — A forest protection ranger, a military police officer and a conservation worker have been killed in an ambush in northeastern Cambodia where illegal logging and smuggling are rife.Keo Sopheak, a senior environmental official in Mondulkiri province, said the three-person team was attacked late Tuesday afternoon after patrolling in the Keo Siema wildlife conservation sanctuary. The dead civilian was a Cambodian employee of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.Keo Sopheak said the conservation team had confiscated chainsaws and motorcycles from some Vietnamese logging illegally.But the official said the team was returning from their patrol when they were attacked and killed by Cambodian security forces, who are known to collaborate with illegal loggers who smuggle the wood to neighboring Vietnam.Further circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear.Credit: TIME krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:52:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:10972 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9921/-Raft-Patrol.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=9921 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=9921&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9921/-Raft-Patrol.aspx “ป่ะพี่ ไปล่องแพกัน” ประโยคคำถามที่ผมถามพี่ป่าน (ผช. ฉัตรวรุฬ อ่างแก้ว) แต่อย่าเพิ่งคิดว่าผมชวนผู้ช่วยไปเที่ยวล่องแก่งอย่างเดียวนะครับ แต่ผมยื่นข้อเสนอเชิงเชิญชวนให้ผู้ช่วยเขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่า... krijiravanich@wcs.org Mon, 20 Mar 2017 03:07:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:9921 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9339/Call-for-Section-44-on-illegal-domestication-of-wild-elephants.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=9339 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=9339&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9339/Call-for-Section-44-on-illegal-domestication-of-wild-elephants.aspx Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has invoked Section 44 of the interim charter to prevent the smuggling of wild elephants and unlawfully turning them into domesticated elephants... krijiravanich@wcs.org Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:27:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:9339 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8452/Burmese-Star-Tortoise-Suspects-Arrested-After-Facebook-Investigation.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8452 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8452&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8452/Burmese-Star-Tortoise-Suspects-Arrested-After-Facebook-Investigation.aspx After receiving words from the Burmese government about 188 Burmese star tortoises which had gone missing from a wildlife sanctuary during the past... krijiravanich@wcs.org Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:35:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8452 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8344/Tiger-Poachers-Caught-within-One-Week.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8344 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8344&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8344/Tiger-Poachers-Caught-within-One-Week.aspx Police officers at Mae Sot – Tak highway checkpoint in Mae Sot District found tiger carcasses separated in different boxes hidden in the back... krijiravanich@wcs.org Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:36:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8344 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8345/Tiger-and-Wildlife-Conservation-in-Russian-Far-East.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8345 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8345&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8345/Tiger-and-Wildlife-Conservation-in-Russian-Far-East.aspx Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Thailand joined a special lecture, “Using science to inform conservation of the Amur tiger”, given by Dr. Dale Miquelle... krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 18 Nov 2015 19:44:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8345 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8456/A-Butchered-Tiger-from-Huai-Kha-Khaeng.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8456 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8456&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8456/A-Butchered-Tiger-from-Huai-Kha-Khaeng.aspx There was a news conference on tiger found butchered at Mae Sot checkpoint on Mae Sot – Tak highway which given by Mr. Thanya Netithammakun,... krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:01:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8456 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8457/Tiger-in-Pieces-Seized-on-Mae-Sot-Tak-Highway.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8457 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8457&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8457/Tiger-in-Pieces-Seized-on-Mae-Sot-Tak-Highway.aspx Forestry officers together with officers from 4th Infantry Regiment Task Force arrested two suspects, Nipon Suksombot and Luethai Diawcharoen,... krijiravanich@wcs.org Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:01:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8457 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11564.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=11564 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=11564&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11564.aspx สมาคมอนุรักษ์สัตว์ป่า (WCS) ประเทศไทย ได้สนับสนุนวิทยากรสำหรับการฝึกอบรมหลักสูตร “การเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการใช้เทคโนโลยีและเทคนิคการลาดตระเวนเชิงคุณภาพ (Smart Patrol) เพื่อการจัดการอุทยานแห่งชาติ” ภายใต้การบริหารของส่วนอุทยานแห่งชาติ สำนักบริหารพื้นที่อนุรักษ์ที่ 3 (บ้านโป่ง) โดยมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเพิ่มศักยภาพแก่เจ้าหน้าที่ในด้านการใช้เทคโนโลยี และอุปกรณ์ในการลาดตระเวนเชิงคุณภาพ และการใช้โปรแกรมฐานข้อมูลการลาดตระเวน (Spatial Monitoring And Reporting Tool) ในการจัดการข้อมูล เพื่อนำไปใช้ในการวางแผนการลาดตระเวนในพื้นที่ที่รับผิดชอบได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ โดยการฝึกอบรมประกอบด้วย รุ่นที่ 1 สำหรับผู้ที่ปฏิบัติงานด้านการลาดตระเวน เจ้าหน้าที่จำนวน 53 คน และรุ่นที่ 2 สำหรับผู้ที่ปฏิบัติงานด้านฐานข้อมูล เจ้าหน้าที่จำนวน 36 คน ระหว่างวันที่ 19-23 กันยายน 2558 ณ อุทยานแห่งชาติไทรโยค จังหวัดกาญจนบุรี โดยผู้เข้ารับการอบรมมาจากหลายหน่วยงาน เช่น หน่วยป้องกันรักษาป่า ฐานปฏิบัติการป้องกันรักษาป่า อุทยานแห่งชาติเอราวัณ อุทยานแห่งชาติเฉลิมรัตนโกสินทร์ อุทยานแห่งชาติพุเตย อุทยานแห่งชาติทองผาภูมิ อุทยานแห่งชาติลำคลองงู อุทยานแห่งชาติไทรโยค อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาแหลม อุทยานแห่งชาติเขื่อนศรีนครินทร์ เป็นต้น  สำหรับรุ่นที่ 1 ทางเจ้าหน้าที่สมาคมฯ ทำหน้าที่เป็นวิทยากรในหัวข้อวิชาการในด้านการใช้อุปกรณ์ในการลาดตระเวน เช่น การใช้แผนที่ เข็มทิศ เครื่องกำหนดพิกัดทางภูมิศาสตร์ (GPS) และการใช้แบบฟอร์มบันทึกข้อมูลลาดตระเวน ในขณะที่คณะครูฝึกจากกองบังคับการปฏิบัติการพิเศษ ศูนย์สืบสวนสอบสวน ตำรวจภูธรภาค 3 ทำหน้าที่เป็นวิทยากรในการฝึกทบทวนทักษะและเทคนิคการลาดตระเวนที่สำคัญ เช่น ระเบียบแถว เทคนิคการเคลื่อนที่ เป็นต้น จากการทดสอบฝึกปฏิบัติในแต่ละหัวข้อพบว่าเจ้าหน้าที่ส่วนใหญ่สามารถอ่านค่าพิกัดบนแผนที่คู่กับการใช้งาน GPS ได้อย่างคล่องแคล่วและมีความมั่นใจมากขึ้น สามารถทำการบันทึกข้อมูลการลาดตระเวนได้อย่างถูกต้อง แต่ยังมีบางส่วนที่ต้องอาศัยการทบทวนเพิ่มเติม  สำหรับรุ่นที่ 2 ทางเจ้าหน้าที่สมาคมฯ อบรมเกี่ยวกับการใช้โปรแกรมฐานข้อมูลการลาดตระเวน SMART ในการจัดการฐานข้อมูลของงานลาดตระเวน โดยเนื้อหาหลักของการฝึกอบรมในครั้งนี้เน้นด้านการจัดการฐานข้อมูลลาดตระเวน เช่น การตั้งค่าต่าง ๆ ของพื้นที่อนุรักษ์ การกำหนดโครงสร้างฐานข้อมูล การนำเข้าข้อมูลสังเกตการณ์ การลงข้อมูลการลาดตระเวน การสืบค้นข้อมูล และการสร้างรายงานการลาดตระเวน เป็นต้น ผลจากการอบรมพบ่วาผู้เข้ารับการฝึกอบรมส่วนใหญ่สามารถใช้คำสั่งต่าง ๆ ในโปรแกรม SMART ได้อย่างถูกต้อง แม้ว่ายังมีบางส่วนที่ยังต้องอาศัยการทบทวนเพิ่มเติม Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:09:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:11564 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8479/25supthsup-Year-in-Memorial-of-Seub-Nakhasathien.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8479 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8479&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8479/25supthsup-Year-in-Memorial-of-Seub-Nakhasathien.aspx Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Thailand and other organizations have participated in the commemoration in the 25th year of Memorial of Seub Nakhasathien, held at Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary (HKK), Uthai Thani Province during August 31 - September 1, 2015. This annual event aims to honor Seub Nakhasathien and forest rangers who died in action of their sacrifice to protect the natural resources and wildlife, together with supporting current rangers’ morale and raising the public’s awareness of the importance and being a part to help protect the natural resources in Thungyai - Huai Kha Khaeng Forest Complex which has been announced as a World Natural Heritage Site.The exhibition consists of various activities such as merit-making ceremony, scholarship granting ceremony to provide educational support to rangers’ children and students from the tiger conservation network, campaign parades “No eat - No hunt - No trade”, wreath laying ceremony.In addition, there are conservation exhibitions by HKK and Seub Nakhasathien Foundation, including the exhibitions about patrol and tiger monitoring in Thungyai - Huai Kha Khaeng Forest Complex by WCS Thailand.   On the other side at Kasetsart University (Bangkhen Campus), the exhibition of Seub Nakhasathien’s Day 2015 is held in Chakkapan Pensiri Building during September 1-2, 2015. The highlight is on the life story of  Seub Nakhasathien, as a graduate from Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University and a man who contributed greatly to the society, to raise awareness toward importance of conservation and sustainable utilization of natural resources.  For other activities, there are merit-making ceremony, wreath laying ceremony, a conservation talk about forest, etc. An exhibition about the qualifications of Smart Patrol System is also held inside the area by WCS Thailand representatives.   krijiravanich@wcs.org Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:53:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8479 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8480/Seized-Ivory-Crushed-and-Burned.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8480 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8480&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8480/Seized-Ivory-Crushed-and-Burned.aspx Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Thailand, among other organizations and media have witnessed the “Destruction of Confiscated Ivory in Thailand 2015”, permitted by the cabinet... krijiravanich@wcs.org Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:01:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8480 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8482/Heavy-Criticism-on-New-Wildlife-Act-Allowing-Hunting-Possession-Trade.aspx#Comments 0 https://thailand.wcs.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=6437&ModuleID=12395&ArticleID=8482 https://thailand.wcs.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=8482&PortalID=128&TabID=6437 https://thailand.wcs.org/en-us/Newsroom/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/8482/Heavy-Criticism-on-New-Wildlife-Act-Allowing-Hunting-Possession-Trade.aspx Academics rise against the draft amendments to Wildlife Reservation and Protection Act. Many sections from Act are prone to stimulate wildlife trading,... krijiravanich@wcs.org Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:13:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:8482